Team+20

Team 20
Member Names: Team Apple

Wednesday
Design Studio: Reflect on your content and pedagogy With your Partner reflect on the following questions: 1) Q: What content areas do you teach? A: English Language, Science, Musi c 2) Q: What content strengths do you have? A: English-- practical application, classroom management, developing student rapport, Science- finding teaching materials, asking open-ended questions Music-- integrating movement and music, organizing groups of people, using music to teach other objectives 3) Q: What content do you find difficult to teach? A: Writing, Grammar, Independent Reading, Spelling, Vocabulary 4) Q: What do you consider your role to be as a teacher? A: To help them develop good study habits and a mature outlook on life. Help them learn what they need at "this" stage in life. Develop good behavior. 5) Q: What instructional methods do you use as a teacher? A: TPR, information from diverse sources, situational learning, encourage student creative thinking and hypothesis, technology 6) Q: What are some of the persistent problems you encounter in your instruction? A: inconsistent or uncertain classroom management, creativity in lesson planning 7) Q: With your partner, identify possible areas of overlap.


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Thursday
Guiding Questions I. What is the compelling question you would like your students to answer? Do you have any sub-questions to engage students? II. How are new literacies featured in your compelling question? III. How will you organize or group your students for the PBI? IV. What prior knowledge do your students need to have to complete this PBI lesson? What lesson(s) would come before the PBI? V. How will you scaffold and support your students' gathering and analyzing of information? How will you monitor this process? VI. How will you scaffold and support your students' creative synthesis of information in their PBI product? How will you monitor this process? VII. What intellectual elements in students' PBI product will be evaluated. What forms of assessments will you use (e.g. rubrics, checklist, etc). VIII. What technology tools will students use in creation and sharing of their PBI product?


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PBI Compelling Question:
How does water get from lakes to your lips? What if that process were interrupted?

Content:
Water Cycle
 * Evaporation
 * Condensation
 * Precipitation

Water Purification/Bottling/Sources

Relationship between humans and the environment.
 * How humans influence nature: pollution, abuse/overuse of natural resources.
 * Potential environmental results of human irresponsibility (shortage of natural resources and available drinking water, increased natural disasters)
 * Positive influence of recycling and reusing resources. (existing structure as well as potential)

Learning Outcomes for this PBI:
Students will create their own simple water purification system. (eg: www.wikihow.com/Purify-Water)

Students will be able to use English to demonstrate their water purification system.

Students will demonstrate their understanding of the relationship between humans and nature by designing a project that would promote environmental protection.

Students will be able to use English to discuss the relationship between humans and the environment.

Students will create a web-page or blog demonstrating ways individuals can conserve natural resources and protect the environment.

Semester : Videos, experiments, discussions, field trips to a water purification plant and recycling plant,
One lesson: (40 minutes, first grade English) : 1) Class preparation (3') 2) Compelling questions - Where can you find water? - What can water become?3 minutes discussion 3) Vocabulary - water, snow, ice, rain, clouds, lake, river, ocean, sky, mountain 4) Activities - use a short video to illustrate water in its different forms (3') - use pictures to teach/review the vocabulary (5') - do an experiment on evaporation (water heating) (5') - a game on different water forms/ review for vocabulary