Do you have an instructional unit or course you’re proud of that you’d like to publish and get paid for? Interested in earning money this summer to develop a new unit that will be shared with a global audience? For our Summer of Content initiative, Curriki is soliciting elementary and middle school content in ELA, math, science, and social studies. Apply by April 15th, 2009.
To qualify for funding, projects must meet the following requirements:
- Provide or develop comprehensive resources for substantial units of study—for example, a sequenced collection of all necessary components for a unit of middle school science, or a semester of middle school social studies. The final work must include a scope and sequence or table of contents, organized lessons with objectives, handouts for students, and assessments. Strongest proposals will include the plan to include video footage of a master teacher showing best practices for teaching the materials.
- Develop or post open source curriculum in an area of need. Special consideration will be given to proposals for elementary and middle school curriculum in core subjects including math, science, language arts (including grammar), and social studies.
- Deliver all content resources as open source (including editable formats and publication under the open source Curriki License) so they may be used and developed further by a broad community.
- Use best practices in pedagogy and instructional design.
- Participate in a Curriki training, then use the Curriki platform and tools to build out and post the resources, either as wiki-based templates or as sequenced collections of editable attachments.
- Be created by either an individual or group who continues to "own" the project, monitoring and working towards growing its usage. Part of the grant funding will be specifically allocated toward this goal.
- Bring with it a community of users who will employ and actively engage with the materials on an ongoing basis.
Projects will be funded on a rolling basis. Summer of Content money must be used for curriculum development. One 3-4 week unit of content will be paid $500. A semester's worth of content will receive $1600.
If you are interested in applying, please email projects@curriki.org by April 15th, 2009 and be sure to include the following information:
- Full name of applicant
- Position and school or institution
- Location of institution or home address and email address
- Unit or semester title
- Project description
- Project goals
- Standards-aligned subject areas covered
- Target audience
- Project features and key components
- Project milestones (What will be done, by when?)
- Key individuals involved in the project
- Research base or best practices reflected
- Ways in which this project will promote community use on the site
- Size of project requested (ie, three units of 7th Grade Integrated Science and Technology)
- Sample curriculum development work. Please paste into an email or attach ONE document with more than one sample within.
