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How Many Days Old Am I?  A Math integrated projectHow many days old am I? is a math project that includes understanding a calendar and leap years, how planet Earth and the Sun interact to form what we call a year and a day, as well as lots of multiplication facts, larger multiplication numbers with it all personalized on their age and the research they do on other humans. This project can be done with students who are turning the idea of continued addition into multiplication (typically around 3

The educational call for a new (or renewed) focus on the practice of teaching reading comes from the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). The phrase for this new movement is Close Analytic Reading, CAR, or more commonly just Close Reading. The shifts of focus in the CCSS are calling for more of what can be addressed through close reading, in part due to the fact that students are to engage with more informational text through diverse content areas. With this in mind, the EZ Close Reading construc

The educational call for a new (or renewed) focus on the practice of teaching reading comes from the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). The phrase for this new movement is Close Analytic Reading, CAR, or more commonly just Close Reading. The shifts of focus in the CCSS are calling for more of what can be addressed through close reading, in part due to the fact that students are to engage with more informational text through diverse content areas. With this in mind, the EZ Close Reading construc