UWCSEA Teachers

Categories of lists: add & subtract, fractions, money, probability & statistics, time, geometry, problem solving, etc.  

News and research about endangered species from around the world

"Welcome to the AAAS Project 2061 Science Assessment Website The assessment items on this website are the result of more than a decade of research and development by Project 2061, a long-term science education reform initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Here you will find free access to more than 600 items. The items: Are appropriate for middle and early high school students. Test student understanding in the earth, life, physical sciences, and the nature of science. Test for common misconceptions as well as correct ideas. This website also includes: Data on how well U.S. students are doing in science and where they are having difficulties, broken out by gender, English language learner status, and whether the students are in middle school or high school. "My Item Bank," a feature that allows you to select, save, and print items and answer keys. Intended primarily for teachers, these assessment items and resources will also be useful to education researchers, test developers, and anyone who is interested in the performance of middle and high school students in science."

The American Association for the Advancement of Science's Project 2061 (an imitative to improve science, math and technology literacy) -- "A new Web site is taking aim at this challenge, providing educators with quick lists of scientific statements broken down by subject matter, highlighting concepts that tend to be misunderstood by students.... The site (which is accessible after free registration) also provides teachers with some 600 multiple choice questions for tests that could help pinpoint conceptual sticking points. Multiple-choice tests have drawn criticism for being too reductive, and DeBoer acknowledges that "too often test questions are not linked explicitly to the ideas and skills that the students are expected to learn." So to figure out just what kids know-or think they know-researchers involved in the seven-year-long project tested more than 150,000 students in some 1,000 classrooms and conducted interviews with many of them to try to figure out how well the questions were getting at the underlying understandings."

Facebook Community Organization by grade 6 students

serious questions about the financial regularity and the truth of his stories -- expose of the author of "Three Cups of Tea"

I finally got around to finding James's blog on the school website. Has anyone else been following it?

Fanastic little video (child voice) explaining how to make this comic strip on Bit strips. Lots of potential G1 upwards really as it has enormous creative potential.

ADE Madeline Brookes writes an interesting post about the 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon integration model.  We're at 0 degrees right now. Should we be doing more of 1?

Minecraft is one of the games the kids asked us to put on the DIgital Literacy Tree -- and we did.... Re problem solving and building in a virtual world. (Perhaps we should buy the proper version....)

"Poems for... supplies small poem-posters for public display - in class rooms, libraries, waiting rooms ..." You need to register before you can download, but it's free -- and the poems make lovely A3 posters printed out

Interesting Wordles on How Toy Advertising reinforces gender stereotypes. Worth a look!

including resources on the iPods and iPads relating to literacy

Example of a tool called Crocdoc that allows you to upload PDFs and collaboratively annotate them