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Scaffolding Pi Day!!!

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. In honour of International Pi Day (March 14th, belatedly) let’s scaffold the number Pi!!! Pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, but let’s go beyond the literal. Let’s delve into the essence of the equation and explore Pi as

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Scaffolding Pi Day!!!

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. In honour of International Pi Day (March 14th, belatedly) let’s scaffold the number Pi!!! Pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, but let’s go beyond the literal. Let’s delve into the essence of the equation and explore Pi as

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Scaffolding Pi Day!!!

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. In honour of International Pi Day (March 14th, belatedly) let’s scaffold the number Pi!!! Pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, but let’s go beyond the literal. Let’s delve into the essence of the equation and explore Pi as

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Scaffolding Academic Language with ‘What’s Missing?’ (Pre-School/lower primary)

This scaffold is magic!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. theory behind the scaffold… ‘Intelligence is not necessarily hereditary. Education can transform a child’ asserts Karl Witte*, a pioneer in blended learning. We have the tools, he says, to help our students to change the course of their academic and then professional lives,

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Scaffolding Classical Literature with Tabu

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. theory behind scaffold… Many ESL teachers will questions the importance of teaching and using classic literature in their classes. We probably all agree that it is not easy to …………………………………………different from that of the class text. Nevertheless, through varied techniques, the reading of

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Scaffolding International Turtle Day through Poetry and Philosophy (Primary)

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. theory behind scaffold… May 23 – International Turtle Day.  Go ahead, get it over with….have a good laugh….then keep reading! The more we know about these amazing creatures and the literary connections they inspire, the more we realise that this day gives us

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