Summer Work Report

Integrating Science, Social Studies, Math, and ELA in the Curriculum Program

Introduction: Jaclyn, Alyssa, and Maureen met on Thursday, June 27th to work on the integration of science, social studies, math, and ELA in the curriculum program with a focus on our environmental education efforts. We invited Claypit Hill and Loker School 5th grade teachers to join us, but no one elected to join us. During the day we mapped out how we will develop our standards-based, grade-level environmental education efforts to become more interdisciplinary in the year ahead.

Standards-Based: The standards page on this website outlines the interdisciplinary standards included in the project.

Timeline: The timeline page includes a chart that outlines when we'll include each part of the study.

Assessment: We will assess the project in an ongoing way via student reflections, our own reflections, and evaluation of related student project work and formative assessments.

Relevancy: This project matches the Massachusetts' Commisioner's vision for MA schools well.

Next Steps: We will continue to develop this project and track our efforts on this website.

Assessment: We will assess this project in the following ways:

observation - keeping a close eye on how students are responding to the project
student reflections throughout the project
assessing the project tasks using the DESE Science and Technology/Engineering Task Development rubric
MCAS scores analysis
Student project rubrics, checklists, and reflections
Student surveys

Presentation

This website will be shared with district leaders and interested teachers. The website is public and linked to our TeamFive website so it is available to anyone who is interested in looking at it.
Students will present their work in a number of ways including presentations at School Assembly.

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