How Curriculum Emerges: Egyptology
A 2nd grader shares that their grown up plans on dressing up as a Pharoah for Halloween. The classroom begins to buzz with energy about the Ancient Egyptians. Our Upper Elementary teacher Ileana Almog quickly and skillfully seek and gather classroom resources, books, printouts, videos to support the student interests.
In the weeks that follow, the Upper Elementary class continues to focus on Ancient Egypt. Using a hieroglyph chart, the children write their own names in Middle Egyptian. In Math, the children are using their understanding of place value to write Arabic numerals as hieroglyphs.
A discussion of mummies leads to an interest in early humans. The class continues to buzz with energy as they study the world's most famous early human ancestor, the 3.2-million-year-old ape "Lucy" who was the first Australopithecus afarensis skeleton ever found. Students practice their scientific observation skills in small groups as they compare and contrast Lucy's skeleton with a human skeleton.
With emergent curriculum, our teachers observe the students and skillfully weave the student interests together with science, cultural studies, language arts and math curriculum.
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