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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 FamilyMy Culture/Traditions                    My RelationshipsThe 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        
     

Planning Your Curriculum Web: First Draft

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This week you are going to begin organizing all the curriculum ideas, creative activities and children’s books that you’ve been working on up to this point in the semester.

Read Nurturing Creativity, Chapter 5.

Review the Curriculum Planning: Designing Long-Term Investigations powerpoint

Now, take a look at this example of project-based curriculum.

Think about the in-depth and long-term investigations in this curriculum unit, the big ideas and essential questions that were being explored in each lesson. Take a look at how content areas such as math, language, literacy, science and social studies were embedded in creative and child-centered activities. Think about the cognitive problem-solving that children engaged in during these learning activities.

Now, use the Final Project: Curriculum Web Planning Sheet to create a first draft of your curriculum web. The final draft is due at the end of the semester, so you have time to revise and elaborate on this first draft.

When you complete the assignment, post it here.

I would then like each of you to read and provide helpful comments and feedback to at least two of your classmates. Your comments should be respectful and should provide ideas and thoughts that would improve the curriculum plan. We will share your curriculum webs and feedback this week during our Sunday class.