Nana Kvaratskhelia
Planning your Curriculum Web, First Draft
ECE 211
Professor Reich-Shapiro
Final Project: Curriculum Web Planning Sheet
| The theme (topic) of my curriculum web is: Identity | ||||
| The “Big Ideas” I want to explore within this topic are: My “big’’ idea about identity is to get to know and discover myself, my genealogy, my environment, and inherited customs. I also want the students to understand what it means to represent another country or tradition and why we should respect them, and how they get to accept themselves as they are, to admit all people are acceptable and why should we not criticize them. How to help myself and others overcome complexes and how not to inflict pain on others. How to love my family, my country, and my friends. | ||||
| The five sub-themes (topics) of my curriculum are: | ||||
| Myself | My Family | My Culture/Traditions | My Relationships | The World Around Me |
| For each of my sub-themes, three possible activities that would support students in learning about that topic are: (Make sure to include a range of creative arts activities and at least one literacy activity for each sub-theme) | ||||
| Observe myself, how do I look? Which shape do I have, what color are my eyes, hair, and skin? What do I love? What makes me happy an unhappy? Let’s imagine “me” in every age: as a baby, as an adult, as in age and as a grandparent. | How many members do I have in my family? How many languages do we speak? Let’s play “It’s my grandmother’s birthday party”. Let’s make a family tree. | Share what do we celebrate together? Let’s talk about our national food, dance, songs, clothe. Bring any traditional food and speak about it. | What do we do with our friends? Let’s draw how our friends look. Let’s make a gift for our besties, what would you do? | Lets’ draw the map, where am I there? Let’s learn “hello” in as many languages as we could remember. World’s most famous celebrations that I like. |
| Art-project: Draw myself, with crayons on the paper. Make smile emojis. | Activity: Pretending we are family, and we are getting ready for grandma’s birthday party. We will use kitchen area. Cut and draw tree and write down our family member’s names. | Activity: Wear traditional clothe, bring any food, singing traditional songs. | Activity: Draw friends with coloring pencils. Cut construction paper and make rectangle, square, circle shape, color them with paint. | Art-project: Using construction paper, paint, crayons. |
| Books: “I like myself” “It’s okey to be different.” “What I like about me “ | Books: “Me and my family tree” “My family, your family” “Owl babies” | Books: “Celebrations around the world!” By Helen Gregory “Celebrate! The Holiday” By Sophia Day “ “Where did my clothes come from?” by Chris Butterworth | Books: “We are better together” by Eileen Spinelli “Chrysanthemum” by Kevin Henkes “You’re mean Lily Jean” by Frida Wishinsky and Kady Macdonald | Books: “The Earth and I” by Frank Asch. “Same, same but different” by Jenny Sue Kostecki Shaw “Say Hello” by Rachel Isadora |
