Science Lesson Plan Continuum of Inquiry

Depth of Knowledge (DOK) Levels

EDM Assessment Item Analysis

Linked is a word document that encompasses all of the Everyday Mathematics Assessments 2012 and their Item Analysis (as well as alignment to standards).

Total number of items per assessment is limited to 20 questions and one response. Feel free to add in questions and further amend as you see fit. If part of a team we'll have grade level time to hash some of this out. 

2012-2013 Objective Sequence

This is how we are keeping ourselves organized this year:

2012-2013 Objective Sequence

The link takes you to a (rather large) excel spreadsheet with a column for each subject and a row for each day of the school year. Slowly, but surely objectives/DOLs/lesson overviews are being filled in for every subject, every day.
This way we can see what is happening in a single subject long term, as well as what is happening across the subjects any given day or week.

Mosaic of Thought: Reading Comprehension Strategies

A few notes from Mosaic of Thought: Teaching Comprehension in a Reader's Workshop by Ellin Oliver Keene and Susan Zimmermann

Ultimate Goal: Monitoring for meaning and solving reading problems independently

Metacognition: Cognitive Strategies for Solving Problems

• Relating new to known (Schema)
• Determining importance
• Questioning
• Creating mental images
• Inferring
• Synthesizing

There are six strategies that Keene and Zimmermann focus on in their book and six transdisciplinary units we're teaching this year. I'm thinking we assign one strategy as the focus for each unit, such that by the end of that unit the goal would be for students to be fluent in using that strategy in all their reading.

Pre-unit / Unit 1: Relating new to known (Schema) + Creating mental images
Unit 2: Determining importance
Unit 3: Questioning
Unit 4: Inferring
Units 5 + 6: Synthesizing

Thoughts?

Mathematics Pre-Planning

I just realized I had these documents and I should upload. I'll be sure to review during Teacher Institute. If you would like to review ahead of time to bring comments, questions, and suggestions, this is ideal. See you all soon!

• 5th Grade Everday Math Scope and Sequence
• 5th Grade Everyday Math LTP 2012-2013
• 5th Grade Math Review and Enrichment LTP 2012 - 2013

Transdisciplinary Units 1 - 3

Below you can find the Transdisciplinary Units 1 - 3.

• (AM) Pre-Unit & Unit 1
• (MU) Unit 2

Unit 2 Remarks:

All of the Standards are relevant and based on priority. The standards documents in the previous post are where they come from for Science and Social Studies. The objectives are in-process. I simply put down an idea of what I think we'll cover. Much work needed in Part III. Parts I and II should be relatively solid (of course in need of tweaks). 

NJ CCCS Science and Social Studies (2009)

I've prioritized the standards for Science and Social Studies using the 2009 standards. I reformatted these into a new document, so you'll have to go to the Google Drive to view the standards for other grades.

Keep in mind, the standards are "By the end of 8th grade" (or 6th). And, of course, we can change these as needed. I'm just getting the ball rolling.

• 2009 NJ CCCS Science 5h Grade Priorities
• 2009 NJ CCCS Social Studies 5th Grade Priorities

Updating Year Standards Scope and Sequence

I just wanted to let everyone know I'm in process of copying the standards text into our document as well as prioritizing the standards as we agreed. A few are deleted, however I reserved the document so the original exists. Not much movement, really just copy and past with a few adjustments. Document tile is Revised Standards by Unit 2012-2013 located in Curriculum and Instruction -> UbD Framework.

Documents to Review:

• Revised Standards by Unit 2012-2013
• CCSSI ELA Standards

In CCSSI ELA Standards, the standards are color coated by Unit. See Key below:

1. Orange = Unit 1- Who We Are
2. Green = Unit 2 - Where We Are In Place and Time
3. Blue = Unit 3 - How We Organize Ourselves
4. Purple = Unit 4 - How The World Works
5. Yellow = Unit 5 - Sharing the Planet
6. Red = Unit 6 - How We Express Ourselves

As we rearrange the standards I feel it is best to re-track in the CCSSI ELA Standards document to ensure we have complete coverage (without having the keep a separate list or re-evaluate the standards we are covering).

Thinking forward. We can create a tracker for ELA based on the standards we have in this document. Thus we'd track 3-5 Standards per unit, but they would be comprised on a Formative and Summative score. Thoughts?

Standards by Unit 2012 - 2013

Google Doc for Upcoming CCS for Each Subject and Unit/Theme: Standards by Unit 2012 - 2013

Preliminary Transdisciplinary Units

The follow link has the Preliminary Transdisciplinary Units for the 2012-2013 Academic Year.