Assignment Question
CREATIVE ACTIVITIES PLAN
In this section, you will design a creative activities plan with your team. Using your group’s overarching theme and big ideas for the unit content, concepts from this course, information from your collaborative planning session with colleagues, and any additional resources, you will generate 8 different workstations/small group/large group activities that are related to your overall theme. This writing should be clear and concise. Using bullet points is encouraged. Each activity needs at least one objective (what the students will learn) and one skill (what students will do/practice). Looking through standards can help you locate ECE objectives/skills, along with our text and other early childhood curricula. It is expected that you will have the same plan as your group members, but everyone will hand in their own work. For your reference… https://www.isbe.net/Documents/early_learning_standards.pdf https://www.naeyc.org/sites/default/files/globally-shared/downloads/PDFs/resources/position-statements/side_by_side_standards_comparison.pdf Overarching Thematic Idea (s): Here you need to explain you overall theme and how it will serve as a thread, connecting all your creative activities.
Assessing students learning and development: Formative: Explain what you will do to monitor students’ progress/understanding during these creative activities, ongoing throughout the entire unit
Summative: Create a final project/performance-based activity/display of documentation that will culminate the entire thematic unit and showcase students’progress/understanding Creative Activities-Workstations and Classroom Experiences: Example Science: Exploring water Objectives: -Observe characteristics of water -Explore objects in water, what floats what sinks -Experiment with measurement (e.g. work with volumes/estimation for liquids) Materials/Set up: -water in various forms (ice/snow/warm water) -water table/sink -different types of containers, objects for floating/sinking/blocking flow with water Activity: -Students will explore water features, measurement and experiment with different containers, objects and water -Teachers will observe with documentation, add/remove materials, generate conversation with students You need to create 8 different stations in the following content areas.
Dramatic Play: Objective: Skills: Materials/Set up: Activity: (what students will be doing, what teachers will be doing) Language/literacy: Objective: Skills: Materials/Set up: Activity: (what students will be doing, what teachers will be doing) Music/dance: Objective: Skills: Materials/Set up: Activity: (what students will be doing, what teachers will be doing) Math: Objective: Skills: Materials/Set up: Activity: (what students will be doing, what teachers will be doing) Visual Arts: Objective: Skills: Materials/Set up Activity: (what students will be doing, what teachers will be doing) Science/nature: Objective: Skills: Materials/Set up: Activity: SEL: Objective: Skills: Materials/Set up: Activity: (what students will be doing, what teachers will be doing) Social studies/culture Objective: Skills: Materials/Set up: Activity:
SECTION 3: REFERENCES
You need to have at least 5 references for this project. They can be any of our course materials/resources, picture books, songs, videos, games, websites etc. These materials should be diverse, developmentally appropriate and it is expected that you will have the same resources as your group members. Please create a standard bibliography, using APA format. This website is a nice reference for APA.
