Integrated Theme:
Our theme of our ITU is a community garden that students develop and create in order to use the produce for peers who's families are in need of food.
Enduring Understanding:
Hunger is a prevalent issue in the United States and around the world. It is something you can’t really see and affects people in many ways. Students will use their knowledge of plants to create a garden as a way to help disadvantaged peers who don’t have the money or access to healthy food options.
Essential Questions:
How can we help people who suffer from hunger?
How do we apply math to make an efficient garden?
How do ratios and similarity apply to the real world?
What is the importance of photosynthesis?
What plants are suitable to grow in our region?
What can we do to increase food production?
What is necessary to design and create a garden in our area that can help feed people?
How can words influence emotion and evoke feeling?
How do words hold power and how can you use this power to help level the playing field?
How can you connect content across curriculum to create innovative solutions?
Our theme of our ITU is a community garden that students develop and create in order to use the produce for peers who's families are in need of food.
Enduring Understanding:
Hunger is a prevalent issue in the United States and around the world. It is something you can’t really see and affects people in many ways. Students will use their knowledge of plants to create a garden as a way to help disadvantaged peers who don’t have the money or access to healthy food options.
Essential Questions:
How can we help people who suffer from hunger?
How do we apply math to make an efficient garden?
How do ratios and similarity apply to the real world?
What is the importance of photosynthesis?
What plants are suitable to grow in our region?
What can we do to increase food production?
What is necessary to design and create a garden in our area that can help feed people?
How can words influence emotion and evoke feeling?
How do words hold power and how can you use this power to help level the playing field?
How can you connect content across curriculum to create innovative solutions?
Overview of Student Activities:
The majority of student activities will be collaborative focused around hands-on, student centered learning. The activities will also move across disciplines in order to create an integrated thematic Unit. Below there is a rough daily outline of what will take place each day in the classroom and show how these three drastically different disciplines intertwine to make a cohesive unit. |
Assessment:
Students will create a presentation of their community garden for a choice presentation (Poster Presentation, Infograph, Prezi, Etc). This presentation will be conducted in the third week in the students' English Class. Below is an example Rubric that would be used to assess students choosing to create a Poster Session for their final presentation. |
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