Sentences with phrase «social studies students do»

5th graders social studies students do a practice round for the annual We The People competition.

The social studies students don't worry about how to operate a broadcasting studio.

Social studies students don't need a lot of technical skills, but they do need to know some of the basics about what it's like to be on the radio.

Not exact matches

A study published in the «Journal of Personality and Social Psychology» compared how students performed on a test to how they thought they did.

The University of Michigan did this big study on 14,000 college students and what they found was, with the rise of social media and technology, there's actually a sharp decline of empathy and compassion.

Although the study did not survey parents, the student - athletes surveyed «indicated that what their parents thought about reporting was an important social factor when deciding to report concussive symptoms»).

PS 116's principal Jane Hsu told DNA Info that the school «spent over a year «analyzing studies focused on the effects of traditional homework» and decided that it was more important for the Pre-K through fifth grade students to do activities that «have been proven to have a positive impact on student academic performance and social / emotional development» such as reading at their own pace and playing.»

Not only does a fluent reader make the transition to being a fluent writer much more easily than a non-fluent reader, but as students get older reading plays an important role in math, science, and social studies, too.

«Although acceleration is widely supported by research as an effective strategy for meeting the needs of advanced learners, it's still rarely used, and most schools do not systematically look for students who need it,» said study co-author Paula Olszewski - Kubilius, director of the Center for Talent Development at the Northwestern's School of Education and Social Policy.

Similarly, a 2012 study of 160 U.S. and German college students published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that those who called themselves heterosexual, despite admitting same - sex desires, were more likely to be hostile toward gay individuals that those who did not report such desires.

danah boyd, a doctoral student at UC Berkeley, who doesn't capitalize her name, studies the demographics of MySpace as part of her research on social technology.

Jeremy Mettler, social studies teacher at Batavia (New York) High School, puts it this way: «Students all have them and they love using them, but they don't realize they're walking around with a computer in their pocket.»

Only about 4 percent of U.S. students go to colleges that accept less than 25 percent of their applicants, and most American kids either don't attend or don't graduate from four - year colleges, says developmental psychologist Richard Weissbourd, who studies the social and emotional lives of teens.

The state does not have science and social studies assessments that are aligned to state standards for elementary, middle, and high school students, which lowers its standards - and - accountability score.

The Linked Learning initiative is building a half - dozen or more career pathways in each of nine school districts, on the theory that students can get all the math, English, science, and social studies they need for a university, along with technical and job skills, but do it in a way that makes learning more fun and gives them real, relevant work experience.

EW: Can you tell me about some of the social studies projects youve done with your students?

Nevertheless, studies have found that, after controlling for the size and structure of the school and the social background of its students, schools in provinces with external exams taught their students a statistically significant one - half of a U.S. grade - level equivalent more math and science by 8th grade than comparable schools in provinces that did not give curriculum - based external tests.

By adjusting for the effort students are putting into their studies, I do my best to separate the social consequences of achievement from those of effort to achieve.

For the team at Huntington, the survey, which was given to more than 1,000 students and 130 teachers, revealed an issue that did not surprise social studies teacher Ken Donovan: empathy.

Little time was spent on science or social studies, so students didn't build a strong, broad foundation of knowledge.

In a Trinidad Garza social studies class, Engelhart recalls how a teacher introduced her students to robber barons — unethical American businessmen in the late 19th century, and later big businesses throughout the 1930s and 70s: «I want you to read this information about the robber barons, and then write down two questions: one about a fact that you don't understand and what you need to know about it, and a thinking question: How?

* While I was doing my walk - through today, the students were taking notes and reviewing a social studies lesson.

In their sixth - grade social studies and language arts class, while doing a simulation on the Maya, students take breaks for research, close reading of articles (from secondary sources to primary documents written in the 1500s), and analyzing their own artistic replicas of primary documents.

He sticks it in whenever he can: doing role - playing during social studies, acting out vocabulary during language arts, and having students interpret math problems by demonstrating answers with, for example, the correct amount of jumping jacks.

Students who use newspapers tend to score higher on standardized achievement tests — particularly in reading, math, and social studies — than those who don't use them.

«We read a lot in the media about how young people are using social networking sites with harmful results,» agrees Christine Greenhow, Ed.D.» 06, a postdoctoral associate at the University of Minnesota who has done a new study looking into how students really use them.

Students using vouchers to attend established private schools in Cleveland are slightly outperforming their public school counterparts in language skills and science, and doing about the same in reading, math, and social studies, according to the latest independent evaluation of the program.

FOR GOOGLE CLASSROOM Included in this resource: • Title page • Do Now / Motivation student - centered question • The Algonquian reading passage with graphic organizer • Application / Closing / Higher Order Thinking Question • Answer Key for Graphic Organizer Students will research how the Algonquian lived: location, tribes, homes, adaptation based on environment, role of women Adheres to Social Studies Common Core Standards - research, application, literacy, vocabulary; lifting evidence from text Differentiation: graphic organizer; cooperative (students may work in groups / teams / partner to complete graphic organizer based on teacher's discretion) ★ ★ Looking for the pen and paper, hard - copy version of this rStudents will research how the Algonquian lived: location, tribes, homes, adaptation based on environment, role of women Adheres to Social Studies Common Core Standards - research, application, literacy, vocabulary; lifting evidence from text Differentiation: graphic organizer; cooperative (students may work in groups / teams / partner to complete graphic organizer based on teacher's discretion) ★ ★ Looking for the pen and paper, hard - copy version of this rstudents may work in groups / teams / partner to complete graphic organizer based on teacher's discretion) ★ ★ Looking for the pen and paper, hard - copy version of this resource?

Students increasingly compose within social media environments and teachers should capitalize on this affinity, as did Dr. Reynol Junco at Lock Haven University, in a study where his students used Twitter and other social media tools to increase their overall grade point averages (seeStudents increasingly compose within social media environments and teachers should capitalize on this affinity, as did Dr. Reynol Junco at Lock Haven University, in a study where his students used Twitter and other social media tools to increase their overall grade point averages (seestudents used Twitter and other social media tools to increase their overall grade point averages (see video).

We must study our local data, and intervene with as much fervor for a student with a social - emotional issue as we do for a student with an achievement issue.

For example, in social studies, students went online to do a self - survey of likes and talents.

Travel journals are a collection of the work students do for their science or social studies module.

In addition to the work that teachers do in their own classroom, the architecture, science, and social studies teachers joined the model - building phase of the architecture project to help and support students, ask questions, offer a new perspective on their design, and help them push through any obstacles.

The middle grades social studies curriculum is invariably a mile wide and an inch deep, making it difficult to do justice to the subject and to our students.

As many as 52 % of students did not pass English classes, 44 % failed mathematics, 41 % had problems with natural sciences (biology, chemistry, physics), and 28 % did not pass social sciences (economics, history, psychology, social studies).

But Arizona does not have science and social studies assessments aligned to state standards for elementary, middle, and high school students.

In fact, in a study of a project - based approach to teaching social studies and content literacy to 2nd graders, my colleagues and I were able to close the gap, statistically speaking, between students in high - poverty school districts — who experienced project - based units — and students in wealthy school districts — who did not.

In Social Emotional Learning Interventions Under the Every Student Succeeds Act, a team from RAND did an exhaustive search for U.S. K - 12 SEL interventions that have been studied, and graded the evidence according to the evidentiary guidelines contained in the ESSA language.

The opportunity for social studies teachers to integrate primary sources into the classroom and engage their students in doing history has now become more of a reality due to increased access to archival material, once only available to historians visiting the archives.

After lunch, students did free writing in their journals followed by recess and then sessions on science, mathematics, and social studies.

The concerns are focused on whether or not social studies teachers integrate computer - based resources and, when they do, whether this integration warrants an appropriate use — one that improves student learning outcomes.

The data indicate that when the teachers were observed utilizing an IWB in their social studies instruction, they shifted away from the student - centered instructional practices observed when they did not use the device.

Why did these two teachers, who stated that their social studies pedagogy was student centered and were observed employing student - centered instruction when the IWB was not used, rely solely on teacher - centered instruction when it was used?

This access was uncharted territory for social studies teachers and students alike, which did not go unnoticed.

As the consumption - based model of technology integration transitions to a participatory approach and technology transitions from a tool for accessing information to a tool to (a) support student authoring and creativity, (b) facilitate collaboration, communication, and social learning, (c) allow for more efficient organization and accumulation of resources, (d) provide venues for student voices through publication and sharing, and (e) support student immersion in learning environments, educators also transition from «extending learning beyond what could be done without technology» (Mason et al., 2000) to «use technologies to promote effective student learning» (Hicks et al., 2014) In the revisioning of the first principle, the authors did a commendable job of affording increased value to range of tools, methods, content, abilities, and varied contexts of social studies classrooms.

Sanborn Regional High School student Jailee Thibeault does research during her social studies class.

Students who completed social - emotional learning interventions fared better than their peers who didn't participate on a variety of indicators — including academic performance, social skills, and avoiding negative behaviors like drug use, finds the analysis, which examined follow - up data from dozens of published studies on specific interventions.

Phase 2» Though the «Fields of Dreams» project had the potential for helping social studies teachers bring out the geographic aspects of social studies for their students, it did not happen.

Promote a system where student government representatives regularly communicate information about school issues to their constituents and the whole student body, (This is often done through Social Studies or English classes so that every student can be reached.)

Students trained in social and emotional skills had academic achievement scores which were an average of 11 percentile points higher than those who did not, according to a meta - analysis of 213 studies (Weissberg, et al., 2015).