{"id":257,"date":"2018-11-12T12:31:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T17:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/eportfolio-sample\/?page_id=257"},"modified":"2019-05-05T13:17:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T17:17:04","slug":"rationale","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat19-slevy\/learning-teaching-portraits\/portrait-ii-overview\/rationale\/","title":{"rendered":"Rationale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em><strong>Learning about the physical world around us can give our lives so much more context, control, and meaning.<\/strong> <\/em>Not only is engineering a state standard for science, but I also believe that it is important for 7 year olds to have some context and beginning understandings of how and why things are made. It is such an inquisitive age, rich for probing curiosity. I see my role as contextualizing that curiosity and giving vocabulary to that curiosity. With those skills, I believe life will take them far! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At such a richly &nbsp;inquisitive and energetic age, this unit is also <strong>imperative to creating a classroom that is curious about space and has a sense of how to manipulate materials.<\/strong> Although many 7 year olds may be quite brilliant thinkers, it is an important time in life to contextualize their understanding. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">This unit is an exciting way to shift classroom culture around&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">&nbsp;curiosity, willingness and excitement to work in groups, and general material awareness. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning about the physical world around us can give our lives so much more context, control, and meaning. Not only is engineering a state standard for science, but I also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":0,"parent":73,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-257","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat19-slevy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat19-slevy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat19-slevy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat19-slevy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat19-slevy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat19-slevy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/257\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat19-slevy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat19-slevy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}