Teachers in the first and second grades at Sunshine Academy want to increase children’s motivation to read while also teaching them to read. Which of the following will help them meet these goals?

Scenario: Each day, the children in Samantha’s toddler room go outside. Samantha and her aide, Tabatha, have 12 children to get ready. After each child puts on rain pants, raincoats, and boots, they wait by the door until everyone is ready. However, they often wrestle, complain of being hot, and begin to fight with each other as they wait. Samantha wonders if going outside is worth this difficult transition. What is your response?

Which of the following statements is true regarding family child care?

Scenario: Jessica is planning a topic on birds with the five-year-old children in her classroom. One of the experiences she is planning is to have children design and then build a bird feeder. The children have been observing the chickadees in their play yard. When they have scattered the seeds on the ground, the magpies come and eat all the food. Would birds be an appropriate topic of study? Why or why not?

The National Coalition for the Arts have created standards for music education. Which of the following statements is true?

Spatial awareness is enhanced when teachers do each of the following EXCEPT __________.

You are using backward design to develop your learning plan. Where would you begin?

Which of the following does S.A.F.E. mean when thinking about outdoor safety?

Scenario: Sean, a student teacher, has developed the following learning plan. You are her peer reviewer and are responsible for critiquing the plan and providing feedback. Outcomes: By the end of the unit, the child will describe the basic needs of earthworms. By the end of the unit, the child will be able to describe the differences and similarities between what humans need to survive, and what worms need to survive. Summative assessment: Each child will complete the What I learned section of a KWHL chart. Topic-Worms Pre-assessment: Each child will create a KWHL chart. For the pre-assessment, they will complete the What I know section. Learning plan experiences: Read books on worms. Using gummy worms as a model, we will draw worms. Create worm art by dipping pieces of yarn into paint and dragging it across paper to make squiggles and lines. Do a gummy worm hunt. Slither on our stomachs like worms. What recommendations would you make to Sean regarding the assessments used in the learning plan?

Costco installs automobile tires on a first-come first-serve basis. The total time a customer needs to wait for the installation to be completed follows the normal distribution with a mean time of 106.3 minutes and a standard deviation of 18.5 minutes.  Of the following statements below, which one represents the best scenario?