Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Paper Clips Related to Chapters 1 and 2

The movie Paper Clips has a lot of similar ideas that chapter 1 and 2 talks about. Paper clips is a movie about a school that truly gets students to get involved in real - life experiences. The teachers set up a project on the Holacaust. The project involves students to email and write letters to people from the Holacaust and anybody else to donate paper clips to help represent all of the people who died in the Holacast.
Paper Clips shows how the teacher's use constructivist and direct instruction to teach the students. The teacher's inform the students on what the Holacaust actually is and some details that they need to know. The teacher's also let the students come up with their own ideas about the Holacaust and have the students use hand on's materials to help them better understand what they are learning. The student's are able to write letters to people and also count up all of the paper clips.
Paper clips also relates to chapter 2. The teacher's make the project very developmental appropriate for the children. They give the student's individual directions and assignments so that they are doing something that they can do and also learn while they do it. The teacher's are very involved and let students learn on their own while helping them also.

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