Bridges 3-5 Student Gallery
Student work is a tangible expression of learning. We hope you find these examples inspiring and informative. Find out how to submit samples from your classroom.
Grade 3
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Geoblocks Stolen for Art Class!
Curriculum Source
Bridges, Grade 3, Unit Three
Contributed By
Gayle Steinberger, Portland, OR
Contributor Notes
My husband got his third grade Bridges kit and I immediately honed in on the bags of Geoblocks. I convinced him I wouldn’t lose or destroy them if I could use them for a week in my art class. The students were told to construct an actual or fantasy building and then make a drawing of it. Many turned to castle designs. One drawing, not pictured because you can’t see the detail well enough in a photo, had literally hundreds of simple figures amassed outside the gates of the castle. The drawing you see here is particularly interesting because this student did stack up the blocks on the left but used her imagination to balance the sphere on top of the cone.
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Grade 4
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Exploring Perimeter and Area with Tile and Linear Pieces
Curriculum Source
Bridges, Grade 4, Unit One, Sessions 18-19
Contributed By
Pia Hansen Powell, Casper, WY
Contributor Notes
Casper K-8 math teachers participated in a professional development grant funded by the University of Wyoming. Teachers met in June of 2006 to experience algebraic thinking at multiple grade levels. This grant funded yearlong content coaching and monthly professional learning opportunities, powerful in creating a cohort of teacher leaders for the district. Here teachers are exploring area and perimeter concepts using colored tile and red linear pieces. Their dialogue and collegiality develops an understanding of best practice pedagogy and shores up content knowledge.
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Solutions to 16 x 17: Kate’s Quilt Problem
Curriculum Source
Bridges, Grade 4, Unit 2, Session 20
Contributed By
Hannah Chandler, Napa, CA
Contributor Notes
Fourth grade field tester Hannah Chandler sent me a collection of solutions her students wrote in response to a story problem about a quilt her sister was planning to make. Hannah made up the story problem herself and asked the students to follow their own class guidelines for solving problems. The solutions shown here illustrate a variety of strategies for solving double-digit multiplication problems, including repeated addition, the area model, ratio tables, and partial products. Hannah shared the ratio table strategy with her kids and it really caught on. I think it’s a really elegant way to solve multi-digit multiplication problems.
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Grade 5
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Quilt Block Fractions
Curriculum Source
Bridges, Grade 5, Unit Four, Session 16
Contributed By
Aaron Gahringer, Wenatchee, WA
Contributor Notes
Comments by Allyn Fisher: Here are two quilt blocks designed by fifth graders in Aaron Gahringer’s class. Aaron teaches in Wenatchee and the majority of his students are English Language Learners. Students were asked to design a symmetrical quilt block on a geoboard, transfer it to paper, and color it in any way they liked. Then they created a key to show how much area each color covered. Because the entire block was assigned an area of 1, these were fractional parts. Aaron also asked his students to title and describe their blocks. I was impressed by the fact that the assignment facilitated such a wide range of responses.
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