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The Common Core Standards : Their History, Current Status, And Implementation In My Classroom, Anna Lassiter
The Common Core Standards : Their History, Current Status, And Implementation In My Classroom, Anna Lassiter
Graduate Student Independent Studies
Describes a history of national standards, a description of the creation and adoption of the common core standards, and an explanation of how the common core state practices have changed the author's practice of teaching English in New York public schools.
Building Blocks To Growth : An Examination Of Block Building's Impact On Social And Emotional Development, Diana Elisabeth Dube
Building Blocks To Growth : An Examination Of Block Building's Impact On Social And Emotional Development, Diana Elisabeth Dube
Graduate Student Independent Studies
Explores the role that independent and group block building play in early childhood development, and specifically examines the impact of early childhood block play on social and emotional development.
Understanding Our Families : A Curriculum For Six-Year-Olds, Sarah Boltz
Understanding Our Families : A Curriculum For Six-Year-Olds, Sarah Boltz
Graduate Student Independent Studies
Presents a social studies curriculum on families designed for six-year-olds in a New York City charter school. The author designed this curriculum using the "Modified Understanding by Design" format. This format requires the curriculum designer to structure the entire curriculum around a few carefully chosen learning standards. The two standards serving as the basis of this curriculum were selected from the New York State social studies standards for first grade.
Roots Of Farm And Family, Carol Gjenvick
Roots Of Farm And Family, Carol Gjenvick
Graduate Student Independent Studies
The current food industry is a vast and confusing system that often generates contradicting information, new jargon and trends on how and what to eat. Most families in urban and suburban regions shop at local grocery stores, supermarkets or chains and are far removed from the origins of their food supply. Even with the growing support of farmers markets and local farmers, the average person no longer has access to an actual farm. Children in particular, are less likely to understand how a farm operates, the essential role of the farmer, the impact of seasonal changes on food supplies and …
Birds Of New England And Costa Rica: A Science-Based Interdisciplinary Curriculum, Alice M. Ford
Birds Of New England And Costa Rica: A Science-Based Interdisciplinary Curriculum, Alice M. Ford
Graduate Student Independent Studies
Students are naturally inquisitive scientists, and successful interdisciplinary curricula access this curiosity by shaping academic studies around students' needs as scientists. Therefore, students are scientists who need opportunities to study and observe the world around them. This curriculum, "Birds of New England and Costa Rica: A Science-Based Interdisciplinary Curriculum," is based on children's abilities to observe and question by studying the immediate environment of the students and relating it to another environment. In this way, students compare and contrast relationships in order to construct their own knowledge about birds in New England and in Costa Rica. Through this study, students …