‘CSI’ Work Benefits Local Elementary School
Nine graduate students have taken what they learned inside the classroom and turned it into a resource kit for Scott Johnson Elementary school teachers.
The kits, called “CSI packets” as a spin off the popular crime scene television show—with CSI standing for Curriculum Students and Instruction in this case, were designed for assistant professor of education Mack Hines’ curriculum planning class, a principal preparation course.
“Basically what the students did was they developed a series of lesson plans, modules and different types of instructional tests around certain themes,” Hines said.
Working in groups, the students designed four different themed boxes for US History, Overcoming Obstacles, The Main Idea and Science and Space. The project counted as a major grade for the summer course.
“Each box has a cover with different themes and words related to the themes,” Hines said. “They also had to have different types of reading books and primers, and we developed different types of tests for all grade levels.
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