Wendi Laurence

USA

Teaching Through Trade Books: Beneath Our Feet

Sat, Apr 14, 2018 11:52 AM
Seeing in Layers

Christine Royce has created an engaging, well-structured lesson based on two trade books. Help your students discover more than the first things they observe. Follow the question: Is there more here that I am seeing? This lesson will take students under the city streets and under the sea to discover what changes the earth's surface over time. A great way to compare human-made changes and natural changes.

Uncovering Student Ideas in Primary Science, Volume 1: 25 New Formative Assessment Probes for Grades K–2

Mon, Dec 18, 2017 12:35 PM
Discovering what they know

The formative assessments in this book provide a chance to have our younger students tell us about what they are thinking and see how their concepts change over time. I learn something every time I use these - from how children are making sense of science to my own ideas about science. Most of all it offers a window into the complex conceptual understanding that develops in early childhood.

Journaling: A Bridge Between School and Home

Sat, Nov 25, 2017 11:25 PM
Connecting to Home

I appreciated the focus on transfer and connections. The transfer in taking learning in one setting to another. In student learning stories academic language makes learning visible and connected between home and school. A great way to use journals - so often they sit in boxes at school!