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 […]
Pedagogical Documentation in Inquiry-Based Teaching & Learning
Teachers at UCLA Lab School initiated an action research project to investigate the practice of pedagogical documentation by students and […]