Core+Subjects

1. What does it look like with young children? 2. How do we do this currently? 3. Where do we need to go? Financial Global: Civic: Health: Environmental:
 * Core Subjects and 21st Century Themes**
 * Financial, Economic, Business and Entrepreneurial Literacy:
 * Knowing how to make appropriate personal economic choices
 * Bucket-filling
 * Give and take
 * Obtain wants in socially acceptable ways
 * Ideas and resources to bridge relationship of give and take to real world experiences
 * “the idea that your actions and what you do has a direct result/consequence on what happens next”
 * Understanding the role of the economy in society
 * Using entrepreneurial skills to enhance workplace productivity and career options
 * Recognizing creativity and entrepreneurial skills in the classroom and develop/connect this to real world activities/jobs (labeling the role/job each child is doing to help with the project and encourage collaboration)
 * Global Awareness:
 * Language opportunities
 * Learning from one another, collaboration
 * Mutual respect and understanding across diverse issues
 * Understand and respect cultures and nations
 * Awareness of our diversity within the classroom
 * Civic literacy
 * Defining citizenship: what is our role in being a citizen locally, nationally, globally
 * Understanding the impact of decisions
 * Cooperative behaviors
 * Problem solving
 * Understanding of their community
 * Health literacy
 * Nutrition and activity education
 * Explain why we have gross motor and eat what we do
 * Purpose of garden
 * Taking care of our bodies: why we need food, air, water; food pyramid
 * Environmental:
 * Empowering them with community decisions
 * Interdependence of environment, climate, and animals/people
 * Our impact on the environment
 * Financial:
 * Bucket-filling activities
 * Responsibilities in school
 * Opportunities in projects and dramatic play as relevant
 * Encourage and recognize leadership skills and roles in play
 * Global:
 * Recognizing diverse views in the classroom
 * Cultural night
 * Diverse celebrations
 * Civic:
 * PBS model
 * Recycling
 * Community helpers
 * Mapping project: who am I
 * Health:
 * Nutrition and garden project
 * Providing healthy opportunities
 * Environmental:
 * Water cycle project
 * Empowering them with community decisions: garden
 * Recycling
 * Trash pick-ups
 * Energy/water conservation
 * Revisit big idea s of cause and effect and interdependence
 * Pull out economics resource tying into children’s literature
 * Tie in community helpers/jobs with projects, bring in professionals
 * Create nametags/labels for roles in dramatic play
 * Collaborations with other classrooms
 * Implement projects with global meaning and awareness
 * More intention in plans with language opportunities
 * Maintaining flexibility in how we explore it
 * Integrate with above
 * Explain reasons for why we do what we do
 * Connect with cooking activities: using advanced organizers to tie back to food pyramid and nutritional needs
 * Include children in planning and preparing snack: why we should eat which foods and how it will help our bodies
 * Continue to prompt kids to think about conserving and recycling
 * How can we extend our recycling?
 * Exploring collaboration opportunity with company to the south of the building