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Social Entrepreneurship Unit with Elementary Students (2024): A Perfect STEAM Lesson

User Generated Education

But elementary school-age kids do have the natural curiosity, imagination, drive, and ability to come up with innovative ways to change the world for the better. Furthermore, entrepreneurship has historically spurred minorities, women and immigrants to create better lives for themselves and their families. (

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Pi Day: An Example of an Interdisciplinary, Engaging Lesson

User Generated Education

I have the privilege of teaching my gifted elementary students at two Title 1 schools for multiple years. Common Core Math Standards: CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.7.G.B.4 Common Core English Language Arts Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.7 I love planning a variety of interdisciplinary activities for these days.

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Pi Day: An Example of an Interdisciplinary, Engaging Lesson

User Generated Education

I have the privilege of teaching my gifted elementary students for multiple years. Common Core Math Standards: CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.7.G.B.4. Common Core English Language Arts Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.7. The day consisted of the following activities: Digital Breakout. Making and Decorating Pies.

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In Texas, new math standards look a whole lot like Common Core

The Hechinger Report

But this year, New Frontiers Charter School in San Antonio needed its best teachers to help younger students get ready for a new set of math standards Texas adopted in 2012, so Demore switched to elementary school. The Texas standards aren’t the same as the Common Core State Standards, adopted by more than 40 states.

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The Limits of Curriculum Choice

Digital Promise

But in the first multi-state effort to measure textbook efficacy since the implementation of the Common Core, researchers at the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University saw no difference in the average fourth- and fifth-grade math achievement gains of schools using different elementary math textbooks.

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Video Game Design with Elementary Learners

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In order to support interest and passion driven learning (all – I mean all – of my students play video games) as well as address cross-curricular content area integration of language arts, science, and technology standards, I had my gifted elementary learners, grades 2 through 6, do a semester long project on video game design.

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More than five years after adopting Common Core, Kentucky’s black-white achievement gap is widening

The Hechinger Report

At Dunn Elementary, kids who are struggling get extra time with second-grade teacher Sarah Bowling. The second-graders in Sarah Bowling’s class at Dunn Elementary were on a scavenger hunt to find “arrays.”. Related: Common Core ignores underprivileged students — and testing will lead to more achievement gaps.