Sentences with phrase «by the fifth graders»

I bet 75 % of that Senate science committee would get schooled in raw knowledge by fifth graders who happened to have an interest in the subject.

The drawings of ocean plants, as imagined by fifth graders in a Massachusetts summer program, had the craziest of adaptations.

Original artwork created by fifth graders and Hotchkiss and Rice Elementary schools answering the question, «If you were a peacemaker, what would you do to bring peace to Darfur?»

Not exact matches

Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of France, recently raised a commotion by trying to educate his country's youth: Every fifth grader, he said, should adopt the story of one of France's 11,000 Jewish children killed during the Holocaust, in order to teach them about prejudice and the evils....

Games and sports become more individualized in the middle school years: fifth graders learn the events of the Greek Pentathlon — javelin, discus, long jump, wrestling, and running — that culminates in an Olympiad hosted by a regional Waldorf school each spring.

They just don't like us fiddling around in the heavens without a purpose prescribed by the heavens, or at least one comprehensible to a fifth - grader.

Treating variation in the amount of time that states mandate schoolchildren spend in PE as natural experiments, the researchers found that an additional 60 minutes per week of PE time (enough to bring states without an explicit requirement up to the amount of PE recommended by the CDC) reduces the probability that a fifth - grader is obese by 4.8 percentage points.

The four - year project led by Victor Carrion, M.D., will ask 800 third - and fifth - graders from California to participate in 45 - minute wellness classes, including yoga and coping skills, two to three days a week.

Fourth graders who showed signs of depression were more likely than their classmates to be victimized as fifth graders, and kids who were picked on in fifth grade tended to be less accepted by their peers in sixth grade.

It all feels like it was ghostwritten by fifth - graders, testing the MPAA to see what they could get away with.

Buoyed by its findings, two Colorado legislators — one Republican, the other a Democrat — introduced a bill in May that would pay first - through fifth - graders in high - risk schools $ 2 for each book they read and for which they pass a comprehension quiz.

By the time that the fifth and fourth graders had finished, the third graders were well aware of the project and had viewed some podcasts.

Fifth graders, for example, might prepare to play softball by working in pairs to field ground balls, so they can give each other feedback on their fielding technique.

«Some people learn by doing worksheets, some by acting it out, some by sculpting, and some by listening,» explains Enota fifth grader Katherine Anderson.

Though the Windham (N.Y.) fifth grader had begun the school year in good health, by last October, her asthma had significantly worsened.

Those are the comments of two of the students challenged by a special program that paired the imaginations of 13 fifth - graders and two artists - in - residence.

More than half of the 1,865 10th - to 12th - graders surveyed by the polling firm had knowledge of violent racial incidents; about one - fifth said such incidents happened «very often,» and 36 percent said they happened «once in a while.»

Now, Cook's fifth graders use their cell phones on a daily basis to collaborate by sharing information; to gather data; and to work with Microsoft Word and Excel.

Below are the first two paragraphs from a letter written by a Hollywood, Florida, fifth grader.

Another study of fourth - and fifth - graders showed that after decreasing sleep by one hour a night from the recommended 10, test scores dropped.

Of the 6,000 fifth -, sixth -, and seventh - graders nominated by NYC public schools, 225 are admitted into Prep for Prep's rigorous 14 - month academic program, which is designed to help prepare students for success in independent schools.

Lightfoot shared a poem by Jean Toomer in which she said she learned as a fifth grader «the power and meaning of metaphor.»

By 1999 Feinberg, with fifth - through eighth - graders in trailers on a school parking lot, and Levin, with the same grade levels on the fourth floor of a public school surrounded by housing projects, had the best performing middle schools in Houston and the Bronx, respectivelBy 1999 Feinberg, with fifth - through eighth - graders in trailers on a school parking lot, and Levin, with the same grade levels on the fourth floor of a public school surrounded by housing projects, had the best performing middle schools in Houston and the Bronx, respectivelby housing projects, had the best performing middle schools in Houston and the Bronx, respectively.

But fifth - graders at the Liberation College Preparatory School and Spirit College Prep, new schools in Houston, declined in both reading and math achievement in their first year, based on standardized tests administered by KIPP to keep track of each school's and each child's progress.

On a sunny day in May, fifth graders at Donald E. Ross Elementary School here were gathered at an outdoor gazebo, learning about fulcrums by using a ruler set up like a seesaw and balancing weights at both ends.

By late July, fifth - graders already had settled into the long - hours, no - excuses Knowledge Is Power Program, chanting and gesticulating in precise routines meant to boost math memory, among other things.

Above: cover art by Jamie Keenan Below: A San Francisco fifth grader shows Oppenheimer the virtues of low - tech learning.

The parent union leadership, which has been meeting weekly for months, has urged the 359 parents eligible to vote to choose the joint operator option that essentially creates two separate schools: one run by LAUSD for students in preschool through fourth grade, and another run by Crown Preparatory Academy for fifth - through eighth - graders.

Picture fifth graders gathered around a table where teachers are modeling the effects of sand erosion by wind and water.

Except for some temporary gains for fifth - graders, though, their students progressed no faster than those in classes taught by the 144 other teachers.

The most notable grade cohort was fifth graders whose Lexile reading performance exceeded the growth expected with typical instruction by an average of 63 points.

Fifth graders serve as social media interns who tell powerful stories to their community by snapping photos, preparing tweets, and creating Facebook posts for publication while also learning digital citizenship skills.

By Nicole Thomas, mother of a third grader and fifth grader at P.S. 256 in Bedford - Stuyvesant and a parent volunteer with StudentsFirstNY

In English Language Arts, third - graders learn grammar by identifying basic parts of speech, and fifth - graders explore hyperbole and similes.

Jury awards $ 6.9 million to boy molested by L.A. Unified teacher Now 14, the boy was a fifth - grader at Queen Anne Place Elementary School when then - teacher Forrest Stobbe molested him for several months.

By 1 p.m., as the fourth - and fifth - graders head back into their classrooms from recess, Hardy checks in with her leadership team.

WEST VALLEY CITY — A fifth - grader from Granger Elementary School suffered a fractured skull when he was hit by a small SUV Wednesday while trying to board a school bus.

The results are telling: In the 2015 - 16 school year, Hanford - Dole's third -, fourth - and fifth - graders improved by nearly four times the expected rate in reading, says Julie Morrow, Rowan - Salisbury's assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction.

All 600 tests by second - through fifth - graders were invalidated.

This year's theme is «Bring Our Missing Children Home» All entries must be from fifth graders and must measure 8 1/2 by 14 inches.

Allensworth, whose research will be featured Tuesday, April 7, in a national webinar sponsored by California's Attendance Institute, a nonprofit school advocacy group based in Sacramento, offers up the educational experience of two fifth graders that might finish the year both with good attendance records, say 97 percent.

Mr. Murphy and I are pleased to share several examples of MCBA digital book reports created by Mr. Norman's fifth graders.

If you are teaching fifth graders a social studies lesson, then try having students create a song by changing the lyrics of a popular artist to correlate with what they are learning.

According to figures released yesterday by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson, the LA Unified fifth -, seventh - and ninth - graders who participated in the six - part test during the 2013 - 14 school year are significantly...

On one recent day, Paul Frank's fourth - and fifth - graders started off by learning about latitude and longitude on Google Maps and ended sprawled around the classroom on laptops, putting together presentations about the Midwest.

He suggested the phrasing could have been made better for a fifth grader by using consistent language and saying «Mario divided his circle into two equal sections.»

Twenty - three percent of second -, third -, fourth -, and fifth - graders were doing math at grade level in September, and by November, that rate had risen to 44 percent.

A large boy came racing by, probably a fifth - grader.

Rose's obsession with homophones and rules distinguishes her from most other fifth - graders but also provides insights into the world of a child challenged by Asperger's syndrome.

In text inspired by informal, ongoing interviews with a class of fifth - graders, Close talks about his paintings and life, including overcoming his physical disabilities: life - long dyslexia and a stroke that left him wheelchair - bound.