Not exact matches
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.
At the end of a
social studies or science
unit, Coley breaks the class
into groups of two or three students so they can develop podcast scripts by discussing and summarizing what they've learned.
My students are so engaged by the topic — in our end - of - year reflection it is hands - down the most mentioned
unit we
study — that we have branched out naturally over the years
into exploring other forms of persuasion, such as speeches, print text, and various aspects of
social media.
Consider weaving projects
into reading,
social studies, math, and also creating interdisciplinary
units.
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.
Social studies and literacy content, too, can be adapted
into PBL
units to benefit teaching and learning, the authors argue.
Each
unit is organized by an Essential Question and enables students to dive deeply
into each of the
unit topics, which include Next Generation Science Standards as well as
social studies standards.
Science and
Social Studies are fully integrated
into our Programme of Inquiry and form the basis for many of our
units of inquiry.
Elementary school students take part in general arts education in music and dance, and complete three thematic
units or «storylines» each year that fold art
into social studies, science and reading instruction.
This
unit of integrated
study included
social studies (the states), geography (location and physical features), language arts (research), art (the map), mathematics (dimensions), and economics (industry) combined
into a multi-week time period.
Current behavioral
studies offer possible insight
into why this is so, documenting profound differences in the behavior of family dogs — who have opportunities for daily, positive interactions with people — and resident dogs who simply live on the property in relative isolation without integration
into the family
social unit.
Students integrated their
Social Studies units into the project — researching, planning, measuring, and collaborating in order to create maps of our country and portraits of their communities.