Educational Strategies

Students: Ages 10-14Hilsman Middle SchoolAthens, GeorgiaUnited States

Reading Strategies

Small Group Instruction: a pre-service teacher leads a group of 5 students in a study of a novel.

Reading Strategies

Students are creating a glossary for their own notebooks.

Writing Strategies

A teacher conferences with a student to provide advice and helpful hints

before the state writing assessment.

Interdisciplinary Strategies

Students studied North American beavers, visited a beaver habitat area, adopted 2 beavers through the World Wildlife Fund Animal Adoption Program,

and wrote and their own non-fiction and fiction books.

A student displays her illustration.

Science & Mathematics

A STUDENT DESCRIBES HIS EARTH MODEL. STUDENTS MADE THE MODELS TO SCALE.

A STUDENT COLLECTS SCIENTIFIC DATA DURING AN EXPERIMENT.

Science & Mathematics

WATER CONSERVATION & POLLUTION PREVENTION

Agriculture, Mathematics, & Science

USING MATHEMATICS & SCIENCE TO IMPROVE AGRICULTURE.

Agriculture, Mathematics, & Science

AN AQUAPONICS LAB IN OUR SCHOOL GREENHOUSE

COMBINES THESE FIELDS OF STUDY.

Social Studies/Global Connections

USING UNICEF RESOURCES TO TEACH AND SUPPORT CHILDREN AROUND THE WORLD.