Speakers
K-5 STREAM Studio Teacher, Elon Park Elementary School
Lisa Maples is a STREAM teacher in Charlotte, NC in the Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools. She teaches 800+ K-5 students on a 7 day rotation as a Special Area Teacher. She loves integrating technology tools as she frames her lessons around STREAM themes. Through making and creating, her...
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Friday March 4, 2022 10:30am - 11:15am EST
402
Concurrent,
Content and Instruction
- Grade Span K-2, 3-5, School Administrators
- Devices Chromebooks, iPads, Tablets, Macbooks, PC Laptops, SmartPhones
- Diversity Diversity will be addressed through the sharing of the Human Rights project, "Balloons Over Broadway" and "The Big Red Bicycle" projects that will be shared. The Balloons Over Broadway project is based on the book by the same name and describes that the creator of the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade was a new immigrant to the USA and that Macy's held this event to celebrate the diverse backgrounds of the new immigrants who were working at Macys. The Book Creator and Bloxels Games based on "The Big Red Bicycle" will show participants how choices like donating to charities makes a huge impact on people like a domino effect causing positive economic growth. The book begins in the USA with a boy buying a bike with money he earned while mowing lawns then he donates it to a charity. This charity ships the big red bike to Burkina Faso, Africa where a family uses it to ride to fields to collect the sorghum that they've grown, sell the sorghum, use the money to buy another bike and send their children to school using the money they've earned. The bike is donated next to a charity who transforms it into an ambulance bike to transport injured people to other towns for medical care. The story encourages students to consider how the decisions we make can impact others. Each of these books and lessons allow students to equitably use materials that lead to critical thinking. Students from a variety of backgrounds and learning styles will benefit from participating in these lessons that include immigrants, include American and African communities and encourage basic human rights.
- Level Beginner
- Room 402