Christina

Christina Irwin grew up in a small town located in Northwest Connecticut called Barkhamsted. After graduating from Northwestern Regional #7 high school in 2003 she moved down to New Haven and attended Southern Connecticut State University. While attending Southern, she majored in Elementary Education and Sociology. For the last 3 years she has been teaching 4th grade in Burlington, Connecticut and loving every minute! She is a complete homebody and loves relaxing around her house and hiking in her backyard.

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1. **The Problem**. Students do not understand or retain information on basic electrical concepts covered in the fourth grade curriculum. Connecticut state standards require students have an understanding of electricity. Connecticut Mastery Test requires students to identify and create a simple circuit as well as understand basic electrical concepts in fifth grade.

2. **The Need**.

 3. **The Audience**. Eighteen fourth grade students consisting of ten males and eight females. Students range in age from nine to ten years old. Four students have Individualized Education Plans (I.E.P.’s) for learning/processing disorders. One of those students has just been diagnosed with an auditory processing disorder, one student has Asperger's, one is on the autistic spectrum in combination with other disorders, one student needs speech/language assistance. Modifications will be necessary for all four students. All students are of same socioeconomic backgrounds. Two students have been exited from ELL, one from Poland, one from Kosovo.

 ﻿ 4. **Objectives**.  The students will list three ways we use electricity daily. The students will identify three types of electrical circuits. The students will state a definition of electricity. The students will demonstrate how an electrical switch works. The students will create a simple circuit. The students will show mastery on end of unit test scoring 80% or higher. The students will score at goal on science section of 5th grade CMT.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">5. **Content**.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">6. **Instructional Strategies**.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">7. **Additional Materials**.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">8. **Program Use**. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This program will be used in my classroom during our yearly electricity unit. The electricity unit is an eight-week unit with and expected outcome of students showing mastery of basic electricity. This program will help reinforce basic electrical ideas for students.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">9. **Evaluation**. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Students will be evaluated through an end of unit test, Connecticut Mastery Test scores and online quiz located within the presentation. Students will master a basic understanding of electricity by scoring 80% or higher on both end of unit test and online quiz.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">10. **Appendix**

=**Bloom's Digital Taxonomy**=
 * The following will be what I will be teaching students throughout my project. These are expectations from the persepective of Bloom's Digital Taxonomy.**

Remembering three different types of circuits and what materials are needed to create them
 * Additional-** "Bullet pointing" List different circuits with materials

Understanding why/how a circuit lights
 * Additional-** "Blog Journaling" Take notes on circuit activities

Implementing their knowledge of circuits, students will make their own circuit light
 * Additional-** "Playing" Circuit game http://www.playkidsgames.com/games/circuitGame/circuitGame.htm

Comparing circuits that light and don't light and finding out how/why one works and the other does not
 * Additional-** "Linking" using this website http://www.energizer.com/learning-center/science-center/Pages/make-simple-circuit.aspx

Testing circuits
 * Additional-** "Testing" http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/gamesactivities/circuitsconductors.html