Friendship Bracelets
When I was a teacher in California, I once went to a quick workshop about Bizworld, and I thought it was the coolest teaching ever! Bizworld is a program or toolkit that introduces the concept of entrepreneurship to students in primary school and even secondary school. I thought students at Guan Ai would definitely enjoy [...]
1st and 2nd Grade Board Games
Chinese kids don’t really play board games like American kids do, but like any game you introduce to kids, they pick up quickly, especially if you play the game in class. Little did they know they were actually reviewing math skills for their end of semester test that was coming up. The other function of [...]
4th Grade Musical Instruments
Teacher Sun was really hesitant when I first suggested this project. In high school my physics teacher made each student make their own guitar and play a song. I figured Guan Ai elementary school student groups should be brilliant enough to make an instrument that could at least play some notes here and there. In [...]
6th Grade Paper Rockets
Teacher Yang has never really been too comfortable teaching science. At heart she’s an English teacher, and she always seems a bit hesitant to explain some of the more challenging science concepts in class. But when I bring up science projects for her students to do, she’s always more than eager to try them out. [...]
