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Central Idea Understanding the past allows us to recognize the lifestyle we have now and prepare for the future. Where we are in Place and Time 5 Essential Elements Transdisciplinary Learning Concepts Skills Learner Profile and Attitudes Action Knowledge Form Change Causa.on Related concepts: lifestyle, ar.facts Students will learn about their lifestyle as well as their family’s lifestyle. They will explore how @me brings change and why people have felt the need to change their lifestyle through @me. They will look at recognizing what we have today and develop an understanding of how progress can have both posi@ve and nega@ve effects. Research: Students will look for informa@on about their past, their family’s past and humanity’s past. Thinking: Students will use informa@on they collect to compare and contrast changes in our lifestyle as well as reflect on their own future. Students will be able to use their learning to foster flexibility in their thinking that will allow them to approach change with enthusiasm. Important Dates Unit Vocabulary Mathema.cs Measurement : Students will learn about @melines and how they are used by historians to keep track of events. Language Arts Reading : Students will read fairytales and play scripts to develop their comprehension by making connec@ons with their lives, other texts and the world. Wri@ng : Students will explore and write fairy tales and fables. They will look at classic examples and think about how they could change them for contemporary @mes. Viewing and Presen@ng: Students will look and listen to different media to gain further knowledge about their past. Listening and Speaking : Students will give feedback to presenta@ons as well as learn to use intona@on, volume, pace and body language to communicate ideas. Thai Studies : Students will use tradi@onal Thai ar@facts to explore how life was in the past in Thailand. June 1: No school June 11: Y3 end of year party (9:30) June 12: End of year Assembly. Lines of Inquiry 1. 2. 3. Lifestyle in the past. How things change. Why things change over @me. Mathema.cs Knowledge: *Place value *Basic Facts *Order and sequence *Pa]erns Strategy: * Addi@on and Subtrac@on *Mul@plica@on and Division *Ra@os and Propor@ons Language Arts Word Study: Students con@nue to learn word pa]erns to develop their spelling skills. Grammar : Students will keep developing an understanding of sentence structure as well as using the past tense. Disciplinary Learning * curiosity * apprecia@on * empathy * inquirers * open minded Fun Links Drive through @me: h]p://amhistory.si.edu/on themove/games/game2/ game2.html Timeline of inven@ons: h]p://www.historypin.com/project/31remember@meline/ #!photos/@meline/ •Tradi@on •Ar@facts •Timeline •History •Technology •Compare and Contrast •Progress •Lifestyle Kamthieng House Field Trip: June 4: 3AK June 5: 3JJ June 2: 3LK June 3: 3BC June 3: 3MS "History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can be]er face the future." Robert Penn Warren Window by: Jeannie Baker

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  • Central Idea

    Understanding the past allows us to recognize the lifestyle we have now and prepare for the future.

    Where we are in Place and Time

    5 Essential Elements

    Transdisciplinary Learning

    Concepts Skills Learner Profileand Attitudes

    ActionKnowledge

    Form Change Causa.on Related concepts: lifestyle, ar.facts

    Students will learn about their lifestyle as well as their familys lifestyle. They will explore how @me brings change and why people have felt the need to change their lifestyle through @me. They will look at recognizing what we have today and develop an understanding of how progress can have both posi@ve and nega@ve eects.

    Research: Students will look for informa@on about their past, their familys past and humanitys past. Thinking: Students will use informa@on they collect to compare and contrast changes in our lifestyle as well as reect on their own future.

    Students will be able to use their learning to foster exibility in their thinking that will allow them to approach change with enthusiasm.

    Important Dates

    Unit Vocabulary

    Mathema.cs Measurement: Students will learn about @melines and how they are used by historians to keep track of events. Language Arts Reading: Students will read fairytales and play scripts to develop their comprehension by making connec@ons with their lives, other texts and the world. Wri@ng: Students will explore and write fairy tales and fables. They will look at classic examples and think about how they could change them for contemporary @mes. Viewing and Presen@ng: Students will look and listen to dierent media to gain further knowledge about their past. Listening and Speaking: Students will give feedback to presenta@ons as well as learn to use intona@on, volume, pace and body language to communicate ideas. Thai Studies: Students will use tradi@onal Thai ar@facts to explore how life was in the past in Thailand.

    June 1: No school June 11: Y3 end of year party (9:30) June 12: End of year Assembly.

    Lines of Inquiry 1.

    2.

    3.

    Lifestyle in the past.

    How things change.

    Why things change over @me.

    Mathema.cs Knowledge: *Place value *Basic Facts *Order and sequence *Pa]erns Strategy: * Addi@on and Subtrac@on *Mul@plica@on and Division *Ra@os and Propor@ons

    Language Arts Word Study: Students con@nue to learn word pa]erns to develop their spelling skills. Grammar: Students will keep developing an understanding of sentence structure as well as using the past tense.

    Disciplinary Learning

    * curiosity * apprecia@on * empathy * inquirers * open minded

    Fun Links Drive through @me: h]p://amhistory.si.edu/on themove/games/game2/game2.html Timeline of inven@ons: h]p://www.historypin.com/project/31-remember-@meline/#!photos/@meline/

    Tradi@on Ar@facts Timeline History

    Technology Compare and Contrast Progress Lifestyle

    Kamthieng House Field Trip: June 4: 3AK June 5: 3JJ

    June 2: 3LK June 3: 3BC June 3: 3MS

    "History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can be]er face the future." Robert Penn Warren

    Window by: Jeannie Baker