Grade 6

Do you have a favorite book or picture book which helps develop cross-curricular concepts, ideas or themes?

Please take a minute to comment by providing:

The title of the book
A brief word on ways you integrate the book in Grade 6

Hopefully we can collect some great ideas.

January 2014

What Literature have you used that inspired students to think critically and inquire?
  • What questions did students generate?
  • What cross-curricular connections were made? 


Please provide some curriculum connected blogging ideas in the comments below.

5 comments:

  1. We blog about our nightly moon observations. We need to follow the moonrise and set times to make sure we can stay up that late! if not we blog in the morning.

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  2. I'm looking forward to blogging with Andrew so our grade 6's will get into blogging as well.

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    1. I hope you and Andrew will share your blog with the community when it is up and running. Looking forward to seeing and contributing to it!

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  3. This was a miniblog tweet on election night. We got a shout out from the host of Shaw TV Erin Strate! My grade 6s are watching @ShawTVCalgary @Erin_Strate as democracy is our curriculum. Here are their results! on par? pic.twitter.com/vgjV5LPLgF

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    1. Definitely on par.
      You found a way of connecting students' learning and curriculum with real-world events.
      Did your class participate in this as a part of Calgary's Youth Can Vote?
      http://www.youthcanvote.com/youth-can-vote-results/

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