guess, share strategies, and talk through problem-solving in math. To engage students in a fun number sense task, I’ve had my students use the Youcubed activityLeo the Rabbitwhere students are given the task to find how many ways Leo can hop up 10 steps. (Leo can only hop ...
Dana Middle Schoolpiloted a “blended environment” for a 5th grademath class. With a physical teacher in the room, the curriculum and assessment was all web based – the provider wasApex Learning. This drastically changed delivery – students moved at their own pace (one was done with the ...
Of course, it may not be feasible to take an interpretive stance every time a teacher needs to grade an assignment, but teachers should develop the skill set and expertise so that they can recognize opportunities to learn about substantive student thinking when examining student work. The ...
Schools have “focused a lot more on pushing math, science and reading, (and) because of that, social studies kind of falls to the wayside,” says Brianna Diaz, who wrote a report about the change in civics education forChildren’s Defense Fund Texas. “...
(Grade) 5 students (10 and 11 year olds). These tasks were developed from various narratives, each portrayed through a different medium (movie clip, short film, picture story book). Post lesson interviews were undertaken with 24 students inviting them to compare and contrast this lesson ...
In order to achieve the goals set, the research team designed the theme My green garden for students in grade 1 (nature and society) following the 5E procedure, including 5 steps: (1) engage; (2) explore; (3) explain; (4) elaborate; and (5) evaluate. This topic was deployed to tea...
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Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA. Leavy, A. M., & Middleton, J. A. (2001). Middle grade students understanding of the statistical concept of distribution. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational ...
It is widely believed that adolescents engage in risky behaviors because of tolerance for risks by nature, but a study by researchers at New York University, Yale’s School of Medicine, and Fordham University has found this is not the case. ...
Last week, I asked the 1st graders to think of an activity that was easy, medium, and hard for them. For each activity, they drew a picture to represent it. For example, if reading is easy for a student, she might draw a book. If math is hard, he might draw a multiplication sign...