Olympics

Where have the Olympic games been held?

Third Grade
By: Maxim Esparza
Thematic Unit Planning Matrix

Content or Essential Centers Technology Assessment Student Standards:

Subject Questions (Activities) Integration and/or Products or The ISTE NETS and Performance
Area (Must include at Rubric Scale Portfolio Indicators for Teachers and Students
least 2 Web 2.0 TEKS
tools)
Language What are Start the Students will use Student will Student will ISTE NETS Teachers:
Arts/Reading the lesson by NoteApp to jot receive a print out (3) Model digital age work and learning
Olympics? reading G is down main ideas rubric that their notes (A) Demonstrate fluency in technology systems and
Where have for Gold and important includes and their the transfer of current knowledge to new technologies
the Metal to the details to help them elements that story to place and situations
Olympics students, write their own must be them in their (2) Design and develop digital age learning
taken after reading story. Students will incorporated portfolio. experiences and assessments
place? the book and then use Microsoft in their story (A) Design or adapt relevant learning experiences
What does having a class word to type out (character, that incorporate digital tools and resources to
it mean to discussion their own story. setting, promote student learning and creativity
win a Gold about the climax,
Medal? Olympics resolution) ISTE NETS Students:
have the and they will (2) Communication and collaboration
students write be grades on (A) Interact, collaborate, and publish with peers,
their own how well these experts, or others employing a variety of digital
story about elements are environments and media
participating in their story.
in the TEKS: (29) Listening and Speaking/Listening.
Olympic and Students use comprehension skills to listen
winning a attentively to others in formal and informal settings.
Gold medal. Students continue to apply earlier standards with
Make sure greater complexity. Students are expected to:
they include (A) listen attentively to speakers, ask relevant
the year, the questions, and make pertinent comments;
locations and
the event they (18) Writing/Literary Texts. Students write literary
Content or Essential Centers Technology Assessment Student Standards:
Subject Questions (Activities) Integration and/or Products or The ISTE NETS and Performance
Area (Must include at Rubric Scale Portfolio Indicators for Teachers and Students
least 2 Web 2.0 TEKS
tools)
participated texts to express their ideas and feelings about real or
in and when imagined people, events, and ideas. Students are
everyone is expected to:
done have the (A) write imaginative stories that build the plot to a
students climax and contain details about the characters and
share their setting; and
stories.
Math What was Students will Students will be Student will be Students will ISTE NETS Teachers:
your be divided introduced to grades in have a copy (3) Model digital age work and learning
favorite onto groups Google Maps. groups by the of the route (B) Collaborate with students, peers, parents, and
location for and each Students will use accuracy of they created community members using digital tools and
the group will Google Maps to their route and and the resources to support student success and innovation
Olympics? receive a create the route of their measurement (2) Design and develop digital age
Have you location the parade. The measurements they took as learning experiences and assessments
ever seen where the class will also use and the class well as a copy (A) Design or adapt relevant learning experiences
the opening Olympics Microsoft Excel on will be graded of the graph that incorporate digital tools and resources to
ceremonies have been the smart board to as a whole, on created by the promote student learning and creativity
for the held. In their create a graph to how well the class to put in
Olympics? groups represent the data graph displays their ISTE NETS Students:
Do you students, will collected from each the data each portfolio. (4) Critical thinking, problem solving,
think the draw out the group. group and decision making
parades are parade route collected. (C) Collect and analyze data to identify solutions
close or far for the and/or make informed decisions.
from the opening (6) Technology operations and concepts.
stadium? ceremony at (B) Select and use applications effectively and
their location. productively
Students will
have to TEKS: (7) Geometry and measurement. The student
measure the applies mathematical process standards to select
distance from appropriate units, strategies, and tools to solve
the start of problems involving customary and metric
the parade to measurement. The student is expected to:
the stadium. (B) determine the perimeter of a polygon or a
As a class missing length when given perimeter and remaining
students, will side lengths in problems;
make a graph
to measure (8) Data analysis. The student applies mathematical
the distances process standards to solve problems by collecting,
between their organizing, displaying, and interpreting data. The
locations. student is expected to:
Content or Essential Centers Technology Assessment Student Standards:
Subject Questions (Activities) Integration and/or Products or The ISTE NETS and Performance
Area (Must include at Rubric Scale Portfolio Indicators for Teachers and Students
least 2 Web 2.0 TEKS
tools)
(A) summarize a data set with multiple categories
using a frequency table, dot plot, pictograph, or bar
graph with scaled intervals; and

Art What was Each student Students will Students will Students will ISTE NETS Teachers:
your will be asked displace their have a rubric download a (1) Facilitate and inspire student learning
favorite to create their countrys name, of what their picture of and creativity
Country own country their flag and their Glogster must their (A) Promote, support, and model creative and
that hosted that will be mascot on a include multimedia innovative thinking and inventiveness
the participating multimedia poster (countries poster and (2) Design and develop digital age
Olympics? in the using Glogster, name, flag, print it out to learning experiences and assessments
Would you Olympics. mascot) and be able to (A) Design or adapt relevant learning experiences
look to They will have they will be place it in that incorporate digital tools and resources to
have your to come up graded on how their promote student learning and creativity
own with a name, well they portfolio.
country? design their displaced their ISTE NETS Students:
What own flag and creations. (1) Creation and Innovation
would you create a (B) Create original works as a means of personal or
name your mascot to group expression
country? represent
What their country. TEKS:
animal After all (2) Creative expression. The student communicates
would you students are ideas through original artworks using a variety of
have as a done creating media with appropriate skills. The student expresses
mascot? their country, thoughts and ideas creatively while challenging the
their art work imagination, fostering reflective thinking, and
will be hung developing disciplined effort and progressive
around the problem solving skills. The student is expected to:
classroom (A) integrate ideas drawn from life experiences to
and students create original works of art;
will get a
chance to
walk around
and look at
their
classmates
countries.