EDUC 571

Curriculum Project: Sample Curriculum Planning Charts Project – Elementary or SPED Assignment Instructions

MAT in Elementary or SPED

Consult the Horizontal Mapping Project you have already completed and create daily planning charts to correspond to 3 days of mapping. Submit a legend and 3 days of Curriculum Planning Charts. Each day of curriculum should fit on one page (your submission will be a total of six pages—title page, legend, three charts, and a reference page). Utilize grading feedback from this sample submission to complete the final Curriculum Project. No retroactive credit for the Sample Curriculum Planning Charts Project can be given from submission of the final Curriculum Project.

For this project, you should consider yourself to be a curriculum planner that is providing an overview of what would be involved in a lesson. As the curriculum planner you are creating the block plan and the classroom teacher would then use your overview to create a very detailed daily lesson plan.

Your curriculum planning charts (block plans) should have:

· The standard number and standard topic clearly identified (e.g. VA Math 3.1 Place Value)

· What the teacher and students will do for each lesson

· The legend symbols to show integration (see description below)

Your curriculum planning charts (block plans) should exhibit:

· Effective use of allotted time for instruction as well as learning activities

· Creative, engaging, hands-on, and age-appropriate learning activities and assignments

· Thorough explanation of learning concepts, activities, and experiences

Your curriculum planning charts (block plans) will include:

A. Integration of content areas. Show how content areas relate to each other by using a legend. The legend is a “symbol list” of the many parts that should make up the curriculum. A legend helps you easily view where you are making holistic learning experiences for your students. For example:

· If you are teaching grids and how to plot points in math, you could teach map skills (using longitude and latitude) in Social Science.[M, SS,] The M stands for Math and the SS stands for Social Science and you are integrating the two together.

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