Heather Pearson RAFT

RAFT
Module 5



Assignment - After studying about the parts of a plant, Students will be assigned different parts of plant and complete a RAFT to share with their classmates. Students will create a campaign speech that tells why their plant part should be voted most important.

Sample:

What is your Role? Roots
Who is your Audience? Other Plant Parts
What is your Format? Campaign Speech
What is your Topic?  Why you should be voted most important plant part
What is your strong verb? Survive



I may be hiding underground, but you couldn't survive up there without me. I am your mouth! I work hard all day sucking air, water, and nutrients out of the soil and moving them up into the leaves, where they can interact with sunlight to produce sugars, flavors, and energy. When it rains, I hold you in place, so that you are not washed away. I also drive plant growth.  The bigger and healthier I am will make you bigger and healthier as well. We all know that bigger is better. I am your anchor and lifeline! Vote Roots!

Sarah Chandler CIRG 644 Module 5 RAFT

Sarah Chandler

July 29, 2015

Module 5 Demonstration

Assignment: Imagine you are an educational musician that travels to different schools and your latest assignment requires you to write lyrics about either slope intercept form or point slope form. You can either pick a popular song to follow or make up your own tune!  You will be performing in a local high school’s 9^th grade Math I class so this song needs to be catchy enough to grab their attention and explain how the equation works. 

Role: Educational musician

Audience: 9^th grade Math I class

Format: Song

Topic: Slope intercept form OR point slope form

Strong verb: Describe  

Sample:

This song is an original written by The Trigs and was retrieved from songsforteaching.com. It covers both slope intercept and point slope form.

Y=MX+B, That's the slope intercept equation you see
M is the slope, it's an easy one
Just remember that the rise goes over the run
B is the y intercept, it's where the line crosses the y-axis

Put them together and what have you got?
You've got the slope-intercept equation

Chorus:
So let's talk lines and equations
All about points and intercepts
We'll find the slope and we'll use the X
To find the Y that matches it

But what if we don't know B, the slope-intercept is out of reach
So pick a point, and plug it in
To the good old point-slope equation
On the left you've got y minus y one on the right m times x minus x one

So plug it in and solve for Y
And watch the slope-intercept form appear before your very eyes

Amanda Fitzpatrick
July 29, 2015
CIRG 644 - Module 5

Assignment- Using the RAFTS system, please explain, in song form, how to find the slop of a linear equation. The song may be your own, or you may use the tune of a song you already know.

What's your Role: ____________________
What;s your Audience? ____________________
What's your Format? ____________________
What's your Topic? ____________________
What's your Strong verb? ____________________

SAMPLE

What's your Role: Mathematician
What;s your Audience? 8th Grade Class
What's your Format? Song
What's your Topic? Slope of a Linear Equation
What's your Strong verb? Explain

WE WILL GRAPH YOU!
WORDS BY: JOHN A. CARTER
TUNE: "WE WILL ROCK YOU!"

Buddy, you're a man with a hard time graphing.
All you need to do is find the m and the b.
It's not too hard you see,
You put your pencil on the b.
Graphing's not as hard as you thought it might be, singing

Chorus: We will, we will graph you!
We will, we will graph you!

Now you've got a point on the y-intercept.
All you need to do is find the rest of it.
You need the slope to go on,
That's rise over run.
Delta y in delta x, boy it's fun, singing...

(Chorus)

Next, take the coefficient of the x baby.
Find two more points and another one maybe.
Go up or down first,
Then go across.
I dig graphing lines, I think it's boss, singing...

(Chorus)

Evan Ferguson RAFT assignment Completed from student POV

Create a remix to a popular song by rewriting a song tune to explain a science topic.  It would be helpful to use the chorus of the song to emphasize the main point of the lesson.  This is designed to be a catchy tune for your classmates. 

For my example I am remaking  Paint Me a Birmingham by Tracy Lawrence to "Ecology"

What is your Role?  To describe a scientific topic.

What is your Audience?  My classmates and the teacher.

What is my Format? A parody of a song.

What is my Topic?  Explain what the study of Ecology is (or any scientific topic)

What is my Strong verb? Coexisting

"Ecology"

Explain some ecology..

From the sand to the shining sea...

From Appalachia...

To Death Valley....

Animals and plants go hand in hand...

Rain and sun helps the soil for the land...

and in Ecology....

we are "Coexisting"...

(instrumental)

Trees blow in the breeze..

and the world spins the seas...

everything interconnects..

even giraffes with a long neck...

ecology is "coexisting"...

every time you explain it to me...

From the sand to the shining sea...

From Appalachia to death valley...

Animals and plants go hand in hand...

humans can help it go smoothly..

will you paint me ecology......

Heather Pearson
CIRG 644
Module 5 - R.A.F.T.
Grades 1-2

To survive means to continue to grow or live and not die.  People have basic needs to survive, such as food and water. Think about the needs of a plant and what they must have to continue to survive and grow.  You will write a letter to a farmer explaining how to properly take care of a plant.


What is your Role? Plant
Who is your  Audience? Farmer
What is your Topic? What plants need to survive
What is your Format? Letter
What is your Strong verb? Survive

Carrie Rockel - MODULE 5 RAFT Activity

CIRG 644 – Module 5
R.A.F.T assignment
Carrie Rockel

Here’s your writing assignment:

You are a government worker during the ancient Roman Republic. Your supervisor has asked you to increase tourism to Rome, as the Republic has started to decline. You are tasked with creating a tourism brochure about Rome designed to draw new visitors in. The brochure should have the following sections: All About Rome, Places to Visit, & Things to Do.

What’s your Role:__________________________________________

What’s your Audience:______________________________________

What’s your Format:________________________________________

What’s your Topic:_________________________________________

What’s your Strong verb:____________________________________

SAMPLE RAFTS Chart

(Sample is for ancient Greece)

What’s your Role:_Tourism guide creator______________________

What’s your Audience: Potential travelers to Greece_____________

What’s your Format:_Tourism brochure_______________________

What’s your Topic:__Ancient Greece_________________________

What’s your Strong verb:_Travel     _______________________  __

Student Sample:

ABOUT GREECE

Greece was once home to some of the most beautiful architectural wonders of the ancient world.  Its city of Athens was filled with public buildings, temples, and marketplaces that made Greece a showplace among early nations.  Ancient Greece was renowned as a center for literature, the arts, architecture, and exciting new theories and ideas.  At this time, Greece enjoyed a reputation for being a powerful and culturally rich nation.  Around 480 B.C., Greece was entering its “Golden Age”.

Geographically, the soil is not very good for growing things, there are a lot of mountains that make it hard to walk from one place to another, and there is never enough fresh water. Because of this, people did not settle in Greece as early as they moved to Egypt and the Fertile Crescent.

The earliest buildings that were built in Greece, in the New Stone Age, are small houses or huts, and wooden walls around them for protection. Later there are bigger houses, and stone walls around the villages.

By the Early Bronze Age, we find one bigger house in the middle of the village, and fancier, bigger stone walls.

In the Late Bronze Age, under the influence of Western Asia, and the Minoans on Crete, there are palaces and big stone tombs, as well as paved roads and bridges, and dams (and more stone walls). 

PLACES TO VISIT

Athens is the symbol of freedom, art, and democracy in the conscience of the civilized world. The capital of Greece took its name from the goddess Athena, the goddess of wisdom and knowledge.

Parthenon- temple of Athena Parthenos ("Virgin"), Greek goddess of wisdom, on the Acropolis in Athens. The Parthenon was built in the 5th century BC, and despite the enormous damage it has sustained over the centuries, it still communicates the ideals of order and harmony for which Greek architecture is known. 

THINGS TO DO
Art is one of the best things you can view when visiting Greece! In the Classical period, there are more temples, bigger and with new design ideas: the Parthenon is built in the 440's BC. People begin to build in the Ionic style. Democracy prevents the Greeks from building palaces or big tombs, because politically all men are supposed to be equal, and so it would look bad to have a big palace even if you could afford it. Instead, the Greeks build public buildings: gymnasia, and stoas, where men can meet and talk.

Theatre is another great activity. The Greek theatre history began with festivals honoring their gods. A god, Dionysus, was honored with a festival called by "City Dionysia". In Athens, during this festival, men used to perform songs to welcome Dionysus. Plays were only presented at City Dionysia festival.  Athens was the main center for these theatrical traditions. Athenians spread these festivals to its numerous allies in order to promote a common identity.

Evan Ferguson RAFT Activity 7/28/15

Evan Ferguson

CIRG 644

Dr. Mindy Allenger

29 July 2015

Module 5 Demonstration

Create a remix to a popular song by rewriting the lyrics to a song tune to explain the steps of cell division.  It would be recommended to use the chorus of the song to emphasize the main point and the lyrics to describe the steps. This is designed to be a catchy tune for your classmates. 

R.A.F.T.S

What is you Role? To describe cell division.

Who is your Audience?  My classmates and teacher.

What is my Format? A parody of a song

What is my Topic? Cell division (ex. Mitosis)

What is my Strong verb? dividing

CIRG 644 - Julia Manns - Module 5

CIRG 644 – Julia Manns – Module 5

Assignment: Imagine you are a meteorologist tasked with creating a journal entry explaining the water cycle that will be presented to a second grade class. The journal entry must include all the steps of the water cycle, as well as brief explanations/descriptions of each step. Remember: these students may never have studied the water cycle before. The only information they have about it is the information you present to them through your journal entry! Use the checklist below to help you when writing your journal entry:

What’s your Role: ___________________

What’s your Audience: ___________________

What’s your Format: ___________________

What’s your Topic: ___________________

What’s your Strong verb: ___________________

(Note: This activity would be designed for a 4^th-5^th grade student)

SAMPLE

What’s your Role: Meteorologist

What’s your Audience: 2nd Grade Classroom

What’s your Format: Journal Entry

What’s your Topic: The Water Cycle

What’s your Strong verb: Explaining

(Note: information for this Water Cycle journal entry was obtained from the following website: http://www.kidzone.ws/water/ You can create more restrictions for how much students are able to cite from websites and books when having them complete this sort of activity.)

June 27, 2015

My curiosity has finally gotten the best of me! I simply must know how water turns to rain!! I’ve heard other meteorologists talking about something called ‘The Water Cycle’. They say it explains the entire process—what a nifty idea! I’ve been researching it for a few days now and I think I finally understand how it all works! The first step is Evaporation, which is when the sun heats up water in rivers, lakes, or oceans and turns it into vapor, or steam. You know that stuff that comes up from a pot of boiling water? That’s the stuff! The water vapor, or steam, leaves the river, lake, or ocean and goes into the air. Imagine that! Transpiration helps out his buddy evaporation, causing plants to lose water out of their leaves, giving his old buddy a hand in getting all of that water vapor back up into the air! 

*Shivers* It’s getting colder in here! That must mean it’s time for our next step: Condensation. Water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into liquid, forming clouds. This process is called condensation! Imagine pouring a cold glass of water on a hot day. Those tiny water spots that appear on the outside of the class actually came from the air! Water vapor in the warm air turns back into liquid when it touches the cold glass. Better have an umbrella handy for this next step: Precipitation. This occurs when so much water has condensed that the air cannot hold it anymore! The clouds get very heavy, and the water falls back down to Earth in the form of rain, hail, sleet, or even snow.

Our final step in the Water Cycle is Collection. Now that we have some precipitation going, where does all that rainwater go? It doesn’t just disappear after falling, does it? Why no! Some of this rain falls into oceans, lakes, and rivers—sound familiar? You’re correct—we are back at step one, Evaporation, all over again! The cycle repeats itself over and over again—how mind-blowing is that?! With all of this new information in my brain I think I should go outside and try to observe the Water Cycle at work!!