Geometry Gallery Walk
Gallery Walk for Geometry
For my last and final blog, I wanted to share a technique one of the teachers I work with used this week for a math geometry lesson. The students were so engaged and loved every minute of working in groups to solve geometry problems, walking around to other students work to see if they used the proper concepts and procedures to solve, and then writing one grow and one glow on their chart paper.
Reflection: It has been extremely hard to get this class engaged and participate with class work during the school year. It made me excited to see them working diligently and cooperatively with one another. Also, I observed students teaching their peers how to solve these geometry problems. It was great to see what we have been reading and learning in this class take place right before my eyes.
Reflection: It has been extremely hard to get this class engaged and participate with class work during the school year. It made me excited to see them working diligently and cooperatively with one another. Also, I observed students teaching their peers how to solve these geometry problems. It was great to see what we have been reading and learning in this class take place right before my eyes.
Below, I have attached two links that describe the Gallery Walk, how to set it up and conduct one in the classroom.
https://interactiveideasandinspiration.blogspot.com/2019/01/gallery-walks-in-math-class.html
https://teachingrocks.ca/three-part-lesson-what-gallery-walk/
Description of a gallery walk
This is how a Gallery Walk should be set up in a classroom:
This is an example of students going from station to station.
For example: When introducing teaching geometry, you can have the students do a gallery walk about shapes.
This is an example of a gallery walk with post-it notes from other students with grows and glows.
As the children walk around and go from station to station, they will review other students work and write one grow and one glow on a post-it and place it on their peer's chart paper to see where they need improvement and discuss what they did correctly.
At the end of a Gallery Walk, the teacher asks all students to stop what they are working on, go back to their seats for a student lead discussion on their findings.
Hi Nicole,
ReplyDeleteAwesome post! I used to do this in my school for social studies classes and English classes- but never for a math class. This is a great way to get classes up and moving around. It is also so helpful for students to learn from others and also to see where students collectively struggle,and to see what students have really got a grip on. Thank you so much for sharing!
-Freddie
Nicole! I really loved this post and I loved when you were talking about it in class. I never even thought about doing this and love that it is called a "Gallery Walk" makes it sounds fun and like you are at a museum. Like Freddie, mentioned, I never really thought of using this for math related concepts, but super interesting to get students up and moving and engaged in math, especially in 4-6th grades! Excited to use this with my students!
ReplyDeleteNicole I love the gallry walk idea. I think it does not matter what age kids love to express their thoughts. I think this allows everyone to be able to listen to all classmates thoughts on subject. It is great or them to learn rom each other. Sometimes they may see something they did not before. Great Job!!
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