These units, driven by one click technology, have been designed for specific grade levels, but the differentiation that defines each unit makes the learning adaptable to any grade level. The parent friendly PowerPoints are an ideal vehicle for online instruction. Please feel free to use these units, but please give credit to our student creators.
[THESE SHARED INQUIRY DESIGN EXPERIENCES, DESIGNED FOR STUDENTS AND PARENTS, ARE BUILT ON SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LITERACY (POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY), USING CHILDREN'S LITERATURE AS A FOUNDATION TO INTEGRATE NEXT GENERATION STANDARDS INTO THE LESSONS. RESEARCH INDICATES THAT THIS APPROACH HAS RESULTED IN POSITIVE ATTITUDES TOWARDS SCHOOL FOR BOTH STUDENTS AND PARENTS. (LINK TO JOURNAL ARTICLE FOR PARENTS)]
Inquiry Unit: Growing a Growth Mindset
(Grade 1 ELA Science)
Created by Amanda Leonardi and Kathleen Owens
Compelling Question: Are Mistakes Part of Learning?
INQUIRY DESIGN UNIT PLAN ON GROWTH MINDSET
One Click Technology Driven Unit PowerPoint Sharing all of the Four Lessons in the Plan
Learning Activity Plan 1: Are Mistakes Part of Learning? Read Aloud: "The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes" by Mark Pett and Gary Rubenstein
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Learning Activity Plan 2: What does it mean to "fail well"? What is a growth mindset?
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Learning Activity Plan 3: Does growth mindset affect building a tower? (Applying a Growth Mindset to the Marshmallow Challenge)
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Learning Activity Plan 4: Does Adda Twist:Scientist have a growth mindset? How do the great scientists in the world demonstrate a growth mindset?
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Summative Performance: Students address next year's first graders on Flipgrid telling them all that they have learned about the need for a growth mindset in first grade and how important a growth mindset is for scientists and engineers. What does it mean to have a growth mindset ? What does it mean to fail well? What are some of the ways that you have failed well in first grade? Why is it important for us to sometimes make mistakes as we try out new ideas? How are our mistakes like those made by scientists and engineers show that we are all failing well?
Inquiry Unit: Maintaining Hope in the Face of Challenge (Grade 3 ELA/Science)
Created by Ashley Mehale and Celeste MagiuilloCeleste Magiuilo
Compelling Question: How Do Other People Affect Our Beliefs About the Future?
Are You a Hope Creator or a Hope Crusher?
INQUIRY DESIGN UNIT PLAN ON HOPE
One Click Technology Driven Unit PowerPoint Sharing all of the Four Lessons in the Plan
Learning Activity Plan 1: How do other People affect our beliefs about the future? Read Aloud: " “Rosie Revere, Engineer” by Andrea Beatty and David Roberto
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Learning Activity Plan 2: What are the factors that create or crush our hope? What is a hope creator? What is a hope crusher? How do others affect our beliefs about the future?
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Learning Activity Plan 3: Relating the laws of science to hope : What forces in nature cause propel objects and what forces slow the movement of objects? Can we apply this scientific principle of movement apply to us in our lives?
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Learning Activity Plan 4: How has your beliefs been affected by others? What inspires your hope and generates the will to overcome obstacles?
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Summative Performance: Students will write a letter to a student to an incoming third grader, sharing their understanding of hope, the scientific forces that move objects and how they relate to hope, and finally how they used hope to overcome obstacles that you faced in third grade.
Are You a Hope Creator or a Hope Crusher?
INQUIRY DESIGN UNIT PLAN ON HOPE
One Click Technology Driven Unit PowerPoint Sharing all of the Four Lessons in the Plan
Learning Activity Plan 1: How do other People affect our beliefs about the future? Read Aloud: " “Rosie Revere, Engineer” by Andrea Beatty and David Roberto
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Learning Activity Plan 2: What are the factors that create or crush our hope? What is a hope creator? What is a hope crusher? How do others affect our beliefs about the future?
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Learning Activity Plan 3: Relating the laws of science to hope : What forces in nature cause propel objects and what forces slow the movement of objects? Can we apply this scientific principle of movement apply to us in our lives?
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Learning Activity Plan 4: How has your beliefs been affected by others? What inspires your hope and generates the will to overcome obstacles?
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Summative Performance: Students will write a letter to a student to an incoming third grader, sharing their understanding of hope, the scientific forces that move objects and how they relate to hope, and finally how they used hope to overcome obstacles that you faced in third grade.
Inquiry Unit: Passion: The Secret Ingredient in Grit (Grade 5 ELA/Science)
Created by Nichole Fochi, Amanda Gherardi and Jessica Kiedaisch
Compelling Question: What is it that makes us persevere through challenges and obstacles?
INQUIRY UNIT DESIGN PLAN ON GRIT
One Click Technology Driven Unit PowerPoint on Grit Sharing All of the Lessons in the Plan
Learning Activity Plan 1: What is the secret ingredient for Iggy's perseverance? Read Aloud: “Iggy Peck, Architect” by Andrea Beatty and David Roberts
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Learning Activity Plan 2: What are the factors responsible for grit? What are the factors that make for a good quarterback in the NFL? Could you pick or eliminate a quarterback in the NFL draft based on statistics? Did you make a good decision? Why or Why Not?
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Learning Activity Plan 3: Teacher Designed Challenge: How gritty are you? Do you need grit to create a structure?
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Learning Activity Plan 4: Were and are the top scientists in the world gritty people? Can you find evidence of their grit? What is the secret behind their perseverance?
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Summative Performance: Students will write a letter to a student to an incoming fifth grader, sharing their understanding of grit, how grit has helped them overcome obstacles that they faced in fifth grade and how grit helped them overcome obstacles in their real lives and how grit relates to success in science.
Grade Seven: Synergy: Are our Differences really our Strengths?
Created by Bill Buith and Erin Keating
Inquiry Unit: Character Strengths: Do Our Differences Make us Stronger? (Grade 7 Social Studies)
Compelling Question: Was the strength of our Constitution rooted in the differences of the men who drew it up? Did these differences make it a stronger document?
INQUIRY DESIGN UNIT PLAN ON CHARACTER STRENGTHS
One Click Technology Driven Unit PowerPoint Sharing all of the Four Lessons in the Unit
Learning Activity Plan 1: How do the differences of Raphael and Maya affect their go-cart? Did their difference make a stronger go cart? Read Aloud: "Going Places” by Peter and Paul Reynolds”
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Learning Activity Plan 2: What are strengths of Raphael and Maya? What are the strengths of your classmates? What are Hamilton and Burr's strengths in American history?
Worksheets for Lesson Two
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Learning Activity Plan 3: What is a compromise? What were the different positions of the men who made up the Constitutional Convention? How did the men at convention come to compromise on the issues of representation?
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Learning Activity Plan 4: :Can differing individuals come to compromise to make better solutions through synergy? What were the different positions of the men who made up the Constitutional Convention on slavery, electing the president and the need for a Bill of Rights? How did these men come to compromise?
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Summative Performance: Students will write a letter (have FlipGrid option for ENL students) for next year's seventh graders and explain what character strengths are and how they will need to focus on developing their strengths and combining their strengths with others. Explain how the different strengths of their classmates have made for a stronger classroom experience this year, citing two or three different classmates and their strengths. Include information about this unit and how they learned that it was the different opinions of the Founding Fathers that contributed to the strength of our Constitution. Finally, relate the differences of opinions at the Constitutional Convention to the current differences in our nation on opening up after the pandemic and racial injustices.
INQUIRY DESIGN UNIT PLAN ON CHARACTER STRENGTHS
One Click Technology Driven Unit PowerPoint Sharing all of the Four Lessons in the Unit
Learning Activity Plan 1: How do the differences of Raphael and Maya affect their go-cart? Did their difference make a stronger go cart? Read Aloud: "Going Places” by Peter and Paul Reynolds”
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Learning Activity Plan 2: What are strengths of Raphael and Maya? What are the strengths of your classmates? What are Hamilton and Burr's strengths in American history?
Worksheets for Lesson Two
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Learning Activity Plan 3: What is a compromise? What were the different positions of the men who made up the Constitutional Convention? How did the men at convention come to compromise on the issues of representation?
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Learning Activity Plan 4: :Can differing individuals come to compromise to make better solutions through synergy? What were the different positions of the men who made up the Constitutional Convention on slavery, electing the president and the need for a Bill of Rights? How did these men come to compromise?
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Summative Performance: Students will write a letter (have FlipGrid option for ENL students) for next year's seventh graders and explain what character strengths are and how they will need to focus on developing their strengths and combining their strengths with others. Explain how the different strengths of their classmates have made for a stronger classroom experience this year, citing two or three different classmates and their strengths. Include information about this unit and how they learned that it was the different opinions of the Founding Fathers that contributed to the strength of our Constitution. Finally, relate the differences of opinions at the Constitutional Convention to the current differences in our nation on opening up after the pandemic and racial injustices.
Lesson Creators' Contact Information
Unit One Growth Mindset:
Name: Amanda Leonardi
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @Aleonardi08
Name: Kathleen Owens
Email: [email protected]
Unit Two: Hope
Name: Ashely Mehale
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @MsMehale
Name: Celeste Magluilo
Email: [email protected]
Unit Three: Grit
Name: Nicole Fochi
mail: [email protected]
Name: Amanda Gheradt
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @ms_gherardi
Name: Jessica Kiedaisch
Email: [email protected]
Lesson Four: character Strengths
Name: Bill Buith
Email: @MrCoachBuith
Twitter:@calvagnanicole
Name: Erin Keating
Email: [email protected]
Unit One Growth Mindset:
Name: Amanda Leonardi
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @Aleonardi08
Name: Kathleen Owens
Email: [email protected]
Unit Two: Hope
Name: Ashely Mehale
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @MsMehale
Name: Celeste Magluilo
Email: [email protected]
Unit Three: Grit
Name: Nicole Fochi
mail: [email protected]
Name: Amanda Gheradt
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @ms_gherardi
Name: Jessica Kiedaisch
Email: [email protected]
Lesson Four: character Strengths
Name: Bill Buith
Email: @MrCoachBuith
Twitter:@calvagnanicole
Name: Erin Keating
Email: [email protected]