BogdanCurriculumReview1

Sarah Bogdan

Curriculum Review

Fall 2015 []

//What organization developed the curriculum module you are evaluating?// TeachEngineering: An organization that has students and teachers from 5 founding universities collaborating to form a collection of standards-based engineering curricula with National Science Foundation funding.

//What is the mission of the organization?// To provide educators with “free” access and resources to an ever growing curricular to teach STEM using a digital library.

//What is the educational mission and philosophy of the organization?// To align all teaching materials with mathematics, science, and technology

//What does the curriculum module aim to teach? In other words: what are the learning outcomes supposed to be?// The learning outcomes of this particular curriculum are more based upon the science and engineering behind the study of air pollution. It will achieve its learning outcomes but we may want to include more of a social understanding as well.

//Do you think the curriculum is appropriated designed to produce the intended learning outcomes?// I think this curriculum has a lot of great activities incorprotated into them that would provide a long lasting lesson. For example, the coat hanger and rubber band example that represents air pollution that can’t be seen. //Does this curriculum teach the kind of literacies the EcoEd Research Group advocates?// It teaches many of the literacies but not all of them. I think the curriculum could look more into air pollution governance.

//What could be layered into this curriculum so that it addresses more of the learning outcomes that the EcoEd Group advocates?// Some of the lessons in the plan include a basic lecture which I would not keep. Also, some of the lessons repeat themselves which at first, I thought was a bad idea, but repetition may be the key to having these important concepts stick with the students.