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Mathematics and Science in Middle Level Classrooms
Integrating disciplines to encourage exploration and discovery.
AMLE's This We Believe calls for teachers to be engaged in active, purposeful learning in which students have the opportunity to engage in meaningful questions, formulate conjectures and hypotheses, and explore...
Author:
Devin M. Levin, Elizabeth Fleming, Carolina Napp-Avelli, Amber Storer
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Curriculum
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STEM
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Curriculum Integration
Science
Math
Interdisciplinary Teaching
"Hands-Joined" Projects
A framework for co-developing projects with teachers and students.
Ask a middle school teacher to explain why student-centered projects are a logical choice for young adolescents and you are bound to hear about the numerous ways in which these projects provide students with...
Author:
Jessica Demink-Carthew, Jeremy DeMink
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Curriculum
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Project Based Learning
Democratic Classroom
Inquiry-based Learning
Creating Makers, Not Spaces
Move the desks out of the way, pull up a piece of rug, and invent something using the engineering process and leftover parts. Just like anything else, the Internet provides a plethora of ideas to define and design...
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Frank Pileiro, Frank Rudnesky, Peter Davis
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Curriculum
Teaching
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Student Engagement
Inquiry-based Learning
Problem-solving
Standards—Merely a Good Place to Start
Standards are important—but just a starting point
It used to be that the school or district leader’s answer to the fundamental question, “What are the most important things for me to teach this year?” invariably was, “Check your...
Author:
Guy Gambone
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Social Studies
Integrating Curriculum for Meaningful Learning
In most schools, integrated curriculum is more a hit-and-miss practice than a full-scale, all-out commitment. To accomplish the goal of ensuring that “all teachers can identify the connections among ideas and...
Author:
Sue B. Vansant
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Curriculum
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Literature
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Reading
Social Studies
Integrated Curriculum
Why Johnny Can't Sing, Dance, Saw, or Bake
For decades we’ve heard why Johnny can’t read, write, or do simple math. Whenever there is a crisis in American education, we tend to rally the troops to make drastic changes so Johnny can finally learn...
Author:
Jack Berckemeyer
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Arts Education
Jack Berckemeyer
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PBL: Learning How to Learn
Project-based learning is about more than "doing projects."
We teach children to ask questions at a very early age, then we send them into the secondary school classroom where we ask them to quietly absorb information without questioning it. Project-based learning (PBL)...
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Rachel Erickson
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Project Based Learning
Exploring Science Through Fine Arts
Integrating the fine arts into science instruction promotes differentiation and encourages exploration.
The middle school years are a pivotal time in students’ understanding of and enthusiasm for science, according to the National Science Teachers Association. Science must be something that students do, not...
Author:
Judy Beck, Laura Kaufmann, & Cece Toole
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Curriculum
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Science
Arts Education
Interdisciplinary Teaching
Using Chants and Cadences to Promote Literacy Across the Curriculum
Chants and cadences engage students in creative writing and critical thinking.
Daniel (a pseudonym) had benefitted greatly from the idea that students can creatively represent their ideas in a content area in ways other than traditional spoken and written responses. He was a preservice...
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Lisa Ciecierski & William P. Bintz
Number of views (62456)
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At-risk/RTI
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Reading
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Literacy
Weaving STEM, Exploration, and Community Service
There is an epidemic plaguing our country. It's creeping through our communities and into many of our schools. It's not the flu. It's the number of young people who are dropping out of school at alarming rates,...
Author:
Alyssa Hawkins and Scott Richardson
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Curriculum
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Student Motivation
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