Key Terms
People
Events
Assessment
Surprise
100
mandates that students with disabilities must have access to these themes
What is IDEA?
100
Observation, listening, and reading are examples of what science-related skill?
What is information acquisition?
100
This approach requires the teacher to become the facilitator of learning rather than the distributor of information.
What is the Hands-On/ Activity-based Approach?
100
standardized achievement tests, curriculum-based, activity-oriented, performance-based measures, analytic rubrics, portfolios, holistic rubrics.....
What are Types of Social Studies and Science Assessments?
100
Special Education teachers must develop the ability to _____ materials and instruction proficiently and quickly for students to be successful in inclusive environments.
What is adapt?
200
Recommends: 1. Scientific literacy is for all students 2. Science is active, hands- on learning and in depth study of fewer topics 3. Science should emphasize critical thinking, problem- solving, and developing mathematics and science as a way of thinking and reasoning 4. Science should emphasize integration and interdisciplinary activities 5. Science should emphasize application of science, mathematics, and technology in real- life situations
What is the National Science Education Standards & Project 2061?
200
Deficiencies in language Difficulty with new concepts and vocabulary Inappropriate behaviors
What are problems with skill-development?
200
This traditional approach continues to be used frequently especially and the upper elementary and secondary levels. This is problematic due to student reading levels, coherence and structure.
What is the Textbook Approach?
200
Which type of rubric would a teacher use to assess the "whole picture" and overall quality of the student's work?
What is a holistic rubric?
200
1. graphic organizers 2. study guides 3. charts 4. outlines 5. visual-spatial displays 6. mnemonics
What are content enhancement techniques?
300
Abstractness Skills Strategies Background and ???? are potential problems in the Social Studies and Science inclusive classrooms.
What is QUANTITY?
300
The following are examples of Science-related skills for Integration:
What are Synthesis, hypothesis, independent experimentation etc.?
300
This approach to instruction combines several disciplines or subjects under one theme that will motivate students, provide opportunities to teach higher-level content and relate content to real-life.
What is Integrated Curriculum?
300
This type of assessment allows students to maintain records of the activities in which they have been involved. Explicit instruction is needed for HOW to do this at first for students with special needs.
What are Journals and Learning Logs?
300
content adaptations - change the nature or amount of content presented to students format adaptations - change the way the information is presented to students look at page 342 and describe 3 adaptation techniques
answers will vary - see page 342
400
The National Council for Social Studies issued the following as a guide for instruction:
What are Curriculum standards, including 10 thematic strands: 1. culture 2. time, continuity & change 3. people, places and environments 4. individual development 5. individuals, groups and institutions 6. power, authority and governance 7. production, distribution and consumption 8. science, technology and society 9. global connections 10. civic ideals & practices
400
Acquiring information: Reading, study skills, information search, technical skills Organizing and using information: Classifying, interpreting, analyzing, summarizing, synthesizing, evaluating, decision- making Participating socially: Personal skills, group interaction, social and political skills
What are Social Studies Skills?
400
This approach combines features of the textbook/lecture and the inquiry-based hands-on approaches. For example: a teacher introduces a lesson with the text and follow-up with a hands-on discovery activity.
What is the Balanced Approach?
400
This type of assessment is useful to determine what a student has learned as well as interests and attitudes.
What is a Student Interview?
400
This secondary level adaptation is given to students prior to reading. It has written material or oral discussion related to the assigned readings.
What is an advanced organizer?
500
List 5 suggested items for science and social studies portfolios:
What are: notes from a science fair, history journal entries, travel brochure designs, research on a specific topic, concept webs, relief maps, video of a battle representation, timelines, artistic illustration of a topic, audio tape of speech or debate, diagrams and charts from an experiment, lab reports, teacher observations, photo collection of community events, homework examples, file notes from group work, scientific investigations, field trip reports, etc..?
500
K- Self, school, community and home 1 - Families 2 - Neighborhoods 3 - Communities 4 - State History, geographic regions 5 - US History 6 - World Cultures 7 - World Geography 8- American History 9- Civics 10- World History 11- American History 12- American government
What are typical social studies themes by grade level?
500
List 3 accommodations you would make in the Science classroom during a hand-on activity for students with special needs.
What are: ANSWERS WILL VARY examples: 1. simplified instructions 2. group assignment (decreased writing) 3. verbal explanations
500
This process asks students to verbally explain the processes he or she used in solving a problem or performing an activity.
What is a Think-aloud?
500
For instance, when assigned a project to do, students who already display difficulty with organizational skills, will need you to ....
What is organize their ideas and plan how to achieve the goal of the project?
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