Craig Adams, CPS's STEAM coordinator, helped second
graders studying a unit on poetry write code for robots to act out the poems they had written.
Not exact matches
Second
graders from low - income backgrounds participated in two project - based
units which integrated literacy and social
studies.
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 the end, third -
graders, who get tested the most, take a whopping 14 standardized tests per year, in addition to «exit tickets» — teacher - generated assessments at the end of a
unit of
study.
The 4th
graders will
study Maryland resources and industries through their Where We Are in Place and Time
Unit called My Maryland.
This
study examined the relationships of three levels of reading fluency, the individual word, the syntactic
unit, and the whole passage, to reading comprehension among 278 fifth
graders
While it is important to us to build engaging
units and
study the world around us, it's also important to us to align on what we feel third -
graders should know and be able to do.
During journal time, first
graders had written a short reflection about what they had learned about butterflies during their
unit of
study.
Within this
unit of
study, the first
graders discovered that everyone is at school to grow and learn, that it takes many people to help a school function, and that collaboration and cooperation are beneficial in a school environment.