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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 | |
| Three-Ring Government | In social studies class, third grade students identify the structure of the federal government and describe the roles and responsibilities of government officials. The essential question framing the unit is: How is our government organized? | 3 | |
| South America: Geography's Effect on People's Lifestyle and Work | The essential questions are: What are landforms? Which landforms do we find in South American countries? How do landforms determine how people live and work in South American countries? | 3 | |
| Burr Airlines Flight to Asia: building inquiry skills | This lesson is designed to call upon student prior knowledge and build student knowledge of and interest in India, China and Japan in order to stimulate student wonder and inquiry. Students formulate research questions that are subordinate questions of the three essential questions dictated by the district social studies curriculum: How do Asian people interact with the land?; How do they interact with one another?; and How are they affected by their beliefs? | 3 | |
| Animal Research Project | The concept this lesson is designed to teach is research skills. The Common Core State Standards emphasizes students engaging in short focused research. According to the Common Core State Standards, students in grades 3-5 need to participate in research and writing projects throughout the school year. The essential question students will explore is 'What is the Big 6 Research Model and what are the steps involved in the research process?' | 3 | |
| Passport Through the Library | Students will use the pictorial chart to learn about the 300’s nonfiction section. These pictorial clues will aid students in decoding topic names and encourage practice in number recognition. Students will identify, locate, and evaluate items in the 300’s section of the library for personal interest. The essential questions are: Am I able to locate my topics of personal interest in the 300’s section of the library? Am I able to evaluate my personal choices? | K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 | |
| Genres: Let’s Make Comparisons | Students compare poetry, folk tales and fables in respect to their genre characteristics. The essential question framing this unit is: What genre similarities can be found in poetry, folk tales and fables? | 3 | |
| Nouns and Verbs in Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs | Following a class discussion of nouns and verbs in the story, students will go to a computer to locate and print photos to illustrate one noun and one verb of their choice. Essential questions: What is the function of a noun? What is the function of a verb? How can pictures be found with a computer? | 3 | |
| Introduction to Cyberbullying | The lesson is designed to teach students to recognize cyberbulling in all its forms (email, chat, text and website); to respond to cyberbullies; to prevent being the victim of a cyberbully; and when to inform an adult of cyberbullying. | 3 |