Adoption Awareness by Amber Berry https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28 Brainstorm: include grade and subject! en-us 2018-11-13 11:59:36 UTC 2025-10-16 13:10:39 UTC hello@padlet.com History 7 What's in Name? Project https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303692138 Students interview parents/family members using interview skills and research. This involves place, ethnicity, religion, and culture. We encourage kids to share all names and identities. Students have choice in how they visual represent and present their findings.]]> 2018-11-13 13:00:46 UTC https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303692138 WL Family Tree magistra1 https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303692176 When learning possessives, Latin students make up and interpret family trees (imagined families, not their own).  It's a great opportunity to include different family structures and types of relationships, and discuss adoptive naming customs in Roman times]]> 2018-11-13 13:00:52 UTC https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303692176 7th Grade Heredity Unit https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303692245 Students examine how genetics plays a role in their physical characteristics. ]]> 2018-11-13 13:01:03 UTC https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303692245 Identity Unit (6th Grade History) https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303692361 Before studying the rest of the globe we kick off the year with a mini-identity unit that investigates the various identities and backgrounds that each individual brings to the classroom environment]]> 2018-11-13 13:01:21 UTC https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303692361 Oral History Project -5th Grade https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303692398 Students interview individuals in their lives, often grandparents, and write up a podcast script which gives a narrative report on the information that was shared with them.]]> 2018-11-13 13:01:26 UTC https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303692398 5th grade https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303692406 Oral History Project
This I Believe Project
Civil Rights/Black History novels

]]> 2018-11-13 13:01:27 UTC https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303692406 6th Grade Culture Nouns https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303692410 We highlight things about our culture with icons from The Noun Project. 

]]> 2018-11-13 13:01:28 UTC https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303692410 5th grade International Night https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303692471 Students are asked to paint or draw a piece of art inspired by a piece of folk art they like, no matter what country it is from.]]> 2018-11-13 13:01:38 UTC https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303692471 Storyline discussing adoption (6th English) https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303692518 In Fever 1793, the protagonist adopts a 3 year old who was orphaned by the epidemic. 
6th English]]> 2018-11-13 13:01:44 UTC https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303692518 English 7 Milkweed Inspired WWII Living Member Memories or Family History https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303692554 Milkweed is a Holocaust novel, however, this assignment is more about helping connect students to WWII in general. Often, students will find connections to family experiences of persecution and genocide.]]> 2018-11-13 13:01:49 UTC https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303692554 6th grade https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303692637 Susan asks questions about their family life and personal opinions on her math assessment rubrics]]> 2018-11-13 13:02:01 UTC https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303692637 French Family Vocabulary Words & Family Tree https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303692846 One of our early chapters has all of the Family vocabulary and has a lot of activities where students use their family tree. (I have changed the individual projects to be one group project using the characters of the tv show "Modern Family" .)]]> 2018-11-13 13:02:32 UTC https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303692846 7th Grade PBL https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303692914 We invite students to consider challenges, issues, etc. affecting their immediate, local, or larger communities. Although not directly engaging the topic of infancy or early childhood, there is often a handful of students who engage the topic of child abuse, and consider strategies for (put broadly), 'making a difference.']]> 2018-11-13 13:02:44 UTC https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303692914 Earth Systems https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303693008 I encourage my students to ask their parents, grandparents, and relatives throughout the year about how the environment was treated when the adults were younger, (the student's age).]]> 2018-11-13 13:02:58 UTC https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303693008 English 7 See You at Harry's identity writing prompts https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303693034 Identity is a theme in the book See You at Harry's and students write on the theme of identity and at times, this is a personal reflection where connections are made to their own lives. ]]> 2018-11-13 13:03:02 UTC https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303693034 Heritage Project magistra1 https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303693054 Culture you were born into; culture you inherit & experience
-Maggie]]> 2018-11-13 13:03:06 UTC https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303693054 5TH GRADE GRANDPARENTS DAY https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303693066 2018-11-13 13:03:08 UTC https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303693066 Fifth Grade International Night https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303693068 As part of the International Night event, students map the origins of their families across the world.]]> 2018-11-13 13:03:09 UTC https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303693068 5th Grade https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303693159 Mathematician of the month ]]> 2018-11-13 13:03:23 UTC https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303693159 Immigration Nation https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303693324 Ask students where they came form to look at how our nation is a nation of immigrants

]]> 2018-11-13 13:03:51 UTC https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303693324 familial traits- when they do not look like other members of their family https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303693452 2018-11-13 13:04:10 UTC https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303693452 Spaceship Earth https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303695582 The students are asked to plan a 5 year space voyage to another planet, never to return to Earth. The students must decide who they would want to include on the flight]]> 2018-11-13 13:09:23 UTC https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303695582 Storyline discussing adoption (6th English) https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303696417 In Henry Sugar, the protagonist establishes orphanages across the globe, after being lectured by a police officer who was himself adopted

]]> 2018-11-13 13:11:15 UTC https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303696417 Deextinction Project https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303696793 We discuss the idea of reproduction and conception. Including the DNA contribution of both parents that might explain various characteristics each child might possess.]]> 2018-11-13 13:12:07 UTC https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303696793 Comment Thread on article How to Adjust Invasive Assignments https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303696940 I like the Autobiographies suggestion the best.  Since they can focus on other aspects of their history or identity, it breaks free of the direct biological connection.

I also like the suggestion of changing the metaphor from tree to house.]]> 2018-11-13 13:12:30 UTC https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303696940 Megafauna Project https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303699013 We discuss the immigration of animals and humans into North America. In the discussion, the idea of identification of early human immigrants into the new continent can be traced by blood type. Extrapolating further, we discuss the flow of humans from two areas of Asia by tracing blood chemistry and genetics]]> 2018-11-13 13:16:49 UTC https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303699013 Spanish - Conversation activity: What is your favorite holiday? vivianita412 https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303699688 Students talk and discuss their favorite holiday which sometimes are religious holidays.
 

]]> 2018-11-13 13:18:17 UTC https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303699688 ME to WE 7th Grade PBL kickoff https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303700517 Students explore their identity in the ME packet as learners, personality traits, etc. to see how they fit into the grade. This year we made puzzle pieces with the information their learned represented. ]]> 2018-11-13 13:20:04 UTC https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303700517 5th grade beginning of the year community building novel: Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303701523 This story is about twins who live in a foster home and are adopted by a couple with grown children. Theme is what is the meaning of home, family is those who care for you. ]]> 2018-11-13 13:22:05 UTC https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303701523 Adopt a wolf (6th fundraiser) https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303705079 Students raise money for the WCC, if we raise a month they vote on which wolf they would like to "adopt" for the year. ]]> 2018-11-13 13:29:08 UTC https://padlet.com/berrya17_1/2vb5tq9xvn28/wish/303705079