Ecopolis: An Interactive Discovery-Based Social Studies Unit for High-Ability Learners (Grades 6-8) (Interactive Discovery-Based Units for High-Ability Learners) - Softcover

Cote, Richard; Blauvelt, Darcy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1593637071 ISBN 13: 9781593637071

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

The Interactive Discovery-Based Units for High-Ability Learners, for grades 6-8, provide teachers with opportunities to use exciting and challenging units in their classrooms. These engaging curriculum units culminate in authentic performance platforms that provide students with open-ended opportunities to demonstrate academic understanding. Each book in the series contains tiered lessons that teachers can easily modify to meet individual students' needs.

Ecopolis has students run their own government to learn about issues including scarcity, resource allocation, needs vs. wants, opportunity costs, entrepreneurship, and global interdependence.

About this title

About the Author

Richard G. Cote, M.B.A., is a career educator. He has dedicated 41 years to being a classroom teacher (mathematics, physics), a community college adjunct instructor (economics), a gifted and talented resource specialist, and the director of the Further Steps Forward Project, funded under Javits legislation.

Darcy Blauvelt joined the Nashua School District in 2005 as a gifted and talented resource specialist. Subsequently, she served full time as the program coordinator for the Further Steps Forward Project, a Javits Grant program, from 2005-2009. Blauvelt returned to the classroom in the fall of 2009 and currently teaches seventh grade English in Nashua, NH. Blauvelt lives in Manchester, NH with her husband, two dogs, five cats, and the occasional son!

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1593637071
• ISBN 13: 9781593637071
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 138