Fifth Grade

Construct a Published Digital Portfolio: Build and systematically curate a multi-page "Global Passport" website featuring individual pages for all seven continents, process evidence, leadership legacy, and end-of-year reflections.

Execute a Signature Product for Each Continent: Create and publish at least one unique, multimodal signature product corresponding to each of the seven continents (e.g., identity cards, soundscape podcasts, documentaries, and transmedia campaigns).

Apply the Complete Creative Process: Demonstrate sustained engagement through all eight stages of the unit's creative process: exploring, researching, planning, writing, producing, sharing, reflecting, and leading.

Develop Advanced Research Skills: Formulate focused research questions, utilize primary and secondary database sources (e.g. GALILEO and National Geographic Kids), evaluate source credibility, and record organized notes without plagiarizing.

Demonstrate Ethical Media Use and Citation: Properly attribute all external images, datasets, and information using citations, media credits, and ethical image licensing practices across every digital product.

Analyze and Practice Perspective-Taking: Analyze how point of view, bias, and context shape narratives by creating stories that incorporate multiple authentic perspectives across diverse regions.

Ensure Respectful and Non-Stereotypical Representation: Represent cultures, communities, and individuals respectfully by intentionally seeking insider voices and avoiding cultural generalization, appropriation, or oversimplification.

Master Multimodal Composition: Combine at least three distinct digital modes, such as written text, custom audio recordings, visual graphics, videos, or interactive elements, to convey complex ideas to specific target audiences.

Evaluate and Select Digital Tools: Critically assess storytelling technologies (e.g., Soundtrap, Canva, WeVideo, Book Creator, Scratch) based on purpose, audience suitability, accessibility, privacy, and technical features.

Design Interactive and Coded Narratives: Apply computer science concepts—such as hyperlinks, branching logic, sequences, and conditionals—to design, user-test, and debug interactive fiction stories.

Utilize Data Visualization in Storytelling: Interpret raw datasets and design accurate, well-labeled data visualizations (charts, maps, or infographics) that strengthen non-fiction narratives while noting data limitations.

Engage in Advocacy and Design Thinking: Use empathy-driven design thinking and social-impact storytelling to research global/local challenges, formulate evidence-based claims, and construct persuasive advocacy campaigns.

Foster Collaboration and Leadership: Work productively in defined team roles to draft collaborative media projects, navigate creative differences respectfully, and reflect on peer collaboration processes.

Support Social-Emotional Growth and Risk-Taking: Address perfectionism and build emotional resilience by engaging in peer critique, testing rough cuts, documenting revisions, and viewing mistakes as opportunities for growth.

Present to an Authentic Audience: Synthesize and communicate yearlong learning during the final Stakeholder Showcase by delivering a polished portfolio presentation to families, peers, educators, and community members.