Using the maker movement to forge a middle-school collaboration to support English language learners

Within this document, seven groups of students are identified, all of which our partnership should be able to support. Because our middle school is for teenage girl refugees, our collaboration matches the recommendations in Appendix D for students with limited English proficiency (opportunities for...

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Published in:Science scope (Washington, D.C.) D.C.), 2019-08, Vol.43 (1), p.28-35
Main Authors: FIORE, RACHEL, COOPER, MARJORIE
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Children
Collaboration
College professors
College Students
College teachers
Colleges & universities
English as a second language
English language
Girls
Globalization
Junior high school students
Kindergarten
MAKING IN THE MIDDLE
Middle School Students
Middle School Teachers
Middle schools
Preservice Teachers
Refugees
Safety
Schools
Students
Teachers
Technology application
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Summary:Within this document, seven groups of students are identified, all of which our partnership should be able to support. Because our middle school is for teenage girl refugees, our collaboration matches the recommendations in Appendix D for students with limited English proficiency (opportunities for discourse and home/ community connections) and girls (exposure to female scientists and engineers as well as extracurricular STEM opportunities). [...]we intentionally craft interactions where the two sets of students learned alongside each other. Practice hands-on activities for the maker faire at the middle school After the first year of the collabo- ration, we decided we needed an additional opportunity for the middle school and college students to get comfortable working together, because they tended to separate into their own groups at the maker faire when we wanted them working together. [...]in the second year, we added a visit by the college students to the middle school. CONTENTAREA Physical science, engineering GRADE LEVEL 6-8 BIG IDEA/UNIT University/K-12 school collaborations ESSENTIAL PRE-EXISTING KNOWLEDGE None required TIME REQUIRED Four 45-minute class periods, visiting each other's schools and the maker faire COST Approximately $125 (varies, depending on the selected activities); transportation (varies, depending on individual school situation] SAFETY Safety awareness for a large public event (four chaperones for 15 students] Rachel Fiore (rfiore1@gsu.edu] is an assistant professor in the Department of Early Childhood and Elementary Education at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia.
ISSN:0887-2376
1943-4901