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This post is about the culmination of the 5th grade immigration unit of study. Between their in-class activities, homework, and technology production this was a project that was over 2 months in the making. The 5th graders created amazing documentary movies about their interview subject. They did research, asked questions, created a script, gathered media,…
It’s Capstone season, and that means CapCon! is getting closer. CapCon! is the annual Capstone Learning Conference where students share the stories of their learning. The Capstone support section of the HeathcoteGateway is up. Use it to get inspiration from previous years, guide your thinking on final presentation format, reference the project guidelines, request support,…
4th graders, We have been talking about Peter Stuyvesant and Peter Minuet as past of the Manahatta to Manhattan project. Here are the resources we worked with in class: Peter Stuyvesant https://www.britannica.com/biography/Peter-Stuyvesant https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/dutch_americans/peter-stuyvesant/ http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/biographies/peter-stuyvesant/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Stuyvesant?scrlybrkr=cef3dea8 https://www.mcny.org/petrus-stuyvesant Peter Minuet https://www.britannica.com/biography/Peter-Minuit https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/dutch_americans/peter-minuit/ https://www.mcny.org/peter-minuit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Minuit Remember, the internet has 2 things; good and garbage. Garbage doesn’t just mean…
Recording an interview is alway a good idea. It allows you to review the interview at a later date, and as often as you’d like focus on listening in the moment instead of taking notes you can take notes on the recording later allows you to review the feelings, inflection, and tone in the voice…
4th graders, This blog post is the kickoff to the social studies unit project: Manhatta to Manhattan. Use the resources below to explore, research, take notes, reference, and so forth. Begin with OASIS map: NYC OASIS This map allows you to turn on and off layers. The biggest benefit is you can turn on a…
5th graders, As we talked about today, your Adobe Creative Cloud project on Immigration does not start with Adobe, it starts with gathering resources. What we did in class: In your Social Studies folder, we made a new folder called Immigration your interview questions, resources, and script will live eventually in this folder In the Immigration folder…
Just before December vacation the 4th graders presented their Ignite Talks about Reading the Weather to parents. Live! Here are the playlists of the 2 4th grade classes. Enjoy 4-Rickard 4-Volpi
On Friday November 18, 2022 Heathcote hosted the second Parent Coffee of the 2022-20223 school year. The November event was entitled “What to Do When Your Child Asks You For Help With Homework” and was presented by Heathcote’s Learning Resource Center (LRC) teachers Megan Matthews and Francesca Ross. You can find their presentation below. There…
On October 28, 2022 we had the first Parent Coffee of the 2022-20223 school year, it was also the first such event back in-person since the start of Covid. The event was an overview of “Technology @HeathcoteSchool” which essential means I covered the Scarsdale School’s technology vision and then how it manifests itself here at…
October 24-28 is Digital Citizenship Week. At Heathcote we talk about digital citizenship, and digital leadership, across all lessons and projects. We discuss such things as keeping passwords private, limiting identifiable information, making thoughtful decisions online, being purposeful about looking for the good (and not the garbage) and much more. We weave all these concepts…