Aviation
Teaching is a lot like building a house. Most of us generally know what we want the house to look like in the end, but we often need to sit down with several plans of finished houses in order to identify the specific house design we will want in the finished product.
Just like contractors, we need to have blueprints drawn up that identify specifications for how to proceed.
Then the actual site work is done, which includes foundational work and temporary structures. And of course, during the course of construction, site inspectors check to see if the work is done correctly.
Centennial of Flight-Hypermedia Design Project
Unit Rationale
Many educational philosophers, who have been involved in the process of curriculum design as a curriculum developer or rese archer, have insisted that an integrated curriculum that is concerned with intensifying the possibilities for both personal and social integration for the purpose of organizing the curriculum around meaningful subjects and issues is the most effective way to teach children knowledge of curriculum content. Because an integrated curriculum involves elements from more than one discipline and takes form from associated planning, contextual information real life problems and subjects, and united organization, it supplies extensive access to knowledge for young students (Beane, 1997). Furthermore, using educational technology as an integral component of an integrated curriculum creates learning environments that engage students with the roles and problems that they faced in the real world. Using hypermedia to engage and support learners in solving complex problems results in meaningful learning. Moreover, research has shown that students intentionally participate in learning activities through hypermedia construction (Jonassen, at al 2003).
This integrated unit plan is designed for 5th grade students to engage them in meaningful learning. The unit plan provides students with a group project in which students design hypermedia knowledge bases to communicate their knowledge on the history, the present, and the future of flight in terms of science, technology, and society. The unit plan supports cooperative learning by presenting students with real-world tasks in which students work together to access content from a wide variety of electronic resources, to transform content information into content knowledge, to implement that knowledge into unit activities, and to design hypermedia knowledge bases. To design hypermedia knowledge bases, students use HyperStudio 4 Software, which allows students to represent their knowledge built throughout the unit activities.
