Category Archives: 2021

2021 Curriculum Units Vol 5: Climate Refugee Stories

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

Mariella Fernandes, ESL, Whitewater Middle School

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2021 Curriculum Units Vol 5: Climate Refugee Stories

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

Matt Kelly, Spanish, Independence High School

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2021 Curriculum Units Vol 5: Climate Refugee Stories

Climate Refugee Stories: Rising Above Challenges

Seon Sloley, Science, Parker Academic Center

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2021 Curriculum Units Vol 4: Embodied Teaching and Learning

Fraction Action: An Embodied Approach to Teaching Fractions

Heather Richmond, 4th Grade, Starmount Academy of Excellence

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2021 Curriculum Units Vol 4: Embodied Teaching and Learning

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

Allison Samokar, 7th Grade ELA, Wilson STEM Academy

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2021 Curriculum Units Vol 4: Embodied Teaching and Learning

Seasons of Change

Debbie Gresham, Dance, Bradley Middle School

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2021 Curriculum Units Vol 4: Embodied Teaching and Learning

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

Beth Kerr, 1st Grade, Bain Elementary School

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2021 Curriculum Units Vol 4: Embodied Teaching and Learning

The Earth is Our Home: Embodied Environmental Learning

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

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2021 Curriculum Units Vol 4: Embodied Teaching and Learning

Can’t Stop the Feelings!

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.

2021 Curriculum Units Vol 4: Embodied Teaching and Learning

Are you Feeling Fractions? Connecting and Dissecting

Mahogony King, 4th Grade, Newell Elementary School

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2021 Curriculum Units Vol 4: Embodied Teaching and Learning

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

Milagros Ugueto, Spanish, Independence High School

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2021 Curriculum Units Vol 4: Embodied Teaching and Learning

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

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

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2021 Curriculum Units Vol 4: Embodied Teaching and Learning

Moving Towards Mindfulness: Social Emotional Regulation through Movement

Taylor Woods, 6th Grade, Whitewater Middle School

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2021 Curriculum Units Vol 3: Addressing Childhood and Adolescent Mental Health

The Musical Remedy for Stress

Amy Stonehouse, English Language Learners, North Mecklenburg High School

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2021 Curriculum Units Vol 3: Addressing Childhood and Adolescent Mental Health

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

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

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