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These materials will be used to create an integrated curriculum for my students. An integrated curriculum teaches all subjects cohesively allowing students to make connections among different subject areas and to their own lives. When students are able to put the puzzle pieces together and understand why they need to know certain skills or pieces of knowledge, the learning process becomes positive for the students. We will create a student-centered curriculum that engages students, improves student learning, and increases student interest. The topic of our integrated units will be: citizenship and energy, geography and structures, functions and information processing, history and processes that shape the Earth, and economics and waves of communication. We will read the novels and then students will work together in cooperative groups as they problem solve, invent and create, and research information to build the bridge between subjects. Picture books will be read aloud to students to reinforce main ideas and topics and enhance student understanding. The integration of student led projects will provide students with experiences in all of the topics. Experiences will lead to students being able to write better because they have background knowledge on topics. This type of curriculum prepares students for real-life and equips them with skills that they will need to succeed as citizens of our community. Students will benefit because they will deepen their understanding of the material by linking their experiences in the classroom to the real world and by making sense of experiences from their lives which in return will create life-long learners.

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These materials will be used to create an integrated curriculum for my students. An integrated curriculum teaches all subjects cohesively allowing students to make connections among different subject areas and to their own lives. When students are able to put the puzzle pieces together and understand why they need to know certain skills or pieces of knowledge, the learning process becomes positive for the students. We will create a student-centered curriculum that engages students, improves student learning, and increases student interest. The topic of our integrated units will be: citizenship and energy, geography and structures, functions and information processing, history and processes that shape the Earth, and economics and waves of communication. We will read the novels and then students will work together in cooperative groups as they problem solve, invent and create, and research information to build the bridge between subjects. Picture books will be read aloud to students to reinforce main ideas and topics and enhance student understanding. The integration of student led projects will provide students with experiences in all of the topics. Experiences will lead to students being able to write better because they have background knowledge on topics. This type of curriculum prepares students for real-life and equips them with skills that they will need to succeed as citizens of our community. Students will benefit because they will deepen their understanding of the material by linking their experiences in the classroom to the real world and by making sense of experiences from their lives which in return will create life-long learners.

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