Essential Questions
What gains and losses come with change? What cycles are demonstrated in the Universe? How is change effected?
Global Studies and Language Arts Exhibition II
Students will expand on their knowledge of Colonial America by researching the major events and people integral to the creation of the thirteen original colonies. Students will use their research to assume the role of a colonist who bore witness and documented the making of America within a specific colony. Students will write a historical sketch, or collection of writing pieces, one of which documents the establishment of their colony in an informative paragraph, a description of colonists’ way of life, and a paragraph that compares and contrasts their colony to another American colony. Students will combine their written work with an original drawing of their colony, a map, and a timeline of colonial history into a pamphlet with an authentic looking cover. On exhibition night, students will present entries from their historical sketch that demonstrate their understanding of both colonial life and the history of American Colonization.
Required Components:
- Researcher’s fact sheets for each paragraph.
- Three forms of informative writing, a timeline and map compiled into a book.
- A cover page that mimics authentic writings from the Colonial Era.
- Oral presentation of an excerpt from students’ historical sketch on Exhibition Night.
- Weekly and end-of-term assessments on aspects of early American settlement.
Major Assessments:
- Historical sketch with informative writing pieces.
- Timeline.
- Map.
- Cover page that reflects knowledge of writings from the Colonial Era.
- Presentation on Exhibition Night.
Students will learn:
- How to work independently when researching and writing.
- How to take effective notes when conducting research.
- How to compose informative, descriptive, and compare and contrast writing pieces.
Mathematics and Science Exhibition II
Students will learn about relative sizes and distances of planets in the Solar System and apply a variety of skills to make a 2-dimensional scale model, either in U.S. Customary Units or the Metric System. They will apply place-value concepts to read, write, interpret and compare large numbers. Students will practice and master conversion between scientific and standard notation. They will apply extended multiplication and division facts to make ratio comparisons of large numbers, and solve unit rate problems, and they will use data to answer questions and draw conclusions.
Required Components:
- Detailed folder of all notes and planet calculations
Major Assessments:
- Informative essay based on students’ analysis of the relative distances, sizes, and surface temperatures of the planets in the Solar System.
- A planet information label with planet facts and distances from the Sun and Earth.
- An accurate, 2-dimensional scale model of the Solar System in either U.S. Customary Units, or the Metric System.
- An accurate, 3-dimensional scale model of a constellation, labeled.
- An accurate 3-dimensional model of the Sun which labels and describes the layers.