Teachers need to provide middle grade students with the opportunity to move around and interact with their peers. This can be done in a variety of ways. First, teachers can use group activities. In these activities, students work together to accomplish a goal. Working together provides them with the chance to communicate with each other.
Teachers can also use simulations and reader s theatre to allow students to move around.
The documentation for this principle show I ve created opportunities for the students to work together, developing their social and physical needs. The first artifacts are photographs, which show students involved in an academic game. The students work together to find the answers. The second artifact is a lesson plan combining and using all the capitalization rules learned in the class.