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Special thanks to Jon Barry, Annette Welpman, Katherine Fleetwood, and Rebecca Mitchell! Korea International School Standards/Benchmarks Standard 1- Culture: Knowledge Benchmarks A - "Culture" refers to the behaviours beliefs, values, traditions, institutions, and ways of living together of a group of people; C - How cultural beliefs, behaviours, and values allow human groups to solve the problems of daily living; D - How culture may change in response to changing needs and concerns; 2 - Explore and describe similarities and differences in the ways various cultural groups meet similar needs and concerns Standard 3 - People, Places, and Environments: Knowledge Benchmarks A - The theme of people, places, and environments involves the study of location, place, and the interactions of people with their surroundings; D - Factors influencing various community, state, and regional patterns of human settlement, such as the availability of land and water, and pla...

Mrs. Mitchell's (goo.gl/EtZmWM) 3rd graders took on the role of architects and designed their own dream house. They were required to create a floor plan, find the perimeter and area of each room, and find the total cost of their house. Students used Room Styler (roomstyler.com) to create their house and choose the materials they wanted for their rooms (wall trim and floor material). Students also created a Google Spreadsheet to organize their measurement and budget data. Music by Only1dob (Drowning To Succeed) https://soundcloud.com/only1dob

Dec. 9th-15th 2013 was  Computer Science Education Week . Dec. 9th was chosen as the start of this special week  to recognize the birthday of  Grace Hopper , a programming pioneer and a U.S. Navy Rear Admiral (Google   showcased an awesome  Google Doodle of Grace Hopper to commemorate her birthday .).  To celebrate this week,  Code.org  organized the  Hour of Code , a chance for all students learn basic computer science for an hour to help them understand basic coding concepts. Every grade level at our school participated in this event,  even preschool!   The one class that impressed me the most was  Mrs. Welpman 's 3rd grade class who decided  to learn Javascript ! I was amazed to see the high student engagement during the activity, and how willing the students were in fixing the "bugs" in their code.   Learning Javascript with Khan Academy (The Hour of Code) Mrs. Welpman's class inspired me to try the...

Today Mrs. W asked me to help her 3rd grade students create a "Plant Life" graphic organizer.  Folders I first had them create a "4th Grade" folder in their "My Drive." Inside this folder, they created a "Science" folder that contained their plants graphic organizer.  Google Document Tutorial Here is what I taught the students during the integration session: Insert a table of contents (Insert > Table of contents) Change the text style to "Heading 1" (This allows your headers to automatically appear in your TOCs) Change the cell background color (highlight the cells > right-click > Table properties...) Find appropriate images to insert into the table (Tools > Research) Add more font styles into your list (Fonts > More Fonts)