I have used Common Core Standards in my lessons created during my college education courses for the past several years and in student teaching. I have experience with adapting K-6 curriculum to align with CCSS as well as integrating social studies, science, the arts, and technology into lessons.
CCSS Literature Unit. Click on the links below to see a literature cross-curricular unit, "Building Empathy," based on several books by Caldecott winner Chris Van Allsburg. I created it for 4th graders in the spring of 2012. I planned for differentiated instruction for strugglers, advanced, and ELLs, as well as students' different learning styles and incorporated technology through online jeopardy and a student-made podcast/reader's theater.
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CCSS Math Lesson. Click on the link below to see a math lesson I created for 1st graders incorporating the fine arts with math in the fall of 2012.
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CCSS Social Studies Lesson. Click on the links below to see a social studies unit for 6th graders about how a bill becomes law.
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Click the link below to see two raps, "I'm not Fibbin' I Am Phibian" and "I'm ma-ma-ma Mammal" which I wrote for a 3rd grade unit on animal classification. I taught this unit to a 3rd grade class during the fall of 2012. The students enjoyed this fun way to practice reading fluency and learn about animals at the same time!
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