Lessons With Dad

The Raging River Welcome to the second episode, " The Raging River! " In this episode, I take you through an end of the unit math review, which incorporated using families (groups) to defeat crossing the raging river. I used the river like a boss, in boss battles, and students had to defeat crossing the river successfully with their families. Enjoy

I am going to try something new! Yes, I know, I know. I am going to try something new again. I am going to add a Video Log A.K.A. a VLog to my website. In my first VLog I introduce myself and give background about the reason behind me starting my Blog/ VLog . I hope you like it and stay tuned for what's to come! If you like it please subscribe to my channel and never miss an episode! Enjoy!

I think the most fun I had when gamifying my year long math class was making the badges. After figuring out what System I was going to use and my Theme the next step is creating or finding Badges that correlate with the concepts expected for mastery. If you have not checked out my earlier blogs about "What System"  to choose or how to pick a "Theme" for your gamified classroom, please check them out. Once I settled on the Theme of my gamified class, I needed to incorporate some motivation for students. One of the easier motivational items you can include are badges. There are a couple of Badges I use to help motivate students in my game. In using the SBG ( Standards Based Grading ) spreadsheet there are Big Badges and there are Mini Badges. Mini Badges Mini Badges I use an SBG spreadsheet that I found and borrowed from Mr. Matera (covered in " What System .") He already had the spreadsheet all formatted and put together so all I needed to d

After refinishing our bed frame the other weekend, we were excited to move on to an old dresser we had. The dresser had just been sitting downstairs and really served no purpose. The only reason we still had it was because my wife kept telling me about how she wanted to refinish it and put it in our bedroom. A couple of weeks ago, we received an email from Ikea saying the dressers we had in our bedroom were being recalled. They were being recalled because of the potential hazard of them falling over on children. We decided to be reimburse for the dressers and this gave us the motivation we had been lacking to finally refinish the dresser. If we didn't refinish it now, we would have a stack of clothes on our bedroom floor until we did! I am a little to OCD for that to happen! Material: Screwdriver Sandpaper Rust-Oleum Chalk paint Rust-Oleum wax Paintbrush or Small Roller Rags or old T-shirt To Do: The first thing we did was take all of the drawers out of