2009CooperationCompetition


 * Fifth Grade Unit 1: Cooperation and Competition**

Students will create a motivational poster about cooperation **and** competition using Motivator Narrative Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text 3.2 Identify the main problem or conflict of the plot and explain how it is resolved. 3.3 Contrast the actions, motives (e.g., loyalty, selfishness, conscientiousness), and appearances of characters in a work of fiction and discuss the importance of the contrasts to the plot or theme. || // Students will understand that. . . // • What are the big ideas? The nature and qualities of cooperation and competition. • What specific understandings about them are desired? Why they are important? • What misunderstandings are predictable? Cooperation is always good, competition is always bad, and they don't go together || ** Essential Questions: ** • How they can work together and against each other (compare and contrast) || ** • What do cooperation, and competition mean? - Visual, audio, and video examples of them - Having student pick out examples from Flickr to share - Visual Thesaurus for synonyms and antonyms || • What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit? Why is cooperation important? Why is competition important? • What should they eventually be able to so as a result of such knowledge and skills? They should be able to describe a situation where cooperation and competition are used to achieve a goal. || // Students will be able to know. . . // * Think of these as secondary skills / content
 * ** Stage 1 - Desired Results ** ||
 * ** Establish Goals: **
 * California Fifth Grade Literary Analysis Standard**
 * ** Understandings: **
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 * // Students will know . . . //

|| • Through what authentic performance tasks will students demonstrate the desired understandings? Students will produce a motivational poster on Motivator using Flickr photos and their own words to show knowledge of of the concepts of cooperation and competition. •By what criteria will performances of understanding be judged? A rubric to grade their work will be devised || ** 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? Students will reflect on their learning through blog comments on the topic. || What learning experiences and instruction will enable students to achiever the desired results? Objective Students will explore the unit concepts of cooperation and competition Topic What are cooperation and competition? Into/Intro ???? Activity using online visual thesaurus site(s) and will show what they are learning by writing a two-sentence post on our blog Objective 2 Students will explore the unit concepts of cooperation and competition Topic 2 What are cooperation and competition? Into/Intro 2 reviewing what we came up with last time from our work with the visual thesaurus, and creating an organizer with what we came up with Activity 2 responding to someone else's comment from last time Objective Students will understand the unit concepts of cooperation and competition Topic What are cooperation and competition? How can they work together and how can they work against each other? Into/Intro ???? Activity write a short tag line as a blog post about this topic Objective 2 Students will explore and understand the unit concepts of cooperation and competition Topic 2 What are cooperation and competition? How can they work together and how can they work against each other? Into/Intro 2 reviewing what we came up with last time, and updating an organizer with what we came up with Activity 2 responding to someone else's comment from last time Objective Students will apply the unit concepts of cooperation and competition Topic What are cooperation and competition? Into/Intro ???? Activity using Flickr to locate and "favorite" photos that show cooperation and competition Objective 2 Students will apply the unit concepts of cooperation and competition Topic 2 What are cooperation and competition? Into/Intro 2 reviewing what we came up with last time from our work in Flickr Activity 2 Redo favoriting for students who did not pick CC photos Objective Students will apply the unit concepts of cooperation and competition Topic Making a motivational poster Into/Intro ???? Activity creating a motivational poster using blog post tagline and Flickr photos in Motivator Objective 2 Topic 2 Into/Intro 2 Activity 2 continuing work on creating motivational posters ||
 * ** Stage 2 – Assessment Evidence ** ||
 * ** Performance Tasks: **
 * ==Stage 3 - Learning Plan== ||
 * ===Learning Activities:===
 * Week One**
 * Week Two**
 * Week Three**
 * Week Four**
 * ==Links==

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