Allison Beaman, RCOE, Appalachian State University

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Artifact Seven: This artifact is a web site about the development of fourth and fifth grade students. The information provided in this page is useful to parents or teachers that would like to understand their students better.

Context
I helped create this web site during my Elementary Block at ASU. I used Netscape Composer to design the web page; Adobe Photoshop to edit the pictures and scanned items; and a scanner to import the examples of student answers. The information was compiled from video and paper/pencil interviews with three fourth and fifth grade classes in Watauga County, NC. We also accessed another developmental website on fourth and fifth graders for some of our research.

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 This website, and the links from the site, provide parents and teachers with information about the physical, social and emotional development of children in grades four and five. In order to be a quality educator, I feel it is necessary to be aware of the development of children. 

Alignment 
In order to create this web page, my group had to research the development of students in this age group. We were serving as interns in fourth or fifth grade classes, so we definitely made use of our students as resources. We designed paper and pencil interviews to conduct with all of our students. Then each member of the group completed a video taped interview with one female and one male from our classes (NC Technology Competency 12.2). The web page has two clips on them that are copyrighted. These clips have been properly cited (NC Technology Competency 14.3). In order to understand how our students are learning and growing in curriculum areas, we must appreciate how they are learning and growing in other dimensions of their lives. For example, without realizing that fifth graders are especially vulnerable to their peer’s opinions of them, I might have planned a lesson that could have potentially embarrassed a student. In some grades this would not be a huge problem, but for students in the fifth grade, who are highly affected by situations like this, it could be disastrous. This example demonstrates how to make use of the knowledge gained from researching the development of our students (INTASC Principle 2).