Introduction
Are You Ready To Travel !!
Task
Get out your Passport!! Over the next five weeks you will discover Social Studies through an adventure.
Close your eyes and imagine that you were just dropped from a plane over the African Jungles. You have a parachute, and a backpack! You have to surrive for three days.
All of a sudden a thousand question rush through head. Where is Africa? Do I have the supplies I need? What happens if I get bite or poisioned? What is the government like? How does Africa connect to America? Will I ever get home.
Process
Each week for the next five weeks we will be studying Social Studies through and adventure!
Week 1. Learning about the Government and making a supply list for three days in jungle.
Step 1: Research the jungle, survival, and what you can eat/drink
Step2: Create a supply list with a chart
Week 2. Students will create a budget and then compare budgets and vote on one.
Essential Question: How do you make a budget for traveling?
Step 1: Students brainstorm a budget that includes flight, supplies, and passport.
Step 2: Put budget in a worksheet and add up the prices
Step 3: As a whole group compare budgets and figure out the best price
Week 3. Will be learning about the jungle, its climate, and dangers
Essential Question: What is the weather, region, and danger in Africa?
Step 1: Make a KWL chart
Step 2: Research the middle section of the KWL chart
Step 3: Write a paper and then discuss as a class
Week 4. This week is about African History and finding and intersting fact
Essential Question: Find one thing that happened in African History you find intersting to share as a group.
Step 1: Research African History
Step 2: Print out fact and picture
Step 3: Share as a group
Week 5. We will learn about Civil War and start focusing on Civil Right Movement
Essential Question: What is Slavery and how does it effect America today?
Step 1: Learn about Civil Right Movement
Step 2: Read about Civil War
Step 3: Put on a skit
Evaluation
Students will learn about the 5 themes of Social Studies through and adventure!
Week 1: Civis/Goverment
Assessment would be a supply list that inculdes the government and how it would or would not protect an outsider.
Objective: Students will create a supply list through researching the African Jungle and taking into careful consideration all the dangerous plants/animals, and if the government protects outsiders.
Essential Outcome: Students will be able to research a region and learn about the environment through a scenario.
Week 2: Economics
Assessment: Creating a budget worksheet, making a graph and adding up the total.
Objective: Students will create a budget for travel plans to Africa through using a graphic organizer.
Essential Question: How do you make a budget for traveling?
Week 3: Geography
Assessment: Students will create a three paragraph paper on climate, region, and danger through research.
Essential Question: What is the weather, region, and danger in Africa?
Week 4: World History
Assessment: KWL Chart
Essential Question: Find one thing that happened in African History you find intersting to share as a group.
Objective: Students will make a KWL, research and then create a research paper on their finding.
Week 5: American History
Assessment: Skit
Objective: Students will make connections between American History and African History through a skit on Civil War.
Essential Question: What is Slavery and how does it effect America today?
Conclusion
This is just an overview of the unit each week would have a lesson plan to go along with Objectives, and Essential Questions.
After traveling through Africa for three days trying to surrive think about what you would learn about the region, and write a final paper.
Credits
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Teacher Page
English Language Arts
Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Anchor Standard 7: Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects based on focused questions, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.
3.W.7 Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.
Math
Represent and interpret data
. 3.MD.3 Draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar graph to represent a data set with several categories. Solve one- and two-step “how many more” and “how many less” problems using information presented in scaled bar graphs.
SS
Use multiple perspectives, primary sources, context, and reasoning skills to understand the significance of events, people, ideas and institutions.
3.3. Apply research skills and technologies to gather information about the past in the region.
Understand and use geographic skills and concepts to interpret contemporary and historical issues.
3.6. Identify hemispheres, continents and oceans using globes and maps.
3.7. Use a simple grid system, symbols, and other information to locate the physical and political features of places on maps and globes
Understand and apply knowledge about governmental and political systems, and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
3.14. Describe how different levels of government provide services and protect citizens.
Understand economic concepts and principles and how available resources are allocated in a market and other economies. Understand and apply knowledge and skills to manage one’s financial resources effectively for lifetime financial security.
3.16. Describe the relationship between producers and consumers.
Design and implement strategies to research for reliable information, analyze issues, explain perspectives, and resolve issues using the social sciences.
3.18. Use a variety of historical sources including artifacts, pictures and documents to identify factual evidence.
3.19. Identify and compare different ways of looking at an event, issue, or problem