A community mural; K-5 students, artists, teachers, business people, and community leaders worked together to create a mural.
What do you want to be when you grow up? Take a look at multiple career interviews to help narrow the field!
Students will take active roles in learning the game of chess and improving their skills, ability, and knowledge of the game. Students will read the course material, complete practice drills for each module, complete and submit all assessments and submit properly recorded (notated) games that they played. Course content includes: rules, strategy, tactics and algebraic notation (the 'language' of chess).
Discussion Plan for Philosophical Inquiry for the elementary classroom.
Present the two questions to the class and let take a few minutes think about the questions.
Teacher will ask the students to use vote for the question they would like to discuss using common sign (i.e. raised hand) to indicate a "Yes" vote.
The teacher puts the question with the most votes on the board and asks the students to think about their answer to the question.
Students are asked to offer possible answers to the question and students are allowed to add to an answer that they agree with.
Teacher will count the amount of answers suggesting agreement and disagreement and use it let the class see their thinking about the question at hand.
Teacher will ask the students if their thinking about the question changed when they heard other students answers.
Students will be asked about their experience and what they might have gained by participating.
These series of lesson are designed to help students understand the theory of plate tectonics. This content could easily be adapted to reach younger or older audiences.
This is great exploring properties of magnetism science lab for young scientists. It is meant to be an experiential precursor before covering topics of magnetism. It could easily be adapted for older children.
This is a series of lessons about Plate Tectonics contains a science lab and follow-up multimedia research project for both upper elementary and middle school age students. It can be adapted to be completely project based and integrate with other subjects beyond language arts and science.
This resource allow teachers and parents to plan for and use Philosophical Inquiry in the classroom or in a small group setting. When we encourage students to think deeply and to express their thinking we see that it helps them to interact better as learning in general classroom discussions.
This is a 50 minute lesson where preschool to kindergarten-aged students explore using their five senses several different station of materials
This lesson uses secondary and primary sources as well as statistical historical records to understand, interpret and apply the core elements of the United States Declaration of Independence to its origins and in modern American society.