ND Curriculum Initiative

Subject & Standards

Understandings & Goals

Enduring Understanding: 1. The students should be able to receptively and expressively identify key spring/growing vocabulary.  2. They should understand the concept of attributes and form age-appropriate sentences.  3. In addition, beginning sequencing skills well be obtained.
Goal(s):  1. Students will demonstrate appropriate expressive language by identifying vocabulary, answering questions, and relaying relevant attributes.  2. Students will demonstrate basic sentence formation and sequencing skills.

Questions Answered

Essential questions: 1)What are six terms associated with spring? 2)What are three attributes from each key spring vocabulary? 3)How do you use key spring vocabulary to form grammatically correct meaningful sentences? 4)How do you link sentences together to form an organized spring story?
Objectives: Obj. 1: Students will demonstrate active listening and answer questions appropriately. Obj. 2: Students will brainstorm at least six key terms associated with spring/growing. Obj. 3: Students will identify key vocabulary when given verbal or visual prompts. Obj. 4: Students will list three basic attributes (ex. Color, Function) of each vocabulary term. Obj. 5: Students will develop grammatically correct and meaningful sentences. Obj. 6: Students will sequence sentences and utilize transition terms to create an organized story.

Assessment

What quiz and test items e.g. simple content-focused questions that require a single, best answer) will provide evidence of understanding?  Vocabulary quiz requiring picture identification
What academic prompts e.g. open-ended questions or problems that require students to think critically and then to prepare a response / product / performance) will provide evidence of understanding?  Oral “wh” questions
What performance tasks and projects e.g. complex challenges that are authentic, mirror the real world and require a performance or product) will you include that will provide evidence of student understanding?Work sample using KidPix
What other evidence e.g. observations, work samples, dialogues, student self-assessment) of understanding will you collect?  Observations during stages of project work

Instructional Strategies

The project based strategy will allow the students to more independently demonstrate knowledge of language skills (i.e., meaningful sentences, sequencing, vocabulary. Other strategies would be more closed and not yield open-ended self-directed results. Also, at the preschool level, learning through many channels to produce a project often keeps the children’s interest and allows children to use critical thinking skills.