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| Title | Overview | Grade | Average Rating |
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| George Washington: Was he a responsible family man as well as a great leader? | As a team effort, students will write a letter of recommendation to the editor of a local newspaper supporting the idea that George Washington was a good father and a great leader of our country. Essential Questions: What are primary sources? How could George Washington be a good father if he had no children of his own? Was George Washington a great leader? Why did he deserve to have a place on Mt. Rushmore? | 3, 4, 5 | |
| Dr. Seuss and Read Across America | The essential question, What important facts about Dr. Seuss influenced the Read Across America movement in America? This lesson is designed to teach students to analyze the life and works of Dr. Seuss and to infer why he was important to the Read Across America movement. Students will use note taking skills to write their paragraph from reliable, teacher selected sources. | 5, 6 | |
| Global Warming Portfolio Project | Eighth grade students will synthesize learning in Science, Mathematics and Language Arts to present accurate, relevant, authoritative and current information about global warming using digital tools and information processing strategies. The essential questions are: Has the climate of our world changed in the last fifty years because of human activity? How can you justify your response? | 8 | |
| What Was Life Like in Ancient Hawaii? | The essential question is what was Hawaii like in the past? Students describe the culture and geography of ancient Hawaii by searching for information in a range of resources and combining information and visuals from their research in the form of digital posters. | 4 | |
| Children in Japan and Hawaii: How Are We Alike and Different | The essential questions for this unit are: How are children in Japan like us in Hawaii? How are children in Japan different from us in Hawaii? | 1 | |
| Creepy, Crawly Insects - Where Can I Find Out More? | First and second grade students, currently studying insects in Science, will visit the library to research various insects, take notes on important information, create a presentation, and share findings with peers. Students design presentations to address the following essential questions: What makes this creature an insect? What do I want to tell other students about this insect? | 1, 2 | |
| Cyberbullying Among Teens | Students learn the importance of creating storyboards as first steps in designing their podcasts. To build their storyboards, they wrestle with the following essential questions: Why do teens engage in cyberbullying? How does it affect the victims? What can we do to stop cybebullying? | 9 | |
| Trip to an Art Gallery | Art is viewed through a variety of lenses by people from all around the world. How art is seen, valued, and absorbed differs with each person's cultural background and life experiences. The students in Spanish V are asked to present art to teens from a Spanish speaking country, using language native to the teen and incorporating the culture and ideals of the visiting student. | 11 | |
| Environmental Performance Research | Students will explore worldwide air and water quality as they affect the ecosystem. They will examine EPI performance grades, basis for individual country rankings, and policy goals set by national governments to improve healthy ecosystems. Essential questions will include: What are the primary contributors to air and water pollution? What country-specific circumstances affect ratings i.e. climate, wealth? Are there unique challenges? What policies have been established by national governments? What progress is being made? | 8 | |
| Check it out... nonfiction can be fun! | During this unit, the students cultivate their own curiosity as they explore a broad range of nonfiction topics and learn about interesting ways information can be communicated in nonfiction. They immerse themselves in various topics of interest to them and then select one of those topics to research with a partner in depth. Partners then write, revise, and publish an informational piece about that topic to share with the class. | 5 |