early_education

Early Education Cases

Early Childhood Cases Standard: Kindergarten Language Arts **Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Literary Text** K.3.2: Retell (beginning, middle, end) familiar stories.
 * Case 1: **

Learners: 20, five-year-old students. 2 Students with ADHD. 10 students are unable to read. 5 students can read full sentences at a 2nd grade level. Environment: In the classroom, there is is a computer station with 5 computers in the back of the room. The computers have access to the Internet, headphones/microphones, and access to most software. They are also all connected to a printer. (This does not limit you. There is also a media center that has an abundance of resources available) Ms Shawn is a kindergarten teacher and her Kindergarten students have heard the same fairy tales over and over again. Usually, in the class, she will ask the students to retell the stories to their older 6th grade reading buddies. For example, Susie may describe the 3 pigs to her 6th grade reading buddy. However, the 6th grade class has now found that they cannot take this additional time. In addition, Ms. Shawn needs to document that her students can achieve this standard. What kind of technology tools you could recommend to Ms. Shawn to solve this problem?

__** Case 2: ** __ Standard: Kindergarten: Geometry K.4.1 Identify and describe common geometric objects: circle, triangle, square, rectangle, and cube.

Learners: 20 Five-year-old students. Environment: In the classroom, there is a computer, projector and a blackboard. Objective: Given an real life item, the kid will be able to identify the color and the shape of the object with 100% correctness.

Ms Fox is teaching 3-year-olds how to identify objects by shapes and colors. Usually, she brings to the classroom boxes of blocks in different shapes, such as square, triangle, and oval, with different colors: blue, yellow, red and etc. and she divides the class into groups and gives each of them a box of blocks and asks them to sort the blocks by shapes and then by colors. As the students get basic idea of different shapes and colors by playing with toy blocks, Ms Fox would like to involve them into real life items. What technology tools could Ms Fox use?

Standard: Pre-School All About Me Family Give examples of how to be a responsible family member and member of a group. (Individuals, Society and Culture) Case 4 ** Standard: K.4.2 Observe plants and animals, describing how they are alike and how they are different in the way they look and in the things they do.
 * Case 3 **

Miss Cathy is teaching a class of 4-year-old kids in a kindergarten, and she would like to teach them the differences between animals and plants. Usually, she presents a picture of an animals or a plant, and asks the whole class to tell whether it is a plant or an animal in the picture. By doing this, she finds out that although the students recognize the plant or the animal by its appearance, they can not tell how they are different, such as which can move, which eats, and so on. So what kind of technology tools can Miss Cathy use in the classroom to help the kids to describe the difference between plants and animals?