Food for Thought
Student Work
  Students in Ms. Respess's class designed their own charts for organizing data. This kind of student work, unlike ditto sheets or fill in the blank worksheets, teaches children to interpret, organize, and display information creatively. photo of classroom
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"I was impressed by the sophistication of their data tables... they had a lot of data for a fifth grader to organize onto a chart."
Koyen Parikh Shah
6th grade teacher, Shaker Heights, OH


 
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