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Entry event: Students will read part of EAC Hand Book and will talk about rules that they are not familiar or things that was really different form they previous country

Project: Writing  a letter proposing adjustments and understanding school rules

Objetivo:

Make students understand better school rules and understand particularities of brazilian culture fitted at EAC routine

Grammar application: the use of one specific tense called “ futuro do pretérito” I I were responsible to change EAC rules, I could…

Writing a formal letter using the specific grammar proposed

Formulate good questions for a  “survey” that could let colleagues reflect about good points to change in school

Interview school specialist who apply Brazilian law

Match which kind of suggestions received through the survey is possible or not to be applied - opportunity to deep them into the Brazilian culture

Driving question: What learning benefits could I provide to students and EAC community if I could do adjustments in my school rules?

FInal project:

Formal letter to EAC principal presenting ideas for adjustments based on survey that could really agrees with  the Brazilian educational laws and make sense as a real possible improvement (previously judged by the group in class)

Present the list of topic requested on survey that were not possible to be applied based on Brazilian educational law or just because doesn’t bring real benefits to students learning. (Maybe this presentations could be done by PLL students talking in Portuguese in an Advisory class - because the nature of the topic).

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IB Spanish B - Cultural Diversity: Immigration

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IB Spanish B - Cultural Diversity: Immigration

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Driving Question: How could the school strengthen solidarity with immigrants to discourage racist behavior?

Entry Event: students will watch a movie about this topic (Under the same moon). In class, they will debate about it, share ideas and will research more information on internet.

During the project: They will create questions to interview other students in school community who have immigrated and ask them if they have faced some racist behavior or situation. After collecting, this information from each student, they will organize it in a Google Presentation.

Final Product: Students will present their results in class, will create posters and put it in public spaces in school and also, they can create a online poster to be shared in the School Social Media.

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Music Appreciation: Using music to protest an idea, ideology, or government.

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Music Appreciation: Using music to protest an idea, ideology, or government.

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Why would an activist choose to express their dissent/objection through music instead of protesting, boycotts, written word, etc?
In small groups, students will explore a period in history that produced great protest music and try to understand why the artist/activist decided to use music to protest instead of other avenues. They will look at how the music was received by the resistance and the establishment. Was the music effective? Yes, No, and Why? To complete the exploration, students will create a 15-20 minute presentation/lesson to give to the rest of the class about what they learned and answer the question of whether or not the music was effective.

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Driving Question: Why are dystopias so intriguing to our society?
Summative assessment: Presentation of a maquette of the dystopia of their book club (with written responses for the following questions:
1) How is each part of GRAPES in your novel dystopian?
2) How are the different parts of the dystopia portrayed in your book a social commentary of our own culture and society?
AND

Present a piece of advertisement or propaganda for the dystopia (and then deconstruct it)  and a piece of advertisement or propaganda for our society (and deconstruct it) --> Possible compare and contrast exercise

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Driving question: What are the top 5 movies that taught you something about American culture?

Project: Students should discuss in small groups and reach a consensus to come up with a list of 5 movies that taught them something about American culture. They will be able to talk about their preferences and also to do some research. They should compare their lists to the other lists and then prepare a presentation for the whole group, using parts of the movies to justify their choices.

Product: By the end of this activity, students will have a list of - hopefully - interesting movies to watch, as well as some guidance on what to look at when watching those movies. The main learning objective of this activity is to stretch students’ vocabulary and to provide feedback on their oral production after their presentations.

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ocial Studies                      How to design an effective system to control and confine prisoners from social life?
Students would deliver a double final product: a model to show the architecture of the place to confine  people not desirable according the mainstream ideology of that given community and a list of rules to organize the daily life of prisoners inside that system to assure everyon

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What should be changed in the EAC to make the environment completely gender-equitable?

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What should be changed in the EAC to make the environment completely gender-equitable?

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My 7th graders will read a book "Powerful - the diary of a girl who changes the world by her writing." The book has a pink cover and I want to question gender equality. As a motivation I will introduce the theme with the Emma Watson's speech about "HeFor She".

FINAL PRODUCT:
Produce a video that will be shown to EAC community. The one with the highest number of views will be displayed in the Newsflash.

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If Brazilian girls did not have access to education like Malala, what would our society be like?

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If Brazilian girls did not have access to education like Malala, what would our society be like?

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The students will attend Malala's speech to the UN, then read the book. They research in which countries girls are not entitled to education and compare with Brazil.

The students write a storytelling how Brazil would be if the girls could not attend school.

I am not sure how can i make this public. maybe they could do a dramatic reading section for school.

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Brazil is primarily a coffee-drinking country, with some acceptance of tea. The challenge for the project would be to develop a collection of visual pieces of communication to advertise the consumption of tea in Brazil. The driving question would be: "How can design be used to communicate the benefits of drinking tea in Brazil?" With this, students would have to study Brazilian culture and consumption habits, climate, etc., to best identify how to talk to Brazilian consumers.

FINAL PRODUCT: posters, advertisements, websites, booklets.

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How can you promote wellness in our community in whole school campaign?

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How can you promote wellness in our community in whole school campaign?

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In our community we are having many problems related to obesity, depression and sedentarism mostly due to the lifestyle. You and your group were hired by the school board to face and deal with this problem and need to present to the school's administration with a proposal to combat this and promote health and wellness to our community.

FINAL PRODUCT:

Students will be guided in research, using different types of resources according to their choices and preferences to discover the 4 parts of health (social, mental, emotional, and physical) and how they balance to achieve a state of wellness in order to present a project (final product) to the school community in order to solve or relieve this existing problem. Their final product can be shared with the school community after being shared with their classmates and then school can use the EAC Weekly Newsletter to promote a wellness campaign to the whole school.

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What is the physical evidence for changes in the thermal equilibrium of the Earth?
IB Physics Subtopic 8.2 explores Thermal energy transfer
The guiding question should prompt the students to perform a detailed calculation of the thermal radiation that the Earth absorbs from the Sun, how much is scattered by the atmosphere, how much is emitted by greybody radiation, to reach a conclusion on whether the thermal equilibrium has been displaced as a result of human activity.

Product:  documentary incorporating a computer animation using Algodoo
Audience: The group will select a video and submit it to the resources repo at teachsdgs.org

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Age - 14-15
Class Size - 15-18

Students have read a "controversial" text over the semester break. They have to justify about how the book is or isn't appropriate to use in class. This will challenge students to look at the text with a more critical lens and present their ideas to English Teachers or Principals.

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How would Greek gods deal with today's challenges?

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How would Greek gods deal with today's challenges?

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Based on the revamped question you gave me yesterday (How can wisdom from the past help solve today's challenges?) I came up with the question above. I didn't use 'wisdom' because gods -like politicians- are flawed and may not handle these problems in a wise way. The question makes students think about how different personalities would handle varied issues.

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Driving question: How can we use advertisement and an argumentative speech to convince an audience (High Scholars) to choose a Lusophone college?

This project finishes a unit about interchange programs worldwide.

In the beginning, the students have to create their own Lusophone college (define the name, characteristics, goals and the courses of the university), making a debate among the participants. For this, they can search for real colleges.

After that, they will take the role of teachers in this Lusophone college (including wearing clothes like that). They are coming to the audience to convince the High Scholars to enroll in their university. In order to do this, they have to create advertisement strategies, as flyers and a website, to show the courses and the benefits of choosing that place to study.

The audience shall participate in the presentation, once that they have to ask questions for the “teachers” and, finally, choose a course to enter.

Final product: in that case, it would be the advertisement created by the students and the convincing power they showed during presentation. The grammar topic to be evaluated is “Presente do Subjuntivo” of Portuguese Language.

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Brazil is primarily a coffee-drinking country, with some acceptance of tea. The challenge for the project would be to develop a collection of visual pieces of communication to advertise the consumption of tea in Brazil. The driving question would be: "How can design be used to communicate the benefits of drinking tea in Brazil?" With this, students would have to study Brazilian culture and consumption habits, climate, etc., to best identify how to talk to Brazilian consumers.

FINAL PRODUCT:  posters, advertisements, websites, booklets.
How can you promote wellness in our community in whole school campaign?
How can you promote wellness in our community in whole school campaign?
In our community we are having many problems related to obesity, depression and sedentarism mostly due to the lifestyle. You and your group were hired by the school board to face and deal with this problem and need to present to the school's administration with a proposal to combat this and promote health and wellness to our community.

FINAL PRODUCT:
Students will be guided in research, using different types of resources according to their choices and preferences to discover the 4 parts of health (social, mental, emotional, and physical) and how they balance to achieve a state of wellness in order to present a project (final product) to the school community in order to solve or relieve this existing problem. Their final product can be shared with the school community after being shared with their classmates and then school can use the EAC Weekly Newsletter to promote a wellness campaign to the whole school.

Is Global Warming fake News?
Is Global Warming fake News?
What is the physical evidence for changes in the thermal equilibrium of the Earth?
IB Physics Subtopic 8.2 explores Thermal energy transfer 
   The guiding question should prompt the students to perform a detailed calculation of the thermal radiation that the Earth absorbs from the Sun, how much is scattered by the atmosphere, how much is emitted by greybody radiation, to reach a conclusion on whether the thermal equilibrium has been displaced as a result of human activity.

Product:  documentary incorporating a computer animation using Algodoo
Audience: The group will select a video and submit it to the resources repo at teachsdgs.org
"Artists in Herstory"
 "Artists in Herstory"
Social Studies How to design an effective system to control and confine prisoners from social life?
Social Studies                      How to design an effective system to control and confine prisoners from social life?
Students would deliver a double final product: a model to show the architecture of the place to confine  people not desirable according the mainstream ideology of that given community and a list of rules to organize the daily life of prisoners inside that system to assure everyone will be under control.
What makes a book worthy of teaching?
What makes a book worthy of teaching?

Age - 14-15
Class Size - 15-18 

Students have read a 

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How can I raise funds to help a particular family/charity in need?

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How can I raise funds to help a particular family/charity in need?

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End in mind: Students should find a creative way to raise money (bake sales, food trucks, garage sales, carnival) and balance against costs associated with running such events to maximize donation amount.

Product: Proposal/business plan including cost/benefit analysis

Audience: Donation recipients

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Social Studies                      Driving question: How to design an effective system to control and confine prisoners to prevent them from having social interaction?

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Social Studies                      Driving question: How to design an effective system to control and confine prisoners to prevent them from having social interaction?

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Final product: Students would deliver a double final product: a model to show the architecture of the place to confine  people not desirable according the mainstream ideology of that given community and a list of rules to organize the daily life of prisoners inside that system to assure everyone will be under control.
Possible links made by students: ethical questions such as who should be confined and why? What is the goal of keeping someone imprisoned? To what extent this system can model  inmates behavior and mind?
Topic of syllabus: citizenship and political rights in democratic systems

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Driving Question:  How would the lack of water affect the world?
(It is student-friendly. It is connected to their lives.

No need to increase academic rigor. Suggest students to search how a Water Treatment Station works (water catchment, amount of water, amount of water detritus, costs). The project could be done also involving Geography and History.)

End of Project (Final product):

Hand in reports / Ask them to publish their findings on Google Classroom / Contests (ask other science teachers to judge) / Exhibitions on the hallways.

Entry Events:

Maybe a search  about how a Water Treatment Station works or

start with a video or a TED talk related to water reservoirs.

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hat is an issue in your school that you could solve by designing a solution to be 3D printed?
 
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If social media existed in the time of Absolutism, how would absolute monarchs interact and respond to important historical events of the past and the present?

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If social media existed in the time of Absolutism, how would absolute monarchs interact and respond to important historical events of the past and the present?

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The final product would be a social media page (twitter, facebook, instagram...) that students would use to interact with each other taking on the character of their monarch and also use it to respond to important events that happened during their reign. They would also be requested to respond to prompts regarding current events in the view of their monarchs.
My idea is that their audience would be each other as they would have to interact as well as they could try to get followers and likes and compete to see the monarch that can become the most popular.

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How did evolution drive the diversity of life on the last 500 millions of years?

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How did evolution drive the diversity of life on the last 500 millions of years?

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Students will work as a class group (considering an IB class with 12 -15 students) and investigate how evolution works, the evidences that support the theory to justify the diversity of life identifiable on the period required. They would need to align the evolution topics with the study of characteristics from the existing organisms groups from the period. The product would be the creation of a more broad cladogram poster showing the evidences for each milestone rather than a traditional filogenetic tree. They could present the poster to other IB classes reinforcing the nature of science behind the theory.

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How can we incorporate nutritional guidelines from around the world to change our daily lunch menus

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How can we express composers intent, all whilst creating an expression that proves to be an extension of our own emotions?
Final product is a public performance for the school community.

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Should we accept the wealth gap as natural, or should we do something to address it.

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Should we accept the wealth gap as natural, or should we do something to address it.

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Students will work in groups to apply ethical concepts to the wealth gap. The product will be a piece of legislation along with a series of treatises supporting or attacking the legislation. The audience will be an elected official or political candidate of the students' choice (U.S. or Brazil?)

Entry activity: view or read a news story illustrating how the wealth gap has affected an individual or family to help students understand that the issue is both political and personal.

First, students will investigate causes and views of the wealth gap from a philosophical perspective.

Next, they will craft an idea for a bill that could be sent to a government representative. The idea should be informed by a particular philosophical view with which they agree.

Then, they will present their bills to their classmates for debate and try to come to a consensus on a piece of legislation.

Finally, they will write treatises for or against the legislation (a la John Locke), depending on whether they agree or disagree with the final bill.

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What is an issue in your school that you could solve by designing a solution to be 3D printed?

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What is an issue in your school that you could solve by designing a solution to be 3D printed?

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a 3D printed object working

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and how math/statistics tools can be used to help governments and companies make decisions regarding market, products, type of propaganda, etc
	Product: create a Youtube video based on the criteria students investigated and an oral presentation justifyi

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IB Chem 12 - unit of study: electrolytic reactions.

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IB Chem 12 - unit of study: electrolytic reactions.

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Aluminum is the most common product of electrolytic industries. Your job will be to write a business proposal to build an electrolytic industry of a different metal in the region I will assign to your group. In your proposal, you will need to explicit the reasons that made you choose that specific metal, the chemical reactions involved in its production, the electrical demand for a desired 2,000 ton/mo production. Most of the cost of an electrolytic industry is electricity. Based on that, choose a specific city in the target region to build your industry.
Your business proposal will be judged by a panel of scientists from our Science Department. The winning proposal will receive a perfect grade, the other proposals will be grades by the attached rubric. Mauricio Gozzi

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"Artists in Herstory"

How can we promote the work of women artists throughout history, giving voice to half the world’s population?
Kickoff to PBL unit:  in table groups, name as many 'famous' artists as possible.
Final product: A painting either in the style of a woman artist OR a copy learning the 'grid method'
Reflection:  Answer the driving question incl what choices women artists made such as subject matter.

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ELL2How do journalists present issues on the news?

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ELL2How do journalists present issues on the news?

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Skills: Synthesizing information into main ideas and supporting details. Oral speaking practice of formal language. Grammar: Reported Speech, Past Tense Verbs.

Students select a policy issue to read teacher leveled texts and pull the main idea and details  of the current issue. Students study news reports for form and then create a video news report on there topic.

Formative RRJs on these topics. Two weeks to gain main idea and details from there text sets. One week to write there scripts and one week to make the videos.

Can post videos on YouTube to have an audience of parents and peers.

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How can we express emotions through dance?

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How can we express emotions through dance?

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End in mind: students should understand the different steps, pace and rhythm of the waltz.
Product: students will create (with a partner) a waltz routine to present it in a ball organized at the school.

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Would you be a successful Sit-In participant during the Woolworths sit-ins in Nashville in 1960?

Students create a podcast describing the background to the sit-ins detailing the zeitgeist of the 1950s - 60s racial climate in the US, and personal information about who was sitting down at the counters and also the white men and women behind them. Students would then connect the information to themselves and assess whether or not they would take the same actions or not.

The podcast would be shared to a class page where the other students and the teacher could listen to all the podcasts.

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Writing a narrative nonfiction/personal narrative 

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Writing a narrative nonfiction/personal narrative 

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How can we turn the events of our daily life into (good, significant, relevant) narratives nonfiction/ personal narratives?

After the observation, research and discussion processes, students will write a narrative nonfiction/ personal narrative (crônica literária).

I´m not sure how can I make this public, maybe we could make a literary contest, a book or a dramatic reading section.

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How our students could improve the speeches about the end of any kind of sexual harassment or sexual abuse?

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How our students could improve the speeches about the end of any kind of sexual harassment or sexual abuse?

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End in mind: students should read a lot of non-fiction texts to give information about sexual abuse in Brazil and around the world and notice that this is a big, tragic and terrible problem that involve person  independently your genre, origin and social or econominal situation.
Product: creat a virtual awareness campaign thought Youtube video and a blog to discuss this topic. In addition, they are create folder and poster to distribute around the school campus.
Audience: the audience will watch the video that will show in each high school class. In the school website, there will be a link to the blog.

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Random Acts of Kindness-Data & Statistics

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Random Acts of Kindness-Data & Statistics

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How can we show the school that the presence of RAK or lack thereof contributes to the overall EAC school culture?

Product:  Presentation to the staff, PTO, STUCO, and/or Mr. Pado about our findings using appropriate graphs.

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Why is this story (In the Time of the Butterflies) still relevant today?

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Why is this story (In the Time of the Butterflies) still relevant today?

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End in mind: Students will demonstrate a deep and thorough understanding of the novel by creating a movie pitch.

End product: Students will write a movie pitch that includes a short objective summary of the novel and a defense of why a movie about the novel would be relevant and important to a wide variety of audiences today. They will also write about key components of the way the movie should be produced: who should narrate, how should be the main characters be cast/portrayed, what scenes should and should not be included, what major themes should be emphasized, what similarities to and differences from the book would the movie include, etc.
After writing the proposal, they will develop an oral "pitch" that they will give to their classmates and a panel of teachers (not super authentic, I know). There could be a vote on who has the best pitch? Not sure about this part yet.

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How can we use Math/ Statistics to understand what makes a successful Youtuber?

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How can we use Math/ Statistics to understand what makes a successful Youtuber?

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End in mind: Students should understand how math/statistics tools can be used to help governments and companies make decisions regarding market, products, type of propaganda, etc
Product: create a Youtube video based on the criteria students investigated and an oral presentation justifying the reasons for the choices made for the video based on the data they researched.

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Why is this story (In the Tine of the Butterflies) still relevant today?
End in mind: Students will demonstrate 
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Writing a narrative nonfiction/personal narrative 
How can we turn the events of our daily life into (good, significant, relevant) narratives nonfiction/ personal narratives?

After the observation, research and discussion processes, students will write a narrative nonfiction/ personal narrative (crônica literária).

I´m not sure how can I make this public, maybe we could make a literary contest, a book or a dramatic reading section.
How our students could improve the speeches about the end of any kind of sexual abuse?
How our students could improve the speeches about the end of any kind of sexual abuse?
End in mind: students should read a lot of non-fiction texts to give information about sexual abuse in Brazil and around the world and notice that this is a big, tragic and terrible problem that involve person  independently your genre, origin and social or econominal situation.
Product: creat a virtual awareness campaign thought Youtube video and a blog to discuss this topic. In addition, they are create folder and poster to distribute around the school campus.  
Audience: the audience will watch the video that will show in each

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How would you grow your own food on Mars?

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How would you grow your own food on Mars?

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Students would produce a small scale model for a sustainable greenhouse to grow any kind of edible crop with minimum resources.
The final product would be a small container (greenhouse) and a video explaining how it works and how it can be maintained.

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What is necessary and how can you create a robot that would improve one aspect of your life?

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Q: How can you help your friend make their college choice by showing with numbers which is the best choice based on factors they value?

Product: A presentation including a graph and analysis to their friend and friend’s parents showing their result.