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Unit 2: How the world works
Unit 2: How the world works
September 27th - November 5th
Central Idea: Weather causes people to adapt to communities all around the world.
Central Idea: Weather causes people to adapt to communities all around the world.
By the end of the unit my student will:
By the end of the unit my student will:
Students will share how the weather affects their community by making a poster, google slides. video. They will then offer solutions for those problems.
Rubric for summative assessment https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Os3DmsVyjqDpZQE8NuIchkvg8ttQGL4i5U948M1KN0Q/edit?usp=sharing
Student Agency
Student Agency
Voice: Students will get to decide what kind of weather phenomenon they want to research.
Choice: graphic organizer, kind of research media, poster, slides, video
Ownership: students will be in charge of their own research
Student Action
Student Action
Choose: Students will pick an extreme weather of their choice to gain further knowledge of that extreme weather.
Act: Students will raise awareness of the risks and dangers of extreme weather and how they can keep themselves and others safe.
Reflect: Students will reflect on how that weather can affect the community.
Key Concepts
Key Concepts
Causation: The understanding that things do not just happen, that there are causal relationships at work, and that actions have consequences.
How does a tornado form?
How does a hurricane form?
What is a blizzard?
What kinds of storms are in the area that we live in?
Are there storms that happen in other parts of the country?
Change: The understanding that change is the process of movement from one state to another. It is universal and inevitable.
How are the clouds different?
What are the different types of clouds?
What kinds of clouds will be indicators of a storm?
What kinds of clouds are dangerous?
Related Concepts
Related Concepts
Reading: Making connections, inferences, establishing purpose, generating questions for reading.
Math: Financial impact of storms in our communities
Science: Types of energy, weather, seasons, climate change
Social Studies: express ideas orally based on knowledge and experiences, create written and visual material such as stories, maps, and graphic organizers to express ideas
Art: expresses through illustrations of the different types of weather
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