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Unit 4: How the world works
Unit 4: How the world works
An inquiry into the interaction between the natural world (physical and biological) and human societies
January 9th - February 20th
Central Idea: Real-world connections and discoveries help us relate to one another.
Central Idea: Real-world connections and discoveries help us relate to one another.
END of UNIT Assessment
END of UNIT Assessment
By the end of the Unit, my student will:
By the end of the Unit, my student will:
understand how discoveries help us connect to each other and the world.
understand how discoveries help us connect to each other and the world.
Student Action:
Student Action:
Choose: Students are practicing to be strong inquirers to discover .
Act: Students are going to make connections between their discoveries and share their learned discoveries with an adopted 1st. grader.
Reflect: The student will have a conversation to allow them to reflect on their discoveries.
Student Agency:
Student Agency:
Voice: Students will make the decision for the audience. Decide the different ways to gather information (books, videos, library, youtube) and share it. Students drive the input on what is learned and how it is shared. Give them options based on their style of learning on how they want to do assignments.
Choice: Choices for sharing information gathered during the 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 based on self-defined learning goal. They can co-construct the rubric. Peer to peer feedback. Reflect and revise their work.
Key Concepts:
Key Concepts:
Form: The understanding that everything has a form with recognizable features that can be observed, identified, described, and categorized.
Causation: The understanding that things do not just happen, that there are causal relationships at work, and that actions have consequences.
Connection: The understanding that we live in a world of interacting systems in which the actions of any individual element affect others.
Related Concepts:
Related Concepts:
Reading: Theme, character changes and interactions, inferencing, structure of informational texts, key ideas, personal narrative.
Math: What can we discover around us using math? Using math to collect data? How do we use math in daily life?
Science: How the Earth’s layers and tectonic plates interact to change the Earth’s surface; Causes and effects of earthquakes.
Social Studies: Physical regions, Social organization
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