CANDIDATE(S): Kristen Turner & Tekla Currie DATE: 12/10/07

EDUC 410 FINAL ASSIGNMENTS CHECKLIST

Curriculum Integration & Cohesiveness
Please mark YES or NO to signify that you completed all of the assignments listed in the table below:

YES NO INDICATOR
I have uploaded to the internet the following assignments:
YES Character Education YES Standards Paper
YES YES__ Horizontal Mapping YES Science Charts
YES Language Arts Charts YES Math Charts
YES Social Science Charts YES Resource Documents
YES Final Checklist – Fine Arts, PE, Health
YES Final Checklist – Integration (collaboration / accommodations for diversity)
Each upload has:
YES
YES My name and my partner’s name
YES The grade level (s)
YES The name of my colleague so he/she will be able to identify the one he/she is to obtain.

1.) Cite at least 5 examples of how you imparted your school’s mission throughout your curriculum.

DAY TOPIC ACTIVITY

1. 31 Math- Students use creativity and accountability to make their own way to remember
mean, range, median, mode, mean.
median,
mode
2. 51 Math- Students create their own addition and subtraction of decimals flash cards and
decimals take turns with everyone in the classroom, showing cooperation.
3. 35 Science- The students will plant flowers and trees around the school and pick up trash to
living things benefit the school and the community.
4. 141 Science- The students will set up their own aquarium with floating objects, promoting
ocean academic excellence through critical thinking.
systems
5. 105 Language The students will write their own tall tale with their own character, showing
Arts- creativity and academic excellence.
writing

2.) Cite at least 5 examples of how you included lessons and activities planned in your Character Education
Paper.
DAY TOPIC ACTIVITY
1. 151 Science- The students will do a variation of the ice activity from the Leadership in the
Heat Science Curriculum in the Character Ed. Paper.
2. 89 Math- The students will find the perimeter of Winn-Dixie’s dog house.
perimeter
3. 136 Math- Kite, The students will see shapes and will write observations and cut their shapes out.
 trapezoid
4. 35 Science- The students will plant a tree and be responsible for its care(introduced as
Environment compassion exercise).
5. 66 Math- Students will come to the board to do problems. The class will applaud their
Fractions classmate whether the answer is correct or incorrect.
 3.) Cite at least 5 examples of use of technology.
DAY TOPIC ACTIVITY
1. 4 Science- The students will visit a geological website about the earth.
Earth’s
structure
2. 121 Science- Students will use flashlights to examine light behavior.
Light
3. 96 SS- The students will use a Smithsonian Museum website to learn more about the
Inventions invention of the light bulb
4. 119 LA- Oral The students use an online scrapbooking website to make scrapbook pages about
Presentations a character in Because of Winn-Dixie.
5. 7 Science- Students are required to visit three of five specified educational wesites in the
Rock Cycle computer lab.

4.) Cite at least 5 examples of collaboration with community resources.

DAY TOPIC ACTIVITY
1. 115 Erosion Students will take a field trip with the teacher and geological experts to an area
showing geological formations.
2. 65 Fractions The class will enjoy a pizza party to reward them for their hard work.
3. 20 Math The students will go on a field trip to the Museum of Math and Science
4. 91 Social The teacher will use the school computer lab to allow students to research online.
Studies
5. 126 Civil War The teacher will use local libraries and possibly museums to obtain historical
photographs for her students.

5.) Cite at least 5 examples of collaboration with families.

DAY TOPIC ACTIVITY
1. 89 Photosynthesis Teacher will wend home instructions to parents to preserve leaves the students
have collected.
2. 115 Erosion The teacher will rely on parent chaperones to make the field trip a reality.
3. 58 Healthy Diet Students will fill out eating charts at night with their parents.
4. 20 Math The teacher will use parent chaperones for the class field trip.
5. 117 Social Studies The teacher will invite parents to come into the classroom to read historical
stories to the students.

6.) Cite at least 5 examples of collaboration with colleagues.

DAY TOPIC ACTIVITY
1. 115 Erosion The teacher will encourage the other classroom teachers to collaborate with her
on this field trip.
2. 65 Fractions The students will share their pizza party with other classes in the school, the
teacher will collaborate with these teachers.
3. 20 Math The teacher will invite the other fifth grade teacher to join her on the field trip.
4. 95 Perimeter The teacher will reserve the computer lab for her class to use.
5. 149 The New The teacher will use the librarian’s talents to assist her students’ research.
Deal
 7.) Cite at least 5 examples of use of assessment (various types).
DAY TOPIC ACTIVITY
1. 93 Area Students will write their own word problems and then switch. The teacher will
grade.
2. 35 Test The students will take a formal test on Division, decimals, range, mean, median,
mode.
3. 10 Igneous The students will write a short story about igneous rocks.
Rocks
4. 122 Light Students must draw examples they can find in the room of light phenomena they
have learned about.
5. 137 Letters The students will write letters on crumpled brown paper bags (animal hides) with
natural colors of tempura paint (vegetable dyes).

8.) Cite at least 5 examples of use of literacy, problem solving, etc.

DAY TOPIC ACTIVITY
1. 123 Light Students will use critical thinking to hypothesize about shadow length, size,
behavior.
2. 142 Ocean The students will read Under the Ice, by Kathy Conlan.
Systems
3. 34 Environment The students will collaborate to write a book entitled “Our Solutions to
Environmental Problems”
4. 114 Circles The students will read Sir Circumference and the First Round Table.
5. 147 The Great Students will analyze their budgets after the stock market crash, and decide to
Depression buy a house, sell stocks, etc.

9.) Cite at least 10 examples of how you have used integration your curriculum. (eg. If you are studying about
Native Americans on Day 27 in social studies, are you also reading a novel in reading group on Day 27 that
would reinforce learning about Native Americans? Are you doing an art project that relates to Native
Americans? Etc.)
DAY TOPIC ACTIVITY
1. 53 Encyclopedias The students will use reference materials to look up information about African
peoples, which they are studying in SS.
2. 87 Fiction The students will read a historical fiction about the first five presidents of the
US, which they are about to study in SS.
3. 95 Fiction The students will read The Little House as an introduction to studying
expansion in SS.
4. 108 Fiction The students will read The Matchlock Gun in Language arts while they study
the Civil War in Social Studies.
5. 108 Art The students will learn to draw a mural while they organize the setting of the
novel they are reading.
6. 115 Elapsed Time The students will be on a field trip, where they will study geological
formations in science and elapsed time in mathematics.
7. 127 Civil War The students will play a physical education game while reenacting a Civil War
battle.
8. 156 WWII The students will be studying WWII, and they will write an acrostic poem for
Language Arts.
9. 137 Native The students will be studying The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush in
Americans Language Arts, while they are learning about different perspectives on
urbanization and immigration.
10 152 Heat Students will learn about the effects of heat on matter while they are reading
. fiction about the dust bowl and the west (effects of heat on people).

10.) Cite at least 10 examples providing evidence that you have incorporated instructional strategies that
provide creative, multi-sensory, hands-on approaches to learning throughout your curriculum.

DAY TOPIC ACTIVITY

1. 3 Composite Students will use counters to determine if a number is prime
numbers
2. 10 Number Line Students will use their bodies to represent math problems and number lines.
3. 22 Division Students will use counters to learn the basics of dividing.
4. 105 Classification Students will use objects they collect to make their own classification keys.
5. 122 Light Students will use prisms to observe the way light bends.
6. 132 Sound Students will use string and metal spoons to feel and hear the way sound is
made by vibrations.
7. 152 Heat Students will use movement to imitate the way water molecules move when
they boil, freeze, etc.
8. 151 Writing Students will make a story chain out of construction paper to help them see how
the elements of a story are connected.
9. 150 New Deal The students will use sand bags to make a dam on the playground.
10 116 The Civil The students will use paper flags, play dough and a map to learn the order of
. War major civil war battles.
11.) Cite at least 10 examples providing evidence that you have incorporated accommodations /
differentiation of instruction for diversity / exceptionalities throughout your curriculum.

DAY TOPIC ACTIVITY

1. 35 Environment Students with allergies will hand out seeds rather than plant them.
2. 123 Light Gifted students will use two flashlights instead of one.
3. 164 Manipulated Students with a learning disability will be given a template instead of creating
Variables their own chart.
4. 173 Physical Students with food allergies will be given alternative treats.
Properties
5. 10 Number Students who cannot act out the math problems will make up the problems for
Line the others to solve.
6. 117 Civil War Students with a physical disability will be referees in the civil war reenactment.
7. 174 Organization Students who cannot play a vocal role in the class skit will hold up cards to play
their part.
8. 166 Organization Students will make paper dolls. If the student cannot cut out eh clothes, the
teacher will pre-cut them.
9. 123 Oral Students with a speech impediment can have their presentation read by another
Presentation student or the teacher.
10 119 Oral Students with learning disabilities will make six scrapbook pages instead of ten.
. Presentation

On my honor, I (Kristen Turner) have included accommodations for diverse learners / exceptionalities at least
one time per week throughout the curriculum or a minimum of 36 times over the course of the school year.)

On my honor, I (Tekla Currie) have included accommodations for diverse learners / exceptionalities at least one
time per week throughout the curriculum or a minimum of 36 times over the course of the school year.)

On my honor, I (Kristen Turner) feel that I have put forth my best effort to create a curriculum that is diverse in
instruction and learning activities and will provide meaningful experiences for each and every WHOLE child in
academic, emotional, physical, and spiritual ways.

On my honor, I (Tekla Currie) feel that I have put forth my best effort to create a curriculum that is diverse in
instruction and learning activities and will provide meaningful experiences for each and every WHOLE child in
academic, emotional, physical, and spiritual ways.