Unit Portfolio PresentationChris Carlson

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Newsletter Date: January 2011 Volume 1, Issue 1

Focus on Project-Based Lesson Instruction

Upcoming dates to know: January 17 – No School- Martin Luther King Day January 18- 21st Century After School Enrichment program begins 330-430 for registered students ***If you have not completed your permission form for the 230-330 21st Century Intervention time, please sign and return ASAP***

Rice Elementary School – Intermediate Wing, Grades 4-6

Students are at the center of the project-based learning. Students are introduced to a project with questions that pose big and enduring ideas that cross many disciplines preparing general life skills. Project-based units engage students in open-ended, cooperative tasks where they gain the essential work skill of working with others.

Characteristics of Project-Based Learning

A Shift in Roles As teachers and students work together on projects and integrate technology their roles change. During projects students are called upon to make many decisions, to work collaboratively, to take initiative, to make public presentations, and in many cases, to construct their own knowledge. Students may be challenged at first, but most find project work more meaningful, relevant to their lives, and engaging. Students are generally more motivated, perform better on projects, and

Projects empower students to make decisions and apply their interests to create products and classroom presentations. Students learn through inquiry and have input over decisions about how they complete project tasks. Students work together in groups, assuming roles that make best use of their individual talents. They are challenged to dig deeper with subject-

specific content questions that focus on standards and objectives. By participating in these units your student is preparing to become high-quality citizens to the community.

retain new learning by making personal connections. The memories of the unit production become lifelong memories. The use of individual Netbooks (personal laptop computers) can enhance the learning experience and allow students the opportunity to make connections to the outside world, find resources, and create products. Students are allowed to be the experts dealing with their project topic. Learning the technical skills side-by-side students mentor

each other and overcome technological barriers. Side-by-side mentoring of students enhances the skills required for the work place.

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Unit SummaryDuring this unit, the students work as a team to

succeed in a global economy. The students focus on the element of work readiness, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy to provide students with a solid foundation of business, economics, and free enterprise education. Students take on the role as citizens, community workers and consumers to discuss citizen rights and responsibilities, demonstrate understanding of the free enterprise system, understand nonprofit organizations in communities, build money management skills, develop business practices and responsibilities and display skills necessary to successfully participate in the world of work.

Curriculum – Framing QuestionsEssential Question

Are you prepared?Unit Questions

What do you want to be when you grow up? What is a responsible citizen?

Content QuestionsWhat characteristics are required for that career?

How do you balance a checkbook? What does COO mean? How do I get a job?

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• Collaborating with peers in a simulated city.• Analyzing data to balance a personal and

business checkbook.• Solving problems and making decisions

about their career.• Communicating using well-wisher to relay

job specific information

21st Century skills enhanced by completing this unit:

Gauging Student Needs Assessment

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What do you know about being a citizen and running a business?

What do you want to know about being a citizen and running a business?

How would you like to learn about being a citizen and running a business? (kinds of activities)

What have you learned about being a citizen and running a business?

(Possible student responses) (Possible student responses)

(Possible student responses)

(Possible student responses)

You have to have a job.

You have bills to pay.

You get paid for your work.

What do I have to do to get a job?

What is a resume?

Why do I have to work?

What does it mean to be a citizien?

Job skills

Run a business

Work with money

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My Goals for the Course The students will successfully:gain the skills required to be a

productive citizen.work in groups to complete assigned

tasks to prepare a business.explain how money changes hands

and works its way through the economic sytem.