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Lianna Lombardo April 19, 2009 EDC 452    ·  Earth Day   ·  Third Grade   ·  Students will be taking a field trip and doing a beach clean-up at a local beach. They will have the opportunity to pick up items that need to be recycled. They will be getting hands on experience of what it is like to clean-up a local beach. Students will be taking notes, observing, and taking pictures of themselves doing this clean-up for proof and to have good information for their papers. All of the recycled items students pick up will then be sent to a recycling plant where students can see the actual process of what happens when recycled items are sent to a plant. They will be taking notes and observing the steps. On Monday students will review the writing process, which they have been learning about for the past week. They know that when writing a paper the steps are Pre-writing where students take notes, brainstorm, outline, and gather information. Next, students are in the drafting part where you put your ideas into sentences or short ideas. Then, is the revising stage where student’s ideas are put into paragraphs and a more structured form of what their real paper will look like. Then the next step is when students will edit their papers in three different ways. First they will edit, then students will edit their papers, then the teacher will briefly check the paper for any major errors. Lastly, is their final copy which is sent in to the teacher for a final grade. Students will do exactly this with their Earth Day papers. Students will be able to use their notes, books we have used, the internet, and prior knowledge to complete this project. Their final paper will be due at the end of the week after they have completed the writing process steps. Any additional pictures from the beach clean-up or from the recycling plant may be added also.   ·  Students will complete a two page paper describing their beach clean-up experience, Earth Day, and going to the recycling plant. This will include five facts for each area (Earth Day, beach clean-up, and recycling plant). <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Students will include their writing process with their rough draft and revisions. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">C&G3(3-4)-2 b. Students demonstrate an understanding of how individuals and groups exercise (or are denied) their rights and responsibilities by working cooperatively in a group, demonstrating individual/personal accountability (e.g., dividing responsibilities, taking on individual roles) to complete a task. ·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">W-3(6.3)-A Using basic transition words when appropriate ex.: first, then, next, finally. ·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">C&G 1 (3-4) –1 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Students demonstrate an understanding of origins, forms and purposes of government by c. citing examples of services that local and state governments provide for the common good. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> ·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Pen ·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Paper ·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Notes ·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Textbook (any other books on Earth Day or recycling) ·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Internet ·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Recycling Plant <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> ·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Teacher first will activate prior knowledge by asking certain questions: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Have you ever littered? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Do you know people that litter? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Have you seen people litter before? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Have you been to the beach? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Do you usually see a lot of trash at the beach? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Do you know what a beach clean-up is? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">How would you feel if you could clean up the beach and help make this world a better place just by recycling? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> ·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">First the teacher will do a brief synopsis about beach clean-ups and how they came about and their history. Then the teacher will explain to the class that we will be conducting our own beach clean-up and take all of the recycled goods collected to a recycling plant where students can watch the process of how things gets recycled. Students will go on a field trip, take notes, pictures, and observe what is going on so they will be able to write their own paper on Earth Day and their experience at the recycling plant and the beach clean-up. Students will start the writing process when they go home that night after the field trip and come in the next day to start putting their ideas into paragraphs. Then that same day revisions will be made by students, themselves, and the teacher. That night students will correct their mistakes and hand in their final copy to the teacher the next day for final revisions. Their papers will be returned to them two or three days after so students will be able to move on to the next part of their assignment. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> ·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">After students get their papers back from their teacher, if there are any final mistakes or revisions they need to make they will be fixed accordingly. Then students can make a picture dealing with their paper, Earth Day, or recycling and it will be hung up in the hallway for the whole school to see. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> ·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">See rubric for paper attached. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> ·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Teacher will partner students up who are having difficult time gathering information during the beach clean-up and at the recycling plant. ·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Students who are having trouble brainstorm I will personally work with them to come up with ideas and strategies for their paper. ·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">As the teacher I will be looking at students papers and correcting them for any major mistakes before they pass it in to me. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> ·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Students will be in groups for the beach clean-up if necessary. ·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Students will be in groups for the recycling plant process if necessary. ·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Students will be in groups for peer editing. ·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">All students will stay in a uniformed group and behave properly at the beach clean-up and at the recycling plant. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">3 || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">2 || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1 || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Paper is neat, correctly formatted and has five facts about Earth Day, the beach clean-up, and the recycling plan. || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Paper is somewhat neat and correctly formatted. Has four facts about Earth Day, the beach clean-up, and the recycling plant. || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Paper is barley neat and correctly formatted. Has three facts about Earth Day, the beach clean-up, and the recycling plant. || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
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