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Unpacking the Curriculum Standards

What Are Standards?

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Definition

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Definition 1: Standards are a description of what a student should know and be able to do

Definition 2: Standards outline specific knowledge or skills which students must acquire.

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Know the properties of metals and explain how these properties make them useful.

How many parts?

Knowledge

Activity: (5 Min.)

Know the properties of metals and explain how these properties make them useful.

How do students demonstrate understanding?

Answer a direct question. Fill out a chart. Identify uses. Produce a report.

(properties) (uses)

Application Product

Analyzing Standards

Standards can be classified as◦ Knowledge standards◦ Product standards◦ Application standards

Standards can be deconstructed into parts.

Standards should be interpreted in terms of what students do.

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Activity

Watch the video and answer the following questions:

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1.What is the video about. الفيديو يتحدث عم

2.What are the hierarchy levels of thinking mentioned? في ذكرت التي التفكير مستويات ماهي الفيلم

3.What is number 4 level? رقم المستوى 4ماهو

4.Can you define Bloom’s taxonomy؟ بلوم مستويات تعريف تستطيع هل

Order the Bloom’s Levels

• Remembering

• Analysing

• Evaluating

• Applying

• Understanding

• Creating

1.Creating

2.Evaluating

3.Analyzing

4.Applying

5.Understanding

6.Remembering

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited.

ليتم وعاء ليس العقليجب ... نارا3 بل ملؤهاشعالها باستمرااااااااااااار

(Plutarch)

Original Terms New Terms

Evaluation

Synthesis

Analysis

Application

Comprehension

Knowledge

• Creating

• Evaluating

• Analysing

• Applying

• Understanding

• Remembering

(Based on Pohl, 2000, Learning to Think, Thinking to Learn, p. 8)

Remembering

The learner is able to recall, restate and remember learned information.◦ Recognising◦ Listing◦ Describing◦ Identifying◦ Retrieving◦ Naming◦ Locating◦ Finding

  Can you recall information?

 

على قادرا المتعلممجددا التذكير

المعلومات وتذكرالمستفادة.

Remembering: Potential Activities and Products

Make a time line of Man made satellites

Make a concept map of the Solar System

Cut out “space” pictures from a magazine. Make a display or a collage.

List space words (Alphabet Key).

Recall the names of the rocky planets in our universe.

األقمار لصناعة زمن خط عملاالصطناعية

لمفهوم مفاهيم خريطة عملالشمسي النظام

" مجلة ” من للفضاء w صورا اقطع واعملحائط . لوحة

الفضاء بمصطلحات قائمة أعد( األبجدية( .

في الصخرية الكواكب أسماء أذكرعالمنا

Understanding

The learner grasps the meaning of information by interpreting and translating what has been learned.◦ Interpreting◦ Exemplifying◦ Summarising◦ Inferring◦ Paraphrasing◦ Classifying◦ Comparing◦ Explaining

  Can you explain ideas or concepts?

المعلومات المتعلم يلتقطالتفسير طريق عن

والتأويل

Understanding: Potential Activities and Products Make your desk into a

spaceship Make an astronaut for

a puppet play. Use it to tell what an

astronaut does. Make a model of the

planets in our solar system

داخل كأنه مكتبك جعلفضاء سفينة

. فضاء لرائد دمية صناعةلمعرفة  الدمية استخدام

الفضاء . رائد ماهوالكواكب من نموذج تقديم

الشمسي نظامنا في

Applying

 The learner makes use of information in a context different from the one in which it was learned.

◦Implementing◦Carrying out◦Using◦Executing 

 Can you use the information in another

familiar situation?

طريق عن المتعلم يتعلمفي المعلومات استخدام

مختلف سياق

Keep a diary of your space adventure (5 days).

Make a brochure advertising your spacecraft

Understanding: Potential Activities and Products

مغامرة عن يوميات كتابةالفضاء

)5.( أيام

خاص إعالن صممالفضائية بمركبتك

Analysing

The learner breaks learned information into its parts to best understand that information.◦ Comparing◦ Organising◦ Deconstructing◦ Attributing◦ Outlining◦ Finding◦ Structuring◦ Integrating

 

Can you break information into parts to explore understandings and relationships?

المتعلم يحللأجزاء إلى المعلومات

أفضل لفهم

Understanding: Potential Activities and Products

Make an application form for a person applying for the job of an astronaut.

Compare Galileo’s telescope to a modern telescope.

Distinguish between the Russian and American space programs.

طلب استمارة تقديمعلى للحصول لشخص

رائد بها يقوم التي المهمةفضاء.

غاليليو تلسكوب بين قارن. الحديثة والتلسكوبات

الفضائية البرامج بين ميز. واالميركية الروسية

Creating

The learner creates new ideas and information using what has been previously learned.◦ Designing◦ Constructing◦ Planning◦ Producing◦ Inventing◦ Devising◦ Making

 Can you generate new products, ideas, or ways of viewing things?

الجديدة األفكار المتعلم يخلقتم ما باستخدام والمعلومات

قبل من تعلمه

Potential Activities and Products

Write a newspaper report for the following headline: “Spaceship out of control”.

Use the SCAMPER strategy to design a new space suit.

Prepare a menu for your spaceship crew.

Design an advertising program for trips to the moon.

للجريدة : تقرير كتابةالفضاء : " سفينة بعنوان." السيطرة نطاق خارج

استراتيجية استخدم. جديدة فضائية بدلة لتصميمسفينة لطاقم قائمة إعداد

. بك الخاصة الفضاءعن اإلعالن برنامج تصميم

القمر الى الرحالت

Evaluating

The learner makes decisions based on in-depth reflection, criticism and assessment.◦ Checking◦ Hypothesising◦ Critiquing◦ Experimenting◦ Judging◦ Testing◦ Detecting◦ Monitoring

  Can you justify a decision or course of action?

المتعلم يجعلأساس على القراراتوالتفكير النقد متعمق

والتقييم

Compare the benefits of living on Earth and the moon.

You can take three people with you to the moon. Choose and give reasons.

Choose a planet you would like to live on- explain why.

Prepare and conduct a debate

Write report on your space journey.

Evaluating: Potential Activities and Products

العيش فوائد بين قارن. والقمر األرض على

لتأخذهم 3اختر أشخاصالقمر .. إلى معك

االختيار .. أسباب وماهيترغب كنت كوكب اختر

مع ، عليه العيش فيالسبب . ذكر

الرحلة عن تقرير اكتب

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Additional Related Readings:

“Assess and report on student learning”.

NPST 7

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Activity_Cont.

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Summary

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https://scienceentry2010.wikispaces.com/

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