Rachele's+Teaching+Guide

Rachele Colombo’s Worksheet for Recording Ideas for Curriculum Plan In general terms what are you trying to achieve with these learners? //This Curriculum web will be a way for students to put together a// // detailed itinerary, involving research on places that should be visited when coming to New York, while at the same time keeping within a budget and timeframe. Knowing that there is limited time and money involved, the students will need to research what places are historical and/or important for their first visit, and which sites do they feel tell the story of the “Big Apple” //
 * __Your general educational goals__

You will answer this question in Activity 2a. || Include their age and/or grade level, and other relevant information such as their interests, future goals, and background. //The students will be around the age of 11 or 12 and in a sixth grade Italian class//
 * Description of your learners

You will answer this question in Activity 2b. || What subjects, topics, or issues are at the center of this curriculum web? //History is the subject matter, students will need to research and determine what makes up New York City. What places/sites come to mind when you think of New York City? They will need Geography and basic mathematics to be able to perform this task.//
 * __Description of your subject matter__

You will answer this question in Activity 2c. || List your desired outcomes in terms of changes in the learners’ knowledge, skills, and attitudes //After researching the history of New York City, the students will have a detailed itinerary, with prices and dates for their Italian Pen Pals. The students not only will have gathered information for their pen pals, but for their own knowledge that they might have never known or overlooked on what New York City is all about.// //__Social Studies:__// //Standard 1//// use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York. // //Standard 3:// // use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live—local, national, and global—including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earth’s surface. // //Standard 5://// use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the necessity for establishing governments; the governmental system of the U.S. and other nations; the U.S. Constitution; the basic civic values of American constitutional democracy; and the roles, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship, including avenues of participation. // //__Mathematics:__// // Standard 3: // // Students use mathematical reasoning to analyze mathematical situations, make conjectures, gather // // evidence, and construct an argument; Students use mathematical operations and relationships among them to understand mathematics //
 * __Detailed learning objectives__

You will answer this question in Activity 2d. || What relevant knowledge, skills, and attitudes do you expect your learners to have before they begin using this curriculum web? //The students are in their first year end Italian class, communicating with their Pen Pals, so a general knowledge of Italian is needed. They also are putting together an itinerary for their pen pals coming to New York City, so a general knowledge of what’s in New York City is required to get you started in your thinking process, the rest is to be researched, and put together. Also an idea of what interests each of their pen pals has can also be helpful when planning what they will be seeing and visiting.//
 * __Expected prerequisites__

You will answer this question in Activity 2e. || In a short sentence of phrase, describe what you want to teach to whom //This Curriculum Web is designed to bring light to what is around us in our daily lives in New York City, it will reflect what places they feel is important when visiting “The Big Apple” for the first time.//
 * __Summary aim__

You will answer this question in Activity 2f. || Justify the use of time or other expenses to achieve the aim written above. Why should these learners reach your objectives? //The purpose of this is for students to be able to learn the history of New York, this experience will be a eye opener for them, in that they will be able to research and see things that they may have never known existed, things like New York’s culture, arts, build-up and so much more initialed to what made New York City what it is today.// You will answer this question in Activity 2g. || Rachele,
 * __Rationale__

This is a great curriculum. Social studies and math always go great together. This will grab students attention immediately. They will enjoy selecting the activities for their Italian pen pals based on the pen pals interests. Since there is an an enormous amount of activities to choose from in NYC, the students will have their work cut out for them in terms of making selections. Are you going to use a spreadsheet (i.e Excel) for the budget portion? Spreadsheets are great tool to use when doing budgets because it allows students to manipulate numbers and formulas. Plus it gives students a chance to learn a computer program like Excel so that they can use it in the future. And the budget portion of the curriculum is awesome because it gives students a chance to figure out how to get the "best bang for your buck". Great Job!!!

Kathy

Hey Rachele,

The lesson definitely sets a purpose for students to learn the history of NYC. The activity helps them develop a cultural awareness for others and themselves. In addition, you have incorporated math into the activity which will help students see how subjects are interrelated. I do think that NYC is a broad topic. Are you going to define a time frame later? Is the time frame going to be in a number of days or hours per day that is devoted to sight seeing? Also, when students do research perhaps you can help them narrow their sites by labeling links like Arts, Museums, Historical buildings etc.. so they can stay focused on what they want to find instead of having one site devoted to NYC where the content could be overwhelming for students. It looks like the students will have a great time planning for their pen pals.

-Veronica