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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 | |
| Taking Action for Human Rights 4: Evaluate | How can ordinary people defend human rights? Students will research and develop an action plan regarding a contemporary human rights violation. Students will gain hands-on experience in grassroots activism which will inform and inspire human rights activism later in life. *Lesson four of four.* | 10, 11, 12 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Human Interactions with Living Systems | Seventh-grade students will work in small groups to create a three-minute video in which they will share their research on how humans impact living systems . Each project must include images, video, text, and sound. It must also clearly describe the issue, including the cause and consequence of human interaction with the living system, work that has been done to combat the negative aspects of the issue, and a proposal for a sustainable solution. | 7 | |
| 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 |