Week 7: Assignment 1

Week 6: Assignment 2

Activity-based lesson adjusted to Common Core. Lesson topic: Text to Text connections Grade level: Kindergarten AIM questions: 1. What learning objectives/main ideas do students need to know (maximum of 3)? · Different stories have similarities and differences · How to connect different texts to each other 2. What common core skills will be introduced or reinforced during the lesson? CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.9 With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories. 3. Which content area standards are addressed in this lesson? Reading 4. What academic and content specific vocabulary is introduced in this lesson? Compare, Contrast, Characters, 5. What materials (e.g. Map, Song, and Activity S...

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Week 4: Assignment 1

In stage 1 of Understanding by Design, there are a few parts. Established goals should be based on content standards. These are the long term goals that the teacher needs to make sure not to lose focus of. In my assignment last week my established goals were based off the content standards. It is important to simplify the content standards into bite size chunks. The next part of Stage 1 UbD is Understandings. These should be the big ideas which are transferable. These big ideas are the meat and potatoes of the content. The meaningful part of the content and they connect the facts with necessary skills. In my Stage 1 outline, I looked at the established goals to determine what are the main things that the students need to understand. Essential Questions should guide students towards theses understandings. They guide children through the lessons so that they are learning on their own. The teacher must make sure that these questions lead the children through the content and will help t...

EDPC605 Curriculum Design and Instruction

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