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Social Action Projects: Making a Difference K-4

This handbook includes background knowledge necessary for teachers to effectively implement social action projects and provides a case study of a social action project.
Subjects: Civics, Social Studies
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4
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How do we measure up?

Yvonne Denomy, vice principal and teacher librarian, describes an inquiry into children’s rights with grade three and four students that left her in awe as they were able to determine, locate, analyze, interpret, infer and judge from primary data.
Subjects: Civics, Social Studies, Mathematics, Professional Learning
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
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Helping with a practical problem

Students generate and illustrate two possible solutions to both an imagined and actual problem at home or school. After assessing each option, using identified criteria, students select the better one and give reasons for their choice.
Subjects: English/Language Arts, Social Studies
Grades: K, 1, 2
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Beyond Thinking Classrooms

Usha James, in collaboration with Garfield Gini-Newman, Laura Gini-Newman, Maria Vamvalis and Warren Woytuck, presents a renewed mission that offers a framework for critical inquiry, stressing quality thinking that leads to student action. This article first appeared in Principal Connections, Summer…
Subjects: Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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Picture book change over time

Students create a picture book that shows changes in the community from varying perspectives-including those of children, women, men, various linguistic and cultural groups and business groups.
Subjects: Social Studies
Grades: 1
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What is important in a classroom that supports critical thinking?

Garfield Gini-Newman discusses ways to infuse critical thinking into the university classroom through assessment and curriculum delivery. (3:11 minutes)
Subjects: Professional Learning, Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12