Jobs
in the City (Early Primary)
The class develops a list of occupations and their attributes. As a group,
students play guessing games and create a slideshow of occupational scenes.
Transportation
(Middle Primary)
Students enter data on posters and make graphs from that data.
They explore the mathematical relationships in vehicles and alternate
ways of transporting materials. They write frame and pattern stories
based on what they have developed.
Towns (Later Primary)
Students move through a large group Internet exploration of the needs
of communities. They develop their own "ideal" community which they
incorporate into a slideshow on community, and they make shoebox
dioramas of typical communities around the world.
Build a Playground (Later Primary)
Small groups of students survey their peers about their favorite kinds
of playground equipment and then design an ideal playground. Each group
explains to the other groups the advantages of their design using
posters and graphs of their data.
Farms (Early Primary)
The class learns and creates songs and frames sentences that help them to
understand how people and animals interact in farm environments. They work
in small groups and pairs to create artistic representations of their
understanding of the farm environment.
Bees (Middle Primary)
The class plays guessing games and develops an understanding of the sorts
of information that is needed in a direction. They see presentations from
Internet material on bees and their habitats. They work with tessellations
to create alternative honeycombs, and they develop a class book about bees
and their habitats.
Meadow and Forest (Later Primary)
Students, led by the teacher, use the computer and the Internet to discover
and classify which animals live in which environments. They use their
detective skills to classify tracks and to discern which animals go with
them. They create slideshows to demonstrate their knowledge to others.
Intertidal Zone (Later Primary)
Students explore this fascinating environment, write a class book about
the environment, and develop a diorama based on the class book.
Names
(Early Primary)
Students experiment with the letters in their
names, first to recognize them, then to build them from individual letters.
They write their names in a symmetrical grid and look for patterns,
sing a song based on names, and write a verse based on their name. They
interview their family members to learn the history of their names and
add their names to a class slideshow.
Me
(Middle Primary)
Students brainstorm attributes to describe themselves and use those
attributes in art projects and frame stories. They are introduced to
a simple way of sequencing stories temporally and asked to apply it
to their life. Finally, they work on the computer to create a slideshow
of their life.
Home Mapping (Later Primary)
Students use adding machine tape to create maps of the classroom and its
contents. They create maps of their room at home and graphs of the space
allocated to various activities.
Who Lives in My House? (Later Primary)
Students participate in a guessing game about objects important in their
lives, help make a class quilt about themselves, and write a story about
their family as seen by an object in the household.
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