Each year, our classes engage in project based learning. In our classrooms, this means that students choose a project which is important to them and we work together to learn, share and accomplish our project goals. Students from my Grade 1 classroom work with Mrs. Caldwell’s Kindergarten classroom via technology so that we have a […]
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My latest guest blog post has been posted to the Partners in Learning Network. It explains how we launched our project based learning this year and gives teachers ideas for starting project based learning in their own classrooms. To start talking about learning projects for this year, my Grade 1 students Skyped Mrs. Caldwell’s Kindergarten
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I’ve just posted my second contribution as a guest blogger for the Microsoft Partners in Learning Network Hot Topics blog. Click here to read the post and learn more about the steps Mrs. Caldwell and I use for project based learning in our classrooms. Our Steps: Introductory Lesson/ Project Launch Collaborative brainstorming Selecting a
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I’m very excited to have been asked to post as a guest blogger on the Microsoft Partners in Learning Hot Topics blog. Educators can join the PiL network for free at www.pil-network.com to have access to blogs, lesson ideas and online professional development. Microsoft is currently looking for more teachers to join their Expert Educator
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We began our day with a skype call to Mrs. Fenn’s Grade 1 class in Avon, Connecticut, at Roaring Brook Elementary School. We connected using Skype in the Classroom. They taught us about the life cycle of frogs, amphibians, tadpoles, toads, and how to care for tadpoles. They did a great job! We told them
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It all started when one of our students brought in a frog for show and tell. We became very very interested in frogs. Mrs. Caldwell said that we could spend a couple of hours researching frogs and learning more about them. We watched a Brain Pop video on frogs and a Discovery Education video. We
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One of the greatest challenges when looking for appropriate gaming opportunities in middle years and high school classrooms is finding games that connect with curricular outcomes. Despite having a large selection of gaming consoles at my disposal (Original X-Box, PS2, Nintendo Wii), finding useful gaming experiences is difficult without buying games and playing them first.
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Thanks to funding from a Manitoba Teachers Society Reflective Professional Practice Grant, we are spending a second day working on the topic of game-based learning and focusing on how we can use gaming to improve student learning. Earlier in the school year, I had posted a comment on the Game-Based Learning Hot Topics Blog about
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The grade 1s held their Recycle for Good Garage Sale on April 18th & 19th. Their goal was to raise funds to help people in Africa (through World Vision) and to help animals (through the World Wildlife Fund Symbolic Adoption Program). The idea came from Lilly, a student who was watching television one night and
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Mrs. Caldwell and I have been very lucky to work with Microsoft Partners in Learning. Currently, we are part of the Microsoft Expert Educator program as a result of our success at the 2012 Microsoft Partners in Learning Global Forum. As a part of the program, we are working with our students to implement and share
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