EEC 3318 Rasmussen College Disaster Planning for Your Unit Discussion
BackgroundIn addition to thinking about specific learning styles/preferences and areas of interest that children display, teachers should be able to identify specific areas of aptitude evident in children. Howard Gardner addresses this in his theory of Multiple Intelligences. This theory shares that people are intelligent across multiple modalities, not just in a single area. He identified eight different “intelligences.” They are Verbal-Linguistic, Math-Logic, Spatial, Bodily-Kinesthetic, Musical, Interpersonal, and Naturalist.However, let’s not mistake learning styles/preferences (visual/auditory/kinesthetic/reading-writing) with Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence. While they work hand in hand together to help build curriculum in ways that children can understand and learn from, they are different.For this assignment, you will be writing an analysis of the various intelligences incorporated in the activity plans below.Directions Read the below Activity Plans. Research: Identify the intelligences in the Activity Plans. Consider these guiding questions as you review the activity plans: What stood out within the activity plans that helped connect you to the intelligence(s) you identified? What did you need to know about the activity, the intelligence, and the child to make the determination? Does how the teacher will implement the activity effect which intelligence(s) are present? Which “intelligences” are not present in the activity? Analysis: Analyze two of the Activity Plans in a two-page reflection. Identify the intelligences present in the activity. Give evidence from the activity to support your answer. Identify the intelligences missing in the activity. Give evidence from the activity to support your answer Explain how you would add or adapt the activity plan to include the other intelligences you identified missing. Add details to describe the adaptations or changes, including materials and interactions needed.Make sure to:1) Organize your work for all Activity Plans following this example: Header: Activity Plan Age Group Title of Activity Intelligences present Intelligences missing Adaptations: what you could do add to the activity to include the missing intelligences2) Include APA citations to all sources used for this assignment, including a title page and reference page in APA format. Also include in text citations, if appropriate.3) All work should be formatted professionally and use correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation.Activity Plans:1) Birth to Three Activity Plan Activity Name: Finger Puppet Play Age Group: 0-3 Objective: Children will be able to follow along either through actions or words to the finger play and story Materials Needed: Book and/or song of Old McDonald and animal finger puppets Area: This activity can be done with large or small groups of children inside the classroom or as an outside activity. Activity Write Up: Children will be offered a basket of animal figure puppets. A teacher may need to support younger children in finding what they are looking for and getting the finger puppets onto their fingers. Once children have their finger puppets, the teacher will sing the song Old McDonald, read the story, or do both, using technology such as a tablet that will play an audiobook version. When the child's animal is mentioned, they will be encouraged to make the animal noise, dance, and move like the animal until the next animal's name is called. The teacher will allow the activity to last as long as the children are interested.2) Three to Five Year Old Activity Plan Activity Name: Guess who is coming to dinner? Age Group: 3-5 Objective: Children will use number concepts while engaging in a mealtime in dramatic play. Materials Needed: Cups, plates, plastic ware, pretend food, dress-up items that are related to cooking, restaurant, menus, table and chairs, and other dramatic play items Area: Dramatic play area Activity Write Up: As an extension of the learning about food, the dramatic play area will be turned into a restaurant. Children will be encouraged to create a meal, set the table, and play host/hostess in the dramatic play area. Teachers will offer to be patrons at the restaurant along with other children. Teachers will use open-ended questions to support and extend children's play around the topic. Questions that could be asked: "We have a party of 4. How big of a table will you need to seat all of us?" "What is the best way to divide this apple so everyone can have a piece?" "We each need two plates, one for bread and one for salad. I'm not sure there are enough plates on the table. How many plates do you have?"3) School Age Activity Plan Activity Name: Mosaic Madness Age Group: School Age Objective: Children will be able to sort and create patterns with found materials Materials Needed: board or stiff paper of some kind, natural found materials, glue Area: This is an activity that can be done entirely outside, or children can collect their materials outside and create their mosaic inside. Activity Write Up: Children will go outside in the yard, neighborhood walk, or around their home and collect natural materials with different textures such as acorns, pebbles, shells, seed pods, twigs, etc. After completing that step, using pictures in books, ideas found on the Internet, or their imagination, children should start thinking creatively about using their objects and creating a mosaic on a piece of firm cardboard or another firm surface. The children may need to try many arrangements of the items before gluing them down. Students should repeat and cluster colors and carry movements through the design. Keep moving the items until the designs begin to work. Look around for tree lines, water going down a drain, crowds of people, or other recognizable shapes that make up a picture of some type.