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Unit 3: How the world works
Unit 3: How the world works
November 8th - December 17th
Central Idea: The impact a natural disaster has on a community, including the responsibility of citizens to rebuild.
Central Idea: The impact a natural disaster has on a community, including the responsibility of citizens to rebuild.
By the end of the unit my student will:
By the end of the unit my student will:
ASSESSMENT- Develop a plan for disaster relief in their community (plan for rebuilding)
What steps will we take to prepare for the natural disaster?
What is the plan while the natural disaster is happening?
What would be the first and most important steps following a natural disaster?
What steps would be taken in the first week after a natural disaster?
How would we prioritize what needs to be rebuilt?
How will we organize volunteers for the rebuilding effort?
Student Agency:
Student Agency:
Voice: Students will communicate the knowledge acquired from their research and implement informed/detailed steps to rebuild their chosen community.
Choice: Students will have a choice in selecting the natural disaster and community that fits with it.
Ownership: Students will share their final projects with the class.
Student Action:
Student Action:
Choose: Type of storm, choice of city or region,
Act: Build relief plan, advocacy
Reflect: impact on community, organizing the celebration to commemorate rebuilding, what is our own emergency plan
Key Concepts
Key Concepts
Form: What is it like? The understanding that everything has a form with recognizable features that can be observed, identified, described and categorized.
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.
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.
Related Concepts
Related Concepts
Reading: Generate Questions, Making Inferences, determining Central Idea, Utilizing Text Features
Math: Communities have to decide how to spend, save, and earn income to support the individuals in their community.
Science: Landforms, Climate Change, how a community is affected by and responds to natural disasters, natural disasters
Social Studies: The physical Environment, Natural Hazards, Natural disasters, Natural Resources, Human Interactions with the Environment, Landforms, Maps, Community collaboration
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