For the final project, students were given white pre-cut squares and
were told to draw an arc from corner to corner on each square. They
created their spirals by connecting the arcs, starting with the largest
and spiraling down to the smallest and glued them onto black
construction paper. To finish, they were given choices to visually
express themselves:
● Tell a story of “growth” - i.e. seed to flower/tree
● Tell a story about the progression of a day in their life
● Turn the spiral into something they see in nature, such as an
elephant trunk, a hurricane, or a snail’s shell.
● Create an abstract design using the spiral.
immediate feedback form for the students. You may need to assure
parent volunteers that critical feedback is critical to ensure that the
lesson is successful.
5. Test the lesson
Select a classroom instructor. In our case, this could either be a
teacher, a program coordinator or parent volunteer. Allowing someone
else to teach the lesson will help you know if your instructions are clear
and give you the chance to observe the children’s reactions and
behaviors more closely. Take photographs or video to compare and
evaluate each test lesson so that improvements can be made. Insights
pertaining to grade level and age will be revealed when you test in
different grade levels. For example we learned that motor skill
development can make some parts of our lesson a challenge when
trying to skew to younger grades.
6. Evaluate the lesson
It was important to us to track feedback from both teachers and
students. We created a teacher survey and a simple pictorial-based
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