The students at our school come from diverse backgrounds. There are 47 different languages spoken in the homes of our students! With all of this diversity comes challenges and rewards. As their teacher, I can expose them to material that is brand new for them, including topics such as the Revolutionary War and the US Constitution. The students are eager to learn this information to help prepare them to become citizens of our country.
It can be challenging to begin with this blank slate of knowledge about US History.
We work to weave together literacy and history to make the content more meaningful for students and help place it in context. This class works on many research projects and we are working together to strengthen our reading and writing skills.
My Project
Games can help students learn in interactive ways and can help get their brains active in a socially engaging activity. Word games will help our English Language Learning students, financial planning games will help students with financial literacy, our social studies games will help enhance their understandings of the content, and checkers will help them with problem solving.
The materials we are requesting for this project are to help our students better understand financial literacy and social studies.
Many students in our school are unfamiliar with how finances work, and therefore are not set up for success in life. We will be having a unit on financial literacy in which students will be establishing careers and living off of their incomes. Students will need to plan out what expenses they will need to cover, what education level they will need, and what expendable income will be left afterward.
We will explore what factors can lead to debt and how that can negatively impact them in the long term. Students will play financial literacy games to help round out their understanding of how to earn, invest, and save money.
This unit is meant to help students understand the value of education for their future lives. Students will see the difference a college education or vocational education can have on their future success.
In addition to this unit, we are completing a unit with our Fever 1793 books. To culminate this unit, we are planning to have an expert come talk with students about epidemics and how they work. We would like students to play the game Pandemic to help educate them about how diseases can spread.
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