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Amazing Environmental Performance Tasks

The Pacific Education Institute (PEI) has an amazing website full of fantastic resources. Just mousing over the Our Work menu item displays various resources for any Science, STEM, or Elementary teacher looking for environmental ideas for their curriculum. And if you are a grant writer or considering writing grants to get materials or equipment for …

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Building Knowledge

CCSS-ELA Shift 3 states that students need to be, “building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction.”  Is this shift making a case for an integrated approach to teaching?  It sure seems like it. I mean, in a Science or History classroom using content-rich nonfiction to have students learn Science and History makes sense. Using fiction in those …

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CCSS-ELA Shift 1 #WATeachLead

Standards, right?Standards have been around since way before the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Standards are a reality for classroom teachers and personally, for me, I can teach using Standards as guidelines. I trust that people smarter than me chose the standards, taking into account what kids need …

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