1. Growing Environmental
Stewards in an Urban
Community
PS 208
Harlem,
NYC
Susan Green,
Jacquelin Colon,
Monica Burns
and Tammy
Musiowsky
www.alainllocke.org
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2. Ice Breaker!
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3. • Title I School -
approx. 85% Free
and Reduced
Lunch
• Approx. 200
Students in
Grades 3-5
• General
Education,
Collaborative
Team Teaching
and Self
Contained
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5. Objective 1- Reduce Minority Isolation
• Recruitment
• Community Events
• Open Houses
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6. • Flyers and Mailers
• Bus Advertisements
• District Recruitment Events
• Community Outreach: connecting new
businesses with families
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10. Objective 2 - Implementation of
Systemic Reform
• Technology
• Project Based Learning
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11. Objective 3- Implementation of
Magnet Theme Instruction
• Curriculum Mapping
• Integrating Units
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12. Objective 4 - Students will meet AYP
and meet magnet standards
• Common Core Learning
Standards (CCLS)
• Education for
Sustainability Standards
(EfS)
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13. • Common Core Learning Standards:
national standards integrated into
instruction in all subject areas
• Education for Sustainability Standards:
standards that guide the development
of our magnet curriculum designed by
the Cloud Institute
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14. Objective 5:
Teacher Professional Development
• Cloud Institute - consultant
&, Summer Design Studio EfS Standards Cards
• Literacy Consultant from
Accelerated Literacy
Learning
• SMART board certification
• SunWorks
• Parsons
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15. Objective 6:
Increased Parent Participation
MUST HAVE: Active PTA
& parent coordinator!
Increased opportunities
for parent involvement:
Test Prep Workshops
• Monthly Coffee with the
Principal, Zumba
Valentine's classes, healthy cooking
“Coffee with
the Principal” classes, family field
trips, speakers at PTA,
parent curriculum
Zumba!
workshops
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17. Objective 2 - Implementation of
Systemic Reform
• Technology
• Project Based Learning
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18. Technology
• One to one technology in every
classroom used as everyday
instructional tools
• 3rd and 4th grade: netbooks
• 5th grade: iPads
• SMART Boards: teacher certification
• ELMO Projectors and Flip Cameras
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19. Content Content Creation
Consumption/
Interaction
interactive
textbooks (iBooks)
Internet research
math and ELA
strategy practice PowerPoint
and assessment presentations
email as published
communication documents
device from student
to teacher photo journals
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20. A Closer Look at
Technology Reform
Using an iPad with Free
Applications in the Classroom
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21. Teacher Uses
Management
• Timer
• Common Core
Learning Standards
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22. Teacher Uses
Instruction
• Google Earth
• Maps
• The Weather Channel
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24. Teacher Uses
Educreations
• Notes: quick way to
record class notes
• Reference: create and
replay instructions or
mini-lessons
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25. Teacher Uses
Quickvoice
• Read Alouds
• Test Prep
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26. Teacher Uses
WordPress
• Management of class/
school website
• Quick updates including
pictures and links
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27. Student Uses
• class set of iPads
• syncing
• iBook PDF library
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28. Classroom
Interactive
Resources
• Social Studies Games:
Stack the States,
Westward Expansion
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29. Classroom
Interactive
Resources
• Math Games: flash
cards, Everyday Math
Games
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30. Classroom
Reference Charts
• JPEGs to PDFs
• Document Scanning
Doc Scan HD
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47. Technology and
Project Based Learning
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48. Project Based Learning
Every performance task
requires the use of
technology
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49. ELA Performance Tasks
•Reading and writing units
are aligned to one another
•Magnet theme is
integrated
•Technology is required
(consumption, research,
publication)
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50. Math Performance Tasks
•Magnet theme is
integrated
•Technology is used
throughout the unit
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51. Content Area Performance
Tasks
•Social Studies and Science
units are aligned
•Magnet theme is
integrated
•Technology is required
(consumption, research,
publication)
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52. Performance Task
Home and Garden
magazine is searching for
tween environmental
stewards who can work
collectively to create a
memento of their tours to
various Latin American and
Canadian biomes. You must
create a patch for our “Save
the Environment Quilt.” Your
patch must demonstrate your
commitment to the
environmental preservation
of the ecosystems of Latin
America and Canada.
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53. Performance Task
There has been an
increase amount of
matter (waste) in
different parts of the
community. Students as
photo journalists will
compile a photo essay
for National
Geographic to inform
the community about
the increase in waste.
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54. Objective 3:
Implementation of
Magnet Curriculum
Rich conversation
Our curriculum is:
Rich
Rigorous
Engaging
Differentiated
21st Century Learning
Standards-Based
(CCLS & EfS)
Questioning Engaging
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55. Objective 3:
Implementation of
Magnet Curriculum
Rich conversation
Our curriculum is:
Rich
Rigorous
Engaging
Differentiated
21st Century Learning
Standards-Based
(CCLS & EfS)
Questioning Engaging
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56. Integrating Theme into Units
Reading & Writing Units:
• environmental read aloud & book
club literature
Small collection of
our library
• guided reading literature
• opinion, feature article, and
informational writing about
environmental issues
Grade 3 letters to
Brazilian forest worker
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57. Math Curriculum
• Investigations: real life math
• Math units planned with
enduring understandings
and essential questions
focused on math in the
Making fractions by sharing "brownies"
natural world
• Supplemental technology
program in all grades
Working on netbooks
on the math program
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59. Content Areas
• Integrated Science & Social
Studies units and projects
focused on environmental
stewardship theme
• Environmental Enduring
Understandings & Essential
Questions
Grade 3 Unit 3 project set-up
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60. Unit Snap Shot
Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5
Native Americans & Plants Geography of the Western
Geography & Matter and Animals in their Hem. & The Nature of
Environment Science
Properties of Water & Earth Science & The
Energy in Puerto Rico
Three Worlds Meet United States
Interactions of Air, Land &
Ecosystems in Latin
Simple Machines in Kenya Water in the Colonial &
America & Canada
Rev.Periods
Food & Nutrition & the
Animal Adaptations in The New Nation &
Western Hemisphere
China Electricity & Magnetism
Today
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62. Projects in
Content Areas
• Project based
learning - UBD
Grade 4:
Grade 3: Native American villages
Grade 5: Relief Maps
Creating Power Points
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63. Grade 3: Kenyan village and simple machine construction
Grade 5: Food Webs and
Examining Soil Samples
Grade 4: Native American clothing
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64. School-Wide Environmental
Stewardship Theme Integration
Through
School-Wide Visuals
• Mapping school projects
World Map of School Stewardship • Painted doorways
• Bulletin boards
• TV monitor looping
student video
Entryway Bulletin Boards Themed paintings on doorways
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65. School-Wide Environmental
Stewardship Theme Integration
Through Everyday Routines
• "Dump & Stack" trays in the
lunch room
Trays after lunch
• Recycling Wednesdays
• Paper boxes
Paper collection
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66. School-Wide Environmental
Stewardship Theme Integration
Through Kenyan pen-pals
Environmental Cluster Class
• Stewardship of self, family,
community and the world
• Kenyan pen-pals Projects: Reducing water consumption
• Earth's Birthday projects
• Terra cycle
Prepping and packaging items
for Terra Cycle shipment
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67. School-Wide Environmental
Stewardship Theme Integration
Through
Community & Cultural
Activities
• All classes participate in Korean dance
cultural dances
• Nickelodeon Day of Play in
September & ALLMSES Day
of Play for Earth Week
African dance performance
Content in the Arts Festival
December 2011
• Neighborhood clean-up
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68. School-Wide Environmental
Stewardship Theme Integration
Through Field Trips
• Environmentally themed
movies (The Lorax,
Chimpanzee, Born to Be
Wild)
• Liberty Hall of Science
• Museums
• Sony Technology Lab
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69. School-Wide Environmental
Stewardship Theme Integration
Matt & Principal Green
Through Guest Speakers
• Building relationships with other
stewards: Matthew Modine
Class visit
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70. School-Wide Environmental
Stewardship Theme Integration
Matt & Principal Green
Through Guest Speakers
• Building relationships with other
stewards: Matthew Modine
Class visit
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71. School-Wide Environmental
Stewardship Theme Integration
City Comptroller John Liu
Attends Official Garden Opening
• Students from each class
work in the hydroponic
garden
• COMING SOON: our outdoor
school garden & Summer
Fieldwork Program Planting, measuring, harvesting!
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72. School-Wide Environmental
Stewardship Theme Integration
COTEF in Central Park
Through Partnerships
• Children of the Earth
Garden harvest
Foundation (COTEF)
• SunWorks
• New York Cares
• City Readers
Building volcanoes
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73. School Recognition
• http://www.foundinblank.com/
• http://school-stories.org/
2012/05/ipads-in-the-
classroom/
• http://nysunworks.org/
projects/ps208
• http://www.uft.org/around-uft/ Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony for
hydroponic-greenhouse- Hydroponic Garden
science-lab-opens-ps-208-
harlem
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74. Questions,
Feedback & Raffles
Thank you!
Please visit us at
http://alainllocke.org
http://wikispaces.com/ps208
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