Concept Webbing

This article tackles the huge task of taking the five National Science Education Standards unifying concepts with ways to integrate the curriculum so that students and teachers are not overw... See More

This article tackles the huge task of taking the five National Science Education Standards unifying concepts with ways to integrate the curriculum so that students and teachers are not overwhelmed and still have students succeed in high stakes science tests. The authors explain and demonstrate with third grade students sample work how concept webbing can be used to accomplish this huge task.

Views on Connecting Children to Their World

To connect students to the world around them I would use big understanding, guiding statements that describes essential content that I want my students to learn throughout the unit. I would ... See More

To connect students to the world around them I would use big understanding, guiding statements that describes essential content that I want my students to learn throughout the unit. I would do this by planning and creating lessons that will help develop inquiry and literacy skills. I would do this for outcome HC4.1. I would do this in three steps. First step: Integrate the students’ conceptual learning in school with world outside of school. Second step: students will provide a written statement describing what they noticed, what they would change to help the community and/or environment, how they want to help the community and/or environment, and what steps would they take. Third step: focus the content addressed in a unit or lesson. I will make sure the unit being studied is encompassed about appropriate concepts, developed through activities, big understanding, etc. I will base the big understanding on: o Validity o Significance o Durability o Balance o Appropriateness o Relevancy