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Maria Mahon

Harlem Success Academy Prepares for Tests at Queens Farm Museum - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...20farms.html

standardized test Field trip

shared by Maria Mahon on 23 Oct 09 - Cached
  • New York State’s English and math exams include several questions each year about livestock, crops and the other staples of the rural experience that some educators say flummox city children, whose knowledge of nature might begin and end at Central Park
  • Educators have long known that prior knowledge of a subject can significantly improve a child’s performance on tests.
    • Maria Mahon
      Maria Mahon on 23 Oct 09
       
      I think this factor of prior knowledge of a subject matter is one of the most difficult things to contend with in the debate about standardized tests. If students walk in to a learning experience with this lack of prior knowledge it becomes very difficult for them to ever catch up to the test's expectations.
  • The New York State Education Department runs statistical analyses of its tests to look for gender, racial or socioeconomic bias, but it does not compare the performance of rural and urban students, partly because it is hard to isolate whether a disparity is the result of a lack of familiarity with an environment or is caused by other factors like socioeconomic status or quality of classroom instruction.
    • Maria Mahon
      Maria Mahon on 23 Oct 09
       
      Some of the examples provided in this article provide clear examples in my opinion of why the department should compare the performance of rural and urban students.
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  • Only the prekindergarten and kindergarten classes at Harlem Success schools — about 450 students — attend the farm trips, though the state exams do not begin until third grade. Students in other grades go on nature-related field trips, like camping, that help acquaint them with unfamiliar settings, Ms. Moskowitz said.
  • Maria Mahon on 23 Oct 09
     
    The Harlem Success Academny takes its students on field trips that aim to help students do better on standardized tests by taking them on fields trips to introduce them to subject matter that will be on the test, such as a farm.
Jonathon Gordon

The Great Depression - 2 views

www.nps.gov/...great-depression.htm

depression great the grapes of wrath dustbowl pictures poverty 1920's 1930's

shared by Jonathon Gordon on 03 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Numbers soon proved the optimists incorrect. The depression steadily worsened. By spring of 1933, when FDR took the oath of office, unemployment had risen from 8 to 15 million (roughly 1/3 of the non-farmer workforce) and the gross national product had decreased from $103.8 billion to $55.7 billion. Forty percent of the farms in Mississippi were on the auction block on FDR's inauguration day.
    • Jonathon Gordon
      Jonathon Gordon on 03 Oct 10
       
      To the right is a great picture provided by the FDR Library showing the struggles of families who suffered from the dust bowl. Extremely useful in any classroom application on this subject. 
  • Many sank into despair and shame after they could not find jobs. The suicide rates increased from 14 to 17 per 100,000. Protest that did occur was local, not national: "farm holidays," neighbors of foreclosed farmers refusing to bid on farms at auction, neighbors moving evicted tenants' furniture back in, and local hunger marches.
    • Jonathon Gordon
      Jonathon Gordon on 03 Oct 10
       
      The site uses archived information from the Franklin and Eleanor national Libraries. 
  • Jonathon Gordon on 03 Oct 10
     
    This website provided by the National Parks Service provides information on the Great Depression. It has great photos that would supplement any lesson plan on the subject of the great depression, the grapes of wrath, or the dust bowl. 
Nate Merrill

http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/pubs/pubs/ib/ib11.pdf - 0 views

www.ifpri.org/...ib11.pdf

green revolution farming food technology agriculture

shared by Nate Merrill on 14 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Nate Merrill on 14 Sep 14
     
    Green Revolution, curse or blessing?
jbdrury

The Great Famine in Ireland - 0 views

www.wesleyjohnston.com/...index.htm

ireland irish history irish potato famine potato blight history irish history of ireland blight

shared by jbdrury on 02 Oct 09 - Cached
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 02 Oct 09
       
      This is another privately-run site. The chief qualification for the two men operating the site is that "both have lived in Ireland for their whole lives." This should be considered when using this site.
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 02 Oct 09
       
      The demographic section is interesting; it has a map showing where most of the potato farming took place. I didn't realize it was concentrated chiefly in the western part of Ireland.
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 02 Oct 09
       
      "The Potato" section provides a little bit of the science behind how the potato blight works - including a picture of a 'blighted' potato
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    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 02 Oct 09
       
      "Emigration" has a simplified chart showing the emigration patterns to different parts of the world (USA, Canada, Britain)
  • This section was written for The Ireland Story by Wesley Johnston.
  • jbdrury on 02 Oct 09
     
    One more interesting website with lots of resources on the history of Ireland and its people; this specific site I've tagged is yet again regarding the potato blight. It some more images that could be used in the classroom.
Lindsay Andreas

American Slave Narratives - 2 views

xroads.virginia.edu/...wpahome.html

shared by Lindsay Andreas on 07 Sep 09 - Cached
  • From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South were interviewed by writers and journalists under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. These former slaves, most born in the last years of the slave regime or during the Civil War, provided first-hand accounts of their experiences on plantations, in cities, and on small farms.
  • Lindsay Andreas on 07 Sep 09
     
    The slave narrative project of the WPA in the 1930s is one of our greatest historical preservation efforts. Today, historians are scrambling around to preserve the narratives of Holocaust survivors and WWII vets, as they are rapidly leaving us. This is a good way to introduce the importance of oral histories. It would also be a good piece to start a lesson on evaluating primary sources.
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