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Unit 2: How the world works
Unit 2: How the world works
October 19th - December 4th
Central Idea: Weather causes people to adapt to communities all around the world.
Central Idea: Weather causes people to adapt to communities all around the world.
By the end of the unit my student will:
By the end of the unit my student will:
Students will share how the weather affects their community by making a poster, google slides, or video. They will then offer solutions to those problems.
Student Agency
Student Agency
Voice: Students will get to decide what kind of weather phenomenon they want to research.
Choice: Students will choose a graphic organizer, kind of research media, poster, slides, video to present their research findings.
Ownership: students will be in charge of their research
Student Action
Student Action
Students will raise awareness of the risks and dangers of extreme weather and how they can keep themselves and others safe.
Key Concepts
Key Concepts
Causation - Things do not just happen. There are causal relationships at work and actions have consequences.
How are storms made?
How are houses around the world constructed to suit the local climate?
What motivates groups to act as they do when a storm is coming towards them?
Change - Change is the process of movement from one state to another. It is universal and inevitable.
In what way does the air differ from place to place, over time?
How have storms changed over time?
In what ways have storms changed human behavior?
In what ways does the built environment result from the natural environment?
Related Concepts
Related Concepts
Reading: Making connections, inferences, establishing purpose, generating questions for reading.
Math: Financial impact of storms in our communities
Social Studies: express ideas orally based on knowledge and experiences, create written and visual material such as stories, maps, and graphic organizers to express ideas
Science: Types of energy, weather, seasons, climate change
Student work
Student work
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