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Driving Question: What character traits help people make changes in their school, community, and world?
Driving Question: What character traits help people make changes in their school, community, and world?
Standard(s): ELAGSE5W1: Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons. ELAGSE5RI10: By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 4-5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
Objective: In response to Project #1 (How did people and progress shape our country?) students were asked to focus on the character traits that changemakers possess. Our Goal is to learn from individuals that made changes in their school, community, and/or world. Students were then asked to form their own opinion of the top character traits one needs to effect change.
Project Product: Opinion Essay with research and evidence, Response to The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind activities in English Language Arts and Mathematics.
Project Timeline:
Project Timeline:
Entry Event: Students learned about the continent of Africa through a series of lessons on the continent's major geographical regions and its people.
Project Milestones: Entry Event> Need to Knows & What We Already Know> Novel Study, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind> Opinion Essay (writing process)> Novel Study Choice Board> Math Character Trait Art Activity> Project Reflection.
Authentic Experts:
Authentic Experts:
Students studied the personal life and work of William Kamkwamba, co author and subject of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.
Students studied the personal life and work of William Kamkwamba, co author and subject of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.
What We Already Knew:
What We Already Knew:
Many inventors at the Turn of the 20th Century helped shape the United States and our world.
There was a large number of people, from all over the world, that immigrated to the U.S. in the 1900's bringing new traditions and culture.
How to write an opinion essay.
What We Needed to Learn:
What We Needed to Learn:
What is a changemaker?
Who are some changemakers currently making a difference in our world?
What character traits help people make changes in their schools, communities and world?
How can we write an opinion essay that includes facts and evidence?
What is life like in Africa, where our changemaker grew up?
Products: Opinion Essay and Original Artwork
Products: Opinion Essay and Original Artwork
Mathematics Connection:
Students related the process of analyzing the differences and similarities of character traits to the mathematics skill of comparing decimals. After discussion of this connection, students displayed both concepts in an original artistic puzzle.
Ms. Newman's Homeroom
Ms. Turner's Homeroom
Ms. Rice's Homeroom
Project Reflections:
Project Reflections:
What we want to learn next:
What we want to learn next:
5th Grade will complete the "Students Rebuild Changemaker Challenge" by nominating our Changemakers of 2020.
Students will help plan our 3rd project by answering the question, What do we want to learn next?
Feedback and Reflection
Feedback and Reflection
Please leave reflect on our PBL journey and products using the "I like, I wish, I wonder" protocol in the padlet below.
HOW to use I Like, I Wish, I Wonder ProtocolExpress your thoughts and feedback to your child in sentences that begin with I Like, I Wish, I Wonder. Share all or your likes first, then wishes, and finally wonders.
Some EXAMPLES of how to use the protocol to give students feedback on their process: “I like how you described the use of technology to research new ideas.”“I wish that you would have included more information about possible answers to the driving question.”“I wonder how you could have included coding your project?
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