Monday, January 31, 2011

Social and Natural Sciences Unit Modification Project

So, I just stopped into the curriculum library that they have in the Education Building and I found what I have been looking for for quite a while there.  I have been looking for a psychology textbook or curriculum and had only found one on "the science behind mental illness" (and ADHD was on there, which I don't know how I feel about.  I plan on reading that curriculum in order to find out why ADHD is in there.).  But today, I asked if they had any psychology curriculums and they told me "we have psychology books."  So, today I found four separate books, tomorrow at 3:15, I am going to go down to the Curriculum library and decide which of those four I am going to choose.  And then, I need to decide which chapter in the book that I do choose.

I just looked at the syllabus again, and it asked me to find a textbook, and that is what I found.  So, I am really excited for this project.

So, I am going to tell a little about this assignment.  We have to modify a textbook unit so that a student who reads at a 2nd or 3rd grade level will be able to participate in the class.  It has to be a unit from a 6th grade or higher science or social studies book.  The psychology books that I just looked at were 12th grade, so I will have my work cut out for me.  The reason that I chose a high school book and a high school subject (psychology) is because I plan on teaching in a high school and I am very interested in psychology.  I feel that if I do a unit that I am interested in, I will be much more likely to make it really fun and cool, and actually work on it for most of the semester.

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