Katie Radcliff, Elementary teacher, Davidson Elementary School
Category Archives: Curriculum Units
2009 Curriculum Units Vol 4: Understanding Fundamental Ideas in Mathematics at a Deep LevelMaking Place Value Explicit in Adding Whole Numbers and Decimals
Teaching the Concept of One as it Applies to Percents
Backwards Numbers: A Study of Place Value
Catherine Perez, Elementary teacher, Torrence Creek Elementary School
Kenken and the Problem Solving Classroom
The Journey to Discover Right Triangles and Trigonometry in the Real World
Making Sense of Cents
Abstract
This curriculum unit is intended to introduce students to the names and values of coins (pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters). Students will increase their fluency of the values by engaging in interactive activities that require them to trade among the coins to show amounts using different combinations of coins. Students will continue to apply their understanding by solving a variety of problems. And, ultimately students will create their own relevant story problems involving coins. Students will explore a variety of strategies, including using manipulatives and technology, as well as make a connection to literacy, to greater understand coins and money and better gain experiences taught through this unit.
Finding the Shades of Gray between Victims and Villains in War
Through the Eyes of a Child: A Multi-genre Study of Children of War
Nicole Schubert, Language Arts teacher, Northwest School of the Arts
Case Studies of Children and War: Defining, Discovering and Developing Heroes
Katie M. Ryan, Social Studies teacher, Northwest School of the Arts
Parallels of Children in War and Conflict: Yesterday and Today
Jacqueline Oleksiak, Language Arts teacher, Coulwood Middle School
Education is Power: Your Decisions Make a Difference
Patricia A. Nelson, Social Studies teacher, Carmel Middle School
Perspective and Voice: the artist and the message
Children of Germany
Discernment of the Hero, Victim, Warrior, Ignoramus and Survivor
Why do Children Fight?
Mary Brown Diehl, Elementary teacher, Providence Spring Elementary School