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The Power of Claim-Evidence-Question

Catlin Tucker

Using Claim-Evidence-Question at the Elementary Level Literature Analysis: After reading a story or book, students make a claim about a central theme or main character’s motivations, provide evidence from the text, and pose questions about the main idea or character.

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15 Real-World Lessons You Can Teach Kids NOW

The CoolCatTeacher

Students create budgets, shopping plans, and comparison shopping while learning about the effective use of credit. If you’re ready to help elementary-aged children understand financial literacy, Vault is the perfect course for you. Grade level: elementary grades. Grade Level: Elementary School. Grade Level: 9-12.

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7 realities for Black students in America, 70 years after Brown

The Hechinger Report

By comparison, Black students make up about 15 percent of public school enrollment. After desegregation, parents in the community, like many across the South, began organizing private, off-site proms to keep the events exclusively white. The next year, the school made it official, finally holding an integrated event.

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How TV Can Help In The Classroom And On The Field

Ask a Tech Teacher

It informs students in emergencies, updates them on historic events, and now–with extensions like Apple TV–connects them on a granular level to what they learn in their textbooks. Educational Shows For Elementary. Maybe even let the kids pick different titles to teach them how to make comparisons.

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Compare Google Bard and Chat GPT

The CoolCatTeacher

As you compare Google Bard with ChatGPT, here is an overview of a few things I've found so far as of today: Comparison of Google Bard and ChatGPT Chat Memory Length Currently, ChatGPT will remember chats along the side of the screen. It can be used to describe a person, a situation, or an event.

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How a Prescription Pill Emergency Woke up Our School Community to a Mental Health Crisis

Edsurge

This was the tail end of my first school year as the principal at Madison County Elementary School, a pre-K to 8th grade Title I school, located just outside of Huntsville in Gurley, Ala. It should be noted that this drug is typically prescribed as a painkiller and one of the adverse reactions listed on the label is suicidal thoughts.

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Middle school minds: Figuring out who you are in the midst of global turmoil

The Hechinger Report

Young people like Isabella, who is headed to high school this fall, have had to try to make sense of the events of the last two years while navigating one of the most complex and frustrating times in anyone’s life — middle school. “Before this, the world just seemed a lot smaller.” Fadzai Gides, 11. Credit: Courtesy of Andrea Juma.