Sun.Mar 10, 2024

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11 Ideas for Primary Math Stations

A Principal's Reflections

A few weeks back, I shared ideas on ELA stations for primary students after this was brought up during a coaching cycle with one of my schools. Upon reflection, I decided to do the same with math. Creating math stations for primary students can be a fun and effective way to introduce them to basic math concepts through hands-on activities. These stations can help develop their understanding of numbers, shapes, patterns, and measurements in an interactive and engaging manner.

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It’s okay to play: How ‘play theory’ can revitalize U.S. education

The Hechinger Report

When we’re young, playing and learning are inseparable. Simple games like peekaboo and hide-and-seek help us learn crucial lessons about time, anticipation and cause and effect. We discover words, numbers, colors and sounds through toys, puzzles, storybooks and cartoons. Everywhere we turn, there’s something fun to do and something new to learn. Then, somewhere around early elementary school, learning and play officially become separated for life.

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Notes from a PGCE #8: Colin Brock

Living Geography

The eighth in a series of posts which may be of interest to those who are completing their PGCE this year (or completed it in other years). This is a cross posting from my GA Presidents Blog. We had occasional visitors to the bungalow during the PGCE course. Colin Brock came to speak to us about the "international dimension" of geography and geography teaching, which I guess back then was an attempt to make us consider how we taught about unfamiliar parts of the world.

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English learners stopped coming to class during the pandemic. One group is tackling the problem by helping their parents 

The Hechinger Report

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Starting at about 3 p.m. every day, buses line the driveway of this afterschool program for immigrant and refugee children in Charlotte. Kids, who range from kindergarten through eighth grade, hop off the bus and stream into the building. Inside, they get a meal and a chance to relax before starting activities aimed at improving their English.

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Tokyo Bay eSG Project

Living Geography

Tokyo Bay is the home to a plan for a new smart city, which will hopefully be sustainable and actually end up being built. Over the years. there have been quite a lot of these places touted as being the next / first / best 'Smart City' / 'Sustainable City' etc. going back to Masdar (or even earlier if you can think of earlier examples). NEOM is the latest project to gain a lot of interest.

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Health and Healthcare

Zinn Education Project

On this four-year anniversary of the World Health Organization labeling COVID-19 a pandemic, we focus on the topic of health and healthcare. Below is a lesson, author talks, children’s books, the plight of health care in Gaza, and this day in people’s history entries. Who’s to Blame? A People’s Tribunal on the Coronavirus Pandemic Source: Peter Kneffel/dpa via AP This people’s tribunal by middle-school teacher Caneisha Mills begins with the premise that a heinous crime is being committed as COVI

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The Big Plastic Count

Living Geography

This starts tomorrow. Sign up and get your survey recording form to stick by the bin. It's the counting that counts.

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