I. Curricular Framework

Concept:

Metaphors for Change

Essential Question:

How can metaphors deepen our understanding of something/

Bridge:

Change presented Kinestetically

Content:

Outcomes:

II. Standards Aligned

III. Instruction and Assessment

1. Connect: Connecting to the Concept Experientially

Objective: To provide students with an experience in which they will take in information visually and aurally.

Activity: Listen and view tape "Wind of Change."

Assessment: Quiet attentiveness to the experience.

2. Attend: Attending to the Connection

Objective: To analyze experiences with change.

Activity: Students will discuss changes in world that they saw and heard from the tape or any similar current events video if audio tape is used. Students will brainstorm and list additional changes from personal and current events.

Assessment: Enthusiastic participation in the discussion and listing.

Assessment, Phase One, Level of Engagement, Fascination:

3. Image: Creating a Mental Picture

Objective: To integrate the essence of change into another modality.

Activity: In groups, students will create and present a non-written or kinesthetic representation of change.

Assessment: Group interaction and performance.

Assessment, Phase Two, Seeing the Big Picture:

4. Inform: Receiving Facts & Knowledge

Objective: To understand the concept of change in all things.

Activity: Mindmap the word change. Categorize the responses. Make parallel lists changes of world and personal life (both past and current). List characteristics of wind as an element of change. Identify different kinds of wind.

Assessment: Participation and written response to prompts.

Assessment, Phase Three, Success with Acquiring Knowledge:

5. Practice: Developing Skills

Objective: To reinforce the understanding of the characteristics of change.

Activity: List kinds of wind and delineate the attributes of each. Match aspects of wind and change. Pair personal and world changes with the name of a kind of wind exhibiting those same characteristics.

Assessment: Quality of lists created and accuracy of matches.

Assessment, Phase Four, Success with Acquiring Skills:

6. Extend: Extending Learning to the Outside World

Objective: To focus on personal connection with change.

Activity: Students will select specific events and aspects of change they wish to highlight. Students will create a particular kind of wind to serve as a metaphor for change.

Assessment: Quality and trueness of the metaphor.

7. Refine: Refining the Extension

Objective: To allow students to refine comparisons in synthesizing details.

Activity: Students will carry forth the idea of their metaphor and create poems comparing aspects of change and wind. Students will type poems on the word processor and use different fonts and styles to enhance the meaning of your words and further emphasize the concept of change.

Assessment: Quality of poems.

8. Perform: Creative Manifestation of Material Learned

Objective: To allow students to demonstrate their literary expressions and musical selections.

Activity: Publication of grade level book of poems presented at an author autograph party. Students will select music with changing patterns, etc. to provide background during the presentation.

Assessment: Quality of booklet and enthusiastic response.

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