2009RiskConsequences

=Fourth Grade Unit 1: Risks and Consequences= //What relevant goals (e.g. content standards, course or program objectives, learning outcomes) will this design address?// Students will set a goal for the school year based on their understanding of risks and consequences. 2.5 Compare and contrast information on the same topic after reading several passages or articles. 2.6 Distinguish between cause and effect. || //Students will understand that. . .// • What are the big ideas? What are risks, what are consequences? • What specific understandings about them are desired? When are risks good, when can they be bad? • What misunderstandings are predictable? Risks are always bad; consequences are always bad; risks have no consequences. || ===Essential Questions:=== What is a good risk? || • What background knowledge and skills will students need to have or be brought up to speed on and how will this be done? What is a risk? What is a bad risk? What is a consequence? What do consequences have to do with risks? || • What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit? When a risk is good and what the possible consequences--good and bad--are for those risks • What should they eventually be able to so as a result of such knowledge and skills? Setting goals understanding the up and downside || ====//Students will be able to know. . .//==== • Through what authentic performance tasks will students demonstrate the desired understandings? Students will write a blog post setting a goal for the school year that involves some risk, and will understand the consequences of this risk. • By what criteria will performances of understanding be judged? A rubric will be designed to evaluate this || ===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:===
 * California Fourth Grade Language Arts Standard**
 * ===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== ||
 * ===Learning Activities:===

Objective Students will explore the unit concepts of risk and consequences Topic What are risk and consequences Into/Intro ???? Activity come up with a list of risks as a class on a graphic organizer Objective 2 Students will explore the unit concepts of risk and consequences Topic 2 What are risk and consequences Into/Intro 2 ???? Activity 2 come up with a list of consequences as a class on a graphic organizer
 * Week One**

Objective Students will understand the unit concepts of risk and consequences Topic How to risks and consequences go together? Into/Intro ???? Activity use graphic organizer on cause and effect to show consequences that follow from various risks Objective 2 Students will understand the unit concepts of risk and consequences Topic 2 How to risks and consequences go together? Into/Intro 2 review what we came up with last time Activity 2 write a blog post about a risk and consequence that could follow from it.
 * Week Two**

Objective Students will explore the unit concepts of risk and consequences Topic Are risks always bad? Into/Intro look at visual thesaurus definition of risk Activity use graphic organizer to list risks that could be good Objective 2 Students will explore the unit concepts of risk and consequences Topic 2 What is a good risk? Into/Intro 2 review what we came up with last time Activity 2 write a blog post about what makes a risk good
 * Week Three**

Objective Students will apply the unit concepts of risks and consequences Topic How to set goals that take a good risk? Into/Intro ???? Activity write a blog post with goals for the school year Objective 2 Students will apply the unit concepts of risks and consequences Topic 2 What are the consequences for you trying to meet your goal? Into/Intro 2 review the blog comments from last time Activity 2 add the possible consequences for our goals in a response to blog comments last time
 * Week Four**
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