LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

- Understand the water cycle processes

- Analyze how environmental factors affect the water cycle

- Create an evidence-based presentation of findings

📌 Select an investigation question

- Choose from question bank or create your own question.

📌 Research the question (select at least 2 methods)

- Read articles from the digital library (links provided)

- Watch the video series on water cycles

- Analyze the interactive simulation models

- Conduct a mini-experiment with provided materials

📌 TEACHER CHECK-IN #1

- Schedule a 5-minute conference to discuss your question and research plan

- Get feedback and customized resources for your specific question

📌 Organize your findings

📌 Prepare your presentation

- Choose your presentation format (digital slideshow, video, poster, poem, etc.)

📌 TEACHER CHECK-IN #2

- Share your draft and receive feedback

- Revise based on teacher guidance

📌 Finalize and present

Human Impacts on the Environment

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

- Understand/research human impact on the environment.

- Analyze what they could do in their own community to mitigate it.

- Create a presentation on the environmental impact and the measures taken/could be taken in their community to mitigate it.

Conceptual Understanding - Students use musical strategies such as repetition, chunking, tempo variety, metronome use to practice their song.

Tool Use - Students use an online metronome, online tuner, practice or backing tracks to improve their ability to play the song. By posting their practice strategies on Padlet, students can give each other new ideas on ways to practice, especially in more challenging musical passages.

Instructional Focus - The final product is a performance of the song. By using a variety of practice strategies, students will be able to play the song.

Conceptual Understanding - Students use musical strategies such as repetition, chunking, tempo variety, metronome use to practice their song.

Tool Use - Students use an online metronome, online tuner, practice or backing tracks to improve their ability to play the song. By posting their practice strategies on Padlet, students can give each other new ideas on ways to practice, especially in more challenging musical passages.

Instructional Focus - The final product is a performance of the song. By using a variety of practice strategies, students will be able to play the song.

Learning objective: Students will be able to match their 10 vocab words with an image and definition.

Students are given a choice between available online platforms: Google Doc, Flippity, or Quizlet.

Students will independently locate images that represent their vocab words as well as create definitions in their own words.

Formative assessment will be teacher reviewing student work, assessing appropriate pairing of word, definition, and image.

Sumamtive assessment: Students contribute sentences they have made with their vocabulary words to a class padlet.