Community: 3rd, 4th, and 5th Grades
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Claudine is a 4th & 5th grade inclusion teacher at Greenacres Elementary. On the subject of 21st century literacy, she says, "We are also teaching students how to dissect information and find relevancy, how to be inquisitive, how cross check and interpret evidence to find truths. By giving them these tools, they will be able to be evaluative in decision-making."
Recent Discussions
Posted in Technology Tools
Monica
Google Docs has been a terrific formative assessment tool for teachers in my district this year. The ease of students sharing work with the teacher and the teacher being able to use the comment feature has been very valuable.
Posted in Project-Based Learning
Bill Kuhl
I have really adjusted this model plane to fly well: http://youtu.be/ysui-eaktZE
This was a big hit with teachers at Wisconsin Afterschool Conference...
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Core Strategies for Grades 3-5
I have done it for 8 years and I love it, before that 6 years in 4th grade. 5th graders are that rare combination of adult and child. They are autonomous and still (for the most part) love school. I will say that they are getting more and more...