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.
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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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