Students must create an inquiry-based, integrated study (see Week 3 PPT), Curriculum Plan, using the Curriculum Planning Web as a guide for your study. Based on the concepts identified on the Curriculum Planning Web, students will develop one Lesson Plan for each of the following designated Learning Centers: 1) Math; 2) Literacy; 3) Social-Emotional; and 4) Science/Engineering), using the required BLANK Lesson Plan template available on myCMU – Resources and Materials page. The Inquiry-based Curriculum Plan topic should fit the expectations presented and explained in the Week 3 PowerPoint. Best care scenario would be to identify the Topic of Interest during a brainstorming session with children in a real-life classroom. Students would identify topics that they have a vested interest in learning more about. Then the CMU student would compose an Anchor Chart of these topics. Students would then vote on which topics or the order of topics that would be investigated. Since, realistically, it may not be a possible for all students taking this course to have access to young children in a classroom setting, use the criteria set forth in the Week 3 PowerPoint to select a suitable Topic of Interest for the chosen age/grade level of your Curriculum Plan Project.
The following are a list of components to be included in your Curriculum Plan Project: Please house all components of the project in an electronic Doc File. Each of the bold and italicized sub-heading sections below should be typed (Word Processed) and included in the Doc File. All typed components should be Times New Roman, 12-point font, double-spaced format.