Only the good stuff: Curriculum Pages and their importance

A curriculum page is an important component to any project for it serves as a road map for the projects. According to Shelly, a curriculum page is created by the teacher that has several different web site links preapproved for a specific topic or lesson. Once given this assignment I thought it was be a piece of cake and could be put together in no time. Boy was I wrong! This assignment took hours of searching and investigating to make sure the sites provided were “kid-friendly” and contained information relevant to my topic.

Looking back at Week 10’s discussion and on a project I would like to implement into my future classroom I used an example of a project I did myself not too many years ago. I created my project on a person who was very meaningful in my life. Seeing that this topic or project would be hard to make a curriculum page for I chose to tweak the project and make it about a place that is special to you and chose Orlando since that is where we live. The links I provided on my curriculum page contain information about Orlando and the state of Florida. Generally students study the state of Florida in the fourth grade so this would be a perfect lesson to use at that time.

“Supervising students and controlling Web activities with curriculum pages are crucial to the successful use of the internet in the classroom.” (Shelly, 2010) The internet is full of resources that are beneficial to students when used in the correct manner. By teachers taking the extra time to create curriculum pages, it will save them a lot of headache in the long run. As stated in the text, creating a curriculum page will ensure students are spending our valuable time on content that pertains to the lesson at hand by using the available links. Students love using computers, therefore, by utilizing curriculum pages and allowing them to take advantage of the computers, students will enjoy researching their topic.

Once the curriculum page was completed in a Word document I transferred it over to my Wiki by using the copy and paste feature. I did not encounter any issues transferring my text from one area to the other. I recommend using this technique when adding material to your Wiki because I was able to save it as a word file as well as on my Wiki and now have access to my information in two locations. Creating the curriculum page was a challenge, but something that will be extremely worthwhile in the near future.

Check out my Wiki by following this link:
https://msanderson86.wikispaces.com/