RES+3rd

|| |||||||||||||||||||||||| The Never Ending Battle |||||| ** Duration: ** |||||| 9 weeks || Summary of the issue, challenge, investigation, scenario, or problem: |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Create and publish a science fiction book about a fictional solar system in order to place in the library as a learning tool for other students to read. In their book, students will create a planet to describe living creatures, resources, landforms, and how creatures adapt. || Science 3.E.2.1, 3.E.2.2 Math 3.MD.5, 3.MD.6, 3.MD.7, 3.MD.8, 3.G.1, 3.G.2 ELA- RI, W, SL, L || |||||| |||||||||||||| Other: |||| || |||||| |||||||||||||| |||| || Whole class will work on front cover, title, table of contents, index, glossary, etc. |||||||||| ** Presentation Audience **  ** Presentation Audience: **      Class  School || || launch inquiry,
 * Project Overview page 1
 * **Name of Project:**
 * **Subject/Course:** |||||||||| Social Studies & Science |||||||||||||| **Teacher(s):** RES 3rd Grade |||||| ** Grade Level: ** |||||| 3rd ||
 * **Other Subject Areas to Be Included:** |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ELA & Math ||
 * **Project Idea**
 * **Project Idea**
 * **Driving Question** |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| How do humans change in order to adapt to their surroundings? ||
 * **Content Standards** to be taught and assessed**:** |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Social Studies 3.G.1.2, 3.G.1.3, 3.G.1.4, 3.G.1.5, 3.G.1.6,
 * **21st Century Skills** to be taught and assessed**:** |||||||||||| Collaboration: Students will work in small groups and as a whole class; students will collaborate with professionals (librarian, author, publisher, editor, etc.) through letters and interviews
 * **21st Century Skills** to be taught and assessed**:** |||||||||||| Collaboration: Students will work in small groups and as a whole class; students will collaborate with professionals (librarian, author, publisher, editor, etc.) through letters and interviews
 * ^  |||||||||||| Communication (Oral Presentation): Students will write letters to professional, speak with professionals, introduce the book to the community ||||||  |||||||||||||| |||| ||
 * ^  |||||||||||| Critical Thinking/Problem Solving: What information will they include? How can they organize the their information in a limited amount of space/pages?
 * **Major Products & Performances** |||||| Group: |||||||||||||||||||||||| Groups/teams of 3or 5 will work on designing a planet.
 * **Major Products & Performances** |||||| Group: |||||||||||||||||||||||| Groups/teams of 3or 5 will work on designing a planet.
 * ^  ||||||^   ||||||||||||||||||||||||^   ||  X  ||||||||  Class  ||
 * ^  ||||||^   ||||||||||||||||||||||||^   ||  X  ||||||||  School  ||
 * ^  ||||||^   ||||||||||||||||||||||||^   ||  X  ||||||||  Community  ||
 * ^  |||||| Individual: |||||||||||||||||||||||| Each student will have a job within their group/team || X ||||||||  Experts  ||
 * ^  ||||||^   ||||||||||||||||||||||||^   ||   |||||||| Web ||
 * ^  ||||||^   ||||||||||||||||||||||||^   ||   |||||||| Other: ||
 * Project Overview page 2
 * **Entry Event** to

engage stude nts: |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Librarian comes into the classroom to openly talk to me about not having books in the library on the content being taught. Students are given the chance to solve the problem (What could our class do to help?) || (During Project) |||||||||| Quizzes/Tests |||||| |||||||||||| Practice Presentations || || || || (End of Project)  |||||||||| Written Product(s), with rubric: Published Book, Content Based Writing Task ||||||  X  |||||||||||| Other Product(s) or Performance(s), with rubric: __ || || |||||||||| Journal/Learning Log |||||| |||||||||||| Focus Group |||| || |||||||||||| Fishbowl Discussion |||| X  ||
 * **Assessments** |||||||| **Formative Assessments**
 * ^  ||||||||^   |||||||||| Journal/Learning Log |||||| |||||||||||| Notes ||   X
 * ^  ||||||||^   |||||||||| Preliminary Plans/Outlines/Prototypes ||||||  X  |||||||||||| Checklists ||   X
 * ^  ||||||||^   |||||||||| Rough Drafts ||||||  X  |||||||||||| Concept Maps ||  ||
 * ^  ||||||||^   |||||||||| Online Tests/Exams |||||| |||||||||||| Other: ||  ||
 * ^  ||||||||  **Summative Assessments**
 * ^  ||||||||^   |||||||||| Oral Presentation, with rubric |||||| |||||||||||| Peer Evaluation ||   X   ||
 * ^  ||||||||^   |||||||||| Multiple Choice/Short Answer Test |||||| |||||||||||| Self-Evaluation ||   X   ||
 * ^  ||||||||^   |||||||||| Essay Test |||||| |||||||||||| Other: || ||
 * **Resources Needed** |||||||||| **On-site people, facilities:** |||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Teachers, Librarian, Professionals ||
 * ^  |||||||||| **Equipment:** |||||||||||||||||||||||||||| laptops ||
 * ^  |||||||||| **Materials:** |||||||||||||||||||||||||||| paper, pencils, chart paper, ||
 * ^  |||||||||| **Community resources:** |||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Professional? ||
 * **Reflection Methods** |||||| **(Individual, Group, and/or Whole Class) **
 * **Reflection Methods** |||||| **(Individual, Group, and/or Whole Class) **
 * **Reflection Methods** |||||| **(Individual, Group, and/or Whole Class) **
 * ^  ||||||^   |||||||||| Whole-Class Discussion ||||||  X
 * ^  ||||||^   |||||||||| Survey ||||||  X  |||||||||||| Other: Peer Editing, ||||  X  ||