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It Affects Us All Lesson Sequencing

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	Project Learning Objectives	Resources/Materials/Tools	Mon	Tues	Wed	Thurs	Fri
Week 1	Introduction/Building Background	Bubbl.us 2.0 -mindmap Wallwisher -brainstorm Hoot Anchor Text -website for activities and quizzes for Hoot http://www.mce.k12tn.net/reading58/hoot.htm The Talking Earth Anchor Text www.epals.com Introduce Project Online Learning Community http://edmodo.com/home Teacher Code: kea2xl Student Code: TBD Workspace: Private wiki??? Flush:teach.clarkschools.net/jbernhard/literacy_web/Units/Flush_Unit.rtf www.state.lib.la.us/empowerlibrary/FLUSH.pdf	-Discuss what students already know about Gulf Spill -Show pictures/images/videos of the Gulf Oil Spill. http://www.teachingscience20.com/2010/07/gulf-oil-spill-and-project-based-learning/ or http://wsre.org/OilSpill/teachers-students-kids.asp Choose a way to react to pictures: 1. Journal 2. Wallwisher 3. Post-It Notes on Bulletin Board 4. Write to e-pal 5. Share on blog -Begin Reading Anchor Text (If you are reading Hoot, there are 21 chapters, so 4 chapters a week..finish Chapter 4 before you write letter to epal)	-Do lab experiment that shows effects of oil spills on the environment. http://www.fi.edu/tfi/activity/earth/earth-2.html or http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/14/g35/dawnducks.html Bubbl.us 2.0 -mindmap	-Do Lab experiment that shows effects of oil spills on the environment http://www.fi.edu/tfi/activity/earth/earth-2.html or http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/14/g35/dawnducks.html or A great oil spill activity from the Environmental Guides grades 6-8 from Legacy, Inc. is to clean up the oil spill using different items. Water is placed into a bowl with 10 drops of oil (I use sesame seed oil but you can use vegetable oil). Students may use an eyedropper, a piece of ice and flour to see which item best cleans the oil out of the water. Then in bowl #2 with oil and water, students would use detergent, a paper towel and grass clippings to see which cleans the oil best. Bowl #3 students use cotton ball, styrofoam cup, corn starch to see which is best. Then I like to pose the questions: Which items worked best and why? How would these items work to clean up an large oil spill- like in the Gulf of Mexico?	-Write a letter to epal about Anchor Text or write a letter to another class in your school about the text (For Hoot, after reading Chapter 4)	-Share what we have learne dabout the Gulf Spill via edmodo
Week 2	Survey/Research Community Environmental Issues		-A lesson to define community http://www.lessonplanspage.com/SSLAOMDCommunityUnit-WhatIsCommunityL36.htm	-Create a survey to pass out to families asking them what environmantal issues they are concerned about	-Invite an expert to discuss community issues OR -Find an expert on the web OR -Find an article/resource about local issues and present it to the class www.AquaKids.TV is a show that shows kids protceting the ocean	-Write a letter to epal about Anchor Text or write a letter to another class in your school about the text (For Hoot, after reading Chapter 8)	-Share what we have learned about our own environments via edmodo
Week 3	Choose Focus, Construct Essential Questions, Conduct Research	Use Edmodo? and Wiki? to collaborate Information Literacy and Research Skills Lessons Internet Resources Community Resources	Mini-lesson on Taking notes http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/research-building-blocks-notes-148.html?tab=4#tabs -A lesson to understand multiple intelligences and to inspire teamwork (Takes 2 days) http://www.lessonplanspage.com/SSLAOMDCommunityUnit-MultipleIntelligenceInventoryL36.htm	Mini-Lesson on Skimming/Scanning http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/research-building-blocks-skim-155.html?tab=4#tabs or http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/skimming-scanning-using-riddles-1079.html	Mini-Lesson on Organizing Information For Reports http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/research-building-blocks-organize-179.html?tab=4#tabs	Mini-Lesson on Citing Sources http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/research-building-blocks-cite-158.html?tab=4#tabs -Write a letter to epal about Anchor Text or write a letter to another class in your school about the text (For Hoot, after reading Chapter 12)	-Share the issue we chose to focus on via edmodo
Week 4	Review Research, Collaborate and Develop Awareness Message or Solutions	Use Edmodo to talk with teammates and share. A link to a resource for conducting service projects in the classroom http://www.lessonplanspage.com/SSLAOMDCommunityUnit-ServiceProjectPart1L36.htm			-A lesson on how to choose a service project http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/educators/lessonplans/lesson.cfm?lpid=2001&sid=5	-Write a letter to epal about Anchor Text or write a letter to another class in your school about the text (For Hoot, after reading Chapter 16)	-Share what our service project is going to be via edmodo
Week 5	Choose Project and Tools/Start Project	Audacity Podcasts or Garageband Glogster Posters Voicethread Slideshow (narrated) Animoto Video (text enhanced) Scrapblog (scrapbook or slideshow) InkscapeDesign your own story by drawing images and placing them in podcast or video.	-How to podcast: (may be done over several days) 1. Listen to podcasts 2. Develop rubric for podcast as a class 3. Model a podcast 4. Do individual or group podcasts on something they have learned (I am thinking a math concept to integrate math into this project) http://learninginhand.com/creating-podcasts/ http://www.edtechmag.com/k12/events/updates/creating-podcasts-2.html	-How to use Animoto Video 1. Show Animoto site 2. Take a picture of each student 3. Create an Animoto Video of student's pictures along with their goals for this year 4. Choose music http://www.brighthub.com/education/k-12/reviews/57062.aspx		-Write a letter to epal about Anchor Text or write a letter to another class in your school about the text (For Hoot, after reading Chapter 20)	-Share updates about our service projects
Week 6	Project Work					-Write a letter to epal about Anchor Text or write a letter to another class in your school about the text (For Hoot, when finishing book)
Week 7	Complete and Share Project Reflect	Sharing Tools: Schooltube Podbean Glogster Animoto A sample rubric for service projects: http://www.lessonplanspage.com/SSLAOMDCommunityUnit-ServiceProjectRubric36.htm

Comments (4)

There is an oil spill experiment that I will use with my kids as it is really hands-on. Kids have to put their hands in
substances to feel what it would be like.....I know it would be memorable. Check it out and if anyone wants to add
it please do. There are actually two activities in the lesson...the format is older but I think still interesting.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/14/g35/dawnducks.html

Vickie and Everyone,

Glad to see Thinkfinity resources such as Xpeditions and Read/Write/Think incorporated into the unit.

I love Read/Write/Think! I added those lessons and hope to use them more this year than ever before!
Jenn

This is coming along great! I looked at Youth Voices and some of the content is a bit old for our kids. I am still thinking that edmodo could really work for our discussions but if we want to collaborate across schools, I mean have our kids collaborate than we can use a wiki. If we are not collaborating across schools than we can discuss via edmodo and create a blog to share and discuss projects (book projects, awareness projects, action projects and even highlight or share some discussions). I'm open to more input on this. I'm racking my brain.

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