Ruth Levantis
PS 59x
NY

I teach 5th grade Earth Science in NYC. Our Scope and Sequence begins teaching plate tectonics in the elementary grades. By Middle School they should be able to get into more in depth content that you are talking about. This is reserved for the upper grades 8th-HS. My focus is on the layers of the earth, earthquakes and volcanoes. I believe they are the basics. The students learn the vocabulary fo...

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I like the Class Dojo. I am trying it out to keep track of specific students in my classes. It is easier and quicker than always writing an anecdotal for everything they do. To have that up for the students to see, however, is sketchy ground here in NY. The admins would see it as "publicly" humiliating a student when they misbehave or not do something.Not that I agree with them either.

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Hi I'm Ruth and teach elementary school. Our curriculum requires to teach the basic moon phases to 1st grade. I like the oreo cookie idea. I might try it next year. This year I used what I learned in a TEASP workshop. I took styrofoam balls, a flashlight, and sticks. I used a flashlight for the sun. I marked the planets and put an X so they can follow how it rotates. We modeled it several tim...

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