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Entries in EfS Curriculum Design Studio (1)

Wednesday
Dec012010

From the Field— “I Matter! A Systems Approach to 3rd Grade Field Trips”

In the summer of 2010 I attended the Cloud Institute’s EfS Curriculum Design Studio and rewrote our Monarch Butterfly Curriculum to integrate systems thinking. Although monarchs are still the stars of our curriculum, our third grade team really wanted the students to learn that they have a real and genuine influence on the systems in which they are a part: they do matter and can affect change!

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