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Groth, Randall E.; Jones, Matthew; Knaub, Mary – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2017
The authors asked a group of students during a classroom research study to analyze data sets containing different amounts of noise. The authors use the word "noise" to refer to statistical variability. The four students in the group were finishing seventh grade and participating in summer mathematics instruction. The authors carefully…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Summer Programs, Statistics, Grade 7
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Hainsworth, Mark; Hainsworth, Laura – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2018
In this article the authors describe an Integrative Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education Design-Based Learning (I-STEM ED DBL) activity that invites students to delve into the science, technology, and engineering related to the production of Ötzi's copper axe and to speculate about the circumstances surrounding his…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Science Activities, Metallurgy, Summer Programs
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Montelongo, Jose; Herter, Roberta J.; Ansaldo, Robert; Hatter, Naomi – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2010
This article presents a lesson cycle of activities for teaching reading and writing skills for expository text. The lesson cycle consists of four parts: (1) vocabulary words, (2) text structures, (3) modified sentence completion activity, and (4) rewriting text. Sixth- and seventh-grade summer school students were taught to recognize and…
Descriptors: Summer Schools, Summer Programs, Reading, Vocabulary