In her latest exhibition, Girlhood, at D.C. Moore Gallery, Kozloff juxtaposes her adult obsession with antiquated cartography with her own childhood drawings
for social studies projects, revealing the limits of our ability to comprehend «new worlds,» both historically and personally.
Not exact matches
«The DEA appears to be dragged into this kicking and screaming,» said Sanho Tree, director of the Drug Policy
Project at the Institute
for Policy
Studies, a progressive think tank focused on
social - justice issues.
The Chinese missile
project «was one of the things that really made people say «Turkey is shifting, wow,»» said Mehmet Soylemez, an Asian
studies specialist at the Institute
for Social and Political Researches, an independent research group in Ankara.
For instance, say that a tween is supposed to be working on a final project for social studies cla
For instance, say that a tween is supposed to be working on a final
project for social studies cla
for social studies class.
The
study is a part of the ongoing ATLAS
project, which is a joint effort by Stockholm University and Uppsala University, supported by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (The Swedish Foundation
for Humanities and
Social Sciences) and Vetenskapsrådet (The Swedish Research Council), to investigate the genetic history of Scandinavia.
The most significant finding of a recent
study considered by the Ethical, Legal and
Social Implications Group of the US Human Genome
Project was the lack of demand
for testing: people don't want it (New Scientist, 18 September).
Funding
for the joint
study included grants from the Fonds de la recherche en santé du Quebec, the Research into Ageing programme, the Age - UK funded Disconnected Mind
Project, the UK Medical Research Council, the Scottish Funding Council, UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Economic and
Social Research Council, and the Medical Research Council.
The
study used data collected
for the National
Social Life, Health and Aging
Project, a nationally representative multi-purpose survey of adults aged 57 to 85 administered between July 2005 and March 2006.
LA JOLLA, CA — A multi-institutional team headed by Ursula Bellugi, professor and director of the Laboratory
for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Salk Institute
for Biological
Studies, has been awarded a $ 5.5 million Program
Project Grant by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to link
social behavior to its underlying neurobiological and molecular genetic basis using Williams syndrome as a model.
This is the first
study to apply a treatment that has been shown to be successful in other populations to individuals with MS.. This
project may provide important evidence showing that this strategy can be effective
for improving
social functioning in the community, workplace, and at home, and enhance quality of life
for people with MS.
The
social venture company within the foundation is moving fast on getting the first steps done; however, it won't have enough money to finish the
project, and has conducted fundraising campaigns which have helped to support the preclinical
studies that are paving the way
for the first human trial.
Projects were designed to address nearly all Michigan second - grade standards in
social studies and many Michigan second - grade standards (which are the Common Core State Standards)
for informational reading and informational writing.
These
projects can teach kids about such subjects as
social studies or literature using digital tools — maps and timelines,
for instance — that will develop a relationship between narrative and history, time and place.
Making Tomorrow's Millionaires This site, part of an eighth - grade
social studies project, includes portfolio templates
for use in the classroom as well as links to sources
for current stock prices.
English - composition students writing and submitting proposals to potential sponsors to fund supplies and a field trip
for their
social studies class
project.
His grant - funded
project, Educating
for Democracy in the Digital Age (EDDA), helped more than 100 ELA and
social studies teachers in Oakland bring action civics inside their classrooms from 2011 through 2015.
Sociologist James W. Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, continues his crusade to encourage the honest teaching of U.S. history, warts and all, in this call
for a
social studies curriculum based on critical thinking and
project learning.
We channeled our frustration into the development of four
project - based learning (PBL) units
for second grade that focus on
social studies and informational reading and writing.
Project - based learning aligns with and enhances the College, Career, and Civic Life Framework
for Social Studies State Standards.
I am a San Marino High School (CA)
social studies teacher and
for the past several years I have increasingly required my US Government students to think critically by engaging in a semester - long group
project that culminates with an end - of term - presentation.
A network of schools named
for Dr. King has launched
projects in art, language, and
social studies.
At Mid-Pacific Institute in Honolulu, we teach MPX, a completely
project - based curriculum that fulfills the ninth grade requirements
for biology, mathematics,
social studies, and language arts.
Earth Inc. — A Service - Learning Lesson Plan An Education World article focuses on the
Social Studies Education Consortium, which offers a template
for a model service
project.
For Edutopia, «What Works in Public Education» boils down to six «core principles»: comprehensive assessment, integrated
studies,
project - based learning,
social and emotional learning, teacher development, and technology integration (see sidebar).
Test will also start collecting data in spring 2005
for an upcoming
project, which will involve a longitudinal
study of the development of
social cognition in children from birth to age five.
Projects occur mainly during the time of day used
for science and / or
social studies and the arts, but include some literacy and math when appropriate.
Associate Professor Meira Levinson and Adjunct Lecturer and
Project Zero Senior
Project Manager Liz Dawes Duraisingh, Ed.D.» 13, are to be honored by the National Council
for the
Social Studies (NCSS) at its upcoming conference Nov. 22 — 24 in St. Louis.
This lesson plan from the
Social Studies Education Consortium offers a template
for a model service
project.
New
Project Hopes to Learn Which Pre-K Experiences Lead to Later School Success (Education Dive) Professor Nonie Lesaux and colleagues are seeing success with the Early Learning
Study which is designed to identify indicators
for long - term academic and
social achievement rooted in Pre-K experiences.
Most importantly, PBL allows
for additional opportunities to assess my learners
for understanding and mastery — once a
project is underway, I find myself constantly formatively assessing
for a long list of literacy, math,
social studies, and 21st - century skills benchmarks.
All of these skills and concepts are contained in our state standards
for mathematics, language arts,
social studies, and 21st - century skills, and were embedded in the original
project summary.
In a recent English and
social studies joint
project,
for example, students took photos of monuments in downtown Philadelphia on their iPads and then, using a 3D modeling app, created their own digital versions.
Innovative Global Educator with passion
for instilling global citizenship in students of all nationalities through history /
social studies and
social action
projects.
Amnesty Int» l Human Rights Education EdChange Education
for Liberation Network Equity Alliance at ASU The Freire
Project Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network Institute
for Critical Animal
Studies Institute
for Humane Education International Assn.
for Intercultural Education The Matrix Center National Assn.
for Multicultural Education New York Collective of Radical Educators Radical Math Rethinking Schools Online SoJust: Document History of
Social Justice Teachers
for Social Justice (Chicago) Teachers 4
Social Justice (San Francisco) Teaching Economics as if People Mattered Teaching
for Change Teaching Tolerance White Privilege Conference
When working on research
projects for science or
social studies, they have used and cited various articles they searched
for and found in the KidBiz program.
The case focuses on Northern High School's tenth grade
social studies team as they debate potential topics
for an upcoming
project, the Power of Persuasion.
The six booklets — on the arts, English, foreign language, mathematics, science, and
social studies — are part of the board's ongoing «Educational EQuality
Project,» a 10 - year program begun in 1981 with the aim of both strengthening the academic quality of secondary education and ensuring that all high - school students have «equality of opportunity»
for higher education, College Board officials say.
The authors of the
study hold out hope that the positive finding on kindergarten retentions means that the TN - VPK had a positive effect on children's
social / emotional development, which will lead to long term positive outcomes like those that were found in the famous Perry Preschool
Project (in which,
for example, participants were less likely than nonparticipants to have had encounters with the criminal justice system as adults).
They review key
studies on PBL in
social studies and literacy education, two examples of successful
social studies / literacy PBL units, and conclude with tips
for developing
social studies and literacy
projects in classrooms.
A + Educators has identified focus standards in the core content areas of mathematics, reading, writing, science and
social studies, and has developed meaningful student
projects utilizing Web 2.0 tools that include engaging qualities of student work and assessment of and
for learning.
For legal reasons, the ELA, mathematics, and Literacy in Science,
Social Studies documents created in this
project are available only to those districts that directly participated in the work.
This begins with demonstrating the power of technology to support specific
social studies activities and
projects that together center on the development of children's (a) «personal civic beliefs,» (b) «capacity
for social and public action,» (c) «ties to their localities and the world outside,» and (d) «awareness of past present and future» (Cogan et al., 2000, p. 50).
As part of an Institute of Education Sciences (IES)- funded research
project, our team (in collaboration with current middle school educators) is developing a professional development (PD) model specifically
for middle schools to help them implement research - based reading practices in content areas, including English / language arts, science, and
social studies.
Alcott Elementary School, Concord This
project will develop text sets and a variety of other more updated and relevant media resources
for a third grade
social studies unit to support the content so that all students can access the content and demonstrate their understanding of the values, beliefs and customs of indigenous peoples of the Northeast.
Since this our
Social Studies teachers have now created a 20 %
project for their classes.
Rather than taking the place of the typical
social studies curriculum, this
project was an add - on
for the teacher, requiring significant realignment of instructional time
for work that would not directly prepare students
for the state assessment.
A
study that assessed the enduring effects of the Seattle
Social Development
Project — another elementary school program — on former participants at age 18 found lower rates of violent behavior, heavy drinking, and sexual activity, as well as higher academic motivation and achievement,
for program participants relative to comparison group students (Hawkins, Catalano, Kosterman, Abbot, & Hill, 1999).
During middle school,
for example, students from elementary schools that had implemented the Developmental
Studies Center's Child Development
Project — a program that emphasizes community building — were found to outperform middle school students from comparison elementary schools on academic outcomes (higher grade - point averages and achievement test scores), teacher ratings of behavior (better academic engagement, respectful behavior, and
social skills), and self - reported misbehavior (less misconduct in school and fewer delinquent acts)(Battistich, 2001).
Social Studies / Native American
Studies / US History: In
Social Studies students explore Native American, New Mexican, US and World History, Geography and create
projects and presentations
for National History Day.
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.