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Unit 3: How the world works
Unit 3: How the world works
December 7th - January 29th
Central Idea: The impact a natural disaster has on a community, including the responsibility if the citizens to rebuild.
Central Idea: The impact a natural disaster has on a community, including the responsibility if the citizens to rebuild.
By the end of the unit my student will:
By the end of the unit my student will:
Research a natural disaster and demonstrate how that disaster would affect a population of people, then develop a plan for disaster relief in their community (plan for rebuilding).
Student Agency
Student Agency
Voice: Students will communicate the knowledge acquired from their research and implement informed/detailed steps to rebuild their chosen community.
Choice: Students will have a choice in selecting the natural disaster and community that fits with it.
Ownership: Students will share their final projects with the class.
Student Action:
Student Action:
Choose: Type of storm, choice of city or region
Act: Build relief plan, advocacy
Reflect: Impact on community, organizing the celebration to commemorate rebuilding, what is our own emergency plan
Key Concepts
Key Concepts
Form: The understanding that everything has a form with recognizable features that can be observed, identified, described, and categorized.
What is a natural disaster?
What is the landscape like?
What is a map?
Causation: The understanding that things do not just happen, that there are causal relationships at work, and that actions have consequences.
Why is a natural disaster harmful?
What motivates groups to act as they do?
How are houses around the world constructed to suit the local climate?
Responsibility: The understanding that people make choices based on their understandings, and the actions they take as a result do make a difference.
What is our responsibility to each other after a natural disaster?
Why should we care about the past?
What can we do to help us stay safe?
Related Concepts
Related Concepts
Reading: Central idea, characteristics and structures of informational texts, plot elements, context clues
Science: Natural disaster formation
Social Studies: Variations in the physical environment, the effects of physical processes in shaping the landscapes
Math: Two-step word problems, understanding and applying data, visual representations, natural resources, explore, record and conclude solutions
Summative Assessment Student Work
Summative Assessment Student Work
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