CHS250 2019 January All Assignments Latest (NO Week 2,3,4, Reflection Assignments & week 4 Assignment)

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CHS250 2019 January All Assignments Latest (NO Week 2,3,4, Reflection Assignments & week 4 Assignment)

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CHS250 STEM in ECE

Unit 1 Assignment

Classroom Observation Report

A preschool teacher will employ 3 different types of lessons as they plan experiences for their curriculum: naturalistic, informal, and structured. You need to read the selection by Lind in the articles and website area of the readings and resources link. She gives very specific definitions of these three important lesson types you will use as you facilitate the learning of your young children. Each has its advantages.

Visit a preschool or kindergarten classroom and observe a Math or Science lesson or lessons in that classroom. After you have read Lind's selection on naturalistic, informal, and structured lessons, write your observations of what you saw or were implied as you watched the experience unfold. Use her guidelines as a resource when you construct your paper of two pages.

The requirements for your classroom observation are:

Observe a prek, kindergarten or primary classroom. Describe the STEM experiences you observe by addressing the following questions

Are they naturalistic, informal or structured learning experiences that are discussed this week? This portion of the answer needs to relate to the understanding of the three types of lessons that occur in the classroom. There are very specific statements that define these types of lessons. You will discover throughout this course that most of what you will do in your early childhood classroom will be naturalistic or informal learning experiences. It is also through these experiences that you will get most of your assessment and evaluation information on your students and your lesson effectiveness.

What did you like about the experiences you observed?

How were STEM concepts integrated into the curriculum you observed? If they were not part of the lessons you observed, how do you think they could have been incorporated into those lessons?

How would you have improved or expanded on these learning experiences?

Are there any questions about what you observed?

Expected Length of the assignment is 2 pages.

CHS250 STEM in ECE

Unit 1 Assignment

Final Reflection of Resources

We will study the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics and how they relate to preschool planning curriculum through the readings, resources, articles and websites, videos, planning resources and supplemental resources provided in the individual units of this course. These resources replace the textbook and are current materials written by many individual field professionals with life experiences that can give real input into your studies.

Therefore, the first part of the final assignment will ask you to comment on one resource taken from each of the units, your choice. Read all the resources and visit all the links provided in each unit before you make your selection. Some readings will be knowledge you are already familiar with and are solidified by reading. There will be some that will stretch your thinking and give you a new perspective. Certainly, understanding that this coursework is intended to inform, extend your thinking, invite you to query, reflect and refine towards your journey in practice, this assignment will be the final project completed along the way of these eight weeks as you create new knowledge each week.

I would like you to select a resource from the readings and answer these four questions:

What is the name of the resource, article, website or video?

What was the overall idea of the resource and how it related to the whole unit under study? Ex. how it relates to the unit of science.

What was one important idea that you will use in your classroom that clicked for you from this resource?

How has this resource changed your thinking, being specific about where you were in your thinking to what you read and digested that made that aha moment of change?

This assignment should be approximately 2 full pages in length, reflect the entire meaning of the selected resource in a short synopsis form commentary and answer fully the four areas noted in the assignment. It should be submitted using the four bullets and answers underneath each bullet to be consistent in content from the question. These will be collected after each unit, graded, commented upon by the instructor and kept as part of the final assignment. You must complete one each week to be current.

CHS250 STEM in ECE

Unit 2 Assignment

Science Activity Plan

This assignment will require you to plan out a Science activity using the attached student sample as a guide.

I have attached several articles that have been retrieved from the NSTA professional journal Science and Young Children. Many times teachers get ideas for their lessons from reading articles, looking at magazines, Pinterest or just searching the web. Knowing that science is at the heart of the questions children ask and subjects they are interested in, this assignment asks you to select an article and answer some insightful questions about how you will use this information from the selection. A well- constructed lesson plan has prescribed elements such as:

Title

Standard

Key Objectives

Materials

Vocabulary

Initiation

Procedures

Closure

Assessments

We also learned in unit 1 that there are three forms of lessons, naturalistic, informal and structured. Although there is a bit of planning in the environment and selection of materials that affect the naturalistic and informal activities in your classroom, this assignment will concern itself with the structured lesson.

Peruse through the selections and make a choice of an article that will inform you as you create a lesson with your chosen topic of study that you selected in unit 1. They are as follows:

Birds in Winter

Science Tickets

Please Touch Museum

The Story of Corn

Leaf it to Nature

A Reason to Write

Exploring the Properties of a Mixture

Shape Exploration: Another Dimension

Inquiry at Play

Light Foundations

For each of the next set of questions, write a paragraph about each explaining how you will use the information.

1. Name of the article from the attachment and your topic of study highlighted in yellow

2. The main idea of the article that you want to use highlighted in yellow

3. Choose a standard that you would use to document the lesson. This will come from either your home state’s Early Learning Standards or the CTELDS found in the NAEYC Library found on the top of the sidebar in this course.

4. A brief explanation of what you want to do in your lesson with a connection to vocabulary words that will be used and some materials you would have on hand. Vocabulary words are very important to focus on and need to be worked properly into the lesson.

Where could you involve the community in their learning?

How will you know if the lesson has met its standards and objectives?

Things to think about:

Where will you get the standards? Look on your State's website to locate the Pre-K standards.

In CT ELDS

Next Generation Science Standards

Hopefully, you are using the standards as a foundation for what you teach so that your students are learning the material they should be learning; that's the science of teaching. Then you take the standards and create objectives for your students; that's the art of teaching. This is how we make a meaningful connection between the standards and objectives. The standards are the goals, which are generally abstract and general statements. Specific objectives are then clustered under these standards. In other words, objectives are statements that describe learner outcomes. Next, be sure that the actual activity that the learner will perform connects to the standards and objectives you already identified.

Students: Be sure to read the Rubric criteria, by which your paper/project will be evaluated before you write, and again after you write.

CHS250 STEM in ECE

Unit 2 Assignment

Final Reflection of Resources

CHANGE!! We will study the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics and how they relate to preschool planning curriculum through the readings, resources, articles and websites, videos, planning resources and supplemental resources provided in the individual units of this course. These resources replace the textbook and are current materials written by many individual field professionals with life experiences that can give real input into your studies.

Therefore, the first part of the final assignment will ask you to comment on one resource taken from each of the units, your choice. Read all the resources and visit all the links provided in each unit before you make your selection. Some readings will be knowledge you are already familiar with and are solidified by reading. There will be some that will stretch your thinking and give you new perspective. Certainly, understanding that this coursework is intended to inform, extend your thinking, invite you to query, reflect and refine towards your journey in practice, this assignment will be the final project completed along the way of these eight weeks as you create new knowledge each week. .

I would like you to select a resource from the readings and answer these four questions:

What is the name of the resource, article, website or video?

What was the overall idea of the resource and how it related to the whole unit under study? Ex. how it relates to the unit of science.

What was one important idea that you will use in your classroom that clicked for you from this resource?

How has this resource changed your thinking, being specific about where you were in your thinking to what you read and digested that made that aha moment of change?

This assignment should be approximately 2 full pages in length, reflect the entire meaning of the selected resource in a short synopsis form commentary and answer fully the four areas noted in the assignment. It should be submitted using the four bullets and answers underneath each bullet to be consistent in content from the question. These will be collected after each unit, graded, commented upon by the instructor and kept as part of the final assignment. You must complete one each week to be current.

CHS250 STEM in ECE

Unit 3 Assignment

Final Reflection of Resources

We will study the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics and how they relate to preschool planning curriculum through the readings, resources, articles and websites, videos, planning resources and supplemental resources provided in the individual units of this course. These resources replace the textbook and are current materials written by many individual field professionals with life experiences that can give real input into your studies.

Therefore, the first part of the final assignment will ask you to comment on one resource taken from each of the units, your choice. Read all the resources and visit all the links provided in each unit before you make your selection. Some readings will be knowledge you are already familiar with and are solidified by reading. There will be some that will stretch your thinking and give you a new perspective. Certainly, understanding that this coursework is intended to inform, extend your thinking, invite you to query, reflect and refine towards your journey in practice, this assignment will be the final project completed along the way of these eight weeks as you create new knowledge each week.

I would like you to select a resource from the readings and answer these four questions:

What is the name of the resource, article, website or video?

What was the overall idea of the resource and how it related to the whole unit under study? Ex. how it relates to the unit of Technology.

What was one important idea that you will use in your classroom that clicked for you from this resource?

How has this resource changed your thinking, being specific about where you were in your thinking to what you read and digested that made that aha moment of change?

This assignment should be approximately 2 full pages in length, reflect the entire meaning of the selected resource in a short synopsis form commentary and answer fully the four areas noted in the assignment. It should be submitted using the four bullets and answers underneath each bullet to be consistent in content from the question. These will be collected after each unit, graded, commented upon by the instructor and kept as part of the final assignment. You must complete one each week to be current.

CHS250 STEM in ECE

Unit 3 Assignment

Technology Activity Plan

This assignment will require you to plan a Technology activity using the attached format labeled Activity Plan. Your focus with this plan will be on Physical and Life Science.

It must include a state standard, be developmentally appropriate and intentional in design and meet the needs of all the students.

Remember to include vocabulary words that will enhance the concepts you are planning.

This activity can be used in your final project when you create your weekly plan.

The requirements for your activity plan are:

Create one activity using the template attached

Think about how to incorporate more than math/science/engineering in the lesson

CHS250 STEM in ECE

Unit 4 Assignment

Engineering Activity Plan

This design challenge activity is going to begin in a familiar place for the students. A good preschool classroom is filled with stories that children beg to be read again and again. Teachers understand that reading to children and talking about stories that they have read together build positive relationships and later help when they support their problem solving together. Children take comfort in knowing what the story has in store for them and they build relationships with those characters. It is likely then that they would like to help them solve some of their problems. Stories like The Three Little Pigs come to mind when thinking about a problem that needs to be solved. They need to build a structure that will withstand hurricane winds to keep the piggies safe. Another story might be, Are You My Mother? The bird needs a sturdy nest. By using a familiar story, discussing what the characters might need, you will have an authentic place to begin problem-solving. Use the attached Bug City scenario to help you build your own design challenge. I have attached a challenge we created for, Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.

Additionally, this activity builds on involving the families in their child's development and learning. As you move through the challenge with the children, you will be modeling for them the steps in the Scientific Method and employing the basics of the engineering process, brainstorming, building, trying and testing, revising and sharing as well as giving the families a connection with preparing their children for later problem-solving successes.

Design CHS 250 Bug City Making and Tinkering(1).pdf

Here are some examples of challenges.

CHS250 STEM in ECE

Unit 4 Assignment

Final Reflection of Resources

We will study the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics and how they relate to preschool planning curriculum through the readings, resources, articles and websites, videos, planning resources and supplemental resources provided in the individual units of this course. These resources replace the textbook and are current materials written by many individual field professionals with life experiences that can give real input into your studies.

Therefore, the first part of the final assignment will ask you to comment on one resource taken from each of the units, your choice. Read all the resources and visit all the links provided in each unit before you make your selection. Some readings will be knowledge you are already familiar with and are solidified by reading. There will be some that will stretch your thinking and give you new perspective. Certainly, understanding that this coursework is intended to inform, extend your thinking, invite you to query, reflect and refine towards your journey in practice, this assignment will be the final project completed along the way of these eight weeks as you create new knowledge each week. .

I would like you to select a resource from the readings and answer these four questions:

What is the name of the resource, article, website or video?

What was the overall idea of the resource and how it related to the whole unit under study? Ex. how it relates to the unit of Engineering.

What was one important idea that you will use in your classroom that clicked for you from this resource?

How has this resource changed your thinking, being specific about where you were in your thinking to what you read and digested that made that aha moment of change?

This assignment should be approximately 2 full pages in length, reflect the entire meaning of the selected resource in a short synopsis form commentary and answer fully the four areas noted in the assignment. It should be submitted using the four bullets and answers underneath each bullet to be consistent in content from the question. These will be collected after each unit, graded, commented upon by the instructor and kept as part of the final assignment. You must complete one each week to be current.

CHS250 STEM in ECE

Unit 5 Assignment

Math Domains Activity

You will be assigned to research one of the 5 major Domains. They are Number and Operations, Geometry and Spatial Sense, Algebra, Patterns and Functions, Data collection and Analysis and Measurement. You will be able to work and submit the document for the entire class to view. Your instructor will assign you to a category. You will create 5 strategic teaching practices and reflect upon them in a 3-page paper.

1. Mathematize the world around the children. We offer children the lens from which they can see the math living in their lives every day. You will comment on what meaningful situations would arise for your topic. Where would you see children experiencing this understanding of mathematical understanding?

2. Concrete learning experiences are paramount for young children to understand the connections to math concepts and their everyday materials and actions. Children need to be helped to use these materials for mathematical purposes. Strategize several materials found in early childhood classrooms that you could use in multiple ways to make these connections between concrete experiences, symbols, pictures and language.

3. Recognizing receptive understanding means we know that young children understand more concepts that she can speak. It requires us to figure out what the child actually understands and how we can help the child verbalize their understanding. Giving them more words to explain their mathematical understanding will be the next part of this assignment. What words can we communicate to scaffold their understanding of this topic?

4. Math needs to be multisensory. The more modes we deliver content within the deeper the knowledge expands. Explain the topic with experiences that involve all 5 senses.

5 . We scaffold our young children to construct their own understanding of these mathematical concepts each and every day. Understanding can be captured by standardized measures such as checklists and written papers. They can also be measured by discussion with our young students. Comment upon how you would learn about the children’s understanding of the topic chosen. Knowing what stage the child is in needs to be known and addressed to be able to help them to the next step of understanding.

CHS250 STEM in ECE

Unit 5 Assignment

Final Reflection of Resources

We will study the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics and how they relate to preschool planning curriculum through the readings, resources, articles and websites, videos, planning resources and supplemental resources provided in the individual units of this course. These resources replace the textbook and are current materials written by many individual field professionals with life experiences that can give real input into your studies.

Therefore, the first part of the final assignment will ask you to comment on one resource taken from each of the units, your choice. Read all the resources and visit all the links provided in each unit before you make your selection. Some readings will be knowledge you are already familiar with and are solidified by reading. There will be some that will stretch your thinking and give you new perspective. Certainly, understanding that this coursework is intended to inform, extend your thinking, invite you to query, reflect and refine towards your journey in practice, this assignment will be the final project completed along the way of these eight weeks as you create new knowledge each week. .

I would like you to select a resource from the readings and answer these four questions:

What is the name of the resource, article, website or video?

What was the overall idea of the resource and how it related to the whole unit under study? Ex. how it relates to the unit of Mathematics.

What was one important idea that you will use in your classroom that clicked for you from this resource?

How has this resource changed your thinking, being specific about where you were in your thinking to what you read and digested that made that aha moment of change?

This assignment should be approximately 2 full pages in length, reflect the entire meaning of the selected resource in a short synopsis form commentary and answer fully the four areas noted in the assignment. It should be submitted using the four bullets and answers underneath each bullet to be consistent in content from the question. These will be collected after each unit, graded, commented upon by the instructor and kept as part of the final assignment. You must complete one each week to be current.

CHS250 STEM in ECE

Unit 6 Assignment