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Climate Change and Refugees: Not my trash but my new home (school)

March 2, 2022 – 2:07 pm

Mariella Fernandes, ESL, Whitewater Middle School

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Tags Acculturation, assimilation, climate, Climate Change, Cultures, equity, identities, Immigrants, Immigration, inclusive communities, migration, newcomers, non-immigrant, refugees, social justice, society, trash tracking, waste disposal | Permalink | Comments Off

Their Past, Our Futures: Climate Change, Climate Migration and Indigenous Resilience in the World Languages Classroom

March 2, 2022 – 2:05 pm

Matt Kelly, Spanish, Independence High School

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Tags Climate Change, cultural resilience, Indigenous dress, Indigenous peoples, internal migration, Maya, Nazca, Spanish II | Permalink | Comments Off

Climate Refugee Stories: Rising Above Challenges

March 2, 2022 – 2:00 pm

Seon Sloley, Science, Parker Academic Center

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Tags asylum seekers, challenges, climate, Climate Change, Climate Refugee, discrimination, Ecosystem, environment, Hunger, natural disasters, obstacles, returnees, weather | Permalink | Comments Off

Fraction Action: An Embodied Approach to Teaching Fractions

March 2, 2022 – 1:57 pm

Heather Richmond, 4th Grade, Starmount Academy of Excellence

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Tags active learning, embodiment of learning, equivalent fractions, Fractions, inquiry-based learning | Permalink | Comments Off

A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park: Turning Movement into Meaning

March 2, 2022 – 1:54 pm

Allison Samokar, 7th Grade ELA, Wilson STEM Academy

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Tags 7th grade, bodily-kinesthetic, embodied, English language arts, movement | Permalink | Comments Off

Seasons of Change

March 2, 2022 – 1:52 pm

Debbie Gresham, Dance, Bradley Middle School

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Tags action words, body, elements of dance, Energy, entrance, exit, levels, locomotor movement, non-locomotor movement, pathways, relationships, seasons, shapes, Space, time, transitions | Permalink | Comments Off

A Force in Motion: An Embodied Learning Unit on Forces and Motion

March 2, 2022 – 1:49 pm

Beth Kerr, 1st Grade, Bain Elementary School

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Tags embodied teaching, Force, Kinesthetic Learning, Motion, pull, push | Permalink | Comments Off

The Earth is Our Home: Embodied Environmental Learning

March 2, 2022 – 1:48 pm

Grace Han, 1st Grade, South Academy of International Languages

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Tags Chinese, Elementary School, Embodied learning, environment, interactivity, language immersion, physical movement, Science, sensory learning, tactile experiences | Permalink | Comments Off

Can’t Stop the Feelings!

March 2, 2022 – 1:46 pm

Genitia Johnson, 1st Grade, Huntingtowne Farms Elementary School

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In this unit students will learn feelings/emotions vocabulary words and actions. They will learn how to identify their feelings and character feelings. Students will learn how to write about their feelings and explain why they are expressing those feelings. They will learn how to determine character’s feelings while reading fiction stories by looking at the illustration and text.
The lessons will also include movement, music and gestures.

Tags emotional development, emotions, feelings, Motion, movement, read alouds, Social Emotional Learning (SEL), social skills | Permalink | Comments Off

Embodied linguistics and “Papel Picado” in the Spanish I class

March 2, 2022 – 1:40 pm

Milagros Ugueto, Spanish, Independence High School

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Tags Culture, embodiment, Linguistics, movement, papel picado, school, Spanish, TPR, Vocabulary, World Languages | Permalink | Comments Off

Think, Sense and Move: An Exploration of a French Song and Several Francophone Paintings

March 2, 2022 – 1:37 pm

Pam Shembo, 5th Grade, South Academy of International Languages

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Tags “Walking Propositions”, Brain Dance, Christophe Mae, Critical Multimodal Literacies (CML), Embodied learning, embodied teaching, Francophone painters, global warming, L’Ours, la Francophonie, La liseuse, Le champ de coquelicots, lyricstraining.com, mindfulness, movement, senses, snapshot, tableau, Youssou N’Dour | Permalink | Comments Off

Moving Towards Mindfulness: Social Emotional Regulation through Movement

March 2, 2022 – 1:33 pm

Taylor Woods, 6th Grade, Whitewater Middle School

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Tags 5 Competencies, 6th grade, Caring Schools, community, embodied, empathy, identity, mindfulness, movement, relationship skills, responsible decision making, SEL, self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, Social-Emotional Learning | Permalink | Comments Off

The Musical Remedy for Stress

March 2, 2022 – 1:14 pm

Amy Stonehouse, English Language Learners, North Mecklenburg High School

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Tags coping, Culture, ethnomusicology, Language, migration, Music, refugee, sociocultural, stress, tone, translation | Permalink | Comments Off

Social & Emotional Teaching: Mindfully Modeling How to Put on Your Own (Non-Medical Grade Disposable) Mask First

March 2, 2022 – 1:10 pm

Ann Tapia, 6th Grade, Piedmont Open IB Middle School

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Tags Contemplative Pedagogy, Instruction & Content Delivery, mental health, mindfulness, Social-Emotional Learning, stress | Permalink | Comments Off

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