Meticulously edited links for Common Core Standards and related lessons. All links are live, functioning and have been reviewed for quality. Matthew Bamberg is a writer, educator and photographer who is an adjunct professor at two universities and who has had 12 books published on photography and technology.
Saturday, July 4, 2020
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
World Cultures are the focus of the National Endowment for the Humanities Lesson Plans
Angkor Wat Buddhist monument photo by Matthew Bamberg |
The Angkor Wat lesson is particularly noteworthy in that these ruins in Cambodia is the largest religious monument in the world.
Tuesday, June 30, 2020
5 Photography Lesson Plans with CCSS Standards
Photo by Matthew Bamberg |
1. Documenting Learning with Digital Cameras
2. Portraits that Capture Character
3. Bringing Cuba to Life with Photographs
4. 10 Intriguing Photographs to Teach Close Reading and Visual Thinking Skills
5. Teaching Photography's Rule of Thirds
Friday, June 26, 2020
Units on Mexican and Guatemalan History and Culture that would Align Well With Common Core
Mayan Ruins at Chichén Itzá in Yucatan, Mexico Courtesy of Chris Newsome |
Harvard puts out a great teacher's guide, Magnificent Maya, and NASA puts out Calendar in the Sky that deals with the Mayan concept of time.
Both would align well with the following Common Core standards:
Grade 2: Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
Grade 6-8: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies.
In addition, check out the resources for the Magnificent Maya lessons and a study of Mayan fables.
Saturday, June 6, 2020
Multicultural Poetry for Phonological Awareness and Reading Fluency
Multicultural Poetry is also a good way to teach rhyming words. Also, you can consider culture with respect to poetry and read poems by diverse groups of poets. See https://poets.org/anthology/popular-poems-teach
Teaching students multicultural poetry requires that they "develop an established receptive and productive oral language vocabulary, an established understanding of the concepts of print (e.g., directionality, the understanding that print carries a message), the ability to hear and manipulate sounds in words (phonemic awareness), a basic sight-word vocabulary (i.e., any word the learner can recognize immediately and without decoding; Ehri, 1995), and a growing understanding of how words work within the larger grammatical structures of language (syntax). Prepared with these skills, students can begin to develop automatic word recognition, or automaticity" (Helman, p. 182).
Once they have these skills they can learn poetry as part of the third grade standard for reading literature.
Teaching poetry gives all students a chance to learn about the flow of the English language when it's read aloud, or it's prosody, which is oral reading expression. When students read aloud with prosody they are showing that they are comprehending the text. Poetry is a good way to illustrate prosody. You can also teach prosody by modeling it and then having students follow repeat what you said with expression.
Monday, May 25, 2020
Distance Education Websites
Use these websites for distance education activities for K-12.
- Newsela
- Teachers PayTeachers
- Spelling City
- Slide Share
- Super TeacherWorksheets
- Flip Grid Allows students to record themselves.
- Edhelper
- Readworks for reading comprehension
- Freckle Math
- Khan Academy
- Kahoot Game-based learning
- Mystery Science
- Listenwise--podcasts
Saturday, May 9, 2020
Learning Maps and Lesson Plans--What are the Differences?
A learning map is similar to a five
step lesson plan in that includes elements of instruction. Elements of
instruction include materials and procedures, two of the most important parts
of a lesson plan.
A learning map contains UDL elements and classroom
management strategies. A lesson plan does not.
Learning maps also refer to “Learner” as the student and “Target” as
the standards and objectives.
A learning
map contains the following:
PLANNING
Uses the guiding questions
Use what is already known about the Learner,
Create Target (standards, including ELD standards, goals,
objectives)
Unpack Standard
Barriers to learning
Learner misconceptions about target
Whole group needs; focus student needs
UDL
Classroom Management
TEACHING
Write Instructional plan—include materials and procedure
Create Assessment—formal and informal
I’ve created a lesson plan for close reading for all grade levels at http://www.commoncorestandardslinks.com/2014/09/grade-1-8-ccssclose-reading.html
Note that the lesson plan contains many elements from a
learning map. Lesson plans are more commonly used in school districts.
I have a lesson plan template at http://www.commoncorestandardslinks.com/2016/09/lesson-plan-template.html
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