This week my resource is Kids Discover. This website is geared towards cross-curricular activities, lesson plans, and games. They have resources for all content areas and give suggestions on how to incorporate them into your classroom. Another helpful link this website offers is a resource on how to build cross-curricular lessons that meet state and common core standards. It’s a free webinar that offers tips on how to merge science and ELA, math and science, social studies and ELA, etc. The lessons are geared towards middle grades students and younger.
The lesson plans offered, give detailed instructions on how to execute the tasks as well as highlighting standards addressed, learning goals, and outcomes. They also start off with a “Big Idea” question, much like the grand questions we practiced writing a couple weeks ago. The lesson then identifies at least two content areas and standards from each that the plan will cover. The lesson I found interesting and relevant to science and social studies was Nature and Flight. The lesson takes a scientific approach by studying birds and how they fly and then it segues into social studies by studying the history of planes and the mechanics of planes. The lesson links the two by comparing the wings of a bird to the wings of a plane and has students construct planes out of materials with the knowledge they’ve learned about the mechanics of bird wings and plane wings.
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I Love this website and I plan on using it when i become a teacher. I think as teachers we should start telling students that all the content relates in one way or another. This website is like a goal mind for teachers because it has the common core standards and meets Georgia standards. More websites like Kids Discover should be talk about and used more in public schools.
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ReplyDeleteI like this website because of how much it emphasizes cross curricular studies. I think as teachers we forget how much each of our content areas influence one another and if we can gravitate our lessons towards that we can help out our students because they will gain a deeper understanding of what they are learning and be able to apply it outside of just our classroom.
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