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| Title | Overview | Grade | Average Rating |
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| Adelina's Whales and The Big 6 research process | Students will record relevant ("treasure")information from the PBS video: Saving the Ocean: Destination Baja, on their video note-taking template (Step 4- Use of Information). They will then synthesize their notes from the video and the website to answer the Essential Question: How is the Mayoral family helping to preserve the gray whales’ habitat at San Laguna Ignacio? (Step 5- Synthesis)on the Essential Question template. | 4 | |
| Food Webs | As a connection to a unit on ecology, fourth grade students are given the opportunity to create multimedia projects in which they use digital images and text to illustrate food webs. The essential question is: How do food webs work? | 4 | |
| Understanding Author & Illustrator | Students will be able to identify and explain the job responsibilities of an author and an illustrator and to better connect with this concept, they will become an author/illustrator. Essential questions: What is an author? What is an illustrator? What relationship do an author and illustrator have? How do an author and illustrator affect one another? What type of job do you have in kindergarten that is affected by someone else’s work? | K | |
| 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 | |
| Explorers Project | Students will apply the research process for this multiple class unit. They will read about a particular explorer, learn about their aims, challenges and accomplishments, and will trace the routes they followed on maps. As a group, they will generate questions to use during the "Interview with an Explorer" section. Students will gain practice in writing skills to communicate effectively as they create a journal from the Explorer's point of view. | 5 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Pourquoi Tales | Unit Focus: What purpose do Pourquoi tales serve in the understanding of early peoples about the natural world in which they lived? Essential question for this lesson: Can students identify the unique features that distinguish a Pourquoi tale to enable them to write their own tale? | 4 | |
| Wolves: Using more than one source | This lesson takes place prior to second grade students’ embarking on their science unit about Alaskan animals. They will work in groups of three to answer two questions about wolves. Each member in the group will use one of the three types of sources to answer the two questions. Then, they will share their answers with each other and each group will share a statement of their conclusions. | 2 | |
| 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 |