This year, my students will participate in a classroom project called The Fingerprint Project: a campaign designed to integrate both civil mindedness and global awareness into our reading and writing skills. The essential question driving our curriculum this year is: what are the challenges and triumphs of growing up? Using the Chromebooks, students will work in groups to discover how other students answer this same question in lessons that utilize reading, writing, speaking, listening, and critical thinking.
The Fingerprint Project aims to connect the students in my classroom with students from other classrooms in our city, our state, and around the globe. Students will begin by simply comparing their fingerprints with that of remote students, using this exercise as a platform to discover both similarities and differences between the two groups of students. From there, my students will continue to communicate with the other classrooms to evaluate how they view the challenges and triumphs of growing up. Lastly, students will work in groups to be challenged to identify a need common to most sixth graders and create solutions to fill that need.
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This year, my students will participate in a classroom project called The Fingerprint Project: a campaign designed to integrate both civil mindedness and global awareness into our reading and writing skills. The essential question driving our curriculum this year is: what are the challenges and triumphs of growing up? Using the Chromebooks, students will work in groups to discover how other students answer this same question in lessons that utilize reading, writing, speaking, listening, and critical thinking.
The Fingerprint Project aims to connect the students in my classroom with students from other classrooms in our city, our state, and around the globe. Students will begin by simply comparing their fingerprints with that of remote students, using this exercise as a platform to discover both similarities and differences between the two groups of students. From there, my students will continue to communicate with the other classrooms to evaluate how they view the challenges and triumphs of growing up. Lastly, students will work in groups to be challenged to identify a need common to most sixth graders and create solutions to fill that need.