Video Collection
The videos in the following table are linked to their home location within the site.
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Students in Tim Bowman’s Grade 3 and 4 music class used "MadPad" (an iPad App) to capture and piece together a variety of sounds. The app allows users to play their captured sounds like a keyboard. | 2:09 | Mobile Devices |
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Students in Samantha Vokeroth’s Grade 2 class created postcards from their own communities. | 3:34 | Digital Images |
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These students in Amy Park's class demonstrate how they are able to provide specific descriptive feedback to each other to improve and learn. |
0:23
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This student from Amy Park's class reads his story and asks for feedback from his classmates. |
2:15
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Assessment |
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Jarvey, a kindergarten student, drums and sings to demonstrate his knowledge of Blackfoot stories. |
2:01
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Through paying careful attention during both group and individual work, teachers can more closely develop insight into their students’ thinking and understanding. |
0:41
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Assessment |
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Children who are adept at manipulating and using objects in imaginative play become adults who are successful problem-solvers. |
1:49
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Child playing at the water station with a bucket and pulleys. |
1:03
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Object Play |
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It is important to create opportunities for young children to formulate strong theories about how the world works and to investigate their theories. |
2:53
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How Do We Learn |
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Students in Amy Park's grade 2 class play with math to find a solution to a seating arrangement. |
3:06
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Effective Teaching |
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Grade two students in Amy Park's class tell how they formulated a hypothesis and designed an experiment to test it. Students then tested their hypothesis and documented their findings. |
1:34
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Aahsaopi Elementary students used digital cameras to capture images of the Alphabet around them and audio recorded their own voices to narrate. |
2:28
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Language Learning |
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A Grade 1 teacher and her students are constructing a storytelling rubric (part 1). |
0:53
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Designing Rubrics |
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A Grade 1 teacher and her students are constructing a storytelling rubric (part 2). |
1:12
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Designing Rubrics |
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Students use the rubric as a reference point as they practice their story telling to improve their performance. |
2:13
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Designing Rubrics |
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Amy Park's grade 2 students take on the roles of key individuals living within an Acadian village. |
4:50
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Amy Park's grade 2 students tackle a serious humanitarian problem. |
2:29
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Students in Amy Park's grade 3 class design, build and test bridges. |
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Students use technology to tell a story. |
2:15
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Students give feedback to one another. |
0:45
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This was a program initiated by the leaders of a Head Start program as way to engage their three and four year olds in authentic work as they learned about their culture and engaged their community. They invited local elders to come into the program along with other parents. The elders taught everyone about cultural aspects of their community. Young and old came together to sew costumes, plan menus, cook, learn new dances, drum and sing, and celebrate their learning each month with a school community powwow. The confidence of all participants grew through these public demonstrations of learning. |
3:55
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Amy Park's grade 2 students draw self portraits, working with artists both in the class and virtually to improve their drawing. This is the complete video. |
4:55
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A student demonstrates her proficiency in the art of storytelling as she recounts an incident that happened when shopping with her mom. |
0:35
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Learning Language |
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Amy Park's grade 2 class studies Van Gogh's paintings to learn from the master. Students work on giving meaningful and helpful feedback. | 3:47 | |
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Amy Park's grade 2 class study magnets and create a series of Olympic events to test their understanding. | 6:16 |
