Help me give my students access to engaging lessons, videos, and activities that can be used in class whole group, remotely online, or individually differentiated to meet individual student needs.
My school is a large K-5 school located in rural South Carolina where over 80% of the students are living in poverty. Once full of thriving textile mills, economic despair is apparent by the deserted rundown buildings left behind from businesses no longer in existence.
As a result of low socioeconomic status, many of our students are struggling academically, not to mention huge new gaps created due to COVID 19.
In order to help close these achievement gaps while still facing COVID challenges, I am looking for creative resources for my students at school, as well as those who may be learning remotely due to quarantine situations. In addition, I am teaching a new grade level, and I am starting over to build an arsenal of rigorous, engaging lessons and activities for my students.
My Project
First, let me say that I am new to 4th grade this year. Last week we sat down with our beginning of the year data. COVID 19 school closings, adjusted, shorter schedules, and issues related to virtual learning have resulted in significantly larger achievement gaps than usual. I have students benchmark testing as low as kindergarten in certain areas.
While looking for resources to teach an ELA standard that focuses on cultural, political and historical influences on plot and characters (for 9-10 year old's), a video and lesson came up from STUDY.com.
I was impressed by the examples and depth of thought. This site does not offer free subscriptions to teachers. These lesson, videos, and activities cover several content areas, therefore could help me tremendously by giving me an automatic "file cabinet" full of lessons to choose from. I wouldn't be locked in to just 4th grade material and therefore could differentiate learning based on individual student needs, in addition to being able to post material for students learning remotely short term through Google Classroom.
Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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