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A=A: A Change In Social Movement Engagement And Leadership Should Equal A Change In Civic Education, Tess Tureson
A=A: A Change In Social Movement Engagement And Leadership Should Equal A Change In Civic Education, Tess Tureson
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
It seems as if almost everything in our world has changed with the introduction of the internet, personal computers, iPhones, and social media. We write emails instead of letters. We listen to podcasts and read articles online instead of buying a newspaper. Presidents communicate with the world on Twitter. The way we engage with politics has entirely changed. Yet, we are still going about civic education in schools the same way, teaching students to give speeches in city council meetings, write letters to their representative, and find current events from traditional news sources. This study offers new statistical evidence that …
The Effectiveness Of Storytelling In Mathematics Teaching, Michelle Pfost
The Effectiveness Of Storytelling In Mathematics Teaching, Michelle Pfost
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
This project was designed as a way for me to create lesson plans that incorporate the research proven highly effective method of using storytelling to teach math. My plan is to incorporate these lesson plans into my future classroom. All of the lesson plans are based on the math common core standards and as such are designed to help students understand and be able to apply these concepts in real-life situations. The main objective of using storytelling to teach these lessons is to help make math "come alive" for these students and help to show them that math can be …
Using Writing To Explore Human-Environment Interactions: An Integrated Approach, Lindsay Prettyman
Using Writing To Explore Human-Environment Interactions: An Integrated Approach, Lindsay Prettyman
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
This Honors Thesis includes a literature review on integrated curriculum for a third grade class. It also includes 22 lessons which, along with the literature review, explore the idea of integrating inquiry based social studies with language arts, especially informational narrative writing in the classroom Other subjects are integrated as well, including math and science. The curriculum development was, in part, pilot tested at Edith Bowen Laboratory School. It uses McTighe's Backward Design curriculum model and focuses on the settlement of the pioneers in Cache Valley.