Passion Based Learning (PBL) in Primary: Making Up the Rules
Science and health lend themselves easily to PBL (passion or project-based learning) in my mind. But I wasn’t sure how I was going to make it all work in a social studies unit about relationships, rules and responsibilities. I want this to be based on what the students are interested in. Yet there really is nothing about the words “relationships,†“rules†and “responsibilities†that has the ability to inspire passion in most six-year olds. But then I thought about our six Nintendo DS gaming devices.
Five Ways to Use Skype in Your Classroom
“We’re going to use Skype?” “Yay!” “Can I talk?” These are some of the comments from my students when we use Skype in our classroom. Engagement is never an issue when we use this tool! But using Skype in a relevant way…that is another issue. If we are going to use...Keeping the Curriculum Context in Connected Classrooms
Primary teacher Kathy Cassidy shares a year’s worth of ideas from her connected classroom about how to keep global learning activities in sync with curriculum goals and objectives.
Global Learning in the Primary Grades: Kathy Cassidy talks about her upcoming book
Kathy Cassidy is a Grade One teacher for Prairie South Schools in Moose Jaw, SK, Canada. Since 2005, she’s been integrating various technologies into her teaching practice to help “connect” her primary-grades students so they can become global...Get email updates
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