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Unit 1: Who we are
Unit 1: Who we are
August 16th - September 24th
Central Idea: Everything has a form and purpose that connects relationships and communities to one’s self.
Central Idea: Everything has a form and purpose that connects relationships and communities to one’s self.
By the end of the unit my student will:
By the end of the unit my student will:
Students will create collage that expresses their identities and how they co-exist in their community.
Student Agency:
Student Agency:
Voice: Students will decide
a) what their community looks like/what community they are a part of
b) identify the important things about themselves that make them unique and
c) make inquiries about their own identities
Choice: Students will choose how to identify themselves and their communities as well as choose how to represent themselves in their collages. They will decide what parts of themselves to represent in their collage.
Ownership: Students will present their collages and explain how it represents their identities. Also, the students will use this information to build a community within the classroom in which their personal identities can thrive.
Student Action:
Student Action:
Choose: Students will discover their identities through self-reflection in different intersectionalities
Act: Students will create a cultural identity collage to express their various identities.
Reflect: Students will discuss their identities and how their differences and similarities can encourage building a community.
Key Concepts
Key Concepts
Form: Everything has a form with recognizable features that can be observed, identified, described, and categorized.
Where do you see community?
How can you show your family/friends what you have learned?
Reflection: The understanding that there are different ways of knowing and that it is important to reflect on our conclusion, to consider our methods of reasoning, and the quality and the reliability of the evidence we have considered.
How do you relate to school?
What are the most important things in your life?
Why is it important to know when and how to use __?
Connection: We live in a world of interacting systems in which the actions of any individual element affect others.
What connects you to others?
What connection do you notice between ____ & _____?
What are your values?
What makes you, you?
What are your beliefs?
How do you use math in your everyday life?
Related Concepts
Related Concepts
Reading: Context clues, making predictions & inferences, relationships amongst characters, text evidence, understanding plot elements (sequence, conflict, resolution), author’s purpose, imagery, point of view, subject verb agreement, adverbs, personal narratives, poetry
Math: Composing and decomposing numbers, understanding the relationship between numbers, uses in real life and ability to model material in a variety of ways depending on context
Science: Patterns, relationships, cycles in our physical environment and living environment, physical properties of matter, changes occur everyday, investigate sun, Earth, and moon systems, predict, collect, and record data by measuring and observing, analyze and interpret data, construct models, using evidence and making logical conclusions, describe and classify, explore and recognize
Social Studies: Biographies, timelines, historical documents, community, celebrations, Connection between historical events and their impacts, utilizing a variety of resources, cultures, understanding and considering context, and recognizing commonalities
Student Work
Student Work
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