| Title |
Adamson, Kristen_MED_2019 |
| Alternative Title |
FIFTH-GRADE SCIENCE STORYLINE: MEETING THE NEEDS OF DAVIS SCHOOL DISTRICT ELEMENTARY SCIENCE TEACHERS |
| Creator |
Adamson, Kristen |
| Collection Name |
Master of Education |
| Description |
Happiness is something that people can improve through intentional actions aimed at increasing feelings of personal happiness. At school, students are expected to accomplish all the tasks that are presented to them daily as teachers guide through the process. Students will achieve better academically and socially at school if they feel happy. However, students are not taught how to gain a sense of happiness or how to work to change any feelings of unhappiness. Teachers should show and be able to provide students with opportunities to self-assess how they are feeling as well as how to do activities that will increase their feelings of happiness. This arts-based study utilized seven different lessons with activities meant to improve feelings of happiness. In the project, students first created an original art product which answered the question: How happy do you feel at school? After the creation of the first artifacts, students were taught lessons and practiced the learning strategies included in the lessons. Students spent time discussing as a class and expressing self-reflections with the researcher regarding how they felt at school and which activities they could use to develop stronger feelings of happiness at school. After seven weeks of lessons and happiness strategy practice, the students were asked to create a second artifact to answer the question: How happy do you feel at school? When the students completed the second art product, they compared their two artifacts and answered the researcher's final project questions. The results of this project focused on two specific students and their feelings of happiness at school. Student one felt unhappy at school and student two felt both happy and unhappy at school. Through the seven lessons taught over the seven-week period, both students were able to identify the causes of the unhappiness they felt at school and worked towards improving their personal feelings of happiness. Comparing the first and second artifact, both expressed that they were able to improve their feelings of happiness at school. |
| Subject |
Education--Evaluation; Education--Study and teaching |
| Keywords |
Happiness; Self-assessment; Art |
| Digital Publisher |
Stewart Library, Weber State University |
| Date |
2019 |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
The author has granted Weber State University Archives a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce their theses, in whole or in part, in electronic or paper form and to make it available to the general public at no charge. The author retains all other rights. |
| Source |
University Archives Electronic Records; Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction. Stewart Library, Weber State University |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6cv8gzm |
| Setname |
wsu_smt |
| ID |
96784 |
| Reference URL |
https://digital.weber.edu/ark:/87278/s6cv8gzm |
