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CHS250 STEM
in ECE

Unit 1 Assignment

Classroom Observation Report

A preschool teacher will employ 3 different types of lessons
as they plan experiences for their curriculum:
naturalistic, informal, and structured. You need to read the selection
by Lind in the articles and website area of the readings and resources link.
She gives very specific definitions of these three important lesson types you
will use as you facilitate the learning of your young children. Each has its
advantages.

Visit a preschool or kindergarten classroom and observe a
Math or Science lesson or lessons in that classroom. After you have read Lind’s selection on
naturalistic, informal, and structured lessons, write your observations of what
you saw or were implied as you watched the experience unfold. Use her
guidelines as a resource when you construct your paper of two pages.

The requirements for your classroom observation are:

Observe a prek, kindergarten or primary classroom. Describe the STEM experiences you observe by
addressing the following questions

Are they naturalistic, informal or structured learning
experiences that are discussed this week?
This portion of the answer needs to relate to the understanding of the
three types of lessons that occur in the classroom. There are very specific statements that
define these types of lessons. You will
discover throughout this course that most of what you will do in your early
childhood classroom will be naturalistic or informal learning experiences. It
is also through these experiences that you will get most of your assessment and
evaluation information on your students and your lesson effectiveness.

What did you like about the experiences you observed?

How were STEM concepts integrated into the curriculum you
observed? If they were not part of the
lessons you observed, how do you think they could have been incorporated into
those lessons?

How would you have improved or expanded on these learning
experiences?

Are there any questions about what you observed?

Expected Length of the assignment is 2 pages.

CHS250 STEM
in ECE

Unit 1 Assignment

Final Reflection of Resources

We will study the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering
and Mathematics and how they relate to preschool planning curriculum through
the readings, resources, articles and websites, videos, planning resources and
supplemental resources provided in the individual units of this course. These resources replace the textbook and are
current materials written by many individual field professionals with life
experiences that can give real input into your studies.

Therefore, the first part of the final assignment will ask
you to comment on one resource taken from each of the units, your choice. Read all the resources and visit all the
links provided in each unit before you make your selection. Some readings will
be knowledge you are already familiar with and are solidified by reading. There
will be some that will stretch your thinking and give you a new perspective.
Certainly, understanding that this coursework is intended to inform, extend
your thinking, invite you to query, reflect and refine towards your journey in
practice, this assignment will be the final project completed along the way of
these eight weeks as you create new knowledge each week.

I would like you to select a resource from the readings and
answer these four questions:

What is the name of the resource, article, website or video?

What was the overall idea of the resource and how it related
to the whole unit under study? Ex. how it relates to the unit of science.

What was one important idea that you will use in your
classroom that clicked for you from this resource?

How has this resource changed your thinking, being specific
about where you were in your thinking to what you read and digested that made
that aha moment of change?

This assignment
should be approximately 2 full pages in length, reflect the entire meaning of
the selected resource in a short synopsis form commentary and answer fully the
four areas noted in the assignment. It should be submitted using the four
bullets and answers underneath each bullet to be consistent in content from the
question. These will be collected after
each unit, graded, commented upon by the instructor and kept as part of the final
assignment. You must complete one each week to be current.

CHS250 STEM
in ECE

Unit 2 Assignment

Science Activity Plan

This assignment will require you to plan out a Science
activity using the attached student sample as a guide.

I have attached
several articles that have been retrieved from the NSTA professional journal
Science and Young Children. Many times teachers get ideas for their lessons
from reading articles, looking at magazines, Pinterest or just searching the
web. Knowing that science is at the heart of the questions children ask and
subjects they are interested in, this assignment asks you to select an article
and answer some insightful questions about how you will use this information
from the selection. A well- constructed lesson plan has prescribed elements
such as:

Title

Standard

Key Objectives

Materials

Vocabulary

Initiation

Procedures

Closure

Assessments

We also learned
in unit 1 that there are three forms of lessons, naturalistic, informal and
structured. Although there is a bit of planning in the environment and
selection of materials that affect the naturalistic and informal activities in
your classroom, this assignment will concern itself with the structured lesson.

Peruse through
the selections and make a choice of an article that will inform you as you
create a lesson with your chosen topic of study that you selected in unit
1. They are as follows:

Birds in Winter

Science Tickets

Please Touch Museum

The Story of Corn

Leaf it to Nature

A Reason to Write

Exploring the Properties of a Mixture

Shape Exploration: Another Dimension

Inquiry at Play

Light Foundations

For each of the
next set of questions, write a paragraph about each explaining how you will use
the information.

1. Name of the
article from the attachment and your topic of study highlighted in yellow

2. The main idea
of the article that you want to use highlighted in yellow

3. Choose a
standard that you would use to document the lesson. This will come from either
your home state’s Early Learning Standards or the CTELDS found in the NAEYC
Library found on the top of the sidebar in this course.

4. A brief
explanation of what you want to do in your lesson with a connection to
vocabulary words that will be used and some materials you would have on hand.
Vocabulary words are very important to focus on and need to be worked properly
into the lesson.

Where could you involve the community in their learning?

How will you know if the lesson has met its standards and
objectives?

Things to think about:

Where will you get the standards? Look on your State’s
website to locate the Pre-K standards.

In CT ELDS

Next Generation Science Standards

Hopefully, you are using the standards as a foundation for
what you teach so that your students are learning the material they should be
learning; that’s the science of teaching. Then you take the standards and
create objectives for your students; that’s the art of teaching. This is how we
make a meaningful connection between the standards and objectives. The
standards are the goals, which are generally abstract and general statements.
Specific objectives are then clustered under these standards. In other words,
objectives are statements that describe learner outcomes. Next, be sure that the actual activity that
the learner will perform connects to the standards and objectives you already
identified.

Students: Be sure to
read the Rubric criteria, by which your paper/project will be evaluated before
you write, and again after you write.

CHS250 STEM
in ECE

Unit 2 Assignment

Final Reflection of Resources

CHANGE!! We will study the areas of Science, Technology,
Engineering and Mathematics and how they relate to preschool planning
curriculum through the readings, resources, articles and websites, videos,
planning resources and supplemental resources provided in the individual units
of this course. These resources replace
the textbook and are current materials written by many individual field
professionals with life experiences that can give real input into your studies.

Therefore, the first part of the final assignment will ask
you to comment on one resource taken from each of the units, your choice. Read all the resources and visit all the
links provided in each unit before you make your selection. Some readings will
be knowledge you are already familiar with and are solidified by reading. There
will be some that will stretch your thinking and give you new perspective.
Certainly, understanding that this coursework is intended to inform, extend
your thinking, invite you to query, reflect and refine towards your journey in
practice, this assignment will be the final project completed along the way of
these eight weeks as you create new knowledge each week. .

I would like you to select a resource from the readings and
answer these four questions:

What is the name of the resource, article, website or video?

What was the overall idea of the resource and how it related
to the whole unit under study? Ex. how it relates to the unit of science.

What was one important idea that you will use in your
classroom that clicked for you from this resource?

How has this resource changed your thinking, being specific
about where you were in your thinking to what you read and digested that made
that aha moment of change?

This assignment
should be approximately 2 full pages in length, reflect the entire meaning of
the selected resource in a short synopsis form commentary and answer fully the
four areas noted in the assignment. It should be submitted using the four
bullets and answers underneath each bullet to be consistent in content from the
question. These will be collected after
each unit, graded, commented upon by the instructor and kept as part of the
final assignment. You must complete one each week to be current.

CHS250 STEM
in ECE

Unit 3 Assignment

Final Reflection of Resources

We will study the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering
and Mathematics and how they relate to preschool planning curriculum through
the readings, resources, articles and websites, videos, planning resources and
supplemental resources provided in the individual units of this course. These resources replace the textbook and are
current materials written by many individual field professionals with life
experiences that can give real input into your studies.

Therefore, the first part of the final assignment will ask
you to comment on one resource taken from each of the units, your choice. Read all the resources and visit all the
links provided in each unit before you make your selection. Some readings will
be knowledge you are already familiar with and are solidified by reading. There
will be some that will stretch your thinking and give you a new perspective.
Certainly, understanding that this coursework is intended to inform, extend
your thinking, invite you to query, reflect and refine towards your journey in
practice, this assignment will be the final project completed along the way of
these eight weeks as you create new knowledge each week.

I would like you to select a resource from the readings and
answer these four questions:

What is the name of the resource, article, website or video?

What was the overall idea of the resource and how it related
to the whole unit under study? Ex. how it relates to the unit of Technology.

What was one important idea that you will use in your
classroom that clicked for you from this resource?

How has this resource changed your thinking, being specific
about where you were in your thinking to what you read and digested that made
that aha moment of change?

This assignment
should be approximately 2 full pages in length, reflect the entire meaning of
the selected resource in a short synopsis form commentary and answer fully the
four areas noted in the assignment. It should be submitted using the four
bullets and answers underneath each bullet to be consistent in content from the
question. These will be collected after
each unit, graded, commented upon by the instructor and kept as part of the
final assignment. You must complete one each week to be current.

CHS250 STEM
in ECE

Unit 3 Assignment

Technology Activity Plan

This assignment will require you to plan a Technology
activity using the attached format labeled Activity Plan. Your focus with this plan will be on Physical
and Life Science.

It must include a state standard, be developmentally appropriate
and intentional in design and meet the needs of all the students.

Remember to include vocabulary words that will enhance the
concepts you are planning.

This activity can be used in your final project when you
create your weekly plan.

The requirements for your activity plan are:

Create one activity using the template attached

Think about how to incorporate more than
math/science/engineering in the lesson

CHS250 STEM
in ECE

Unit 4 Assignment

Engineering Activity Plan

This design challenge activity is going to begin in a
familiar place for the students. A good preschool classroom is filled with
stories that children beg to be read again and again. Teachers understand that
reading to children and talking about stories that they have read together build
positive relationships and later help when they support their problem solving
together. Children take comfort in knowing what the story has in store for them
and they build relationships with those characters. It is likely then that they
would like to help them solve some of their problems. Stories like The Three
Little Pigs come to mind when thinking about a problem that needs to be solved.
They need to build a structure that will withstand hurricane winds to keep the
piggies safe. Another story might be, Are You My Mother? The bird needs a
sturdy nest. By using a familiar story, discussing what the characters might
need, you will have an authentic place to begin problem-solving. Use the
attached Bug City scenario to help you build your own design challenge. I have
attached a challenge we created for, Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice
Sendak.

Additionally,
this activity builds on involving the families in their child’s development and
learning. As you move through the challenge with the children, you will be
modeling for them the steps in the Scientific Method and employing the basics
of the engineering process, brainstorming, building, trying and testing,
revising and sharing as well as giving the families a connection with preparing
their children for later problem-solving successes.

Design CHS 250 Bug City Making and Tinkering(1).pdf

Here are some examples of challenges.

CHS250 STEM
in ECE

Unit 4 Assignment

Final Reflection of Resources

We will study the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering
and Mathematics and how they relate to preschool planning curriculum through
the readings, resources, articles and websites, videos, planning resources and
supplemental resources provided in the individual units of this course. These resources replace the textbook and are
current materials written by many individual field professionals with life
experiences that can give real input into your studies.

Therefore, the first part of the final assignment will ask
you to comment on one resource taken from each of the units, your choice. Read all the resources and visit all the
links provided in each unit before you make your selection. Some readings will
be knowledge you are already familiar with and are solidified by reading. There
will be some that will stretch your thinking and give you new perspective.
Certainly, understanding that this coursework is intended to inform, extend
your thinking, invite you to query, reflect and refine towards your journey in
practice, this assignment will be the final project completed along the way of
these eight weeks as you create new knowledge each week. .

I would like you to select a resource from the readings and
answer these four questions:

What is the name of the resource, article, website or video?

What was the overall idea of the resource and how it related
to the whole unit under study? Ex. how it relates to the unit of Engineering.

What was one important idea that you will use in your
classroom that clicked for you from this resource?

How has this resource changed your thinking, being specific
about where you were in your thinking to what you read and digested that made
that aha moment of change?

This assignment
should be approximately 2 full pages in length, reflect the entire meaning of
the selected resource in a short synopsis form commentary and answer fully the
four areas noted in the assignment. It should be submitted using the four
bullets and answers underneath each bullet to be consistent in content from the
question. These will be collected after
each unit, graded, commented upon by the instructor and kept as part of the
final assignment. You must complete one each week to be current.

CHS250 STEM
in ECE

Unit 5 Assignment

Math Domains Activity

You will be assigned to research one of the 5 major Domains.
They are Number and Operations, Geometry and Spatial Sense, Algebra, Patterns
and Functions, Data collection and Analysis and Measurement. You will be able
to work and submit the document for the entire class to view. Your instructor
will assign you to a category. You will create 5 strategic teaching practices
and reflect upon them in a 3-page paper.

1. Mathematize the
world around the children. We offer children the lens from which they can see
the math living in their lives every day. You will comment on what meaningful
situations would arise for your topic. Where would you see children
experiencing this understanding of mathematical understanding?

2. Concrete
learning experiences are paramount for young children to understand the
connections to math concepts and their everyday materials and actions. Children
need to be helped to use these materials for mathematical purposes. Strategize
several materials found in early childhood classrooms that you could use in
multiple ways to make these connections between concrete experiences, symbols,
pictures and language.

3. Recognizing
receptive understanding means we know that young children understand more
concepts that she can speak. It requires us to figure out what the child
actually understands and how we can help the child verbalize their
understanding. Giving them more words to explain their mathematical
understanding will be the next part of this assignment. What words can we
communicate to scaffold their understanding of this topic?

4. Math needs to be
multisensory. The more modes we deliver content within the deeper the knowledge
expands. Explain the topic with experiences that involve all 5 senses.

5 . We scaffold our
young children to construct their own understanding of these mathematical
concepts each and every day. Understanding can be captured by standardized
measures such as checklists and written papers. They can also be measured by
discussion with our young students. Comment upon how you would learn about the
children’s understanding of the topic chosen. Knowing what stage the child is
in needs to be known and addressed to be able to help them to the next step of
understanding.

CHS250 STEM
in ECE

Unit 5 Assignment

Final Reflection of Resources

We will study the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering
and Mathematics and how they relate to preschool planning curriculum through
the readings, resources, articles and websites, videos, planning resources and
supplemental resources provided in the individual units of this course. These resources replace the textbook and are
current materials written by many individual field professionals with life
experiences that can give real input into your studies.

Therefore, the first part of the final assignment will ask
you to comment on one resource taken from each of the units, your choice. Read all the resources and visit all the
links provided in each unit before you make your selection. Some readings will
be knowledge you are already familiar with and are solidified by reading. There
will be some that will stretch your thinking and give you new perspective.
Certainly, understanding that this coursework is intended to inform, extend
your thinking, invite you to query, reflect and refine towards your journey in
practice, this assignment will be the final project completed along the way of
these eight weeks as you create new knowledge each week. .

I would like you to select a resource from the readings and
answer these four questions:

What is the name of the resource, article, website or video?

What was the overall idea of the resource and how it related
to the whole unit under study? Ex. how it relates to the unit of Mathematics.

What was one important idea that you will use in your
classroom that clicked for you from this resource?

How has this resource changed your thinking, being specific
about where you were in your thinking to what you read and digested that made
that aha moment of change?

This assignment
should be approximately 2 full pages in length, reflect the entire meaning of
the selected resource in a short synopsis form commentary and answer fully the
four areas noted in the assignment. It should be submitted using the four
bullets and answers underneath each bullet to be consistent in content from the
question. These will be collected after
each unit, graded, commented upon by the instructor and kept as part of the
final assignment. You must complete one each week to be current.

CHS250 STEM
in ECE

Unit 6 Assignment

Final Reflection of Resources

We will study the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering
and Mathematics and how they relate to preschool planning curriculum through
the readings, resources, articles and websites, videos, planning resources and
supplemental resources provided in the individual units of this course. These resources replace the textbook and are
current materials written by many individual field professionals with life
experiences that can give real input into your studies.

Therefore, the first part of the final assignment will ask
you to comment on one resource taken from each of the units, your choice. Read all the resources and visit all the
links provided in each unit before you make your selection. Some readings will
be knowledge you are already familiar with and are solidified by reading. There
will be some that will stretch your thinking and give you new perspective.
Certainly, understanding that this coursework is intended to inform, extend
your thinking, invite you to query, reflect and refine towards your journey in
practice, this assignment will be the final project completed along the way of
these eight weeks as you create new knowledge each week. .

I would like you to select a resource from the readings and
answer these four questions:

What is the name of the resource, article, website or video?

What was the overall idea of the resource and how it related
to the whole unit under study? Ex. how it relates to the unit of science.

What was one important idea that you will use in your
classroom that clicked for you from this resource?

How has this resource changed your thinking, being specific
about where you were in your thinking to what you read and digested that made
that aha moment of change?

This assignment
should be approximately 2 full pages in length, reflect the entire meaning of
the selected resource in a short synopsis form commentary and answer fully the
four areas noted in the assignment. It should be submitted using the four
bullets and answers underneath each bullet to be consistent in content from the
question. These will be collected after
each unit, graded, commented upon by the instructor and kept as part of the
final assignment. You must complete one each week to be current.

CHS250 STEM
in ECE

Unit 6 Assignment

Fiction and Non-Fiction texts

This assignment will have you look at the differences
between fiction and non-fiction books you might select for use in your
classroom. Fiction books typically have a beginning, middle and end, have plots
and characters that develop. Non-fiction books are subject organized, have fact
boxes, sidebars, graphs, table of contents, illustrations and captions and an
index. Naturally with preschool children their level of reading either genre
will be limited but this is where the teacher can be extremely effective in
creating a good disposition towards reading material. Some web sites to use
when you are researching good titles are:

http://www.nsta.org/publications/ostb/ostb2016.aspx

http://www.pbs.org/parents/education/math/math-tips-for-parents/math-books/

https://shop.nationalgeographic.com/category/books/kids-books

Try also NAEYC, NSTA, TCTM.
Each of these professional associations have reference materials
dedicated to children’s book titles. I will also use Amazon with subject titles
for a list and search Pinterest.

For this
assignment you will choose a non-fiction book related to your topic of study
that you have been working with during this course and the topic you submitted
in unit 1.

Name the title,
author and genre.

Discuss why you
chose this title and where you found it.

Record how you
will present the book to the class and what the children will do with this
information from your selected title.

an example for this
assignment :

In keeping with
my rocks theme I will select the book Rocks Hard, Soft, Smooth and Rough by
Natalie M. Rosinsky. It is a non-fiction book. I chose this book because it
fits my topic, has a table of contents, glossary and index. I searched Amazon
for rock children’s books and came across this selection which contained points
that I wanted to introduce the children namely functions of a non-fiction book.
I wanted to introduce why we need a table of contents and as I looked at the
book it was organized with the three classifications of rocks,which is part of
a lesson I was planning. It had a simple chart which sorted the rocks into
groups like color, feels like and uses which had pictures and descriptive words
that I would use to build their vocabulary. The book had facts on every page
that worked well with the illustrations and large print for easy reading.

I will have this book on the reading rug with several other
rock books. I will sit in with the group of children on the rug and inquire
about what they see on the pages. I will ask probing questions about what they
see on each page. They will respond with ideas from their own background
knowledge. I will use this to further their experiences with sorting and
classification.

CHS250 STEM
in ECE

Unit 7 Assignment

The KWHL Chart

The traditional K-W-L charts addressed the what the student
knows, what he/she wants to know and what was learned. There are two resources
listed in this unit and a youtube selection. Including an “H” for
“How” is a 21st century addition.

How could the “H” be implemented by the teacher
and with the students?

Does it add to the robustness of the tool?

How would Vygotsky and Piaget react to your new chart?

Answer these questions fully in a one page paper.

CHS250 STEM
in ECE

Unit 7 Assignment

Final Reflection of Resources

We will study the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering
and Mathematics and how they relate to preschool planning curriculum through
the readings, resources, articles and websites, videos, planning resources and
supplemental resources provided in the individual units of this course. These resources replace the textbook and are
current materials written by many individual field professionals with life
experiences that can give real input into your studies.

Therefore, the first part of the final assignment will ask
you to comment on one resource taken from each of the units, your choice. Read all the resources and visit all the
links provided in each unit before you make your selection. Some readings will
be knowledge you are already familiar with and are solidified by reading. There
will be some that will stretch your thinking and give you new perspective.
Certainly, understanding that this coursework is intended to inform, extend
your thinking, invite you to query, reflect and refine towards your journey in
practice, this assignment will be the final project completed along the way of
these eight weeks as you create new knowledge each week. .

I would like you to select a resource from the readings and
answer these four questions:

What is the name of the resource, article, website or video?

What was the overall idea of the resource and how it related
to the whole unit under study? Ex. how it relates to the unit of science.

What was one important idea that you will use in your
classroom that clicked for you from this resource?

How has this resource changed your thinking, being specific
about where you were in your thinking to what you read and digested that made
that aha moment of change?

This assignment
should be approximately 2 full pages in length, reflect the entire meaning of
the selected resource in a short synopsis form commentary and answer fully the
four areas noted in the assignment. It should be submitted using the four
bullets and answers underneath each bullet to be consistent in content from the
question. These will be collected after
each unit, graded, commented upon by the instructor and kept as part of the
final assignment. You must complete one each week to be current.

CHS250 STEM
in ECE

Unit 8 Assignment

Final Reflection of Resources

We will study the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering
and Mathematics and how they relate to preschool planning curriculum through
the readings, resources, articles and websites, videos, planning resources and
supplemental resources provided in the individual units of this course. These resources replace the textbook and are
current materials written by many individual field professionals with life
experiences that can give real input into your studies.

Therefore, the first part of the final assignment will ask
you to comment on one resource taken from each of the units, your choice. Read all the resources and visit all the
links provided in eac