Title:
Child
development through the age of six years
Aim:
Students
will display understanding and ease at recognizing child development processes.
Goal:
Students will be able to recognize and demonstrate the appropriate usage of the
developmental processes children go through from an infant to age six.
Objectives:
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Students
will identify and apply physical, emotional, linguistic and intellectual
development processes to real-life.
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Students will identify and apply five specific
developmental processes and how children progress through each of the five
processes from an infant to six years.
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Students will choose three specific developmental
processes based upon agreement of the entire class and apply them to
real-life.
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Students will create expressive gestures and
movements to present their project to the class.
Statement
of Problem:
The
county of Waukesha received $500,000 in grants and donations to build a daycare
facility. The money is to be used
to build a daycare for infants to children age six.
The money is to be used to construct the facility and to purchase
equipment and materials for daycare teachers and children.
Conditions:
* Students must include a cost list that documents
how the money was spent
*Students will use the information they have
learned in class to design the structure and decided what equipment and
materials to include
*Students will include a key and color so that
they are easily understandable
*Drawn to scale
*Products must be neat
Parameters:
*All costs can not exceed $500,000
*The facility must be appropriate for the age
range of infancy through age six
*The facility must comply with general safety
standards set by building inspectors
*Total area of the facility must not exceed 10,000
square feet
Skills
needed to solve problem successfully:
*Interpersonal skills
*Spatial skills
*Mathematical/logical skills/calculations
*Research skills
*Organizational skills
*Budgeting
*Graphics
*Artistic skills
*Creativity
*Compare/Contrast (critical thinking)
*Reflective skills
*Communication
Methods
of Evaluation:
*Students
will create a rubric that will assess their projects, but it must assess
organization, neatness and appropriateness of project based upon content area
information. The class decides
upon other areas of assessment.
*Students will self-assess their project using the
rubric.
*Students will peer assess others projects using
the rubric.
*Teacher will also assess the projects using the
student-generated rubric.
Rationale
statement: Students
will apply content area material to real-life through the development of this
assignment.
Teacher
responsibilities:
*Find community resources willing to help out
students
*Provide names, numbers and address of community
resources available
*Make
all conditions and parameters clear to class
*Provide students with some catalogs to use as
some of their resources for ideas on equipment and materials to purchase that
include price listings
Student
responsibilities:
*If choose to work in groups, each group member
must contribute to the project.
*If work in group, must respect everyone’s
ideas.
*Use accurate information.
*Follow all conditions and parameters
*Put forth effort
Extraneous
support needed:
*Building contractors
*Building inspectors
*Library resources
*Daycare teachers/staff
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