Like Newton’s scientific genius, which is accessible to a multiplicity of ages and students, Newton’s Castle web resource provides 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 a thought aloud online and read aloud using the balanced literacy animation / picture walking 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 build the problem, would be: having the children create their own for what deliberately fictional folk tale to explain this scientific fact and then include a paragraph! informative with the data of the scientific fact on it!
They can also use the questions to write a scientifically accurate answer to the question in the style of the wonderful John Sciezka Science Verse (New York: Viking, 2004).
Science / Mathematical Reasoning / Problem Solving
Since the identification and discussion of color is part of the early childhood science curriculum, children can use this animation, as well as the animation of the car going up a hill, as a catalyst for observations of images from records of Sciences. These questions can also serve as a basis for instilling in young students the scientific method and hypothesis formation.
The same child can only reflect on the scientific explanation. The child can hypothesize why the dog is chasing a car. Therefore, the child has practiced technology-assisted inquiry-based learning in early childhood. Animation and the web have given the young student access to this great Newtonian idea.
MIDDLE SCHOOL OF MIDDLE ELEMENTARY LEVEL
ART OF LENGUAGE
At the middle grade level, children can develop their own ideas and objective stories or explanations of why cars go uphill. They can also perform storyboard animations using the visual as a catalyst for a persuasive narrative or procedural account or investigative writing.
They can develop more scientific puzzles and answer them in a puzzle format.
They can also use these questions and the other Newton questions page on the web resource as a starting point for the procedural explanation and / or outlining the steps they would take in the preliminary research 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 experts quoted 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 / EVIDENCE SOPHISTICATION / BALANCED INTEGRATED 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, as the target audience for the web resource is high school students.
High school students can map Newton’s life according to his timeline.
Intermediate students can check out a commercial teen book on Newton to improve the site!
They can use the site’s timeline, animations, graphics, and photos for DBQ document question links.
SCIENCES
They can have fun connecting Newton’s rich genius with the Science and Math content / curriculum they have already studied or will be studying. They can even create a page of such connections with the title: Newton KNEW IT ALL !!
Intermediate level students can design web pages that focus on current topics or stories in science and / or math that resonate with Newton’s understanding.
They can also digitally photograph natural phenomena in daily life that reflect Newton’s understanding and perception.
SCIENCE / MATH / LANGUAGE ARTS
Newton’s Inventions page can be the starting point for high school students to create their own inventions inspired by theirs or explore current permutations of how their inventions live in our present time.
They can relate information about the mountains of Pennsylvania to their earth science curriculum and investigate other magnetic mountains. They can also develop a link list for these mountains.
Intermediate level students can survey the need for an invention, preliminary drawings and precise detail of the need, scientific / mathematical design principles behind it, and market design for their inventions. They may be Newton’s invention apprentices in 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 TEST / REGENTS / SAT WRITING ESSAY / DEBATE / STUDIES /
Of course, for this grade level, the power point can be the power catalyst to revisit Newton’s accomplishments and align Newton with contemporary issues of intellectual freedom.
High school students can participate in his castle of critical thinking, investigative and hypothesis-forming as they react to the same issues of censorship and intellectual freedom for publishing that took their lives.
They can develop your own persuasive essay for and against some of the issues and issues you advocated.
Of course, they can also investigate how these issues have changed and to what extent they feature in the news today.
They can develop layouts for their own pages to expand on these problems.
They can also develop model English Regents exam sophistication 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 insights are part of their current curricula or have fun getting him to comment on their current math textbooks!
They can research to identify other mathematicians who were doing research at the same time as Newton and compare their results with his.
SCIENCES:
They can develop sample pages from the ongoing maintenance of Newton’s data in which they hypothesize, using their writing and ideas, how they would have written or filled a current laboratory observation journal or a laboratory procedure format.
WORLD HISTORY:
Students can design a timeline that focuses on other giant multidisciplinary political, mathematician and scientific thinkers such as Da Vinci and Einstein and relate Newton’s achievements to their own using graphic organizers on a power point.
A scientist and writer of all centuries, in cyberspace for all to visit and review !!
Newton Castle is open to exploration and “apple” communications 2-12! http://www.tqnyc.org/NYC051308/index.htm
