This document provides suggested materials for the learning centers from Supporting Every Young Learner: Maryland's Guide to Early Childhood Pedagogy Birth to Age 8. The centers included in this document are Art, Blocks/Construction, Dramatic Play, Literacy, Language and Writing, Mathematics/Problem Solving, Music and Movement, Science and Investigation, and Technology.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This article links to resources to help teachers create their own weather stations, participate in real data projects, and assess their students' knowledge of weather tools.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This document provides a rationale of the importance for using centers in early childhood classrooms. An explanation of the teacher's role is provided along with several resources that are available to teachers for creating a variety of center activities.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
An article about a teacher working with 4th and 5th grade students in centers focused around STEM. These STEM activities are around the “The Science & Technology of Sound & Music.”
Material Type: Reading
An elementary introduction to chemistry vocabulary, tools and concepts used in science curriculum.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
These mini posters can be viewed, modified, and printed to provide staff and parent volunteers with vocabulary tools to use to enhance vocabulary with children during developmental center play.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This math center overview provides a description, purpose, suggested materials, questioning suggestions, considerations, photo examples and literature selections.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This resource provides an overview of using your dramatic play center with a camping theme. The background, purpose, materials, and question starter prompts are provided. A list of children's literature related to the theme is also part of the document. In addition, downloadable camping center signs and student recording sheets are embedded.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This resource provides an overview of using your dramatic play center or writing center with a post office theme. The background, purpose, materials, and question starter prompts are provided. A list of children's literature related to the theme is also part of the document. In addition, downloadable center sign is embedded.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
In this hands-on science lesson, the students will observe (and eat!) cooked popcorn and uncooked popcorn. The students will understand why popcorn pops. The students will weigh cooked and uncooked popcorn to understand why cooked popcorn weighs more.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to: recognize and use common 2D representations of 3D objects and identify and use the appropriate formula for finding the circumference of a circle.
Material Type: Assessment, Lesson Plan
Elementary Science and Integrated Subjects is a statewide Clime Time collaboration among ESD 123, ESD 105, and the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. Development of the resources is in response to a need for research- based science lessons for elementary teachers that are integrated with English language arts, mathematics and other subjects such as social studies. The template for Elementary integration can serve as an organized, coherent and research-based roadmap for teachers in the development of their own NGSS aligned science lessons. Lessons can also be useful for classrooms that have no adopted curriculum as well as to serve as enhancements for current science curriculum. The EFSIS project brings together grade level teams of teachers to develop lessons or suites of lessons that are 1) focused on grade level Performance Expectations, and 2) leverage ELA and Mathematics Washington State Learning Standards.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Reading, Unit of Study
This project is about Learning Centers: What are learning centers, how they are beneficial for children and teachers. The main goals within learning centers, and how to design appropriate centers sufficiently. Also included are examples and informational videos.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Module
Resource suggestions to explore and consider as a way to support talented and gifted students.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Case Study
This resource provided information about Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Theory. this theory provides insights into the eight different levels of giftedness that students could possess and provides an explanation of each level. Additionally, there is information from the National Association for Gifted Children and a video introduction from Howard Gardner about his multiple intelligence theory.
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This lesson plan walks students through the copyright licenses and open educational resources. Students will learn how to author resources using the OER Commons platform, align them to standards, and evaluate them using the Achieve Rubrics.
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Thsi is a module over gifted and talented students. Specifically, programs, stategies, and supports for these execptional students.
Material Type: Module
Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG) is a national resource for exclusively social-emotional support. Founded in 1981 following the suicide of a gifted student attending the University of Michigan, the late James T. Webb. Unique to other resources presented, SENG offers a mental health provider directory and local parent groups, Seng Model Parent Groups (SMFG), listed by state. Facilitators who run the SMFG meetings support and guide parents through discussion groups as they struggle to parent their complex children.Three membership options are available: $99.00/annually, $12.00/monthly, or $12.00 trial membership. Membership carries many perks, ranging from discount codes to online support groups and conferences and more, as well as free subscription to SENGVINE. Supporting emotional needs of the gifted. (n.d.). Retrieved April 15, 2020, from https://www.sengifted.org/
Material Type: Reading
In this resource we talk about Gifted and talented students and how being in the program effects them. As they are usually put into a sterotype we wanted to share how in reality they are all different and learn and adapt in different wyas. They also need a lot of emotional support in which we talk about mental health too!
Material Type: Full Course, Lecture Notes
Slide Deck about the importance of play- 2019
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