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Casey Burns #3

A Breath of Fresh Air


Undesirable Behavior Targeted:
Students have been forgetting to place their name and class number on their homework. This interferes
with learning by taking the teachers time away from facilitating learning in order to make sure that
everyones homework is accounted for.

Desirable (expected) Behavior Targeted:


All students will turn in homework with their name and class number on the paper.

Types of positive reinforcements - Reinforced when & how?


Immediate & delayed R+ should be related to the final activity being earned.
1. Immediate R+ Each student will receive a yellow carbon dioxide bubble when they turn in their
homework with both their name and class number on it. They will place the yellow bubble in the tree
on the classroom bulletin board.
2. Ongoing R+ For every 40 yellow carbon dioxide bubbles in the tree, 1 red oxygen bubble gets placed in
the air. When the first red bubble is placed, the class will do an aquarium activity showing that plants
give off oxygen. For the second red oxygen bubble, the class will create a bottle ecosystem.
3. Overall R+ Once 3 red oxygen bubbles are in the air, the class will play the Carbon Dioxide Oxygen
Balloon Toss Game.
4. As part of our homework collection routine, students will pass their homework to the teacher and the
teacher will perform a quick check for student names and numbers on their homework. All students
that put their names and class numbers on their homework will receive a yellow carbon dioxide
bubble to place on the tree of the classroom bulletin. Every three days, the teacher and students will
count the yellow bubbles to see if theyve earned a red bubble. The activities related to each red
bubble will be performed the day after the class has met that goal.

Interactive Learning Activity


TEKS 5.9 d: Organisms and environments. The student knows that there are relationships, systems, and cycles
within environments. The student is expected to: (D) identify the significance of the carbon dioxide-oxygen cycle to
the survival of plants and animals.
The class will play the Carbon Dioxide Oxygen Balloon Toss Game the day after the goal is met. Students will
take turns playing roles: plants or animals, and will toss yellow and red balloons to each other. The plants will toss
red oxygen balloons to the animals and the animals will toss yellow carbon dioxide balloons to the plants. At the end
of the game, the class will discuss the importance of oxygen for animals and carbon dioxide for plants.

Explain HOW you will Teach the Desired Behaviors:


As the teacher, I will model where students should place their name and class number on their homework
assignments. We will then practice the task as a class, with each student turning in a sample homework
assignment with their name and class number in the correct placement.

Explain HOW you will Teach the Plan:


Before the class turns in their homework for the day, I will walk to the new classroom bulletin board and
explain why we are implementing the behavior contingency plan. I will then model with a student the act
of giving them a yellow carbon dioxide bubble and ask the student to place it in thse tree. I will explain
how many yellow carbon dioxide bubbles must be collected before we receive a red oxygen bubble and
can do an activity. The conversation will then move to why we are using carbon dioxide and oxygen
bubbles on this board, discussing the cycle and why it is important for both plants and animals.

Provide options
This plan can be implemented across class periods by creating a different color combination for each class.
For instance, one class will have yellow and red bubbles, while another will have purple and green.

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