Billie Freeland
Kent City Elementary School, Kent City, MI
Teacher
Kent City, Mi
Just in the last two years I have become a K-5 STEM Teacher. Our district was fortunate to be part of the George Lucas Edutopia/MSU MLPBL Study that recently released its results. This project based learning curriculum is fully aligned to the NGSS and infused with language and mathematics connections. Along with the MLPBL curriculum, our district is using the platform from the University of Michigan Center for Digital Curricula. Collaborify Roadmaps is a digital map for students to access and respond to PDFs, view or respond in video and create an animation as a model or response in a virtual notebook. The CDC at U of M has premade maps for curriculum for all 5 subject areas K-5 using open source materials. Teachers can access these maps, modify them or create their own using the platform.