Description
- Overview:
- Objectives of this mini unit:For students to explore the "universal call to action" laid out in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and consider how they may respond to that call;Build background knowledge about specific issues impacting the Arctic including: indigenous rights, indigenous health, biodiversity, tourism and marine pollution; Build background knowledge about specific issues impacting their local communtiy (using Michigan as a case-study) including: hunger, homelessness, poverty, youth violence and the environment;Create an action plan to address needs within their local communities driven by their unique passions, interests and skills;Consider the importance of impact vs intention when engaging with community action projects
- Subject:
- Elementary Education, English Language Arts, Language, Grammar and Vocabulary, Reading Foundation Skills, Reading Informational Text, Speaking and Listening, Cultural Geography
- Level:
- Upper Primary, Middle School
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab, Case Study, Homework/Assignment, Lesson, Lesson Plan, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy
- Author:
- Lindsay Teeples-Mitchell
- Date Added:
- 02/16/2022
- License:
- Creative Commons Attribution
- Language:
- English
- Media Format:
- Interactive
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Pose and respond to specific questions with elaboration and detail by making comments that contribute to the topic, text, or issue under discussion.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Review the key ideas expressed and demonstrate understanding of multiple perspectives through reflection and paraphrasing.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how it contributes to a topic, text, or issue under study.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Delineate a speaker’s argument and specific claims, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Present claims and findings, sequencing ideas logically and using pertinent descriptions, facts, and details to accentuate main ideas or themes; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of three pages in a single sitting.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and refocusing the inquiry when appropriate.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Maryland College and Career Ready English Language Arts Standards
Grade 6Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others�۪ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Maryland College and Career Ready English Language Arts Standards
Grade 6Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Pose and respond to specific questions with elaboration and detail by making comments that contribute to the topic, text, or issue under discussion.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Maryland College and Career Ready English Language Arts Standards
Grade 6Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Review the key ideas expressed and demonstrate understanding of multiple perspectives through reflection and paraphrasing.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how it contributes to a topic, text, or issue under study.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Delineate a speaker's argument and specific claims, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Present claims and findings, sequencing ideas logically and using pertinent descriptions, facts, and details to accentuate main ideas or themes; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of three pages in a single sitting.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and refocusing the inquiry when appropriate.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity.
Standard: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Craft and Structure.
Standard: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Craft and Structure.
Standard: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas.
Standard: Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas.
Standard: Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Production and Distribution of Writing.
Standard: Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of three pages in a single sitting.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
Standard: Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and refocusing the inquiry when appropriate.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
Standard: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Comprehension and Collaboration.
Standard: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Comprehension and Collaboration.
Standard: Pose and respond to specific questions with elaboration and detail by making comments that contribute to the topic, text, or issue under discussion.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Comprehension and Collaboration.
Standard: Review the key ideas expressed and demonstrate understanding of multiple perspectives through reflection and paraphrasing.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Comprehension and Collaboration.
Standard: Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how it contributes to a topic, text, or issue under study.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Comprehension and Collaboration.
Standard: Delineate a speaker’s argument and specific claims, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas.
Standard: Present claims and findings, sequencing ideas logically and using pertinent descriptions, facts, and details to accentuate main ideas or themes; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
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Tags (17)
- Arctic
- Biodiversity
- Climate Change
- Environment
- Global Issues
- Homelessness
- Hunger
- Iceland
- Icelandic Arts and Culture
- Indigenous Health
- Indigenous Rights
- Local Issues
- Poverty
- Student Activism
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Tourism
- Youth Violence
This curriculum is an excellent way to get students engaged with their local environment. Students can use the Arctic as a portal to make connections to the world-wide Sustainable Development Goals in action.