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Chess Club
Grandmaster Chess Project to Show How
Chess Makes You Smart
Published: January
23rd, 2013
Boris Gelfand, Israeli chess grandmaster, and the University of
Haifa have teamed up to prove that chess can make you smarter and
better adjusted. The Grandmaster Chess Research Project will
investigate the role chess-playing skills can contribute to social
and scientific development, and made lead to the development of
Hebrew-language educational products teaching and drawing on chess
as a way to enhance cognitive abilities. According to a report by
Israel21c, the project will examine how chess players achieve in the
fields of language, math, and other academic arenas.
The report states that numerous studies on the benefits of chess
have already shown that the game improves reading abilities, and is
associated with higher grades in school, as well as improved
concentration, self-discipline, logic, and other behaviors.
``Learning to Think Project,''
which trained 100,000 teachers to teach thinking skills and involved
a sample of 4,266 second grade students, reached a general
conclusion that chess, methodologically taught, is an incentive
system sufficient to accelerate the increase of IQ in elementary age
children of both sexes at all socio-economic levels.
MHSA Chess club Meets every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month in the building in Fairview and on the Internet
with skype.
Yom Teruah -
across the curriculum - Battle and Joy
Sign-Up 2013
Bible Study
• Word study – investigate the word “hear”, “listen” in the
Scriptures –_____________________
• Read the biblical accounts of the events at Mt. Sinai and the fall
of Jericho.
Ø What can we learn about the power of sound?
Ø What can we learn about how YHVH uses sound?
• According to Scripture_________________________________
Ø What is JOY?
Ø Why do the people of Yah go into battle?
• The shofar –what is a shofar?____________________________________
o When is the shofar to be used?
Science
• Sound____________________________________________
Investigate and report: How does the shofar produce its unique
sound.?How is it possible to sound different notes on this
instrument with no holes or buttons to press?
Health & the Human Body
• The human ear_______________________________________
Investigate and report: Scripture teaches us that “faith comes by
hearing”. How does the ear put messages or ideas into our brain? How
are they connected? How do sounds become ideas or thoughts? Do the
sounds we hear affect our memory?
Geography -
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Fine Arts
• Dance_______________________________________
What are some reasons that people on the earth dance? What types of
dancing do people around the world create? Is dancing associated
with both of our themes…battle and joy?
Ø Traditional Hebrew dances
Ø Role/Importance of cultural dances -
Ø What can we learn about dancing from the Scriptures?
Math – mathematics used in music
• How are beats counted,
• how are measures divided,
• how does tempo work,
• what is a time signature,
• how are notes measured – fractions –
Ø whole note,
Ø ½ note, ¼ note,
Ø 1/8th note,
Ø 1/16th note,
Ø what are triplets?
Language arts
• Poetry-_In poetic language, what is the term used to describe the
use of a word that “sounds” like its
meaning?___________________________________________________
What are the different “soundings of the shofar”?
What does each sounding mean?...gather…danger…worship…etc?
• Vocabulary
Ø Hebrew vocabulary
words__________________________________________________
o halal,
o yadah,
o todah
o barak,
o zamar,
o tehillah
o selah
Ø Study homophones
–__________________________________________________________
words that sound the same but have different spellings and different
meanings (examples: sale ,sail / veil, vale/ male,mail, sea,see)
create a crossword puzzle or matching game using as many homophones
as you can find. |