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Unit 4: How the world works
Unit 4: How the world works
February 1st - March 12th
Central Idea: People use scientific principles that impact the world to change and work in specific ways.
Central Idea: People use scientific principles that impact the world to change and work in specific ways.
By the end of the unit my student will:
By the end of the unit my student will:
Explain how a scientific, or social principle has impacted the world currently. Students can choose to write an essay, build a model, or come up with a different creative way to communicate how the world works through the lens of their principle.
Student Agency
Student Agency
Voice: Exchange ideas with classmates and share their findings with their community.
Choice: Choose a principle that has shaped the world; choose a format to present their research information.
Ownership: To analyze how they have been personally impacted by the principle.
Student Action
Student Action
Choose: Being more organized in the classroom and station rotation.
Act: Acknowledging the responsibility to stick to their goal.
Reflect: Holding each other accountable to reflect on their subject goals and their plans to accomplish them.
Key Concepts
Key Concepts
Form: The understanding that everything has a form with recognizable features that can be observed, identified, described, and categorized.
How can we describe time?
What kind of work did people do?
What is a landscape?
What are the ways stories can be told?
Causation: The understanding that things do not just happen, that there are causal relationships at work, and that actions have consequences.
What motivates groups to act as they do?
How do conflict and resolution shape society?
What do characters in a story behave the way they do?
Change: The understanding that change is the process of movement from one state to another. It is universal and inevitable.
How is the planet changing?
What factors cause migration?
What do all patterns have in common?
Related Concepts
Related Concepts
Science: Earth rotation, sun & ocean in water cycle.
Reading: Folk tales, informational texts (text features, text structure), fiction
Math: Data, measurement, graphing.
Social Studies: Westward expansion, Industrial revolution, Territorial expansion (Louisiana Purchase, Luis and Clark expedition, Manifest Destiny)
Summative Assessment - Student Work
Summative Assessment - Student Work
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