Sentences with phrase «grade unit on»

A teacher transforms her third - grade unit on Native Americans into a semester - long project - based learning unit.

For example, the test corresponding to a 2nd - grade unit on Canada and Mexico consisted of a passage about a boy and his grandfather, who was born in Cuba and had moved to Miami.

Memorial Spaulding Elementary School, Newton This project will reinvigorate and restructure our 4th grade unit on the Civil Rights Movement.

A teacher transforms her third - grade unit on Native Americans into a semester - long project - based learning unit.

I addressed that fear in an 11th - grade unit on The Merchant of Venice by having students divide an assigned research question into three or four subtopics depending on the number of people in the group — each individual had his or her own responsibility as the groups explored the cultural and contextual background of the play and then wrote a collaborative research paper.

You could also use this as an example in primary - grade units on teamwork.

Not exact matches

The Unit Investment Trust, which is actually a corporate income fund, is similar to a regular money market account, except it?s made up of a group of higher grade securities, and instruments, and usually pays out dividends on a monthly basis...

In order to limit the influence of very high grades, capping and a restricted search radius was performed on each estimation unit.

When my daughter was in grade school, her teacher included a unit on table manners.

This season favorites have gone 701 - 484 (59.2 %) with +11.45 units won when grading on the closing lines, but bettors would have earned even more by taking those same teams at the opening line.

Reports out of LA indicate that the Carters plan on setting up an actual hospital - grade delivery room in their home, complete with neonatal unit and full medical staff on hand.

Before the Personnel Memo, I taught a unit on nutrition with the 7th grade science teachers.

They highlighted the remarkable achievements of the governor that have impacted positively on their lives such as «prompt payment of monthly salaries / pensions, other allowances to state public and civil servants; absorption of 54 % of total cost of 100 housing units at Elim Estate allocated to workers; payment of outstanding arrears of salaries / pensions / allowances to Local Government Staff, through prudent utilization of 100 % of LG share of the Paris Club Refunds; promotion of teachers and recruitment of over 4000 school teachers as well as elongation of terminal grade of qualified primary school teachers to level 16».

When the results of students» regular unit tests were calculated, the difference between the two approaches was clear: students earned an average grade of C + on material that had been reviewed and A − on material that had been quizzed.

The Units build upon the prior, with the intention that by the end of Fifth grade, students will have received almost forty lessons directly aligned with the CCSS that additionally enhance their understanding of, and ability to, think critically about ways to generate more kindness on an individual and global level.

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.

For example, students in third grade will end the unit by either individually or collaboratively writing a fable based on kindness.

Before coming to Butler University, Lori was an Assistant Professor at Marian University in Indianapolis and earlier on taught children and adolescents with emotional challenges in the upper elementary grades, worked as a school counselor in Indianapolis, was a private practice counselor and co-owner of the Indianapolis Counseling Center, and was a behavioral consultant for Methodist Hospital, in Indianapolis on the adolescent psychiatric unit.

By understanding each grade's units of study, we're able to focus our curriculum on grade - level topics.

«When we have our preps,» says Wiedegreen, «they're aligned to each other so that those grade - level teams can meet and work together on anything that we're doing in our units.

After noticing second grade students struggling with active listening and peer relationships, we collaborated with classroom teachers to create a second - grade unit focused on our social curriculum and their geology unit.

Several years ago when I was teaching eighth - grade Latin American history, we were engaged in a unit on the Mayan civilization.

A recent eighth - grade unit, Community on the Move, centered on cars and community.

Here's how this approach might look from the perspective of a team of three eighth - grade science teachers who begin planning together their next unit of instruction on the scientific method.

Based on seventh grade California History and English Language Arts Standards, I designed a semester - long unit that explored how illness and death were dealt with in the Middle Ages.

It contains a graded outstanding lesson on colonisation from Ofsted and a topic test and an end of unit test which id differentiated.

«The fourth - grade teachers at Symonds... were talking about doing pop - up books on energy, [because] we just completed a science unit on energy,» says Susan Grover.

The assessment itself was first given in 1969, but the underlying political compromises meant that (a) students were tested by age, not grade level; (b) results were reported either as percentages of test takers getting individual questions right or (starting in 1984) on a psychometric scale that included no benchmarks, standards, or «cut points»; and (c) the «units of analysis» were the entire country and four big regions but not individual states, let alone districts or schools.

These sheets were developed as part of a science unit on air pollution for a high - school age special education student but may be useful for other grade levels and typical students.

Just before each unit we [other teachers in her grade level] sit down and we talk about what, what are the objectives, what do the students have to learn, what activities can we do to ensure... success of all that... we were doing a graphing activity and the students graphed and we [other teachers in her grade level] were discussing the graph out in the hallway and um, she happened to walk by and she just kind of sat down and joined us and so then I just asked her... some feedback on, you know, how my conversation went and what I could have [done] to... deepen the kids» understanding.

My 4th grade students and I were working on our own small - scale project - based learning units at the time centered around questions of school citizenship and character values.

In the third - grade social studies curriculum at Friends School of Baltimore, where I teach, what used to be a mundane, teacher - led unit on Native Americans is now a semester - long PBL unit.

Hinijos focused on risk as a concept in her sixth - grade social studies and language arts class, and she talked with Bromfield about how he could incorporate risk into his math and science class at the beginning of his geosphere unit.

Each day is on it's own page -52 The Week Ahead graphic organiser pages at the start of each week -20 grade sheets (more or less can be easily printed)-10 lined pages (more or less can be easily printed)- Medium term unit planning template Each week starts with a graphic organiser page (includes bulleted To - Do / Tutor Notices / Important sections, «meetings this week» box, and lined paper section for notes and planning).

For example, each grade participates in three project - learning and integrated - studies units each school year on subjects including the kids» families to their school, the history of Manhattan, the Brooklyn Bridge, development of Fort Greene Park, and public transportation.

Written on a 3rd / 4th grade level, workbooks are meant to be self - paced and adaptable with student interests and goals driving most units.

Once our lesson plans were finalized, all the grade - level teachers were asked to compose, using key vocabulary and concepts from each unit, «ideal student responses» to serve as measures of student comprehension based on participation in class discussions.

Written on a high third / low fourth grade level, each unit is filled with airy pages and lots of bullet - point facts and information so that reluctant readers can use the program independently.

For the end of the year, we wrote an extensive sonnet unit, as the Common Core suggests for 7th - grade students, in which students analyze the impact a sonnet's form has on its meaning.

Three part lesson on drawing box and whisker plots at grade B. Starter revisits previous learning on unit 2 number.

When the fourth - grade classes in her building scheduled an Earth science unit on rocks, she saw a perfect opportunity to introduce the students to the knowledge and experience of a true expert in the field — with the help of technology!

In the partial group, which did the traffic light, peer checking activities, on average in that middle unit they improved by 0.3 grades, which was an effect size of 0.38.

Instead of age - based grade levels — placing all 11 - year - olds in 5th grade and holding them to the same performance standards — let students proceed on the basis of mastery, one unit or module at a time, subject by subject, with no obligation to all move at the same rate.

Give teachers across grade levels or subject areas the time they need to share student work, units they're teaching, and ideas they're working on.

This booklet contains detailed grade 9 knowledge and information on all aspects of Unit 3.

The unit is designed for one team of approximately 120 to 130 students but could easily be adapted to include an entire grade level or school, each focusing on a local environmental issue or problem.

In Lithonia, Georgia, a fifth — grade social studies unit on family history culminates with students using favorite objects to make visual representations of their lives.

My 6th grade students will be working on a cross curricular Pi activity with Humanities (just finished a unit on Greek mythology) where the students will be writing myths on the origin, creation, or the original use of Pi.

At the grade levels above that, each grade focuses on specific curriculum units of study.

«The second grade social studies unit focuses on communities, and the post office is part of the community.