Community Action
Article by Andrew Bauld
School Leadership student Lorena Martinez sees community and family engagement as the key to students' success.
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- Education
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- Date Added:
- 12/20/2018
Community Action
Article by Andrew Bauld
School Leadership student Lorena Martinez sees community and family engagement as the key to students' success.
Students will discuss different kinds of communities and create brochures to demonstrate their learning.
Interactions between species are what define ecological communities, and community ecology studies these interactions anywhere they take place. Although interspecies interactions are mostly competitive, competition is pretty dangerous, so a lot of interactions are actually about side-stepping direct competition and instead finding ways to divvy up resources to let species get along. Feel the love?
Hank gets to the more violent part of community ecology by describing predation and the many ways prey organisms have developed to avoid it.
By the end of this course the students should be able to: Identify the root of Community Health Nursing; identify supportive organizations; differentiate between Public Health Nurse and Community Health Nurse; explain Community Health Nursing; describe the qualities of the Community Health Nurse; describe the different types of community; differentiate between urban and rural communities and outline community profile; explain community entry; describe the preparations made before a community is entered; identify critical actions in community entry; list the advantages of community entry; explain community study; list at least four reasons for community study; explain the various types community study; give two explanation to each data collected; define a community need; identify types of needs; identify the process community needs assessment and list the uses of needs assessment.
An inquiry-based project to map the land in your community. The key concepts in this unit are grounded in Indigenous beliefs of interconnectedness, connectedness, and respect for all things.
The driving inquiry questions for this unit are:
1. How can respect for the land be shown?
2. What do we look for when setting up a camp?
3. What stories or teachings are connected to key locations in and around our community?
4. How has the land around our community changed over time?
5. Who do we share our community’s lands with?
My Action Plan is related to Social Studies and the use of collaboration and critical thinking. I plan to evaluate the resources I am currently using in Social Studies and adjust or adapt them to move in the direction of collaboration, critical thinking, and technology.
This is an activity that involves technology, collaboration and critical thinking.
This lesson for English Language Learners (ELLs) discusses a movement that brings police officers closer to the people they serve, community policing. In this lesson, learners will practice reading, listening, speaking and writing. All activities are automatically graded with feedback provided to the learner upon submission.
iNaturalist is an identification key for plants, protist, fungi and animal species. It has online features as well as an app for Apple or Android, and is a joint initiative between California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society.
The ComPADRE Digital Library is a network of free online resource collections supporting faculty, students, and teachers in Physics and Astronomy Education. Each collection contains materials designed for a specific community.
Select teaching resources to start exploring. Also select resources from the top menu to find more options - including for students.
Hank introduces us to comparative anatomy, which studies the similarities and differences in animal anatomy to support the theory of evolution and the shared ancestry of living things.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders about making observations about capacity (metric units).
The Compare & Contrast Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for different kinds of comparison essays.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders about comparing the capacity by formula in quarts, pints and cups.
Students examine different types of fabric and their characteristics. Using magnifying glasses and sandpaper, they test and observe the weave and wear quality of fabric samples. By comparing the qualities of different fabrics they come to understand why so many different types of fabric exist and are able to recognize or suggest different uses for them.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders about comparing gallons and quarts by pictures.
In small groups, students experiment and observe the similarities and differences between human-made objects and objects from nature. They compare the function and structure of hollow bones with drinking straws, bird beaks, tool pliers, bat wings and airplane wings. Observations are recorded in a compare & contrast chart, and then shared in a classroom discussion, along with follow up assessment activities such as journal writing and Venn diagrams.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach first graders about multiple object lengths (english measurement).
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach third graders about comparing values of two numbers.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders about comparing values of multiple numbers within a set.