2010CountryLife

=Third Grade Unit 5: Country Life=

//What relevant goals (e.g. content standards, course or program objectives, learning outcomes) will this design address?// Understand Country vs. City, Farms vs. Wilderness || //Students will understand that. . .// • What are the big ideas? Rural areas include farms and wilderness • What specific understandings about them are desired? These are areas with fewer people • What misunderstandings are predictable? Farms and agricultural areas are "undeveloped" || ===Essential Questions:=== What are farms, and agricultural areas || • What background knowledge and skills will students need to have or be brought up to speed on and how will this be done? Different kinds of places, like cities and suburbs || • What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit? Ideas and vocabulary related to country, farms, and city • What should they eventually be able to so as a result of such knowledge and skills? Discuss and write about country life || ====//Students will be able to know. . .//==== • Through what authentic performance tasks will students demonstrate the desired understandings? • By what criteria will performances of understanding be judged? || ===Other Evidence:=== • Through what other evidence (e.g. quizzes, tests, academic prompts, observations, homework, journals) will students demonstrate achievement of the desired results? • How will students reflect upon and self-assess their learning? || What learning experiences and instruction will enable students to achiever the desired results? How will the design
 * ==Stage 1 - Desired Results== ||
 * ===Establish Goals:===
 * ===Understandings:===
 * •** What provocative questions will foster inquiry, understanding, and transfer of learning?
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 * ====//Students will know . . .//====
 * Think of these as secondary skills / content ||
 * ==Stage 2 – Assessment Evidence== ||
 * ===Performance Tasks:===
 * ==Stage 3 - Learning Plan== ||
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