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2nd-3rd Grades, Level 1-2: Spring Week 3, Tianna Bankhead, Molly Heeren, Brandon Heinz

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1-2 of English Proficiency (K-5)

This week the packet focuses on the weather outside. There are also some math activities including subtracting so students can continue to practice those skills.

Esta semana el paquete se centrará en el tiempo atmosférico. También, hay algunas actividades de matemáticas incluyendo restas, para que los estudiantes continúen practicando esas destrezas.

2nd-3rd Grade, Level 1-2: Spring Week 2, Tianna Bankhead, Molly Heeren, Brandon Heinz

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1-2 of English Proficiency (K-5)

This week’s packet we focus on Spring cooking and baking. Spring is a time where there are many holidays and celebrations such as Ramadan, Easter, Holi, and many more. We encourage you to work with your students if you can and try some home cooking. The included activities make room for students to cook with you, draw a picture about the cooking experience and write about the experience. Remember, this packet is meant as a tool for fun learning and not frustration. We hope this packet gives you the opportunity to bring your family together.

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2nd-3rd Grades, Level 1-2: Summer Packet #4 • Theme: 4th Of July - U.S.A., Tianna Bankhead, Molly Heeren, Jessica Spencer, Samantha Stuefer, Alexa Yunes-Koch

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1-2 of English Proficiency (K-5)

This packet gives some information on the Fourth of July, or Independence Day. This is a holiday celebrated in the United States where you will hear and see a lot of fireworks. You will also see a lot of families celebrating by wearing red, white and blue, hanging up the American Flag and maybe even having a party with their family. Please know that this packet is to help you understand why the holiday is celebrated and we do not expect you to celebrate or enjoy the holiday. For math you will continue to work on measuring and telling time. …

2nd-3rd Grades, Level 1-2. Summer Packet #3 • Theme: Community, Tianna Bankhead, Molly Heeren, Jessica Spencer, Samantha Stuefer, Alexa Yunes-Koch

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1-2 of English Proficiency (K-5)

This packet theme is Community. You will be working on water conservation, clouds and storm safety. There will be activities provided to help you know how to save water and stay safe during a storm. The math part of the activities will focus on know how to measure objects and liquids. It will also have a short activity on telling time on an analog clock. Please remember this packet is to continue to support learning. This is not a tool for frustration. Please have fun while working on the activities!

Este paquete es sobre la comunidad. Los estudiantes trabajarán sobre …

2nd-3rd Grades, Level 1-2: Summer Packet #2, Theme: Differences, Tianna Bankhead, Molly Heeren, Jessica Spencer, Samantha Stuefer, Alexa Yunes-Koch

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1-2 of English Proficiency (K-5)

This packet will focus on the importance of differences. We are all different and it is okay to be different from one another, it is what makes us strong and unique. This packet will also review shapes and measuring in math. It also reviews the water cycle in science. Have as much fun with this packet as you can!

Este paquete se centrará en la importancia de las diferencias. Todos somos diferentes y está bien serlo los unos de los otros, es lo que nos hace fuertes y únicos. Este paquete repasará las formas y las medidas en matemáticas, además, …

6th–8th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #2 • Theme: Vietnam, Ronnie Grace, Tricia Gray, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Traveling to Vietnam!, Vocabulary you need to know, Where in the world are we?, Vietnam's flag, Pack your suitcase!, What do you know? What do you want to learn?

Day 2 • Vocabulary review, The life cycle of a rice at a rice paddy, Math review

Day 3 • Math review, Let's play pickleball!, Lanterns in Vietnam!

Day 4 • Vocab review, Halong Bay, Instagram post!, How pearls are made, Pearl questions

Day 5 • Vocab review, Vietnam reflection, Time to move!, Goodbye, Vietnam!

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9th–10th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #3 • Theme: Finding Your Voice, Morgan Spanel, Aaron P. Johnson, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Finding your voice, week 2: defending your opinion, Who do you think is the better basketball player?, Identifying compare and contrast language, Practicing compare & contrast words and phrases

Day 2 • Pro & con language, Is your pet really your best friend?

Day 3 • Pet ownership, The science behind decision making and preferences, What's in YOUR brain?

Day 4 • Pro & con language, Measuring circles

Day 5 • Standing up for what you believe, Journal: write your opinion on your chose issue

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2nd-3rd Grade: English Level 3, Learning Packet #2 • Theme: Careers, Samantha Monter, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 3 of English Proficiency (K-12)

These packets are self-contained. Everything a child will need to be successful with the activities is provided in the packet. Students will only need a writing utensil. Additional tools like crayons or scissors can be used, but do not have to be.

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My Plan for the Week

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My Buddy, Choose a Buddy

Vocabulary - Dictionary of Career Words - Vocabulary Sentences

Reading - Mini-book about Healthcare Workers - All About Teachers - Read the Interview - Meet the Assistant Principal

Writing/Grammar - Compare a Doctor and Dentist - The Verbs of Careers - Find the Verbs - …

2nd-3rd Grade: English Level 3, Learning Packet #5 • Theme: Ocean, Samantha Monter, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 3 of English Proficiency (K-12)

My Plan for the Week

Choose activities from the different content areas to complete each day. You can choose one or two activities from different areas to do during the day. Below is a list of the activities in each content area.

Reading/Writing - Map of the World - All about Oceans - Map it - All about Clownfish - Jellyfish - Sea Turtles - If I was an oceanographer writing prompt

Vocabulary - Dictionary - Vocabulary Matching - Vocabulary Sentences

Math - Crack the Code - Read and Write

Brain Break - Create a Sea turtle - Roll a …

4th-5th Grade: English Level 3, Learning Packet #3 • Theme: Ocean, Nicole M. Ponti, Claudia T. Yunes, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 3 of English Proficiency (K-12)

These packets are self-contained. Everything a child will need to be successful with the activities is provided in the packet. Students will only need a writing utensil. Additional tools like crayons or scissors can be used, but do not have to be.

My Buddy, Choose a Buddy

Vocabulary

World's Oceans

Creating an Ocean test

Reading a Compass Rose

Using a Compass Rose

Welcome to My Home!

Lines of Longitude and Latitude

Coordinate Plane Review

Color Your Treasure

Writing a Poem: Acrostic

Writing a Letter

Let's Move Math!

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6th Grade: English Level 3, Learning Packet #2 • Theme: Ancient Egypt, Amanda Mclaughlin, Lauren Gatti, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 3 of English Proficiency (K-12)

You will travel back in time to the land of Ancient Egypt! The ancient Egyptians had many discoveries that changed the way civilizations lived. You will learn about the fascinating lives of Egyptians, such as pharaohs, pyramids, and mummies!

Thinking Skills Glossary - Level 3 English

Day 1 • Ancient Egypt vocabulary, Ancient Egypt: Life along the Nile, Comprehension questions, Ancient Egypt map labeling, Intro to decimals

Day 2 • Treasures of the pyramids, Who killed King Tut?, Roll a decimal

Day 3 • Primary source: Ancient Egyptian paintings, Hieroglyphics, Comparing decimals, Decimal war

Day 4 • Ancient Egypt: Making …

11th–12th Grade: English Level 3, Learning Packet #5 • Theme: Games, Katie Loughrist, Lauren Gatti, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 3 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Lesson 1 • Video game addiction by Dr. Douglas Gentile & Shawn Green

Lesson 2 • Time to play! You're never too old to have fun!

Lesson 3 • Sudoku fever! Try the puzzle with worldwide appeal

Lesson 4 • Vocabulary crossword, Vocabulary crossword clues!

Lesson 5 • Reflection: it's not all fun and games

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K–1st Grade: English Level 3, Learning Packet #2 • Theme: Careers, Vickie Neilly, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 3 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Vocabulary, Days of the week, Label the worker: teacher, Let's move!, Math word problems

Day 2 • Learn about careers!, Label the worker, Mix it fix it, Window or walk

Day 3 • Career matching, One or more than one?, Which worker?, Label the worker: plumber

Day 4 • Roll a career, One or more than one?, Career subtraction, Let's draw

Day 5 • My Journal, Would you rather?, Let's create, Make a list, Dictionary

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Professional Noticing On A Statistical Task, Courtney Nagle, Stephanie Casey, Michele Carney

Curriculum, Instruction, and Foundational Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

This study explores secondary in-service mathematics teachers’ professional noticing of student work on a statistical task involving informally placing a line of best fit. The manuscript describes how teachers interpreted student work on the line of best fit task, how teachers responded to the student work, and associations between their interpretations and consequential responses. Findings related to teachers’ interpretations of student work revealed that teachers were often evaluative and tended to describe both students’ processes and underlying understanding, although the descriptions of understanding were frequently unsupported by the work. Teachers’ responses to students were typically open-ended but infrequently showed promise …

Phase Ii Spacescape Mobile Game For Learning Space Science 2020 Report, Sa Liu, Mina Gabriel, Brian Grey

Harrisburg University Presidential Research Grants

This project is the phase II of the awarded 2019 Presidential Research Grant Project SpacEscape (PRG 2020-07; https://www.harrisburgu.edu/spacescape/). By working with teachers and students from Mechanicsburg School District, Susquehanna Township Middle school, Crossroads Middle School, and Pequea Valley High school, the research team published the mobile science learning game SpacEscape to Google Play Store, introduced the game to more than 1,000 middle school students even during the pandemic, collected more data to understand how learner conduct problem-solving using mobile games, and presented the research at the Games for Change 2020 Virtual Conference to more than 500 attendees. In this report, …

Vcu Scholars Compass: Suggested Resources For Middle And High School Teachers, Kristina Lee

Scholarship about Open Education

This document was prepared for a VCU School of Education doctoral externship and includes a list of possible secondary education resources available in VCU Scholars Compass, as well as a sample outreach letter sent to educators in the Richmond, VA area.

Exhibit Curriculum For Fighting For Democracy: Unit Two, Sarah Aponte, Martin Toomajian

Open Educational Resources

Exhibit curriculum for the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute exhibit, Fighting for Democracy: Dominican Veterans from World War II.

Students in Global History and U.S. History courses often spend extensive class time studying World War II. Dominicans were involved in virtually every facet of the U.S. war effort. The Dominican Studies Institute's exhibit highlights Dominican veterans who served in both the European and Pacific theaters, in multiple branches of the U.S. armed forces. These same veterans, like other people of color, faced discrimination as soldiers in the U.S. An exploration of these veterans' experiences would be memorable and valuable for secondary …

Exhibit Curriculum For Fighting For Democracy: Unit One, Sarah Aponte, Martin Toomajian

Open Educational Resources

Exhibit curriculum for the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute exhibit, Fighting for Democracy: Dominican Veterans from World War II.

Students in Global History and U.S. History courses often spend extensive class time studying World War II. Dominicans were involved in virtually every facet of the U.S. war effort. The Dominican Studies Institute's exhibit highlights Dominican veterans who served in both the European and Pacific theaters, in multiple branches of the U.S. armed forces. These same veterans, like other people of color, faced discrimination as soldiers in the U.S. An exploration of these veterans' experiences would be memorable and valuable for secondary …

Technology-Based Culturally Relevant Chemistry Education (Crce), Mercy Adoma Fosu

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The relevance of chemistry concepts and principles remains a challenge for most students enrolled in college chemistry courses. Part of this problem is the disconnect with what students experience in their every-day lives, and how the material, specifically chemistry content is presented via textbooks, lectures, and laboratory teaching. Moreover, the teaching of general chemistry has traditionally focused on traditional, instructor-centric expository delivery of course materials, that treats students as empty vessels devoid of prior knowledge. Students prior knowledge and experiences are crucial in shaping their understanding of scientific concepts and principles. Even students with relatively low expectations for success in …

Re-Establishing The Value Of Family And Consumer Science In The General Middle School Curriculum, Cassidy Wallace

West Chester University Master’s Theses

Family and consumer science is a subject that carries a complex cultural legacy. Beginning as a response to the social upheaval of the industrial revolution, family and consumer started as home economics, and was split between elevating the importance of the domestic arts and applying science to traditionally domestic tasks to both improve homelife and create new fields of academic research. While second goal was reached, and we now have food science, sanitation engineering, and materials research, among others, family and consumer science is still often relegated to domestic associations. However, family and consumer science is still relevant and powerful …

Re-Forging Democracy In Schools Through The History Of American Social Movements, Jonathan Privado

West Chester University Master’s Theses

Democratic virtue and spirit are severely lacking in the traditional school setting. With so many threats to the planet, the nation, and democracy as a whole, direct action, and active civic engagement are more important than ever. The traditional social studies and history curriculums of schools, both sanitized and passive, often claim to prepare students for citizenry, but are actually ill preparing students for the challenge and the necessity of genuine civic engagement. In particular, one of the most egregious offenders within the domain of the social studies is the traditional American history curriculum. In most cases, as this study …

What He Learned To Think He Earned, Andrew Matschiner

Education Faculty Articles and Research

"This story offers an autobiographical counterstory examining different ways young white, middle-class children in the United States learn to accept and celebrate their place in a viciously unequal society. The story explores this process through the experiences of a young white student named Zack growing up in Cedar Grove and attending Cedar Grove Elementary.

The story focuses on what researchers call white racial socialization (Hagerman, 2018), socialization practices (Hughes et al., 2006), and white habitus (Bonilla-Silva, Goar, & Embrick, 2006). This counterstory attempts to pull back the curtain on how white children are socialized to accept and celebrate the status …

Scaffolding Development Of Clinical Supervisors: Learning To Be A Liaison, Jennifer Snow, Hannah Carter, Sherry A. Dismuke, Angel Larson, Stefanie Shebley

Curriculum, Instruction, and Foundational Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

Teacher education as a field has embraced the idea that clinically-based teacher education will better support teacher candidate learning and the learning of their future preK-12 students (AACTE, 2018; NCATE, 2010). Likewise, teacher education scholars have emphasized the importance of learning to teach well in clinical practice (Darling-Hammond, 2014). We five women teacher educators engaged in a collaborative self-study to investigate our different perspectives and our institution’s hope for mentoring and preparing new liaisons. Our collaborative self-study focused on the research question: What are the key factors that play a part in influencing the developmental trajectory of a liaison? Through …

Analyzing The Cognitive Demand Of Enacted Examples In Precalculus: A Comparative Case Study Of Graduate Student Instructors, Erica R. Miller

Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations

The cognitive demand of mathematical tasks is an important aspect of analyzing the impact of instruction on student learning. The purpose of this study was to examine the instructional examples enacted by graduate student precalculus instructors in order to answer the following questions: What is the cognitive demand of the enacted examples? What does a high cognitive demand example look like when an instructor uses direct instruction? And how are examples drawn from the written curriculum enacted in different ways? Using both random and purposeful sampling of precalculus lessons, I conducted classroom observations as well as pre- and post-observation interviews …

Social Studies Instruction And Integration, Morgan Wood

Masters Theses

Social studies education has been on the decline for many years. With a big part of the blame on standardized testing, it’s important to find ways to utilize the growing reading instructional time to make connections to history. This research utilized a variety of primary sources in social studies lessons. This allowed for the teacher to be able to meet many different standards across content areas in one lesson. Student motivation and engagement was heightened through cross-curricular lessons. The research conducted was completed in a small, rural school; one limitation being there were only 15 students included in the research. …

Stability Of The Learning Behaviors Scale, Nikki Davidson

Masters Theses

Learning behaviors are observable actions, habits, and manifestations of attitudes that facilitate learning, such as persevering at difficult tasks, showing interest in academic subjects, demonstrating care and concern about classwork, and graciously accepting feedback (Buchanan, McDermott, & Schaefer, 1998). Assessment of these learning behaviors is an essential first step to effective intervention. It is important to know which learning behaviors to target and the degree of deficit in order to remediate learning problems. The present study examined the medium length (two-month) stability of scores obtained from the Learning Behaviors Scale (McDermott, Green, Francis, & Stott, 1999). Fifty K-8 teacher rater …

Analyzing Students' Historical Thinking Skills At Different Grade Levels, Aaron Callaway

Masters Theses

The purpose of this research study is to compare and contrast the historical thinking abilities of students in distinct age-groups through their use of disciplinary literacy skills. This was accomplished by having eight total subjects from four distinct student age-groups participate in a guided inquiry activity about the beginning of the Korean War. As they engaged in the inquiry activity, the participants’ cognitive process and responses to the researcher’s questions were recorded and transcribed and later analyzed. These transcriptions were juxtaposed with one another in search of any major patterns that emerged during the inquiries. Several patterns were identified including …

The Impact Of Shared Reading On 1st Graders’ Writing Using Author’S Craft, Kelsey Bolin

Masters Theses

This study was conducted in a first grade classroom with twenty participants. This study took place over five and a half weeks, where students were introduced to three mentor texts in a shared reading setting. The students asked and answered questions about the texts and participated in extension writing activities. Students were given opportunities to engage with the mentor texts and writing in whole group settings as well as individual settings. Students were expected to write a final assignment using the form of author craft portrayed in the final mentor text, which students were able to complete successfully.

Students practiced …

Mobility Matters: Interdisciplinary Partnerships To Create More Accessible Cities, Amy T. Parker

Special Education Faculty Publications and Presentations

History of the Mobility Matters, Portland State University’s annual summit on transportation accessibility.

Portraits Of Professional Collaboration: Faculty-Librarian Teaching Partnerships, Carrie L. Forbes

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Many regional accrediting organizations for higher education have embraced information literacy as a key component for both student success and student learning outcomes. Through embedded librarianship practices, librarians are now taking a leading role in developing and promoting users’ information literacy skills and in adopting an active classroom teaching approach. Faculty-librarian team teaching is a best practice for integrating information literacy into the higher education curricula, but the extant research has largely focused on the barriers to collaboration. Using Walsh and Kahn’s (2010) model of “collaborative working” as a conceptual framework, this dissertation explores the qualities and characteristics of four …