C.M. EPPES A.G. SYLLABUS
THEME: CHANGE
INTRODUCTORY UNIT: THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE
The Universality of Change
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How the language, phrases, and generalities of change are a part of
everyday life
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How change is necessary for family relations and general circumstances
(empathy)
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How people throughout history are catalysts for change (i.e. Rosa Parks,
etc)
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How
psychologists and psychiatrists study change (based on Freud)
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How
emotional imagery and dreams can reflect personal change
The Science of Change through Physics and
Chemistry
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How pendulums measure change
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How catalysts can cause physical and chemical changes in matter
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How temperature differences can change the density of matter
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How physiological changes impact the relationship between exercise,
blood pressure, and oxygen consumption
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How changes in the earth’s atmosphere affects the changes in weather
and how the change can be predicted
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How chemical reactions change atmospheric gases that in turn change our
atmospheric conditions
Early Childhood Changes and Development
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How human learning changes from childhood to adolescence
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How learning stages can be measured through simple intelligence tests
administered during a visit to a kindergarten
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How data collected on child development can be compared with other ages
and learning stages using Piaget’s scale of developmental learning
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How
culture affects value systems
Adolescence and Developmental Changes
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How anthropologists determine primitive societies who create changes
among their members by using rites of passage
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How the classic theories of personality development due to birth order
show that how people change may be predictable
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How Faulkner’s Barn Burning is a literary example of archetypal
change between adolescence and adulthood
Adulthood and Changes
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How
various cultures accept non-standard behaviors and tolerate abnormal psychology
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How
the trial of Charles Guiteau, President Garfield’s assassin, applied the
legality of the insanity plea
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How intelligence tests throughout history have been used to measure
intellect and how they have changed throughout the years
Year-long project
Throughout this
year, your student will be asked to select, monitor, record, and graph an
occurrence that is predicted to change periodically throughout this school year.
The first reading should begin mid- September and will run through the second
week of May. FYI:
The selected change must be teacher-approved.
****Other TAG
service includes guest teaching in various classrooms as my time permits plus
curriculum assistance to any other staff who requests it.
We are going to have a fabulous year!!
Keep checking this site for updates to the curriculum.