The Ocean

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The Ocean

• Paulding Middle School 7th grade teachers

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Project Goals

• The goal of our project was to have students
  participate in a Multiple Intelligence Integrated
  Unit
• Nothing like this has ever been done at Paulding
  Middle School
• We are trying to utilize true middle school
  concepts

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Description

• All of the 7th grade teachers planned and
  implemented tasks based on Gardners Theory of
  Multiple Intelligence. We wanted to show the
  students that all of the subjects fit together.

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Our Unit

• 7th graders work on writing a movie review of the
  film Flipper.

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Singing Songs in Science

• Writing Ocean words to a song is not as easy as
  it looks!

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Making a Travel Brochure
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More activity!
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The Activities

• Relections
• Newspapers
• Graphs
• Charts
• Posters
• Singing
• Drawing
• Organizing

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Sources

• Teaching Ten to Fourteen Year Olds by Chris
  Stevenson
• This We Believe by the National Middle School
  Association
• Teaching at the Middle Level by Schurr, Thomason
  Thompson
• The Portfolio Connection by Burke
• The Rubrics WayUsing Multiple Intelligences to
  Assess Understanding by Lazear

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Student Reaction
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Future Plans

• We hope to take what we have learned and redo
  this unit next year. We also plan on adding
  another cross-curriculum unit.