Kathleen+Costley

 Hi! My name is Kathie Costley. I teach 5th grade ELA at Crystal Springs. I am one of the lucky teachers who get to co-teach and have inclusion, which I love. I have taught 20 years here in Duval County. I spent 14 years at Normandy Village and the rest of the time at Crystal Springs. I was one of the teachers who started Project GROW (currently STAR) years ago and used technology daily with my students. I even presented at the Florida Tech. Conf. in Orlando Florida one year about how to teach children and technology. This is my first attempt at putting all the technology pieces together instead of click and save. I can see the positives of this Wiki and hope to "turn on" other teachers on my grade level.

 
= = =**Life on the Prairie** 5th Grade Theme 5 "One Land, Many Trails"=

= = = =

=
[] This link will allow you to read the entire book "Prairie School" with your students.===== http://www.quia.com/jg/365805.html These are more vocabulary activities for "Prairie Girl" [] This link provides students and teachers experience with frontier life first hand. There are games, essays, and videos diplicting this time period.
 * Building Background: **

[] This link is wonderful in that it describes how the pioneers had to find their water, build their sod houses, the challenges of being on the prairie, etc.

[]= This is a short 6 minute video which shows students the sod house from Oklahoma.

[|http://www.pbs.org/wnet/frontierhouse/index.html] [] Both of these deal with modern families living on the frontier. This would be great for students to see the differences between modern life and frontier life and how frustrating it would be for them to live on the frontier. There is even a quiz on the second one which lets them know if they would be able to live on the frontier or not. (unfortunately, I am a "city slicker")