O.R.E.O.+Project

=O.R.E.O. Project= =(Our Really Exciting Online Project)=

Description of project:
The teacher registers the class online at the O.R.E.O. Project (an international project). The class must carry out the project between two preset dates. Students first estimate how many Oreo cookies they can stack one on top of another. Students then stack the original Oreo cookies. A partner student tallies the cookies. Two attempts are given for each student. The highest attempt for each student is then used to find the class average. The class average is then recorded and submitted to the O.R.E.O. Project. Final results of this international project can be viewed online. The project online has a number of other activities to be completed, if the teacher desires. (Reading a pictograph, reading a bar graph, alphabetical order, word scramble, word search, math problems, etc.)

O.R.E.O. Project - Shepherd of the Hills Christian School
1. Grades 2 and 3 registered for the project. 2. Teacher developed a Smartboard Presentation to introduce the students to the project and to give student directions. Two short clips from YouTube were also shown to demonstrate how the cookies were to be stacked. 3. Students were divided into groups of two, one second grader and one third grader. 4. Four cookie stations were developed. As four groups stacked the cookies the remainder of the groups worked on various Oreo worksheets. 5. The students completed the Attempt Worksheet. 6. Students helped to find the average of the attempts by doing the addition. The teacher helped with the division. 7. The results were submitted to the project. 8. The final results of all schools were then viewed and discussed.

Student Directions:
1. The students will work as partners. One partner will stack, the other partner will tally the cookies. 2. Each student will have 2 attempts to create a cookie stack. 3. Students will place one cookie on the tablecloth and then add one cookie at a time to the stack. 4. Students may not adjust the cookie after they have placed the cookie on the stack. 5. A tumble has occurred when one or more cookies have tumbled from the stack. 6. Once a tumble has occurred the student needs to record their count onto the recording sheet.