Last Wednesday we met with Tobias at the science and health networking fair. We talked with him there about the status of our lessons, and he provided us with feedback on how we should add to the lessons and also make them simpler so that people who are not educators can also use the lessons. We are putting up our final lessons this week and next week so that in the following weeks we can make sure our work and blog are the best they can be for our presentation. At the networking fair we got to talk to some students about the work we are doing with Tobias and Newark SAS and our capstone project, to show that Newark SAS offers a lot of different internships and has a lot of different needs.
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This week we will be meeting with Tobias on Wednesday to attend the science and healthcare networking event. We will be at a table with Tobias to represent Newark SAS and the work we have done with them and talk to Seton Hall students who are attending the event. This week we will also still be continuing working on our lesson plans. I will be continuing to work on my fifth grade lesson plan and submitting it for Tobias to take a look at. We have added a transition section to our blog, in hopes of being able to pass this project onto a future class of capstone students who would also want to work with Newark SAS and continue working on the school curriculum. This week we are continuing working on our grade 5 lesson plans. Our curriculum is coming together! We are down to some of our last lesson plans and then will be reviewing and revising them all with the help of Tobias and Jacqueleen in the upcoming weeks and working to add more activities. We hope this curriculum is something to get Newark SAS started with making connections to schools and increasing the amount of people in the community that know about their efforts and programs they offer. The neat thing about this curriculum is that it can be added to by future Capstone students or others who can help expand this curriculum to grades K-12, and can be an ongoing project! This week we had a phone call with Tobias on Saturday evening. We were able to discuss the progress we have made and the future for the project. As of now we have submitted a portion of our completed lesson plans for review. Tobias has connected with two school sin the Newark community who would be interested in using this curriculum we are working to develop in their schools. Tobias will be in contact with their principals, and will be reviewing some of our lessons. We will be continuing to write more lessons, and working to add in more technology and resources for the students to use. As we are also working with an NJIT student who is working to develop an app to go along with the curriculum. We are beginning to write lessons for the fifth grade and will be working to add more to and edit our third grade lessons that we have completed.These lessons will hopefully make students excited about their community and nature. This week we will be continuing to work on our lessons still. We will be beginning our fifth grade lessons. We will be waiting for feedback form Jacquleen on our other previous lessons. We will be having a phone conference with Tobias on Saturday to discuss out development and progress so far with the curriculum.
The lesson I will be working on this week is a lesson on protecting the environment and possibly link to Newark SAS pillar of eco- art. So the lesson would entail students learning of possible ways they can contribute to protecting the earth and then doing an art project. This week we will be continuing to work on our lessons. We will each be working on our second third grade lesson draft, as we wait for our first lessons that we submitted to Jacqueleen to be reviewed. We will be catching up with Tobias next week to discuss how we are doing with the lessons.
I will be working on a lesson plan this week that is cross curriculum lesson, that brings together a social studies standard and one of Newark SAS five pillars. As last week I ended up doing a habitat lesson instead of the social studies lesson. I am thinking of making the lesson about community from the social studies aspect and tying in the garden and urban agriculture. We will be submitting these lessons at the end of the week and wait for feedback from Jacqueleen to make any changes or edits. This week will be each turning in our first lesson plan to Jacqueleen! We worked to each make a lesson this week to begin our curriculum. These lessons align with New Jersey state standards as well as the Newark SAS pillars. We will begin turning in lessons in the following weeks, to begin adding more and more to our curriculum, and establish a possible order for them to be taught in so that students receive information in the most logical order possible and can end their unit plan with a trip to one of the gardens Newark SAS maintains. Jacqueleen Bido will be reviewing our lessons and getting back to us with comments and improvements that are needed. The first lesson I am working on will be linked science and social studies standards, to be used as a cross curriculum lesson plan for the third grade.
We will be setting up a call with Tobias for the week after spring break, as that works best for all of us, and will be talking about our lessons so far and what we have accomplished. This week we met in person with Tobias and discussed our ideas for our lesson plans and curriculum. Tobias brought along with him, Eric, who is a graduate student at NJIT and will be working with Tobias to create apps and websites to possibly go along with the curriculum we are building for Newark SAS. We discussed our thoughts on possible lessons, and how they would be similar to a unit plan and last about two weeks or so in the classroom, and what types of technology we thought students would be able to have access to in school areas like Newark, where these lessons would likely be used. We discusses our effort to include all 5 pillars of Newark SAS into the lessons as well as other subject areas. We will begin writing drafts of these lessons for the upcoming week to submit to Jacqueleen Bido for revisions.
This week we had a conference call with Jacqueleen Bido to discuss the development of our curriculum planning. We decided that for this week we will meet up as a group as some point and divide up the lessons for the grades we are doing (grade 3 and 5) so that each member does two lessons in each grade level. We will map out our ides for the lessons and the possible activities we have planned, and how theses align with both the state standards and the 5 pillars of Newark SAS. We will begin posting lessons in the upcoming weeks to shared google doc we have with Bido. She will review our lessons and let us know if anything needs to be changed or edited. I look forward to working on these lessons and creating something that Newark SAS can use in the future. We will be having a conference call with Tobias also later this week.
This week we had a conference call with both Tobias and Jacqueleen Bido to discuss the future of our project. We have decided to focus our project on creating a set of mini lessons for both third and fifth grade that align with state curriculum and also Newark SAS pillars. We will be creating a timeline of our project for the semester to share with Jacqueleen and have weekly update meetings with Tobias. We will be working to create quality unit plans for theses grades as they are grades that test in science. These lessons plan will be a start to create a curriculum for the elementary grades and can be added onto by those interested in working on it in the future. These lessons will be universal to use with multiple school’s curriculum and easy for teachers to use and implement into their classroom for several weeks.
We will begin to map out a schedule for working on this project with Jacqueleen and begin planning and dividing up the lessons will be working on as a group. We decided this is the best route for our project as we are all education majors with most of our experience in the k-5 grades. Although the original idea was k-12, Jacqueleen helped us to narrow this down to the areas in which we have most experience with and can create quality lesson for. |
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