I. Curricular Framework

Concept:

Independence

Essential Question:

Why is it important to know how to work together?

Bridge:

Rhythm Band

Content:

Group Cooperation

Outcomes:

II. Standards Aligned

III. Instruction and Assessment

1. Connect: Connecting to the Concept Experientially

Objective: To have students work together to complete a 50-piece puzzle.

Activity: Begin with a piece of a picture and have children decide what it is. Continue to add pieces a few at a time until the large picture is seen. Discuss puzzles they have done. Then split the group into threes and have them complete a puzzle. Do not give any directions other than to put this puzzle together.

Assessment: Completed puzzle.

2. Attend: Attending to the Connection

Objective: To have students work together to complete a 50-piece puzzle.

Activity: Begin with a piece of a picture and have children decide what it is. Continue to add pieces a few at a time until the large picture is seen. Discuss puzzles they have done. Then split the group into threes and have them complete a puzzle. Do not give any directions other than to put this puzzle together.

Assessment: Completed puzzle.

Assessment, Phase One, Level of Engagement, Fascination:

3. Image: Creating a Mental Picture

Objective: To play instruments in a class rhythm band.

Activity: Children will listen to music playing nursery rhymes they are familiar with. They will then select the rhythm instruments and play along with the music. Children will realize what it sounds like when instruments work together.

Assessment: The "concert" that the children produce.

Assessment, Phase Two, Seeing the Big Picture:

4. Inform: Receiving Facts & Knowledge

Objective: To listen to a story and decide how co-operation is important.

Activity: Read the story "The Enormous Turnip." Discuss: What was the problem? How was it solved? Sequence the story. Do they need help with something that is "Enormous."

Assessment: Students knowledge when they contribute to the discussion.

Assessment, Phase Three, Success with Acquiring Knowledge:

5. Practice: Developing Skills

Objective: To be able to sequence a story or a set of pictures showing a project from beginning to completion.

Activity: Children will cut and paste a series of five pictures and write a sentence to tell what is happening in the project.

Assessment: Completed worksheets.

Assessment, Phase Four, Success with Acquiring Skills:

6. Extend: Extending Learning to the Outside World

Objective: Children will work together to plan a small project.

Activity: Various projects will be presented to the students.
1) A covered pencil box.
2) A roll movie.
3) Poetry cube.
4) Planting a seed.
Children will pick a project and decide on the steps they need to do to complete the project. Children will form groups of three to work on the projects.

Assessment: Students interaction with each other.

7. Refine: Refining the Extension

Objective: To complete the project that their co-operative group has decided on.

Activity: Children will work in small groups to complete their projects.

Assessment: Completed projects.

8. Perform: Creative Manifestation of Material Learned

Objective: To share with their classmates their completed projects and what they learned by working together.

Activity: Children will give seeds they planted to their classmates. Will share roll movie with the class. Pencil boxes will be kept in their desks. Students will tell their peers how they decided it was better to work together. They will share how they assigned jobs to different people and how that made the tasks easier to complete.

Assessment: Participation of students as they listen to their classmates describe how they learned to work together.

Assessment, Phase Five,Performance, Creative Use of Material Learned: