Method Participants Data were collected from 50 school-aged children, between the ages of 10 through 11 years of age, who had been previously diagnosed with ADHD by a clinician (25 girls, 25 boys) from fifth grade classrooms across five schools in the New York City urban public school district. The families of the participants had all requested diagnostic evaluations from their clinicians that explained the participants’ diagnosis of ADHD. The participants were all born in New York City and…
It all started in 2010 with my love for basketball. I was in elementary school in the 4th grade. After school we went to a after school program where we would get our homework done and to play outside for an hour a day. There everyday after school I would be able to play outside for an hour for 5 days a week. Soon I began to play basketball with my friends and found the game very interesting. I loved how people on the team all worked together to accomplish a common goal and how we were all as…
School uniforms, are they necessary? In the articles, The Role of School Uniforms in Creating an Academically Motivating Climate: Do Uniforms Influence Teacher Expectations? by John A. Huss, and Should Students Have to Wear School Uniforms? by, Rob O’Donnell, Linne Hoofnagle, and Alicia Thomas, discus the topic of whether school uniforms should be enforced in schools across the world or not. Huss’s article is trying to prove that uniforms in schools are a good thing. Whereas O’Donnell, Hoofnagle…
wonderful community with neighbors that care about their homes and other neighbors. We are extremely lucky to have Sangaree Elementary School and Sangaree Intermediate School located next to each other. However, this causes traffic problems as the schools begin and end at the same time, not to mention that Sangaree Middle School is just blocks away. The Sangaree Elementary School and Sangaree Intermediate School have had multiple pedestrian involved accidents which have lead to personal…
Throughout my elementary school years, from grades kindergarten to 5th grade, I attended a small private school in the town that I lived. My school was, Lake Area Christian and though there are some aspects of my time at this school that I regret, there are many things that I am grateful for. Attending such a small school during my earlier years really helped me begin to acclimate with other children on a smaller scale and learn to navigate looking different than other children. The smaller…
MP2: Food Service funding in Washington State Elementary Schools Former President of the United States John F. Kennedy once said, “Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.” However, what happens when we don’t nurture the future of America? When we let boys and girls fall trap to believing that coming from a low income area means their futures are bleak? In order to cultivate inspiring and change-seeking innovators for our future, we must care for their…
Rey Valerio Gholdoian Per.2 21 Sep. 2016 Illusions of Success For years now many students have thought “How do I grow up too successful?” but the truth here is that some of the people don't know what success really means to them. There are a lot of ways to describe success such as the amount of money someone makes, how happy they are with themselves or even stuff such as succeeding in simple things in life. You can however, gain the characteristics needed to be successful in the future for…
1. APK: Review double-digit addition with renaming. Have students recall strategies they used to find the sum of double-digit addition problems (place value, empty number line, break apart). Ask student, “Do you think we could use some of these same strategies to find the sum of three-digit numbers?” “Today, we are going to use those same strategies to solve three-digit addition problems.” 2. Objective/EQ: During math today, we are going to play a game that includes adding two three-digit…
1. Find out the numbers that has the greatest value a) 5.3 b) 4.99 c) 5.198 d) 5.04896 Children should have the ability to compare, order ad represent decimals (11, ACMNA105). The correct answer for the above question is 5.3. Some of the misconceptions could be: some students may choose 4.99, with the misconception that 99 is the highest number, without considering the whole number, in which 4 is less than 5. Students may rule out 4.99, compare the other three numbers, and choose…
Sigma–Aldrich, St. Louis, USA. Size 3 hard gelatin capsules were kindly donated by Capsugel Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan. Fresh Milli-Q water was collected and filtered through 0.45 μm membrane filter before use. Preparation of powders by spray-drying Powder particles were produced using a Buchi B-290 Mini Spray-Dryer (Buchi Labortechnik AG, Flawil, Switzerland) with a high performance cyclone in a closed-mode. Feed solutions of kanamycin (as sulphate) or/and rifampicin were prepared in a co-solvent…