In this article you will read about a grade three student sharing with her classmates an awareness of risks and challenges in childhood as part of the “sharing the planet” unit of inquiry.
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Teaching art brut aesthetics and ocean pollution
This article exhibits how students from lower elementary develop creative and critical thinking skills using art to discuss the issue of water pollution. In connection to art, students were familiarized with the concept of aesthetics and the relation between the used artistic media and theme of water pollution.
Technology and assessment
This article talks about how technology can be used effectively to take assessments. It talks about three examples at different age levels where a particular tool was used to ease the process of assessing and grading students.
The important role of single-subject teachers
This article describes how single-subject teachers contributed to a unit of inquiry and allowed the classroom teachers to recognize student’s conceptual understandings that they were previously unaware of.
Exploring perspectives through technology
This article illustrates how grade 3 students explored different perspectives about technology, developed their digital literacy and conceptual understanding of the therm ‘perspectives’.
Measure in leisure: Bringing mathematics into real life
This article illustrates an inquiry into measurement under the transdisciplinary theme ‘How the world works’ which helped grade 3 students understand the relevance of standard units of measurement.