Curriculum+Mapping

Not to be confused with Collection Mapping, Curriculum Mapping is a calendar-based procedure to collect and maintain a database of the curriculum in a school. For example, it can let the media specialist know what content is being taught at what time during the school year. It can serve as a valuable planning tool for media specialists as they develop literacy skills lessons and for the purposes of collection development. Expanded curriculum maps also contain essential questions, goals and objectives. [|SAMS] is a valuable resource for curriculum maps.

An example of a basic map for 7th grade:

Grammar& Writing || Social Studies || Math Pre-Algebra || Science || Story writing || Review geography skills; Africa-geography, history || Expression Order of operations Integers Coordinate plane || Scientific Inquiry; Lab Safety; Measurement, Class. Living Things || Biographical sketch || Africa-geography, history, people & culture || Properties of numbers One step equations || The Cell || Place value and estimation Central tendency || Heredity ||
 * || Lang. Arts Theme || Lang.Arts
 * Aug || Out Here on My Own. || Verbs;
 * Sept || Living in the Heart. || Nouns, Pronouns.
 * Oct || Who Am I? || Adj., Adverbs, Prepositions; Autobiographical incident. || Africa-history, people & culture || One step inequalities

Additional resources about Curriculum Mapping:

http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/virtualwkshp/virtualwkshp004.shtml article, Education World.

http://teachingtoday.glencoe.com/howtoarticles/a-curriculum-mapping-primer Curriculum Mapping Primer

http://www.nea.org/webresources/curricmap.html NEA Curriculum Mapping resources

For the Professional Library:

Jacobs, Heidi Hayes. //Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum & Assessment K-12//. Virginia: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1997.

Hale, Janet. //A Guide to Curriculum Mapping: Planning, Implementing, and Sustaining the Process//. Corwin Press, 2007.