Project+Prospectus

This prospectus is the teacher's proposal for this Project Based Learning Experiment.

**104-4 **compare the results of their investigations to those of others and recognize that results may vary * **104-7 **demonstrate the importance of using the languages of science and technology to communicate ideas, processes, and results Social and Environmental Contexts of Science and Technology: * **107-2 **describe and compare tools, techniques, and materials used by different people in their community and region to meet their needs * **107-5 **provide examples of how science and technology have been used to solve problems in their community and region  * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">107-14 **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">identify scientific discoveries and technological innovations of people from different <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">cultures  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Skills: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Analysing and Interpreting * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">206-1 **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">classify according to several attributes and create a chart or diagram that shows the method of classification * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">206-2 **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">compile and display data, by hand or by computer, in a variety of formats including <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">frequency tallies, tables, and bar graphs  * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">206-3 **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">identify and suggest explanations for patterns and discrepancies in data * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">206-5 **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">gather evidence through research and observation to answer a question and use the resulting <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Performing and Recording: * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">205-4 **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">select and use tools for measuring * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">205-6 **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">estimate measurements * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">205-7 **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">record observations using single words, notes in point form, sentences, simple diagrams and charts <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Initiating and Planning: * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">204-3 **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">make a prediction and state a hypothesis based on an observed pattern of events <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Knowledge: * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">300-13 **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">describe weather in terms of temperature, wind speed and direction, precipitation, and cloud cover * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">302-11 **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">describe the key features of a variety of weather systems * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">301-14 **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">describe and predict patterns of change in local weather conditions <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">Specific Outcome: Measuring and Describing Weather: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Students will be expected to identify and use weather related folklore to predict weather (105-2) As well, identify, construct, and use instruments to measure weather information (204-8, 205-4, 205-10) Students will also record observations using instruments to describe weather in terms of temperature, wind speed, wind direction, precipitation, and cloud cover (205-7, 300-13)  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Students will use a variety of sources to gather information to describe the key features of a variety of weather systems (205-8, 302-11)  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">Cross-Curricular Outcomes: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Math: GCO: Number (N): Develop Number Sense ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">SCO: ****<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">N7: Demonstrate an understanding of fractions by using concrete and pictorial representations to: ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">• **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">create sets of equivalent fractions **  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">• **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">compare fractions with like and unlike denominators. ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">N8: Describe and represent decimals (tenths, hundredths, thousandths) concretely, pictorially and symbolically ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">N9: Relate decimals to fractions (to thousandths). ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">N11: Demonstrate an understanding of addition and subtraction of decimals (limited to thousandths). ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">GCO: Statistics and Probability (SP): Collect, display and analyze data to solve problems ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">SP1: Differentiate between first-hand and second-hand data. ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">SP2: Construct and interpret double bar graphs to draw conclusions ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">SP3: Describe the likelihood of a single outcome occurring using words, such as: ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">• **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">impossible **• **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">possible **• **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">certain. ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">SP4: Compare the likelihood of two possible outcomes occurring using words, such as: ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">• **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">less likely **• **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">equally likely **• **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">more likely. ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Language Arts Outcomes: **  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">GCO: ****<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Students will be expected to speak and listen to explore, extend, clarify, and reflect on their thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences. ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">SCO: contribute thoughts, ideas, and experiences to discussions, and ask questions to clarify their ideas and those of their peers, explain and support personal ideas and opinions. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">GCO: Students will be expected to communicate information and ideas effectively and clearly, and to respond personally and critically ****<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">. ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">SCO: use word choice and expression appropriate to the speaking occasion, give and follow precise instructions and respond to questions and directions <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">GCO: ****<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Students will be expected to select, read, and view with understanding a range of literature, information, media, and visual texts. ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">SCO: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">select, independently, texts appropriate to their interests and learning needs use pictures and illustrations, word structures, and text features (e.g., table of contents, headings and sub-headings, glossaries, indices, structures of narrative and different types of expository texts, key ideas, and margin notes) to locate topics and obtain or verify their understanding of information <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">GCO: ****<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Students will be expected to interpret, select, and combine information using a variety of strategies, resources, and technologies ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">SCO: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">demonstrate understanding of how classification systems and basic reference materials are used to facilitate research  || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">We will model the process of developing and maintaining blogs for students along with working on the internet safely and then they will be responsible for adding their research and discoveries to the blog as part of the final product and assessment. A student friendly rubric will be posted on the blog for students reference throughout the project. Within the unit plan of this project, students will conduct ways of testing their weather-lore and also post results on the classroom blog. * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">A link to the created blog will be available to you! || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Students will be expected to conduct their research and experiments concerning their weather-lore of choice. Next, students will compile results and draw conclusions regarding data and post analysis on the class blog regarding the validity of their weather-lore, any changes over time since its origin and any observations about weather patterns from different time periods. ||
 * < <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Physical Geography ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">EDUC 5573 ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Megan Denny and Chelsey Nicholson ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Vincent Zekazny ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">May. 15<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">th, 2011 ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Grade 5- Curriculum Standards Based ** ||< <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">Geographical Exploration: Prospectus <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">“ **Geography <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">is important to me because it is so relevant and opens your eyes to the world I live in.” <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 11px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">(Mark Storey) ||
 * < <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">Rationale <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Within our geographical exploration, the goal is to allow students to discover their own meaning and understanding for predicting weather and observing changes in weather patterns over time. The objectives of this exploration will focus on self-discovery and project based learning where students will explore and question common weather-lore, observe their relevance and validity within their world today and see how these predictions have changed over time. This exploration will prove beneficial to students as they will be able to conduct their own experiments, control the direction of their research, and compile individual meaning in terms of weather forecasting and weather patterns. ||
 * < <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">Outcomes: Earth and Space Science: Weather <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">STSE : <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Nature of Science and Technology *
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">205-10 **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292526; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">construct and use devices for a specific purpose information to draw a conclusion
 * < <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Genre: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Cross-Curricular Unit Plan with an online class blog ** *
 * < <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Rhetorical Style: Persuasive ** *