School Bags
I put my shoes under the heater – Jess
Library book in library box – Georgia
Lunch order – Lyric
Pre-planning
To design a system for storing and retrieval system for placing school things in our bags. The teacher had noticed that when she asked students to get equipment/personal belongings out of their bags the students tended to pull everything out of them in order to find a specific item. It was apparent that the students either did not pack the bags themselves or that they had no system to order the packing of their bag.
In the school, bags are stored in the cloak bays but are brought into the room when necessary to remove and place items in them. This unit was undertaken early in term 2.
An issue was identified: "To be able to pack our bags at the end of the day and be able to close the zip."
The students were then asked:
- What is a system? and came up with "A way of putting things away so that we can find them easily again, and for knowing how to do things."
- What systems do we have in our classroom?
- Boxes and containers to put our books in for writing, handwriting, reading, maths, poems, scrapbooks which are all named;
- Cubbyholes, with our names on;
- Containers for pens, pencils, and crayons;
- Boxes for dress up clothes, toy cars, blocks, dolls;
- Containers for music CDs and tapes;
- Library corner stand to hold library books;
- Hooks for putting our class hats on and a white board for writing the coloured hat and person's name who has borrowed the hat.
Resources available:
Access to:
- School librarian
- School office staff
- School sports equipment shed
- Ambulance service
- Rescue Helicopter
In each situation we looked at their systems that are used to store equipment/items so that they can be readily found/accessed
Additional information:
During the delivery of this unit the teacher looked for opportunities to develop students:
- creative writing skills (English)
- ability to illustrate objects (Visual Art)
- present informative (labeled) illustrations (Visual Art)
- oral language skills (English)
- ability to transfer their understandings across contexts/situations.
