This site provides ideas and lessons for integrating Google Earth into the math curriculum; each activity description is accompanied by a related downloadable Google Earth file. Students can estimate great or small distances and then check actual distances using the Google Earth ruler. They can deter...
Medical geneticsMedical educationHorizontal integrationReflective writingThe use of a brief in-class reflective writing exercise tied to patient sessions is described as a means to connect medical genetics content across an integrated curriculum and foster the moral and intellectual growth of the medical ...
When students "hit" algebra, they are usually presented with concepts such as "balancing" equations, factoring and expanding polynomials , and linear equations. What groundwork can be set by the K-6- curriculum to lead students to see algebra as an extension of their arithmetic skills? Can th...
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Building further on cross-cultural curriculum evaluation, Xin and colleagues developed the conceptual, model-based, problem-solving (COMPS) programme (Xin2012) that is consistent with the theoretical framework of mathematical modelling and conceptual models (e.g. Blomhøj2004; Lesh et al.1983). Th...
“teach to the middle” and hope that all of our students fall into place. Instead, we need to modify curriculum and find resources that target those students that struggle as well as those students who are advanced. As mentioned in my last blurb, ClassFlow is perfect for this because ...
different decisions difficult. Labor leaders warned that school-to-work programs focused on the needs of businesses and ignored the rights of workers. And some educators feared that a curriculum based too-rigidly on career skills robbed students of knowledge and activities that foster their growth as...
Debbie Gonzales is a career educator, curriculum consultant, former school administrator and adjunct professor, a podcaster (The Debcast), and past SCBWI RA for the Austin Chapter. Deb currently devotes her time to writing middle grade novels, crafting teacher guides and various other freelance proj...
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