Last year, my students and I participated in our first International Dot Day. I pledged to continue the tradition because it had such an impact on my math students. In fact in my end of the year survey quite a few students stated that their favorite activity of the school year was “Dot Day”. This summer I took a job that has me out of the classroom and into a curriculum leadership position in a K-8 school district with 4 elementary schools and 1 middle school. Instead of doing dot day with my 120 middle school math students, I will be doing dot day with 22 of the teachers in the district. So, I will be increasing the number of students and teachers I reach by quite a lot. As a district we have chosen three ELA Common Core Standards to focus attention on this year. I will be integrating these standards into the lesson plan so I can model the common core standards while teaching the students to “Make Their Mark” on the world. Here are the lessons I plan on teaching in the upcoming weeks.
International Dot Day Lesson Plans - These are a work in progress and will be changing as I think and revise and then repeat that process. I thought I would share now even though they are not complete.