Deliverable
🗂️ Sticky-Note Plan Critique
Product
Assessment
Reflection
Core Content
Essential Question
Critique and Revision
Submission Required
Grading Required
Teams post their scaled park sketch or model with labeled ratios, unit rates, cost notes, and a How Might We statement. During a gallery walk, each student gives feedback to 2 peers using sticky notes: one specific suggestion about unit rates or proportions and one note naming an academic strength or social skill. Teams sort the feedback, identify one revision priority, and update their plan directly on the draft with a different colored pen or labels.
Plan day
Day 1
Duration
35 min
Grouping
Small Group
Steps
6 steps
Lesson plan
6 steps · 35 min| # | What teachers do |
|---|---|
| 1 | Launch the critique by posting team drafts, reviewing the feedback norms, and modeling how to write one sticky note with a specific suggestion about unit rates or proportions and one sticky note naming an academic strength or social skill connected to the plan. (8 min) |
| 2 | Have teams stand by their draft for a quick viewing round while half the class stays to answer clarifying questions and half rotates to examine peer sketches or models for scale, labeled ratios, unit rates, cost notes, and fairness of space use. (10 min) |
| 3 | Run the gallery walk rotation so each student leaves feedback for at least 2 peers: one suggestion tied to unit rates, proportions, ratios, cost estimates, or rational number calculations, and one note naming a math strength or collaboration move they observed. (15 min) |
| 4 | Bring teams back to their own display to read, sort, and discuss the sticky notes into categories such as scale, unit rates, cost/materials, fairness of layout, and communication, then choose one high-impact revision priority supported by evidence. (10 min) |
| 5 | Direct teams to revise their draft in a different color by correcting or improving dimensions, unit rates, proportional relationships, rational number calculations, labels, or material estimates, and add a short note explaining why the change improves the community space. (12 min) |
| 6 | Close with a brief written or audio reflection and exit chart in which students identify one strong example of math work, one social skill used during critique, one claim about how math improved the plan, and one goal for contributing more thoughtfully next time. (5 min) |
Preparation (8 items)
- Prepare wall or table display spaces for each team with enough room for sketches, models, and sticky-note feedback.
- Create and post a feedback anchor chart with sentence stems for math suggestions and strength notes, including examples tied to unit rates, proportions, cost estimates, and fair space allocation.
- Provide each team with its draft sketch or model, labeled ratios and unit rates, cost/material notes, a How Might We statement, sticky notes in at least two colors, and different colored revision pens or labels.
- Set up a rotation plan so every student can respond to at least 2 peer plans and each team receives feedback from multiple classmates.
- Prepare a simple sorting tool or heading cards for teams to organize feedback into categories such as unit rates, proportions, rational number calculations, layout fairness, and presentation clarity.
- Cue a short timer sequence for each critique round and revision block to keep movement brisk and focused for middle school learners.
- If available, gather sample site maps, measurement data, or material lists from a parks planner, city engineer, public works staff member, architect, or contractor to place at a reference station for students during revision.
- Prepare the reflection and exit task format, including a space for students to name one academic strength, one social skill, one math-based claim, and one next-step goal.
Student-facing instructions
You will post your team's scaled park sketch or model with your labeled ratios, unit rates, cost or material notes, and your How Might We statement. First, you will review the feedback stems and look for math evidence in other teams' work. During the gallery walk, your task is to visit at least 2 peer plans and leave 2 sticky notes for each: one note with a specific suggestion about unit rates, proportions, ratios, cost estimates, or rational number calculations, and one note naming an academic strength or social skill you noticed. Use the posted prompts to keep your feedback clear, kind, and useful. When you return to your own draft, you will read and sort the feedback with your team, decide on one revision priority, and update your plan directly using a different colored pen or labels. Your revision should show what changed in the math or layout and why that change makes the community space more fair, useful, safe, or welcoming. At the end, you will complete a short written or audio reflection and exit task. You will need your team draft or model, sticky notes, a pencil, and a revision pen or label color that is different from your original draft.