5th Grade

Unit 6: Who we are

April 12th - June 15th

Voice: Letting students choose how they want to present their projects. Students will share their ideas with others in a way that is most comfortable for them.
Choice: Letting choose their ideas to see where their research takes them. Providing practice for them to do research in safe reliable sites.
Ownership: Students using their own Google Drive and being responsible to access their own materials. Students work at their own pace within given deadlines.

Choose: Students will be deciding what action they will be working towards for the Exhibition.
Act: Students will implement their actions.
Reflect: Students will complete their journal pages and reflect on their Exhibition learning and action.

Causation: The understanding that things do not just happen, that there are causal relationships at work, and that actions have consequences.
- How has human action affected the environment?
- How does changing part of a life-cycle affect the rest of that life-cycle?
- Are all-natural disasters preventable? Why or why not?
Connection: The understanding that we live in a world of interacting systems in which the actions of any individual element affect others.
- How has the environment affected humans?
- How do ecosystems and environments interact and affect each other?
- What is a relevant problem in my community to which I can give a solution?
Perspective: The understanding that knowledge is moderated by perspectives; different perspectives lead to different interpretations, understandings and findings; perspectives may be individual, group, cultural or disciplinary.
- How do we get prepared for disasters?
- How do discoveries affect humankind positively/negatively?
- How can their learning lead them to find solutions to the problems they encounter?
- How can they work together on the solutions?

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