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Unit 1: Where we are in place and time
Unit 1: Where we are in place and time
September 8th - October 16th
Central Idea: Exploration, connection, and communication lead to discoveries, experiences, and ideas that shape the world.
Central Idea: Exploration, connection, and communication lead to discoveries, experiences, and ideas that shape the world.
By the end of the unit my student will:
By the end of the unit my student will:
Students will research a form of matter, physical landscapes, a region of the United States, or a math concept. The student will then teach this information to their fellow students using informative text structure. Students will share their findings and give an oral presentation on FlipGrid.
Student Agency
Student Agency
Voice: Students will make the decision for the audience they choose. Students will decide the different ways to gather information (books, videos, library, youtube). They give input in what they want to learn. Teachers will give students options based on their style of learning on how they want to do assignments. Students will co-create classroom expectations.
Choice: Students will use choice boards for assignments. Students will decide how they want to gather information to engage with multiple perspectives. The students will choose how to solve problems. Students will choose to work in a group or independently. Students will choose who they work with in that group. Students can choose how they participate in class (flipgrid, video on or off).
Ownership: Students will choose the topic they want to work on as described in the self defined learning goal. Students will can co-construct the rubric. Students will provide peer to peer feedback. This feedback will help students reflect and revise their work.
Key Concepts
Key Concepts
Form: Everything has a form with recognizable features that can be observed, identified, described, and categorized.
What kind of work do people do?
What is the landscape like?
Which important decisions have you made in the past?
Causation: Things do not just happen. there are causal relationships at work and actions have consequences.
What motivates groups to act as they do?
How do you feel when things do not work out the way you thought they would?
Why do some calculations produce patterns?
Connection: We live in a world of interacting systems in which the actions of any individual element affect others.
What kinds of beliefs and values encourage connections?
What link is there between technology and migration?
How are storytelling traditions linked to culture?
Related Concepts
Related Concepts
Reading: Context clues, making connections to texts, making inferences, relationships and conflicts of characters, plot, central idea, organizational patterns of a text, key ideas and details, composing personal narratives and poetry, print and graphic features
Social Studies: Forms of physical characteristics, political regions, settlement, population, distribution
Math: Problem solving techniques, formulation of a plan and strategy.
Science: Forms of matter, Forms of mixtures and solutions, Causation of changes in matter, Connection to states of matter
Student work from 5A
Student work from 5A
Student Work from 5C
Student Work from 5C
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