Qué comes tú?/What do you eat?
Abie Lane Qui–ones-Benítez
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The Standards
This curriculum unit includes a variety of pedagogical practices aimed at the second language learner. Second-language learners must be treated with regard to their needs in a different manner. It is imperative that students are viewed as potential speakers and literate people of the target language. In order to address the educational needs of these learners I am including a list of the five standards for effective pedagogy proposed by the Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence (CREDE). In my instructional practice I incorporate these standards to enhance my performance in the classroom. These five standards are to be enacted by teachers to assure effective instruction:
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Facilitate learning through joint productive activity among teacher and students.
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Develop competence in the language and literacy of instruction throughout all instructional activities.
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Contextualize teaching and curriculum in the experiences and skills of home and community.
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Challenge students toward cognitive complexity.
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Engage students through dialogue, especially the instructional conversation. (IRA, 2002).
Content standards addressed in this unit are:
Science:
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Standard 1. The nature of science: students will experience an inquiry-based learning environment in which they are free to ask questions, seek information and validate explanations in thoughtful and creative ways. The students also will understand that the processes, ways of knowing and conceptual foundations of science are interdependent and inextricably bound.
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Raise questions about their surroundings and seek answers by making careful observations and trying things.
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Describe things as accurately as possible because careful, complete observations enable people to compare their observations with those of others.
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The students in kindergarten will learn to observe and ask scientific questions.
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Standard 3. Students will understand that all organisms in the biosphere are linked to each other and to their physical environments by the transfer and transformation of matter and energy.
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The students in kindergarten will learn about living things.
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Standard 7. Students will understand the processes and forces that shape the structure and composition of the Earth.
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The students in kindergarten will learn about the properties of our earth.
