I used the unit organizer from the start to the finish of the school year with my 8th grade advanced science class. As we added learning rituals to our class repitoire we also added them to the course organizer. The questions on the course organizer were worked into the unit reflections I had the students write. Upon completion of a unit or a group of units that applied to a question the students would answer that question. We also used the questions during socratic seminars so the students could discuss and build their understanding of them, and therefore the understandings that needed to be built through the class. We used the graphing box a few times, but not as consistently as I would have liked to graph test scores. This coming school year I want to have students use it to graph their quarterly grades on their lab notebooks, tests, quizzes, and homework. I think this might give them something to see connections between classroom effort, test grades, and final grades. We went back to the CO at the start of each unit at minimum and often at the start and end of the unit. During the first semester, when we were adding learining rituals we often went to the CO in the middle of the unit as well.
