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Cross Curricular Maker Education Activity That Addresses Common Core Standards

User Generated Education

My primary job is that of educating pre and in-service teachers with a bit of teaching elementary students along the way. What follows is a specific lesson for upper elementary and middle school students. It combines geometry concepts with a language arts activity while addressing several common core standards.

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3 Websites Where You Can Find Complex Informational Texts

Catlin Tucker

As many teachers shift to the Common Core Standards, they are attempting to incorporate more complex texts and more informational/nonfiction texts into their curriculum. Many teachers are discovering that there are a range of websites that offer informational texts available at various Lexile levels.

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Building a Sustainable City

User Generated Education

As I’ve discussed before, I offer electives to my 4th-6th grade GT students (see Offering Electives to Elementary Students ). Students will design, implement, and assess actions in the service of their individual and collective visions. ( [link] ). Common Core English Standards. They chose paper engineering.

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Can Common Core reading tests ever be fair?

The Hechinger Report

Esteves, age 10, is a fourth-grader at Roberto Clemente Elementary School in Newark, N.J., In last year’s statewide Common Core-related PARCC test, just 24 percent of the students at Esteves’ school met grade-level expectations in reading and writing, a category called English language arts and literacy.

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How a blended program can change Common Core math

eSchool News

In the past few years, the Common Core has significantly altered the landscape in terms of mathematics education. The Common Core has also required more coherence in our curriculum. It also allows us to take a blended learning approach to our Common Core math instruction.

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15 Websites to Teach Financial Literacy

Ask a Tech Teacher

Through this interactive video game, students learn to identify advertising and understand its messages with the goal of becoming informed, discerning consumers. Age group: Upper elementary, middle and high school. Age group: Upper elementary. Students finish the program with an assessment of knowledge and certificates.

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Confused by your kid’s math homework? Here’s how it all adds up

The Hechinger Report

He has two sets of videos specifically on the Common Core, in which he talks about the kindergarten and the third grade standards. Sylvia Majdoch, 9, pictured here during a remote school day at her home in Florida, is the fourth in her family to take on math using the principles of Common Core.