Sentences with phrase «social studies class on»

Members of Bennet Middle School's seventh grade Royal 7 team faced off in their social studies classes on the issue of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

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While there are probably a few things Millennials themselves can do to beat back perfectionism (for the love of all that is holy, spend less time on social media, for instance), the underlying causes of this shift suggested by the study, including an increasingly terrifying scramble for a shrinking number of slots in the middle class, are something we're all going to have to address together.

He has co-authored published studies with titles such as «On wealth and the diversity of friendships: High social class people around the world have fewer international friends,» and «The Role of Positive Self - Evaluation on Cross-Cultural Differences in Well - Being.&raquOn wealth and the diversity of friendships: High social class people around the world have fewer international friends,» and «The Role of Positive Self - Evaluation on Cross-Cultural Differences in Well - Being.&raquon Cross-Cultural Differences in Well - Being.»

Titled «On wealth and the diversity of friendships: High social class people around the world have fewer international friends,» it studied the social ties between wealthy people around the world and was published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences in 2015.

Before Nye speaks on societal issues he might want to take an Elementary School level Social Studies class.

At the Yale Summer School of Alcohol Studies in 1943, social anthropologist John Dollard delivered a lecture on «Drinking Mores of the Social Classes.&social anthropologist John Dollard delivered a lecture on «Drinking Mores of the Social Classes.&Social Classes.»

For instance, say that a tween is supposed to be working on a final project for social studies class.

Breastfeeding was related to higher social class and education at both ages, confirming earlier studies.13 — 15, 20, 21, 26 Mothers who breastfed also scored higher on the PPVT - R and had more optimal parenting skills assessed on the HOME.

Ruth Kelly, the Secretary of State for Education, admitted the facts on social mobility were «depressing» and cited studies showing that, for people in their thirties, the social class of their parents mattered even more than it did in the past.

A study in the BMJ in 2012 found that having a professional therapist teach cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques to an entire class was no more effective than having the teacher give their usual personal social and health education classes, in terms of the effect on pupils» well - being.

Also valuable are classes that focus on a particular group of people — African - American studies, Native American culture, for example — as well as social science and history courses.

The findings from the two studies provide support for the restricting social class hypothesis on both a local and a global level, say the researchers.

For the first study, the «local», the team recruited 857 people in the United States and asked them to self - report their perceived social status (from working to upper class on a numerical scale), as well as an objective indicator in the form of annual household income.

The game, which is focused on science standards, happened to fit the theme of community building in my social studies class.

The Offscreen Education Programme takes small groups of British schoolkids from working - class backgrounds on international expeditions most social studies teachers only dream about.

A few years ago I even had a non-speaking paraplegic boy in a wheel chair who was on a breathing respirator sitting in my regular education social studies class.

In Social Studies class, groups of students who had focused on a particular poster discussed their thoughts.

In private schools, the use of substitutes is typically much less, as colleagues fill in for absent teachers during their own non-teaching hours, which «keeps the class on pace when, say, one social - studies teacher can fill in for another.»

However, I really fear with the Common Core approach which seems to have everyone teaching the same on the same day and no time for variation from the lesson, that social studies class just won't have the time to do these activities, many of which the kids really enjoyed and got some sparked to learn more about the topic.

Seventh graders in the second period social studies class at Bennet Middle School got to flex their debating muscles during a debate on the war in Iraq.

We took a break to visit the school's social studies fair in the gym, and I allowed the class to break out of line and wander on their own.

That keeps the class on pace when, say, one 4th - grade social - studies teacher can fill in for another, especially since they're likely to have drafted the lesson plan together.

These classes are therefore typically taught completely in English either as a pullout supplement to the mainstream classroom, in which case the emphasis is on teaching the English language itself, or as a substitute for the mainstream classroom, in which case all subjects, including math, social studies, and science, will be taught in English at a pace the children can understand.

Reviewing data from Project STAR — a longitudinal research study on class - size reduction in Tennessee and the most famous experiment on the topic — Spyros Konstantopoulos, an assistant professor of education and social policy at Northwestern...

In their sixth - grade social studies and language arts class, while doing a simulation on the Maya, students take breaks for research, close reading of articles (from secondary sources to primary documents written in the 1500s), and analyzing their own artistic replicas of primary documents.

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.

«Previous to using edTech apps, my assessment of skill gaps in student learning was, at best, approximate and anecdotal; that is, I estimated these gaps based on anecdotal observations from class discussion and student evaluations such as unit tests,» said Kevin Neal, a social studies teacher at Valley High School in the West Des Moines school district in Iowa, USA.

Content: For classes in English, social studies, health, science and the arts, this site provides lesson plans and learning guides based on feature films and movies (both full length and clips).

The speakers also often elaborate on topics that arise in social studies classes.

For example, if students are working on integrating primary sources in a social studies class, audio recording can help them listen for appropriate source introductions.

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Topics could include an explanation of a concept they learned in class, a short story, their favorite comment or idea that a classmate had, a reflection on a book they are reading, or a reflection on a political stance or social studies theme.

Starting with the high school class of 2018, Ohio will require students to score well on seven «End - of - Course» exams to graduate under its main graduation pathway - two in English, two in math, two social studies and one science.

At Mooresville Middle School he walks into a seventh grade social studies class where the laptops are on, but no one is working alone.

Based on a quick visit, I'd say Molly McPherson's seventh - grade social studies class at Ranson Middle School is a special one.

A study sponsored by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development found that only 4 percent of first - grade class time in American elementary schools is spent on science and only 2 percent, on social studies.

The activity can be used in a variety of social studies lessons — from an exploration of the local community to a class on international studies — and in both the upper elementary grades and middle school.

When I taught high - school social studies, like so many of my colleagues, I required students to write at least three pages a week commenting on what we had read and discussed in class.

In Teaching Middle School Social Studies III, Ali Brown — director of history achievement for the Achievement First schools — asked her class to write an «essential question» that would frame a unit they were soon to teach on the American Revolution.

Students listen to social studies teacher Ashley Austin during class at Olympic High School in Charlotte, N.C., on April 8, 2016.

Middle school English classes will take on more of a social studies flavor to meet one of the main goals of the Common Core: introducing students to more of the types of nonfiction and informational reading they likely will encounter in college and at work.

The students spend less than half of the week studying math, reading, science and social studies; most of their class time is spent on religious instruction.

This study addresses this lack of social studies - related IWB research literature by focusing on IWB instructional practice in a fifth - grade United States history class.

At Lowell Elementary School where her children go to school, preparing for the Badger Exam, which has sections on math and language, has meant less class time focused on science and social studies and reduced recess time, she said.

Students in classes using LDC performed as well on a social studies content test as comparable students.

As students progress from elementary school through high school, they need to rely on reading comprehension not only for their literature classes, but also for solving mathematical word problems and understanding texts in science, social studies, and other subjects.

Given that previous findings on the social distribution of the effects of small classes have been mixed and inconclusive, in the present study I attempted to shed light on the mechanism through which

Teachers can activate students» prior knowledge by having them write about their previous experiences with literacy and schooling and by inviting their perspectives on historical events covered in social studies classes.

History and social studies classes in particular should focus on teaching the interpretive and evidentiary nature of history.

The Hartwick Center for Learning and Teaching with Technology has been informed of this new approach to the social studies methods class, and the technical support staff is on the alert.