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Unit 5: Sharing the planet
Unit 5: Sharing the planet
February 9th - March 30th
Central Idea: Observe and analyze the access to shared resources within a community and how equality is achieved through peace and conflict resolution.
Central Idea: Observe and analyze the access to shared resources within a community and how equality is achieved through peace and conflict resolution.
By the end of the unit my student will:
By the end of the unit my student will:
Create a business plan for their non-profit organization that will work to solve an issue in their community.
What is my budget?
How can I raise money?
How will I organize volunteers?
Who will benefit from my services?
Student Agency:
Student Agency:
Voice: picking an issue that impacts their community. Students will communicate an issue they have observed and believe needs to be solved.
Choice: deciding how to minimize or solve the issue through use of resources. Students will develop a business plan that will solve the issue.
Ownership: Students will broaden their view outside of themselves to work towards the greater good of the community/earth.
Student Action:
Student Action:
Choose: Students will choose a problem they have observed in their community
Act: Students will create a plan for how they can solve (with equity) a problem that is facing their community
Reflect: Students will evaluate their plan to see if it will improve the community and what would be necessary to enact the change.
Key Concepts
Key Concepts
Function: How does it work? The understanding that everything has a purpose, a role or way of behaving that can be investigated.
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.
Related Concepts
Related Concepts
Reading: Plot, organizational patterns in text (problem/solution & cause/effect), poetry, text & graphic features, central idea, inferences & supporting evidence
Math: Two and three-dimensional figures, measurement
Science: Ecosystems, structures and functions of organisms, life cycles
Social Studies: running a business in a community, spending, saving, earning, donating, profit, production, supply & demand, entrepreneurs, economic power players
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