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NCEA Common Core Catholic Identity Initiative Conference

NCEA Common Core Catholic Identity Initiative Conference. Nashville, Tennessee June 30 th – July 2 nd. The Conference. Purpose : To learn how to infuse the Catholic Identity in the Common Core Framework

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NCEA Common Core Catholic Identity Initiative Conference

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  1. NCEA Common Core Catholic Identity Initiative Conference Nashville, Tennessee June 30th – July 2nd

  2. The Conference • Purpose: To learn how to infuse the Catholic Identity in the Common Core Framework • Collaborated with Catholic school teachers and administrators from all over the country • Worked in groups to develop complete unit plans using the CCCII template

  3. Child-Focused Knowledge Vocabulary Building Cross-Curricular Connections Mathematics Social Studies Essential Questions Religion Writing Reading Generalizing Standards-based Science Social Skills Fiction and Nonfiction Literature Higher Order Thinking

  4. Our Unit • Title/Theme: Growing IS Changing • Grade: Kindergarten (could easily be applied to grades K-5) • Length: 3-4 weeks • Description: Students identify how things grow and change • Overview: Things grow and change! Students will read fiction and informational texts about the growth of plants, humans, and animals. Students will be able to connect these themes to the faith formation and growth that is not visible.

  5. What is the focus? ESSENTIAL QUESTION HOW DO LIVING THINGS GROW AND CHANGE? • Week 1: What is living and non-living? How do living things in the world grow? • Week 2: How do I grow? • Week 3: How do I help others grow? • Week 4: How did I grow and change?

  6. Questions?

  7. The Hook: Living and Nonliving Sort

  8. Week 1: The “Something” Seed Cross-Curricular Connections • ELA: Prediction and Comprehension Skills • Science: concept of how plants grow and skills of observation and hypothesizing • Religion: Concept of Faith

  9. I am special and YOU are special • A Bad Case of the Stripes • “What I am,” Will.i.am

  10. Memory Book How did I change? • Things I learned. • My height. • Friends I made. • Hopes and Dreams I achieved.

  11. Child-Focused Knowledge Vocabulary Building Cross-Curricular Connections Mathematics Social Studies Essential Questions Religion Writing Reading Generalizing Standards-based Science Social Skills Fiction and Nonfiction Literature Higher Order Thinking

  12. The Parables The Parable of the Sower The Parable of the Mustard Seed

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