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Classroom will be design to work with students needs including word walls, writing centers, and individual work spaces for independent time.

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Having a clear objective for your classroom setup can create a cohesion to an organized mess.

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I want my science classroom to be student-centered where students are in control of what they want to learn about.

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Traditional rules for a science classroom/ lab

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Students have signed your name below to acknowledge their classroom rules.

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The stop, think, choose, poster will help children voice their concerns inside a classroom by acknowledging everyone's feelings and reaching a solution as a community.

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Teaching something important to the community your students are a part of

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Create a forum where students can share their ideas and interests. Using this forum teachers can develop lessons and projects based on the interest of their students

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14 Project-Based Learning Activities for the Science Classroom

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Spread the loveOne of the most popular methods of facilitating deep learning in K-12 schools in problem-based learning. It starts, as the name suggests, with a problem. In this model, students are presented with an open-ended problem. Students must search through a variety of resources, called trigger material, to help them understand the problem from all angles.

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How to build an equitable learning community in your science classroom : StemTeachingTools (en-US)

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Morning Meetings: Building Community in the Classroom

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The Arthur theme song says it all: "You can learn to work and play and get along with each other." Building a classroom community is a process with huge benefits for students and teachers. Last week one of my students brought me a picture she had drawn at home. Smiling ear to ear, she handed the folded paper to me. The picture is a beautiful rainbow with smiling boys and girls standing underneath it. Across the top it read, "This hole intire class is like a family." I couldn't help but smile right back. This year, my goal was to build a first grade community of learners. I knew I wanted to include social emotional learning across the curriculum and throughout the day, to help create a place where my students would feel safe to make a mistake and share ideas.

Here are successful strategies we used this year to build classroom community.

10 Ideas to Share with Fellow Educators

1. Have a class meeting to define "What is a community?" My class decided a community of learners is a group of students who all want to help each other learn and grow together.

2. Include the class in establishing your classroom rules. Our only rule is: "We are all friends." That rule has covered everything from sharing pencils to arguments on the playground. Would a friend take your ball at recess?

3. Start positive. Each morning, I meet my class at the door and say: "It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood!" The class responds: "It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood!" Then, we give each other high fives. Any day that starts like that is going to be a great day!

4. I call my students friends instead of boys and girls. After the first week of school, they started calling each other friend, too. I have a sign in my room that reads: "A community of friends can do hard things." We can do hard things!

5. My students each have classroom jobs that change each week. Each job is important to our community, We have sEd techs, librarians, lunch basket carriers, paper passers, and other assignments. This helps my students know and understand that they are an important part of our classroom community.

6. Use classroom technology to help build relationships. We use PBS ScratchJr to write and code stories about the strategies we use to solve conflicts with friends. Students also use our tablets to take pictures of each other with their friends. The kids love looking at the pictures they take.

7. Group STEM projects are a great way to build community. I recently challenged my class to work together to build a roller coaster out of paper plates, cups and tinfoil. The roller coasters and the conversations were amazing!

8. Create opportunities for students to share how they feel about each other. I asked student to write their names at the top of a piece of paper. Students then walked around the room and wrote a sentence or two on each paper. I made sure to add a sentence or two myself. Students smiled and laughed as they read their own papers. I put them in the hall for the larger school community to see.

9. Invite community members into your classroom. This year, we celebrated neighbor day by inviting the Mayor of our town to visit. He told the students about what it was like to be the Mayor and, more relevant to them, what he did when he was six-years-old.

10. PBS LearningMedia is a great resource for Arthur and community building resources. To help your class learn and grow together in harmony, be sure to check out Arthur's Around the Block activities.

The stronger the community, the fewer conflicts we have. The picture has a special place on my bulletin board, and this class is like a "hole intire" family for me too. We can all learn a lesson from Arthur when he shares: "Get together and make things better by working together!" Happy Community Building!

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strategies to create a community in your classroom

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Strategies to Create a Community in Your Classroom | PBS Education

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CRT- Culturally responsive teaching

It acknowledges the legitimacy of the cultural heritages of different ethnic groups, both as legacies that affect students’ dispositions, attitudes, and approaches to learning, and as worthy content to be taught in the formal curriculum.

It builds bridges of meaningfulness between home and school experiences as well as between academic abstractions and sociocultural realities.

It uses a wide variety of instructional strategies connected to different learning styles.

It teaches students to know and praise their own and each other’s cultural heritages. It incorporates multicultural information, resources, and materials in all the subjects and skills routinely taught in schools. (p. 29)

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Students will map their social identities.

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Students will map their social identities.

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Communal agreement inside our classroom to acknowledge everyone's feelings, opinions and suggestions.

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A process where everyone in a group agrees to move forward on a plan of action. This doesn’t mean everyone agrees equally, but that everyone has agreed to move forward regardless of unevenness and differences of opinion.