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Drawing the World's Map Alice

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Dexer

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Tina

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Preparing for making "our personal timeline" Peter

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Finding out more things about ourselves. Tina

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Creating a ZOETROPE helped us to see how much things changed from past to present in animated cartoons' field.

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Jeremy

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Mary

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Steve, Tom

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Steve

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Leo

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Viki

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Mary and her Zoetrope

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Tom, Tina

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I've decided that giving the children the opportunity to make their own ZOETROPE and be able to watch their own animated cartoons will wake in them the desire to find out more about their past and see how many things changed since they were born. I was quite satisfied with the results of their work as they've also seen how much the animated cartoons evaluated and how past influences our present and future actions. Group Photo

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Finding out in a direct way where we are in place and time. The World's Map (oceans, continents, time zones

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Finding out in a direct way where we are in place and time. The World's Map (oceans, continents, time zones

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Kun

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Learn and have fun

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Kim

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Brad

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I've decided that giving the children the opportunity to make their own ZOETROPE and be able to watch their own animated cartoons will wake in them the desire to find out more about their past and see how many things changed since they were born. I was quite satisfied with the results of their work as they've also seen how much the animated cartoons evaluated and how past influences our present and future actions.

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Jerry

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AMy

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Sophia

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Louis

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Bob

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Hans

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Rittra

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Guiding the kids for creating their TIMELINE

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Guiding the kids for creating their TIMELINE

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Creating a TIMELINE as a Summative Assessment

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Creating a TIMELINE as a Summative Assessment

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Each kid had to bring a photo related to an important event from their life and representing also each year of their life. I wanted them to see what they've learned so far from the early age till present.

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Leo's TIMELINE

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Amy's TIMELINE

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youtube

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Read-Aloud of Whoever You Are by Mem Fox

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youku

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national geographic channel - if. live curious.

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National Geographic Channel - IF. Live curious.

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National Geographic Channel - IF. Live curious. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qwA5fUh3hA If you are, you breathe. If you breath, you talk. If you talk, you ask. If you ask, you think. If you think, you search. If you search, you experience. If you experience, you learn. If you learn, you grow. If

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When we started do the timeline, the students had to put their birth date. Most of them had no idea the year they were born but they new how old are they so I put them to count their own birth year. This is how it looked like. Viki

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Peter's TIMELINE

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Tim's TIMELINE

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Steve's TIMELINE

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Dexer's TIMELINE

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Alice's & Tina's TIMELINE

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The central idea for the grade 2 in this UOI is "People can apply their understanding of forces in everyday life.
Lines of inquiry:
- How objects move;
- Features of simple machines;
- How scientists collect and record data.

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The central idea for the grade 2 in this UOI is "People can apply their understanding of forces in everyday life.
Lines of inquiry:
- How objects move;
- Features of simple machines;
- How scientists collect and record data.

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So the first thing I did when starting this UOI was teaching kids the vocabulary for the types of movement (movements "roll,bounce,spin,push,pull...", directions "right, left, up,down...", speed "fast,slow", distance "far,close"). Also explained them how we use FORCE for making an object move and also for making an object stop. After, I decided to take them outside and practice these movements, cause I also wanted them to be more motivated. Here you can see some pictures of what we've did

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Group Photo

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Group Photo

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So the first thing I did when starting this UOI was teaching kids the vocabulary for the types of movement (movements "roll,bounce,spin,push,pull...", directions "right, left, up,down...", speed "fast,slow", distance "far,close"). Also explained them how we use FORCE for making an object move and also for making an object stop.

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The second step was the KWL (what I know about simple machines, what I want to know and what I've learned) Chart. You can take a look on how the Chart looked like. As they are 2nd grade, I asked them to write in chinese the thing they want to learn about Simple Machines.

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Simple Machines: Rube Goldberg Bulletin Board

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Simple Machines: Rube Goldberg Bulletin Board

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As I wanted the kids to know about what we'll learn for the next couple of weeks, I've decided to create a "I spy" bulletin board and riddle created by Jaryn Nicholson and representing all 6 Simple Machines in action. You can take a look and see what came out :)

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Simple Machines: Rube Goldberg Bulletin Board

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Simple Machines: Rube Goldberg Bulletin Board

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Final Work

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Louis

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Learning about MOVEMENT and Simple Machines through drawing

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Learning about MOVEMENT and Simple Machines through drawing

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Mary drawing the MOVEMENT sheet

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Jeremy and Wayne

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Viki

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Ella

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Lisa

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Tony

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San

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LEO

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Suzan

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Bonson

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As we past all the 6 types of SIMPLE MACHINES, today I've decided to revise all of them so I asked kids what is the role of SIMPLE MACHINES in our daily life and how can they be useful. They've come up with lots of ideas. In order to make them move a little bit and also work in a team I've decided that building a pulley will be really a good idea and lots of fun. Also I brought as an example a wheel and axle and my own pulley. Let's look at the pictures.

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Chack is wondering "-Are you sure this pulley is workable?" "-Let's see!!!" 🙂

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Chack is wondering "-Are you sure this pulley is workable?" "-Let's see!!!" 🙂

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Jeremy, Chack and Wayne

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Just loved how they've worked together. 

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Just loved how they've worked together. 

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Mary and Leo

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Bonson and Tom

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Tick is the kid that always makes you laugh. And all of his project are totally different from other kids. Sometimes they look really "strange" 🙂 but I like that he has his own point of view.

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Tick is the kid that always makes you laugh. And all of his project are totally different from other kids. Sometimes they look really "strange" 🙂 but I like that he has his own point of view.

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Tick

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Ella, Lisa and Kevin

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Ella, Lisa and Tina

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Suzan, Tick, Tony and Tim

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Mary, Deer, Tom, Bonson and Leo

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After they finished the task I asked them to make on a white sheet a SIMPLE MACHINES CHART ( lever, pulley, wedge, wheel&axle, inclined plane, screw ). They were still working on it when the bell rang so I asked them to finish it at home

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After they finished the task I asked them to make on a white sheet a SIMPLE MACHINES CHART ( lever, pulley, wedge, wheel&axle, inclined plane, screw ). They were still working on it when the bell rang so I asked them to finish it at home

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Viki

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Jeremy

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San

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Tick

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Leo

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They need to draw the 6 types of simple machines and also to write the name of each one of them

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I have 2 classes of grade "2" that follow the same CURRICULUM but sometimes I really get bored to do exactly the same projects and things with both classes, this is why today for this grade I revised the theme about Simple Machines differently. I decided to make with the kids a LAP BOOK in which should be all the 6 Simple Machines. I recognized it took them a lot of time to cut everything, draw, stick....but the result made me real happy. Some of the lapbooks were so creative that I couldn't hide my excitment. 😀👌❤️ Don't you think I'm right?

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I have 2 classes of grade "2" that follow the same CURRICULUM but sometimes I really get bored to do exactly the same projects and things with both classes, this is why today for this grade I revised the theme about Simple Machines differently. I decided to make with the kids a LAP BOOK in which should be all the 6 Simple Machines. I recognized it took them a lot of time to cut everything, draw, stick....but the result made me real happy. Some of the lapbooks were so creative that I couldn't hide my excitment. 😀👌❤️ Don't you think I'm right?

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Sophia and her unfinished lapbook

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SOPHia's work!

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Brad's Chart!

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Here's a video that I found very useful to show to kids if you teach them about Simple Machines, Force and Movement. It is clearly shown how applying force we can make an object move or can make it stop from its movement.

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