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Were designed and implemented by elementary school teachers and student teachers. Focus on social justice issues such as racism, gentrification, fairness, child labor etc. Help students ask difficult questions about the world. Are designed to engage children in social action to change the conditions of their worlds. Have been integrated with standards or mandated curricular program.
DOWNLOAD THE LESSON AND UNIT PLANS HERE! Protesting at the Bakery! The Class also protested the bakery and encourages others to do the same.
Healthy and Fit Fifth Graders! Fair Trade Alumni Write About Their Experience! On March 26, 2009. Posted by breebree13 on December 29, 2008. Posted by breebree13 on September 18, 2008.
Healthy and Fit Fifth Graders! June 26, 2009. Pedometers and Might Milers! Each day our students logged in their steps and had a record of how many steps they took a day. Sounds like a perfect time for some data analysis! Grade Class, and it was on! Mighty Milers is a branch .
This blog chronicles the social action project I coordinated with my 3rd and 4th grade students in Spring 2012 while I was a NMUTRP resident teacher at a public school in Newark, NJ. We took a critical look at video games and violence. This student listed a couple reasons why it was unfair. This student is the only one who said she was angry. This student had good points about why they should be able to play outside.
Two of our students wrote a collaborative review of Fire From The Rock that will be published in an upcoming issue of IndyKids. Check it out below! Review of Fire from the Rock by Ryan and Kayla. We highly recommended because it is more complicated then most fiction books and highlights one of the most important movements of the last century.