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Unit 4: How the world works
Unit 4: How the world works
January 5th - February 18th
Central Idea: People contribute to impacting the community and the world around us by inventing solutions that lead to scientific and technological advances.
Central Idea: People contribute to impacting the community and the world around us by inventing solutions that lead to scientific and technological advances.
By the end of the unit my student will:
By the end of the unit my student will:
Explain how a scientific, technological, or social invention has impacted the world currently.
Students can choose to write an essay, build a model, or come up with a different creative way to communicate how the world works through the lens of their invention.
Student Agency
Student Agency
Voice: Exchange ideas with classmates and share their findings with their community.
Choice: Choose an advancement that has shaped the world; choose a format to present their research information.
Ownership: To analyze how they have been personally impacted by the invention.
Student Action
Student Action
Choose: Being more organized in the classroom and station rotation.
Act: Acknowledging the responsibility to stick to their goal.
Reflect: Holding each other accountable to reflect on their subject goals and their plans to accomplish them.
Key Concepts
Key Concepts
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.
Perspective: What are the points of view? The understanding that knowledge is moderated by perspectives; different perspectives lead to different interpretations, understandings and findings; perspectives may be individual, group, cultural or disciplinary.
Related Concepts
Related Concepts
Science: Weather and climate patterns, systems in the Earth
Social studies: technological changes, interdependence, reconstruction, compare and contrast regions,
Reading: Biography, poetry, informational texts (central idea, text features, text structure), fiction (plot, story elements, characters and their conflicts.
Math: data, geometry, measurement
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