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聚焦深美国际学校四年级

深美SZSAIS

2021-10-15

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SAIS Grade 4

深美四年级

SAIS 4th grade Rock Stars are taking a deep look into the earth this term.

深美四年级“岩石明星”们一起深入研究地球。

Our 4th grade scholars are full of curiosity, so they have created a “Wonder Wall” in the classroom for them to post any questions they may have. During the term they will try to find answers to their questions.

深美四年级的学者们充满好奇心，因此他们在教室里创造了一个“奇迹墙”，让他们提出任何问题。在整个学期中，他们将尝试找到问题的答案。

Some of the questions students asked are: “What is beneath our feet, and why is it there?” “How deep is the deepest hole, and where is it?” “How do scientists know the core is metal?” “Why are volcanoes so hot?” Traditional education would have the teacher answer the questions with a lesson or lecture but with project Based Learning these become the questions that drive the project. What is beneath our feet is the question. So let us find out together and in science class they began studying about the earth.

学生提出的一些问题是：“我们脚下是什么，为什么在那里？” “最深的洞有多深，在哪里？” “科学家怎么知道地核是金属的？” “为什么火山这么热？”传统教育会让老师通过一节课或讲座来回答问题，但是基于项目的学习法，这些问题就成了非常棒的项目驱动力。我们脚下有什么呢？让我们一起来了解一下吧，他们就开始在科学课上研究地球啦。

They started their exploration by looking at the layers of the earth and the tectonic plates. Students made clay models to show their understanding of the core, mantel and crust.

四年级的学生们通过观察地球层和构造板块开始了他们的探索。学生制作粘土模型以展示他们对地核、壁炉架和地壳的理解。

Then they started digging deeper into the crust to learn more about the rocks and minerals that are under our feet. The students had a lot of fun looking at rocks with a magnifying glass and under the microscope to better understand their qualities.

然后他们开始深入地壳，以了解更多关于我们脚下的岩石和矿物的信息。学生们用放大镜和显微镜观察岩石以更好地了解它们的属性，从中获得了很多乐趣。

Another question that came up was ‘Do the rocks and landscape of our earth stay the same?’ Students then began to learn about erosion and how wind and water can make changes to the earth. They then decided to experiment by creating their own erosion boxes to show what wind and water can do to the earth.

另一个出现的问题是“我们地球的岩石和景观是否保持不变？”学生们开始学习侵蚀以及风和水如何改变地球，他们决定通过创建自己的侵蚀盒来进行实验，以严证风和水对地球的影响。

With this foundational knowledge the students will be analyzing the many landforms that exist and explain how they came to be. We will take a close look at deltas, particularly the Pearl River Delta, where we live. The students have decided to make a sand table and time lapse a river delta.

有了这些基础知识，学生将分析存在的许多地形并解释它们是如何形成的。我们将仔细研究三角洲，尤其是我们居住的珠江三角洲。学生们决定制作一个沙盘，让时间流逝成为一个河流三角洲。

Population affects how the earth is shaped. It also involves large units of measurement. In Maths students are learning about conversion of units – metres to kilometres; Place values so they understand tens of thousands, millions and billions. All of these are important for a student to comprehend that studies of earth and its population involve large numbers and large distances.

人口也影响着地球的形状。这还涉及大的测量单位。在数学中，学生正在学习单位的转换——米到公里；位值以便他们理解数以万计、数百万和数十亿。这些大数字，远距离的学习都可以帮助学生更好的理解地球。

To answer these questions and many others, students need to do a lot of reading. To help with this they are engaged in our Reader’s and Writer’s workshops. By Grade 3 students are learning to transition from learning to read to reading to learn. This process is continuing in Grade 4 and to help with this process students are tasked with building stamina in both reading and writing. Just as an athlete works toward improving their stamina and speed through a careful programme of exercise and activities, our students develop a programme designed to improve their reading stamina. They record how long they read and write for, make notes on when they begin to lose focus or become tired and try to use these observations to improve their race to fluency and comprehension.

要回答这些问题和许多其他问题，学生需要大量阅读。为此，他们参加了读者和作家研讨会。到 3 年级，学生正在学习从学习阅读过渡到阅读学习。这个过程在 4 年级继续进行，学生们主要的任务是培养阅读和写作的耐力。正如运动员通过精心的锻炼和活动计划提高他们的耐力和速度一样，我们的学生开发了一个旨在提高他们的阅读耐力的计划。他们记录他们阅读和写作的时间，记下他们何时开始失去注意力或感到疲倦，并尝试使用这些观察来提高他们的流畅度和理解力。

Ms Ellie, the Grade 4 teacher, uses strategies to help with reading comprehension, accuracy, fluency, and vocabulary. They include: Check for understanding - Back up and reread - Identify beginning and ending sounds - Skip the word and then come back to it - Read the punctuation - Use prior knowledge to predict meaning to name a few.

4 年级的Ellie老师使用策略来帮助提高阅读理解能力、准确性、流畅性和词汇量。它们包括：检查理解 - 备份和重读 - 识别开始和结束的声音 - 跳过单词，然后回到它 - 阅读标点符号 - 使用先验知识来预测含义等等。

Writing a piece will involve several stages before it will be presented as a finished item of work. They will produce a draft followed by personal edit and revision, other classmates reading and suggesting edits and revisions and finally the piece is ready for publication.

写一篇文章将涉及几个阶段，然后才能作为完成的作品呈现。他们将制作草稿，然后进行个人编辑和修订，其他同学阅读并提出编辑和修订建议，最后该作品已准备好出版。

We know that with the combination of classroom teaching and the deeper learning Project Based Learning develops, that our students will continue, not only to be Rock Stars, but Stars of our future society.

我们知道，随着课堂教学和项目式学习法的深入相结合，我们的学生将继续发展，不仅要成为岩石明星，更会成为我们未来社会的明星。