1st Grade

Unit 6: How we organize ourselves

May 5th - 27th

Students will evidence a habitat that has been affected by human actions. This can take the form of a diorama, poster, or PowerPoint.
- Question: How has our environment changed through the years? What can we expect for the future? Do you agree with the changes? What can we do in order to make our world a better place to live?

Choose: Students will take what they learn and decide what action can we make to improve their habitat
Act: Students will make a commitment about their actions to better the quality of life on earth.
Reflect: Students will reflect on the process of creating their project and talk about what they would do the same/differently next time.

Voice: Students will be researching the needs of living and nonliving organisms. Students will also discuss how environments have changed over the years and what they can do to change the environment.
Choice: Students will choose their own environment and their own materials to reuse and recycle to create a diorama.
Ownership: Students will make commitments to better the environment as well as take action to reduce waste in the classroom.

Causation: Why is it like this? The understanding that things do not just happen, that there are causal relationships at work, and that actions have consequences.
Connection: How is it connected to other things? The understanding that we live in a world of interacting systems in which the actions of any individual element affect others.
Responsibility: What is our responsibility? The understanding that people make choices based on their understandings, and the actions they take as a result do make a difference.

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