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Unit 1: Where we are in place and time
Unit 1: Where we are in place and time
August 16th - September 24th
Central Idea: Exploration, connection, and communication lead to discoveries, experiences, and ideas that shape the world.
Central Idea: Exploration, connection, and communication lead to discoveries, experiences, and ideas that shape the world.
By the end of the unit my student will:
By the end of the unit my student will:
Students are learning where they are in place and time and how discoveries and inventions have shaped their world in this IB unit. Students will work in groups or individually to create a presentation to share about how a region of the United States has changed over time. They will also be able to choose how they would like to present their idea (through writing, a poster, digital resources, etc.). Students will be provided with clear tasks each week to work on building up to the final product.
Student Agency
Student Agency
Voice: Students will make the decision for the audience. Decide the different ways to gather information (books, videos, library, youtube) They give input in what they want to learn. Give them options based on their style of learning on how they want to do assignments. Co-create classroom expectations. Morning meeting.
Choice: Choice boards for assignments. How they want to gather information to engage with multiple perspectives. Choice on how to solve problems. Choose to work in a group or independently. Choose who they work with in that group. Students can choose how they participate in class (flipgrid, video on or off).
Ownership: Choose the topic they want to work on based on a self defined learning goal. They can co-construct the rubric. Peer to peer feedback. Reflect and revise their work.
Student Action
Student Action
Students will present a form of matter, physical landscapes, region of the United States, or a math concept. The student will then teach this information to their fellow students using informative text structure.
Choose: A topic that relates to where we are in place and time and connects to the TEKS (ie physical landscapes, region of the US, a math concept, forms of matter, scientific discoveries)
Act: Student presentation to their peers about how their chosen topic helps us better understand where we are in place and time.
Reflect: After presenting their learning to their classmates, students will reflect on their learning using the prompt: βI used to think...; Now I knowβ¦β
Key Concepts
Key Concepts
Form: Everything has a form with recognizable features that can be observed, identified, described, and categorized.
What kind of work do people do?
What is the landscape like?
Which important decisions have you made in the past?
Causation: Things do not just happen. there are causal relationships at work and actions have consequences.
What motivates groups to act as they do?
How do you feel when things do not work out the way you thought they would?
Why do some calculations produce patterns?
Connection: We live in a world of interacting systems in which the actions of any individual element affect others.
What kinds of beliefs and values encourage connections?
What link is there between technology and migration?
How are storytelling traditions linked to culture?
Related Concepts
Related Concepts
Reading: Context clues, making connections to texts, making inferences, relationships and conflicts of characters, plot, central idea, organizational patterns of a text, key ideas and details, composing personal narratives and poetry, print and graphic features
Social Studies: Forms of physical characteristics, political regions, settlement, population, distribution
Science: Forms of matter, Forms of mixtures and solutions, Causation of changes in matter, Connection to states of matter
Student Work
Student Work
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