Assignment Task:
Prior to completing the discussion, review chapters 6, 8, and 16 in your course textbook, developmentally appropriate curriculum: Best practices in early childhood education (7th ed.). For your Final Paper for ECE642, you will create a one-week thematic unit. "Thematic teaching supports children in forming connections among individual bits of information. These connections contribute to children's concept development and are the most important reason to use themes/projects as part of your program" (Kostelnik, Soderman, Whiren, & Rupiper, 2019). In this interactive, you will create your plan, in outline form, for that unit. The purpose of creating your outline early on is to elicit thinking about the content you will include and how you will organize your thematic unit. It is also important for you to choose a theme this early in the course. In the coming weeks, you will be creating lesson plans to add to your thematic unit, and each lesson must be based around the same theme for proper alignment in your summative.
Use the bullet points below to guide the plan for your Final Paper and the completion of your interactive.
1) Title: Create a title that includes the theme of your unit.
2) Age/grade level: Identify the age or grade level your unit will cover and why.
3) Standards: Summarize how the standards align with your unit.
4) Overview: Develop an overview of your unit. Include a rationale that describes how the theme you chose is appropriate for the age/grade level, how the theme will support learning and development in this age group, and why theme teaching is important.
5) Philosophy: Explain how your unit aligns with your teaching philosophy. Want Professional Help?
6) Objectives: Create one objective for each developmental domain included in the unit (i.e., self-regulation, social/emotional, cognitive, physical, and language domains).
7) Activities:
8) Conclusion: