Unit Title: Central Idea:

Sharing the Planet

nsQuestiorTeache Summative Assessment Choices people make can support conservation of the Earth.

Focus: Concepts:

PSPE, Science, Maths connection, perspective, reflection

Proposed Dates:

24th March 9th May

Objective: To identify a problem, implement an action plan, and reflect on its effectiveness. Audience: peers Product: Action plan accompanied by a reflection Success Students will identify problem, collect data, devise and implement action plan, and reflect on Indicator: effectiveness of action plan.

Inquiry Lines:

Conservation of the Earth Practices that promote conservation Our role and responsibility in promoting conservation Consequences of not conserving

What What What What

is conservation? are the strategies we use to conserve? are our roles and responsibilities in conserving? will the impact be if we don't conserve?

Focused learning opportunities and curriculum benchmarks being covered during unit Literacy: Reading
Students will continue to develop the following text types: Narrative: Evaluate illustrations, characters, main events, problem, resolution, language patterns in the following texts The Lorax, Unos Garden, The Tin Forest to highlight our Students will develop the following writing text types: - Exposition: use data collected on waste concern in our school and write a letter and/or design a poster to persuade school community to take action. Students will develop the following mathematical concepts: - Measurement: Mass/Capacity: - Measure the total weight of class waste daily for a week in non-standard standard Students will: - Investigate conservation using a variety of online resources such as Brainpop jr, espresso etc. Students will develop: Vocabulary related to our environment - Simple adjectives describing the environment Students will: - Continue to develop all musical skills, with an emphasis on connecting how note values create rhythmic patterns Students will: - Undertake a dance unit focussing on motif environmental responsibilities. -Information & Descriptive Reports : find out about the environment by exploring non-fiction text features: contents page, glossary, specific information, photographs, diagrams. - Information Report: write simple facts about how biodegradable and non- biodegradable waste effect the environment. - Use containers to measure the capacity of water wasted in milliliters-liters. Analyze data collected and discuss solutions. - Chance/Data: interpret and analyze class waste data into a graph. Which waste can be reused or recycled? -Use Microsoft PowerPoint to present information promoting conservation and their roles and responsibilities in conservation of the earth. - Write joining simple Arabic letters - Reading simple words in Arabic -Listening skills by matching picture to words called out. - Create rhythm with traditional notation and play rhythms on classroom instruments - Discuss the connection of movements learnt in gymnastics. -Procedural Text: follow directions on how to make/do something.

Ongoing
- Reading strategies to make meaning of text by making inferences, connections and finding important information. -Use word patterns to analyze words. -Use syllables to take words apart. - A range of strategies to spell high frequency words, long vowels and digraphs, blends. Commonly used punctuation; capitals, full stops, question marks. Skills of revising and editing their written work - Mathletics.com - Rainforest to reinforce number related concepts: Place Value, Number Patterns, Addition and Subtraction Space and Shape

Literacy: Writing

-Description : write describing how our school community will look like if its littered. -Narrative: rewrite The Lorax saving the Truffula tree forest and its inhabitants. - Sort and compare garbage collected from home according to its raw materials. Which raw material is consumed the most? What can we do to modify their behaviour at home? - Sort garbage according to recycle, compost, actual garbage. - Analyze food packaging and its negative effect

Math

ICT Arabic

- Skills to identify pictures and their matching words.

Music

- Explore and discover rhythms that are used in songs currently sung. - Learn more dance related vocabulary and skills such as motifs, the health and safety aspect of

P.E.

design using the stimulus of the Jack Johnson song - reflect on own and others performances Reduce, reuse, recycle Students will: - Create junk art: (re)using materials i.e. paper mache, plastic bags, card etc, to construct and make things such as masks, Students will: learn how NF books are put in order specifically environmental books picture frames, sculptures etc. Make painting and printing tools from recycled materials such as scrunched plastic or paper, or rollers from plastic bottles

The Arts Library Notes/Fi eld Trips

lifting, performance and audience etiquette and also evaluating and reflecting on performances to aid learning - Look at artists who use junk as art - Consider elements of art such as from and texture in their art - Mask Making Day with parents - Explore how books can be made into movies and difference seen between a book and its movie.

- Connect the Lorax with other Dr. Seuss books and reflect on personal prospection impacts the books we read Watch in the school auditorium The Lorax the movie based on Dr Seuss picture book .