This week in class we started discussing our Concept-Based Curriculum Units. My group has decided to theme our unit around the Solar System. This unit will be geared towards the upper elementary grades (3rd-5th). We have already started working on figuring out what we want our major and minor concepts to be for the unit. We are now looking on to creating our essential and guiding questions. I think it is interesting that we are now learning how to write these questions in SPE 382 because I am also learning about them in my CAT 250 class. Just yesterday I had to write essential, unit, and content questions for the project I am putting together in that class. I believe that my CAT 250 background of generating questions will help me enormously in SPE 382. Again connections like this one, I just made, are the ones that we want to encourage our students to make throughout our unit. This is a big reason why we have chosen major concepts that cover multiple areas of curriculum, rather than just one. While executing lessons and projects, in the unit, we want our students to constantly be making connections and using their higher-order thinking skills. If we as teachers are not expecting our students to do these things then we are limiting their ability to improve.
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