Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Date: 6-29-15
General
Intellectual Ability
A/B
Independent thinker
Exhibits original thinking in oral and
written expression
Come up with several solutions to a given
problem
Possesses a sense of humor
Creates and invents
Challenged by creative tasks
Improvises often
Does
not mind
being different from the
Formulates
abstractions
Processes information in complex ways
Observant
Excited about new ideas
Enjoys hypothesizing
Learns rapidly
Uses a large vocabulary
Inquisitive
Good memorization ability
Advanced comprehension
Acquires basic skill knowledge quickly
Widely read in special interest area
High academic success in special interest
area
Pursues special interest with enthusiasm
and vigor
Leadership A
Visual/ Performing
Arts B
Assumes responsibility
High expectations for self and others
Fluent, concise self expression
Foresees consequences and implications of
decisions
Good judgment in decision making
Likes structure
Well-liked by peers
Self confident
Organized
Outstanding in sense of spatial
relationships
Unusual ability in expressing self, feeling,
moods, etc., through dance, drama,
music, etc.
Good motor coordination
Exhibits creative expression
Desire for producing own product (not
content with mere copying)
Observant
Materials Needed:
Teacher:
1 Mac computer equipped with Xcode software per solo venture or partnership.
Adequate TEXT-BASED resource material for researching their topic *** It is
important to not allow web resources for the bulk of the content to encourage synthesis and
restructuring of material for grade/age assigned ***
Xcode manual, HTML + Javascript handbooks, Principles of design guides, etc.
Chicago reference guides
Students:
100 index cards per student
writing utensil
outside reference material as desired
Lesson Opener:
Beginning of Unit: Journals on Content and to stimulate research (i.e. What did your
playwright do before (s)he wrote his/her very first play? Why do you think your playwright
wrote in a specific city/country use evidence from references to support! What was
happening with the country politics during this persons lifetime?)
Summary of Lesson
What will teacher do?
Closure
Teacher will consolidate websites into single literature-based playground for K-3.
Reflection of Teacher:
Appendix
Basic Code-building websites:
codecademy.com
code.org
http://www.crunchzilla.com/code-monster (Javascript specific)
https://www.khanacademy.org
Create Games and/or animations:
https://scratch.mit.edu
http://www.stencyl.com