Bondurant-Farrar Community School District

Artifact Cover and Reflection

Artifact Title: The Great State Race

Teaching Standard: 2

Demonstrates competence in content knowledge appropriate to the teaching position.

Standard Criteria: C

Relates ideas and information within and across content areas.

I choose this artifact to show:

___X__ Growth in the standard

_____ Strength and competency in the standard

Description of the artifact and how it meets the standard and criteria:

This artifact shows the activity that I complete with my Social Studies classes. We make
a race out of it. In Social Studies, we learn the region of the United States. This game
asks the students to get postcards from all 50 states in the United States. I chose to use
this as an artifact because we talk about social studies, math and writing in this project.
For Social Studies, we talk about the map skills, population, and facts about the state.
For Writing, we talk about the writing style of a postcard and how to correctly write a
postcard. For math, we talk about the population in comparison to Iowa’s. We also talk
about how far it is in miles to reach Bondurant. It is one of the students favorite
activities.

Reflection on the artifact:

This is one of my favorite activities that I complete in a school year. The students,
parents and my teaching partner get so involved into this. It is the first thing that we
discuss in Social Studies. I think it is a great cross-curricular activity. This relates
information across each subject easily.