Thanks to Will Richardson at Weblogg-ed, I learned that Turn Homeward, Hannalee by Patricia Beatty was recently studied by fifth graders Woodward Academy in Atlanta and the Turn Homeward, Hannalee wiki study site was written by the students. It’s a wonderful use of a wiki for a classroom project and (bonus!) of great local interest [...]
Archive for November 21, 2006
(I wrote this in February of 2006 for a project I did with fourth and fifth graders during National Engineering Month.) Introduction Welcome to Bridge Building brought to you by the fourth and fifth grade class at Chrysalis Experiential Academy. We built bridges because we thought it would be fun to see how many pounds [...]
(This is something I wrote about a year ago. It’s been edited and refreshed to reflect a year of experience on the black keyboards. –MEG) My touch typing students use keyboards that have been painted black so they can’t peek. Why I Did It After more than a year of teaching touch typing and experiencing [...]
