EDU 690 Fall 2013 Names and Projects
1. Name- Maria Cibella
Title- Learning Mathematics and Science Through Culinary Exploration
Food and cooking are important aspects of our everyday lives. Some students do not give though to where the food on their dinner table comes from. This project strives to educate students on how their food grows, is created and lands in their lunch boxes. The mathematics portion comes in when students can use hands on activities to measure, estimate, and use fractions to explore with cooking in the classroom. From this project students will take away the skills of cooking along with the knowledge of how their food is made and produced.
2. Deeana Daigler
Narrative Writing Workshop
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Narrative Writing Workshop focuses on student development of meaningful narrative writing with the craft and skills of writing embedded within its framework. Aligned with the Common Core Standards, students will develop their technique and skills of writing through the implementation of an effective writer’s workshop. As part of this literacy workshop, new information will be taught, shown and modeled for students. Then students as writers will apply what they learned to build upon what they know, to practice their writing skills in a meaningful and focused way.
3. Alexandra Drozd
Second Grade Mathematics: Increasing Students’ Performance in Algebraic Thinking with the use of Common Core Standards
The New Common Core State Standards have provided teachers with the framework that is necessary in mathematics skills across grades K-12. Algebraic thinking is considered a large part of the new Common Core Learning Standards for mathematics; the goal is for students to engage in higher mathematical level of thinking. This project is geared toward second grade mathematics focusing on the algebraic thinking standard. Since the algebraic thinking standard focuses on increasing higher level thinking skills, the use of manipulatives, tactile objects, and visuals are used to effectively aid in these skills.
4. Christine Johnson
Master’s Project Title: Money: Totaling It Up
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Money: Totaling It Up is a mathematics-based unit. It incorporates cross curriculum connections in English language arts, social studies, and the arts for second grade students. Throughout this unit students explore, think, connect, communicate, and develop into critical thinkers by being engaged in their learning. Students engage in methods and activities such as the use of literature, problem solving real life situations, a guest speaker, and a social action project. This unit requires students to see the relevancy of mathematics in their lives, to acquire mathematic and money skills, use reading, writing and thinking skills, and develop decision-making skills and ideas to become active, productive, and caring citizens.
5. Elizabeth M. Licata
Title of Master’s Project: Under the Sea: Vocabulary Strategies and Activities for Kindergarten
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Students will study the ocean and expand their ocean vocabulary through hands-on reading, writing, speaking and listening activities. These activities include: reading and listening to texts, writing their own texts, and participating in the dramatic play center.
6. Jenny McMurry
Title of Master’s Project: Communities Around the World: The Use of Picture Story Books to Bring People and Places Together.
This project is designed to connect The Common Core in ELA with social studies as students learn about communities around the world through the use of picture story books. Students will have an opportunity to read for information and compare and contrast their lives with those of students in other countries. Students will gain a greater appreciation for their own culture as well as a better understanding of how people live around the world.
7. Sarah Rittberg
Technological Integration and Lunar Phases
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Technology has influenced the way we discover, explore, and learn about the world around us. In combination with hands-on exploration, the following lessons will feature technologically driven activities, developed to aid 5th grade students in visualizing, modeling, and explaining the phases of the moon. The lesson's objectives correlate to the New York State Science Core Curriculum Standards and The Next Generation Science Standards.
8. Jenna Santora
Fraction Frenzy
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This project focuses on teaching fractions to 3rd grade students. Students will learn about fractions through a variety of meaningful learning experiences that are fun, interactive, and hands on. Fractions are a topic that students struggle with and by learning them through multiple methods students have a greater chance of understanding them and taking the 'demon' out of denominator.
9. Rebecca Smith
Learning through Play
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Students learn best when they are able to explore their own intuitions. Encouraging them the freedom, while incorporating the work that needs to be done is a great balance to allow students the skills as well as the independence they need to succeed. Play is something that all children need, to explore their surrounding world and create their own knowledge of their environments.