Curriculum Project Proposal

Proposal for Curriculum Project
Jane Ann Basinger

Grade Level: Kindergarten

Timeline: 5 days

Theme: The Places We Live In/ My Community

Goals/ Objectives:
NC Standards:

Language Arts:
• Connect information and events in text to experience.
• Discuss concepts and information in a text to clarify and extend knowledge.
• Use legible manuscript handwriting.
• Maintain conversation and discussions:
o attending to oral presentations
o taking turns expressing ideas and asking questions.

Math:
• Complete simple spatial visualization tasks and puzzles.
• Collect and organize data as a group activity

Social Studies:
• Use geographic representations and terms to describe surroundings

NC Information/Technology Standards:
• Use technology tools and skills to reinforce classroom concepts
and activities.
• Classify useful sources of information.

Rationale:
Children need to understand the places where they live: the neighborhood, city, county, state, country . They need to know that they are part of the citizen of the world.

Medium: PowerPoint Presentation, video, CD , Maps, internet, digital camera images, globes

Target Audience: 4-6 years old

Lesson ideas Links:
•World Book Online
•http://www.usconsulate.org.hk/pas/kids/

Teaching Strategies and Methods:
• Literature/Story: “Me on the Map”, integration of the song, “We All Live Together”
• Reading-based lesson using literature as a springboard to integrate skills across the curriculum.
• Center/Work Stations/Hands-on activities

Evaluation Methods:
Worksheets, Quiz, Research project (with parent/family involvement), Performance Assessment (Interview)