DATE: 12/11/2012 MAJOR: Elementary Education (K-8) ARTIFACT TITLE: Supply and Demand Unit Plan RELATED COURSE & INSTRUCTOR: EDUC 397SS, Marni Napierala RELATED COURSE OBJECTIVE(S): Teacher candidates will demonstrate the ability to create lessons to teach students to access, synthesize, and evaluate information to communicate and apply social studies knowledge to real world situations. Teacher candidates will demonstrate and understanding of philosophies, models and theories that provide a basis for past, current and future education practices for students in the social studies. Teacher candidates will demonstrate the ability to develop data collection processes and observation techniques, display and communicate data and use data for decision-making. Teacher candidates will demonstrate an awareness of the impact environment, culture (Indian Education for All), linguistic, socio-economic (concentrated generational poverty), exceptionalities, gender and other factors have on learning. Teacher candidates will become familiar with the nature and influence of family, community, society, and culture on children and how these topics may be integrated to enhance student development. Teacher candidates will demonstrate an awareness of and ability to use technological advances to facilitate assessing information, record keeping, and instruction. RELATED INTASC STANDARD(S): Principles 1 & 3 IN THE SPACE BELOW, DESCRIBE THE ARTIFACT AND HOW IT RELATES TO THE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK OF THE EDUCATION PROGRAM: The artifact is a unit plan which includes two lesson plans on supply and demand. To form each lesson plan all three factors in the conceptual framework were used. Content knowledge was important to create the information shared in each lesson. Pedagogy was important to create the procedures of learning in each lesson, and diversity was addressed when addressing the diversified learner in each lesson. IN THE SPACE BELOW, DESCRIBE AND EXPLAIN IN WHAT WAY(S) THIS ARTIFACT RELATES TO THE COURSE OBJECTIVE(S) YOU ALIGNED IT WITH AND HOW IT CONTRIBUTED TO YOUR GROWING COMPETENCE IN THE EDUCATION PROGRAM: The course objectives were important to the construction of the lesson plans in the unit. Each lesson taught students about the subject and then how to apply it to the real world. I had to use my knowledge of current theories such as constructivism to create working lesson plans. The lesson plans also addressed the diversified learners who are a result of their society, community, culture, and exceptionalities. The unit included technology in both the teacher instruction and the student applications. Creating this artifact has helped me become a better teacher candidate by walking me through the process of creating lesson plans that include all course objectives.