Module Three

Honoring Learning Styles & Learning Strengths

Resources:

	Your CSDC Profile (CFASST Event 1 or 7)
	LAUSD Offices
	Health and Safety References
	Title IV, Safe and Drug-Free Schools Programs (SDFD)
	California Health Framework

Activities:

Read Chapter Two of the California Health Framework "Developing Health Literacy in the Classroom and in the School" Use the Reflection Form for note-taking.

Draw upon information collected in the Class, School, District, and Community Profile (CSDC) from CFASST Event 1 or 7 to determine strengths about your students.

Explore the following sites for good strategies making notes in the Reflection Form

	Academic and Social-Emotional Needs
	*Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire* Learning Style and Strategies
	*Multiple Intelligence Inventory*

Identify how you would determine cognitive, social-emotional and academic strengths for your two CFASST focus students

Select appropriate strategies to build upon the students' strengths to assist in their learning. (Be sure to implement these strategies in your final project and collect artifacts)

Planning for Your Project

Begin Planning Final Project:

The final Project of this independent study will be a cooperative learning project that blends California Health Standards with Core Content Standards.

You have the option of developing a WebQuest or another type of cooperative learning project that suits your subject area and grade level. Your project will be peer-reviewed based upon this rubric.

Resources:

	What is project-based learning?
	Dr. B's WebQuest Workshop
	The Questioning Toolkit
	California Health Framework (Chapters 6: Criteria for Evaluating Instructional Resources)
	American Red Cross: Facing Fear
	Kid's Health
	Dole's 5-a-Day

Activities:

Identify health standard(s) and content standard(s) to be addressed

Identify web-based resources to help students meet content & health standards.

Read Chapter 6 of the California Health Framework

Begin to develop a cooperative learning project addressing grade level health standards directly or incorporated into core curricular area.
(If you wish, you may download the WebQuest Template to complete your project.)

Open each page of the WebQuest template in an HTML editor (or MS Word if you have no HTML editor) to customize it.

Follow instructions on each page.

Examples of cooperative learning WebQuest projects:

Elementary Level:

Be Safety Smart

My Fruit is Best

Ms V's Breakfast Quest

Middle School Level:

Play it Safe: A WebQuest on Internet Safety

Eating Disorders: A Public Service Announcement

Commonality in Diversity

Secondary level:

Are you Prepared if Disaster Strikes?

GE Foods - Friend or Foe?

Creating Non-violent Schools

Module Three Journal Prompt:

Address how you would apply a strength-based approach to learning and assessment with your students.

Share the topic of your cooperative learning project stating:

	The Essential Question
	The standard (s) it will address
	The task the students will perform in response to the question and how it will help them meet the standard (s) you selected.