Curriculum Proposal

Briefly address the following questions:
1. What is your chosen subject area, theme or topic?
Apples
2. Who is your intended audience? (Please briefly describe your students)
4 year-old pre-k students
3. What standards are you addressing from your curriculum?
Pre-K does not have a curriculum however these are the areas that we will work on.
-creating and understanding graphs
-sorting objects based on color similarities
-finishing and creating patterns

4. What are the educational goal(s) and objective(s)?
-children will create and read a classroom graph
-children will sort apples according to color
-children will create their own patterns with red and green apples
5. What is the specific problem or question you will pose?
How much fun can we have with apples?
6. What will be the specific assignment the students must accomplish?
-create a classroom graph of favorite apples
-sort apples by like color into baskets
-continue already created patterns with green and red apples
-create their own patterns with green and red apples
7. What is the expected outcome of the lesson?
-children will be able to create and understand a simple bar graph
-children will be able to create their own patterns with apples
-children will be able to sort apples by color

Proposal for Curriculum Project
Your project needs to focus on integrating literacy and/ or media production into the curriculum. Please add state and national standards.
Include the following items in your Proposal.
Name Shanna Leviner(Sam)
Expected time/ timeline to complete the project: One week
Tentative title/ theme: Apples
Goals/ Objectives; Be as specific as possible: Children will create and understand a simple bar graph,
Children will sort apples by color, children will continue and create simple patterns

Rationale : (Why you picked this topic? How will it improve your teaching/ parenting, etc?Apples are a big part of the fall season. This theme allows many areas to be covered in an interesting and exciting subject for young children.
Medium (Which form you will create your project. Livetext, website, URL address, Videotape, Burned CD, file attachment, in the mail, etc.)
Smartboard
Target Audience: 4 year-old pre-k students
Lesson ideas or lesson plans that you searched in this topic. For instance, provide URL links.
Teaching Strategies and Methods: hands on, centers

Evaluation Methods: Assessment strategies: How will you assess your students outcome?
-their ability to add to and read the class graph
-observing them sorting apples
-demonstrate their apple pattern
Resources/ Credits: the print material, electronic resources, websites you already found. APA style.