[Note- Here are the notes I took that day, edited for clarity]
Notes – Day 1 Session 2
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Creating Storybook Journeys to enhance your STEAM curriculum Curriculum–Theories & Approaches
3-hour Wednesday session — limit 8 presenters
Preschoolers
11/15/2017 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM Room A410
Georgia World Congress Center
Melissa Russell, Preschool Director, The Hundred Acre School at Heritage Museums & Gardens; Kori Bardige, Early Childhood Consultant, Learning Circle Consulting; Candace Radoski, Director of Partner Development, First Book
Join us on a Storybook Journey as we use books as springboards for exploring STEAM, building on content and concept knowledge, and engaging a community of learners. Storybook Journeys use an emergent curriculum approach to engaging children’s inquiry, curiosity and wonder through literature. While Storybook Journeys can be used for all domains of learning, this workshop will focus on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) and how using books can extend children’s content and concept knowledge and inspire their imaginations and fuel their inquiry, experiments, and hypotheses. This will be a hands-on session where participants we will learn about and and create their own Storybook Journey using books highlighted in First Book’s curated collection. As we explore each step of a Storybook Journey participants will build their own Storybook Journeys and discuss ideas for integrating this technique within their current curriculum. In this workshop, the presenters will highlight concepts and ideas of the Storybook Journey and demonstrate techniques of creating one through the lens of STEAM. Using Storybooks as tools to explore STEAM concepts provides a unique opportunity for educators to introduce scientific knowledge, extend children’s use of technology, engage children in experiments that promote their engagement with the engineering practices and processes, use the arts as a tool for exploration and deepening thinking, and create a context for learning mathematical and literacy skills that engage children’s inner sense of wonder, curiosity, and inquiry through playful interactions.
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storybook
How does it relate?
Accuracy [help to explore what is correct or imagination]
capturing current knowledge – what would I like to explore
KWL -> KWHLN
How will we find out?
reread story – have them retell the story
connect with families – lend multiple copies of book
tip sheets – [free resources]
Encourage parents and caregivers to tell stories about their life experiences
talk, sing, point [city initiative]
encourage family to visit the library
talkingisteaching.org for parents
[list – [people to contact free/volunteer]
How can I provide ways for children tell and retell the story
huff and puff – straw and cotton ball (3 little pigs)
wind, how does wind blow things around
write down concepts instead of going right to activities
use book to springboard ideas
‘juicy’ words
– wolf, hay, brick
problem solving words – because, predict, measure, enough, compare
(hypothesis – knows what it means)
engaging with children in pretend play
wait, watch, wonder, then find a way to enter
additional prop to help children explore
different types of explorations
transforming areas to frame the way the kids use the area
use whiteboard to draw their blueprint
take photo of building
flashlights – take apart, vacuum
scientific method to scaffold explorations
sometimes all I see in class rooms (play and explore)
framework – Alberta quote
extend the ideas and thinking more deeply
sharing the stories
celebrating along the way with kids (parties?)
Gen2Gen connect older to younger kids
encore.org
collaborating – make rules for games they play
celebrations of learning – parties etc
How can the transition scaffold from one idea to the next
[maybe a supporting book related might make the next topic connection]
[invite others, other classes]
ask children to reflect
what did they like
connect with family a- talk with families
dud ideas – ??? simior book [I couldn’t read my notes here haha]
new name – in the teacher that they noticed a different place their thoughts were going
3 little pigs – construction – tools
[I wonder if there is there a book about book handling? — clipboards and respecting items and materials?]
at this library they divided books by concepts
simple/complex machines
light and color etc
using state standards as our guide
spring off of these as they come
sometimes kid made books from years past inspire kids years later