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ERIC Number: EJ665194
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2003
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ISSN: ISSN-0036-8555
The Multi-age Classroom.
Dowling, Deborah C.
Science Teacher, v70 n3 p42-46 Mar 2003
Presents strategies for planning lessons for home-schoolers, science circuses, and summer science programs with multi-age groups of children. Suggests a spiraling curriculum centered on big ideas and varying a common activity in mixed-ability classrooms. Includes examples of activities for multi-age groups. (KHR)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Heterogeneous Grouping, Mixed Age Grouping, Multigraded Classes, Science Instruction, Science Programs, Secondary Education, Spiral Curriculum, Teaching Methods
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Note: Focus issue: Science for All.