The Journey
The Journey is the complete sequence of objectives focused on a specific grade level and optimized for conceptual scaffolding. This is the default experience for students. The objectives have been curated by mathematicians, neuroscientists, teachers, and our curriculum experts that is designed to guide students through their entire grade level. A student's journey is prioritized to emphasize major new topics for the grade level. Overall, the path applies the following factors in its design:
- Content Dependencies: There are a number of content dependencies within a grade level. The Journey respects this sequence.
- Topics of Major Focus: There is a high emphasis placed on the topics of major focus of the grade level, ensuring students first get a Spatial Temporal experience with the critical topics of the grade level.
- Topic Spiraling: Rather than massing all the topics of the grade level, the Journey spirals through topics, ensuring students get key exposure to critical topics before going deeper within each domain.
Students will only ever have one journey at a time, no matter how many classes they are in. The Journey can be reordered, but only at the district level (How can I reorder the journey for my district?).
Assignments
Assignments are objectives that a teacher chooses to assign. Assignments can be for individual students (“Just for Me”) or the entire class (“My Class”). Teachers may use assignments as homework, to make classroom connections, or to target remediation or enrichment. Assignments can be from any grade level.
- Objectives from below grade can be used for intervention.
- Objectives from higher grades can be used to challenge advanced students.
- Objectives from the current grade level can be used to have a class play games related to their current lesson, regardless of where each student is in their own Journey.
Resource: Student Experience - Icons & Routines - classroom posters and slides
History
History is a record of all objectives a student has completed. A student's History shows the student’s cumulative puzzles collected, objectives completed, and quiz scores (for objectives in grades 2+)
For more information about managing the content your students will play, please check out the Curriculum section.