2nd Grade

Unit 4: Where we are in place and time

February 1st - March 12th

present their research about an individual who has inspired change in our society.

Voice: Students will choose an inspirational figure to study. Students will have an opportunity to discuss in small groups the importance of each historical figure.
Choice: Students will select the type of assessment that shows the understanding of the central idea.
Ownership: Students Biography Project

Choose: How can I inspire change?
Act: Students will come up with a plan of how to inspire change in their community.
Reflect: Students will say how the individual they investigate has inspired them to change.

Connection: The understanding that we live in a world of interacting systems in which the actions of any individual element affect others.
- How are things connected to each other?
- How are storytelling traditions linked to culture?
- How do our experiences allow us to connect with stories?
- How is a line graph connected to a bar graph?
Responsibility: The understanding that people make choices based on their understandings, and the actions they take as a result do make a difference.
- What makes your answer reasonable?
- Why should we care about the past?
- How can you be a responsible member of a group?
Change: The understanding that change is the process of movement from one state to another. It is universal and inevitable.
- How have inventions changed society?
- What is the role of technology in shaping society?
- What do all patterns have in common?
- How does the story begin, develop, and end?

Theodore Roosevelt’s

Amilia Earhart

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Barack Obama

Wright brothers

Martin Luther King Jr.

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