PWES

Luminous Lighthouses
 * **Project Overview ** ||
 * ||||||||||||||||||||||||  |||||| **Duration: ** |||||| 9 weeks ||
 * **Subject/Course: ** |||||||||| Social Studies |||||||||||||| Teacher(s):Brenda Autry, Leilani Caskey, Jenn Kapp & Elizabeth McCallister |||||| **Grade Level: ** |||||| 4th ||
 * **Other Subject Areas to Be Included: ** |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Science, Math, Language Arts, Art ||
 * **Project Idea **
 * Summary of the issue, challenge, investigation, scenario, or problem: ** |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| In a fictitious scenario, students are asked to design a new lighthouse and propose a new location. They will create a persuasive advertisement to present to a board of judges. Once approved, students will create a working model of their lighthouse using their schematic model to scale. ||
 * **Driving Question ** |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Where in the North Carolina Coast is there a need for an additional lighthouse to benifit the economy? ||
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Content Standards to be taught and assessed: ** |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**Social Studies** - Understand how notable structures, symbols and place names are significant to North Carolina. Understand how a market economy impacts life in North Carolina.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**Language Arts** – Write persuassive piece supporting a point of view with reasons and information. Write informative explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly. Conduct research that builds knowledge through investigations of a topic.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**Science** - electricity, closed circuit with a switch, conductors of electricity
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**Math** - geometric patterns, problem solving, measurement, different types of lines and shapes ||
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Project Documents: **
 * [[file:Oct 17th Project_Overview_Luminous_Lighthouses.doc]]
 * Luminous Lighthouses - Project Calendar
 * Luminous Lighthouses - 9 Week Plan ||
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Teacher Materials: **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Lighthouse Judging Rubric
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">All Charged Up
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Lighthouses of the United States
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Lighthouse: FINDS research recording sheet
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Lighthouse Siting Sources recording sheet
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Cape Lookout Curriculum Guide
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Glossary of Lighthouse Terms
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">North Carolina Lighthouse Title Page
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">North Carolina Lighthouses ||
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Student Activities and Printables: **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Building an Argument graphic organizer
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">I'm sure you'll agree - planning/writing a persuasive paragraph
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Light bulbs reading comprehension
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Lighthouses reading comprehension
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Perfectly Persuasive graphic organizer
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Finding Proportions with visuals
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Finding Proportions
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Great Depression Comparing Costs
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Jiffy Geometric Wallpaper Squares
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">What is my opportunity cost?
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Whats the point? - geometry vocabulary
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Monstrous Size Ratios
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">All Charged Up
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">In the Lab - Science chart on Nuclear Energy
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Lights On
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Nuclear Energy Science Bar Graph
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Got the Message Telegraph
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Morse Code Conversion ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Morse Code Conversion ||

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