Newton’s Castle: full of captivating converging connections of content 2-12

Like Newton’s scientific genius, which is accessible to a multiplicity of ages and learners, the Newton’s Castle web resource offers a wide range of differentiated multidisciplinary curricular projects and research chambers within its pages.

EARLY CHILDHOOD

Art Of Lenguage

A child in grade 2 or 3 can experience an online think aloud and read aloud using the Balanced Literacy Picture Walk/Animation technique as the child considers how and why light is refracted through a prism.

Other language arts uses for the prism and why dogs chase cars problem construction would be: have children create their own deliberately fictional folktale to explain this science fact and then include an informative paragraph with the facts! scientific fact data in it!

They can also use the questions to create a scientifically accurate answer in the style of John Sciezka’s wonderful Science Verse (New York: Viking, 2004).

Science/Mathematical Reasoning/Problem Solving

Since color identification and discussion is part of the early childhood science curriculum, children can use this animation, as well as the car going up a hill animation, as a catalyst for picture observations from the science log. . These questions can also serve as the basis for instilling in young students the scientific method and the formation of hypotheses.

The same child can only reflect on the scientific explanation. The child can hypothesize why the dog is chasing a car. Thus, the child has practiced inquiry-based learning assisted by early childhood learning technology. Animation and the web have accessed the young learner to this great Newtonian idea.

MIDDLE SCHOOL ELEMENTARY MIDDLE LEVEL

ART OF LENGUAGE

At the middle elementary level, children can develop their own ideas and stories or factual explanations for why cars go up a hill. They can also create storyboard animations using the visual as a catalyst for a persuasive storytelling or procedural account or investigative writing.

They can develop more science puzzles and answer them in a riddle format.

They may also use these questions and the other Newton Questions page on the web resource as a starting point for describing the procedure and/or describing the steps they would take in the pre-investigation process to discover the answers to these questions. They could even detail what happens when they put these questions into a search engine and then start checking for matches. Of course, they can also click on the links on the site to explore the actual sources of the information.

They can also write to some of the other quoted experts online, creating authentic communications and practicing much-needed business/email skills.

Middle school students can add their own links with explanations of how these links enrich specific pages.

SOCIAL STUDIES/ SOPHISTICATION TEST/ INTEGRATED BALANCED LITERACY

At the middle grade levels, the web resource can provide information for biographical snapshots or biographical writings of Newton students. They can also rewrite their story for high school students, since the target audience of web resources is high school students.

High school students can map Newton’s life to accompany their timeline.

Intermediate students can check out a teen trade book on Newton to improve the site!

They can use the timeline, animations, graphics and photos on the site for DBQ document question links.

SCIENCES

They themselves can have fun connecting Newton’s rich genius with the content/curriculum of Science and Mathematics they have already studied or will study. They can even create a page of such connections with the header – Newton KNEW EVERYTHING!

Intermediate students can design web pages that focus on current topics or stories in science and/or mathematics that resonate with Newton’s understandings.

They can also digitally photograph natural phenomena from everyday life that reflect Newton’s understanding and insights.

SCIENCE/MATH/LANGUAGE ARTS

Newton’s Inventions page can be the starting point for high school students to create their own inventions inspired by his or explore current permutations of how his inventions live in our current time.

They can link information about the mountains of Pennsylvania to their Earth Science curriculum and investigate other magnetic mountains. They can also develop a list of links for these mountains.

Intermediate Students can survey the need for an invention, preliminary drawings and precise details of the need, scientific/mathematical design principles behind it, and market design for their inventions. They may be the Newtonian invention learners of the 21st century.

HIGH SCHOOL

The site was developed for, by, and with high school students from John F. Kennedy High School.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS/ SOPHISTICATION TESTS/ REGENTS/ SAT ESSAY WRITING/ DEBATE/ STUDIES/

Of course, for this grade level, power point can be the powerful catalyst for reviewing Newton’s accomplishments and aligning Newton with contemporary issues of intellectual freedom.

High school students can engage in his castle of critical thinking, research, and hypothesis formation as they react to the very issues of censorship and intellectual freedom of publication that claimed their lives.

They can develop their own persuasive essay for and against some of the issues and issues he championed.

Of course, they can also investigate how these topics have changed and to what extent they appear in today’s news.

They can develop designs for their own pages to amplify these problems.

They can also develop English Regents exam sophistication model questions in multiple

choice, DBQ and essay format for the exam and of course also provides the answers.

MATH:

They can explore the extent to which Newton’s mathematical ideas are part of their current curriculum, or have fun getting them to comment on their current math textbooks!

They can do research to identify other mathematicians who were doing research at the same time as Newton and compare their results with Newton’s.

SCIENCES:

They can develop sample pages of Newton’s continuum of data in which they hypothesize, using their writing and ideas, how they would have written or completed a current lab observation journal or lab procedure form.

WORLD HISTORY:

Students can design a timeline that focuses on other great multidisciplinary thinkers in science, mathematics, and politics, such as Da Vinci and Einstein, and relate Newton’s achievements to their own using power point graphic organizers.

A scientist and writer from all centuries, in cyberspace for all to visit and review!

Newton’s Castle is open for exploration and for “block” ications 2-12! http://www.tqnyc.org/NYC051308/index.htm