Environmentalists in the Classroom: A Journey with Bees
Primary Students This spring has been a season of transformation in Rooms 3 & 4, where our budding environmentalists embarked […]
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Diving into Storytelling: A Creative and Theatrical Approach to Literacy
Early Childhood Education – 5 year olds During this winter quarter, I had the opportunity to visit the Room 13 […]
Agency in Storytelling: Dialogue in Wordless Picture Books
Early Childhood -ECII 5 year olds During the Winter quarter, I have had the opportunity to observe and participate in […]
Dancing Through the Parts of a Flower
Early Childhood Education-ECII 5 year olds In the world of education, innovative approaches are constantly emerging to engage students in […]
Learning the Structure and Function of Flowers
Primary Students – 6 & 7 year olds This year CONNECT Researcher Dr. Christine Lee and Demonstration Teacher Anna Terrazas […]
How Art Transforms Learning at the UCLA Lab School
Primary Classroom 8-10 Take a walk through the UCLA Lab School at the culmination of this school year and you […]
Counting Collections at Home: Supporting Young Mathematicians in the Remote Learning Context
(Primary/6-8 year olds) Our school uses Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI) to teach mathematics. At the beginning of the school year, […]
Connecting Primary Sources, Children’s Books, and Social Studies
Intermediate: 9–10-year-olds As Harvey Daniels and Sara Ahmed say, When the world hands you a curriculum, you run with it. […]
Primary Classroom Doing Counting Collections
Primary: 6-8 year olds Two students were sitting together, each counting his own collection, but working side by side. One student […]
Ownership, Agency, and Mathematical Properties
Intermediate: 9-10 year olds A mixed-age classroom of kids is working on the second story problem of the year. This […]
Inventive Problem Solving in a Playful Math Classroom
Upper I: 10-11 year olds Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But […]
Creating a Virtual Alphabet Book: Literacy in Remote Learning
EC I: Early Childhood 4-5 year olds When we began remote learning, we wanted to find ways to connect and […]
Experiments with Sluggy: Inquiry and Science in Remote Learning
EC I: Early Childhood 4-5 year olds One day (right before the pandemic), our students found a slug in the […]
Family Storytelling in Remote Learning
EC II: Early Childhood 5-6 year olds Every moment in life is a story, and the most crucial part of […]