CANDIDATE(S): Jordan Cyphers and Samantha Francis

DATE: December 4, 2007

EDUC 410 FINAL ASSIGNMENTS
CHECKLIST
Curriculum Integration & Cohesiveness
Please mark YES or NO to signify that you completed all of the assignments listed in the
table below:

YES NO INDICATOR
I have given my school colleagues (each person) a CD with the following
documents:
_____ Character Education _____ Standards Paper
_____ Horizontal Mapping _____ Science Charts
_____ Language Arts Charts _____ Math Charts
_____ Social Science Charts _____ Resource Documents
_____ Final Checklist – Fine Arts, PE, Health
_____ Final Checklist – Integration (collaboration / accommodations for diversity)
Each CD I have made has a label with
___ My name and my partner’s name
___ The grade level
___ The name of my colleague so he/she will be able to identify the one he/she is to obtain.

1.) Cite at least 5 examples of how you imparted your school’s mission throughout your
curriculum.

DAY TOPIC ACTIVITY

1. 2 Science Students use creativity to create leaves for a bulletin board.
2. 4 Science Students use creativity to make a landscape during the Spring season.
3. 33 Math Students learn the responsibility of money by shopping at the classroom store.
4. 149 Math Students present courage when presenting their projects in front of the class.
5. 41 Science Students use creativity when drawing a picture to represent vocabulary words.

2.) Cite at least 5 examples of how you included lessons and activities planned in your
Character Education Paper.
DAY TOPIC ACTIVITY
1. 1 Social Students learn about the qualities that develop good citizens just like Susan B.
Science Anthony and Martin Luther King Jr.
2. 9 Social Students learn about being humble in helping others and how this has been a part
 Science of their community from past to present through the efforts of the Red Cross.
3. 42 Social Students will create a map of where bears live in North America.
Science
4. 62 Social Students will learn it is important to take responsibility to learn about the world.
Science Students will learn the seven continents.
5. 77 Social Students will learn about the courage it took to move across America in hopes for
Science a better life like some settlers chose to do.

Cite at least 5 examples of use of technology.

DAY TOPIC ACTIVITY
1. 7 Science The students watch a video on life cycles.
2. 1 Science The students watch a video on the four seasons.
3. 122 Math The students use the computer to complete research for their report.
4. 9 Language The students use the computer to complete a word family sort.
Arts
5. 12 Language The students will read an interactive book online in which they have to fill in the
Arts correct words to complete the sentences.

3.) Cite at least 5 examples of collaboration with community resources.

DAY TOPIC ACTIVITY
1. 133 Math The students take a field trip to the local science museum to discover all of the
shapes that are around them everyday.
2. 15 Science The students take a field trip to a local apple orchard to learn about plants and
seeds.
3. 9 Science The students take a field trip to Amazement Square to learn about life cycles.
4. 167 Language The students take a field trip to Amazement Square to learn about working
Arts together as a group.
5. 4 Social The students will help to clean up their community by picking up trash at a local
Science park and planting flowers.

4.) Cite at least 5 examples of collaboration with families.

DAY TOPIC ACTIVITY
1. 99 Math The student’s parents send in 100 items for the students to create their 100 day
projects.
2. 2 Social The student’s parents will send in pictures of the community and their family
Science from the past.
3. 7 Social The student’s will interview a family member or friend of the family that is
Science elderly and learn more about the past of the community they both live in.
4. 18 Social The student’s parents will come in to help groups of students cook American
Science Indian bread called journey cake.
5. 21 Social The student’s parents will help their child complete a worksheet answering
Science questions about their family’s background to be used in a project.
 5.) Cite at least 5 examples of collaboration with colleagues.
DAY TOPIC ACTIVITY
1. 10 Social Another second grade class will join our second grade class to present what they
Science have learned about the past of their community.
2. 12 Social The teacher will have worked with the Librarian to have her set out books for her
Science class on the Chinese inventions we use today.
3. 18 Social The teacher will work with the Home Economics teacher to bake Native
Science American dishes and have her help students bake their own.
4. 22 Social The teacher will have informed the Art teacher that students are learning about
Science family trees. Students will create an oversized tree and draw pictures of family
members inside.
5. 23 Social The teacher will have worked with the Librarian to have her set out books for the
Science class on heritages and surnames.

6.) Cite at least 5 examples of use of assessment (various types).

DAY TOPIC ACTIVITY
1. 125 Math The students have a test on estimating.
2. 10 Science The students have a quiz on life cycles.
3. 5 Science The students complete a handout on the four seasons.
4. 135 Math The students play computer games about shapes.
5. 127 Math The students all participate in a class activity. The students will be given the
characteristics of a shape and have to pick out the correct shape.

7.) Cite at least 5 examples of use of literacy, problem solving, etc.

DAY TOPIC ACTIVITY
1. 16 Math The students use problem solving skills with addition and subtraction facts.
2. 169 Math The students create a story. The students then create a bar or circle graph about
the story.
3. 11 Science The students use problem solving to determine the correct order for the pictures
on plant growth.
4. 15 Science The students read “The Tiny Seed” by Eric Carle.
5. 1 Science The students read “Stories for All Seasons” by Eric Carle.

9.) Cite at least 10 examples of how you have used integration your curriculum. (eg. If
you are studying about Native Americans on Day 27 in social studies, are you also
reading a novel in reading group on Day 27 that would reinforce learning about Native
Americans? Are you doing an art project that relates to Native Americans? Etc.)
DAY TOPIC ACTIVITY
1. 15 Science Reading – The students read “The Tiny Seed” by Eric Carle.
2. 1 Science Reading – The students read “Stories for All Seasons” by Eric Carle.
3. 1 Science Music – The students sing a song about the four seasons.
4. 16 Science Reading/Poetry – The students read the poem “My Garden” about plants.
5. 3 Math Music – The students sing a song about the days of the week.
6. 11 Math Reading – The students read “The Very Hungary Caterpillar” by Eric Carle.
7. 41 Math Reading – The students read “The Five Little Ducks”.
8. 40 Language Science- Students will go outside and observe the weather.
Arts
9. 1 Social Reading- The teacher read “Russell the Sheep.”
Science
10 9 Social Reading- The teacher read “Maggie the Mink.”
. Science

10.) Cite at least 10 examples providing evidence that you have incorporated instructional
strategies that provide creative, multi-sensory, hands-on approaches to learning
throughout your curriculum.

DAY TOPIC ACTIVITY

1. 6 Math The students make their own clocks to use for class activities.
2. 11 Math The students use candy to practice addition and subtraction.
3. 15 Math The students throw bean bags through the holes. The students must add or
subtract the numbers that were on the holes that they threw the bags through.
4. 19 Math The student practice addition and subtraction facts by playing Bingo.
5. 11 Science The students sort seeds according to their characteristics.
6. 22 Science The students blow up balloons to help learn about the lungs.
7. 43 Science The students make plains and craters using clay.
8. 13 Language The students will play hopscotch, jumping on the long vowel sound the teacher
Arts says.
9. 12 Social The students will create a poster board that informs the class of the invention
Science they researched and includes both words and pictures.
10 18 Social The students will bake their own Native American bread.
. Science

11.) Cite at least 10 examples providing evidence that you have incorporated
accommodations / differentiation of instruction for diversity / exceptionalities
throughout your curriculum.

DAY TOPIC ACTIVITY

1. 44 Math The students having difficulty will get an alligator poster (>, <, =) taped to their
desk.
2. 77 Math The students having difficulty will be given a handout filled with different
 patterns to color by number. Once the picture is colored the students will be able
to easily see the patterns.
3. 90 Math The students having difficulty will be given a special ruler with extra markings
to make it easier to read.
4. 149 Math The students having difficulty cutting will be given pre-cut objects.
5. 21 Science The students having difficulty taking notes will be given fill-in-the-blank notes.
6. 28 Language Students having difficulty writing a paragraph will write simple phrases in
Arts columns.
7. 34 Language Students have trouble developing a fitness plan will be given a list of ideas to
Arts build off of.
8. 42 Language Students having trouble understanding meanings or words will be allowed to use
Arts the dictionary to look them up.
9. 54 Language Students having difficulty creating their own story will complete the story on an
Arts interactive website.
10 63 Language Students having difficulty completing the worksheet will be given a word bank.
. Arts

On my honor, I (Jordan Cyphers) have included accommodations for diverse learners /

exceptionalities at least one time per week throughout the curriculum or a minimum of 36
times over the course of the school year.)

On my honor, I (Samantha Francis) have included accommodations for diverse learners

/ exceptionalities at least one time per week throughout the curriculum or a minimum of
36 times over the course of the school year.)

On my honor, I (Jordan Cyphers) feel that I have put forth my best effort to create a
curriculum that is diverse in instruction and learning activities and will provide
meaningful experiences for each and every WHOLE child in academic, emotional,
physical, and spiritual ways.

On my honor, I (Samantha Francis) feel that I have put forth my best effort to create a
curriculum that is diverse in instruction and learning activities and will provide
meaningful experiences for each and every WHOLE child in academic, emotional,
physical, and spiritual ways.