Cultural Awareness

I designed a Curriculum Web for 5th grade Science students. The Curriculum Web was based upon the topic of living things. I do believe that this web is created for different cultures and is simplified in a way in which other students of various backgrounds could relate to the material being presented. For me, visual images are a cultural variable that would be incorporated, in which students may very well relate to the material presented. Through those visual images, students are able to distinguish and recognize what the topic is about. Also, active participation and stimulated learning environments are another key factor in the "cultural variables" that can be used to help enhance the learning outcomes of students.
I believe for any cultural background, students learn best through not only visual images or objects, but also through stimulated and hands-on learning environment.

Constructivist Learning

Using Dreamweaver has been an interesting experience for me thus far. For me, it has its advantages and disadvantages. The advantages being that I am learning about a new software that I have never used before and can apply it with other future tasks. The downside being that I am having a hard time figuring out this software and how to get it started. I looked over the dreamweaver book and that actually confuses me more, so I went online to use tutorials which helped somewhat. But all in all, because there are so many steps, I am finding it a bit frustrating because getting it all started is hard.
I am willing to learn more about the software and viewing other resources in order design my curriculum project. I am definitely looking foward to seeing the final masterpiece because I know truly this project will be one where I will very proud of being that I have never used the software.