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== Curriculum Audit 

Cooperative Planning Tool (You will add this after planning your timeline) |||| (16 ) Classroom (4) LMC ( 12) Lab Other || CCSS: W.4.4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose and audience. W.4.5. With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing. W.4.7. Conduct short research projects that build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic. W.4.8. Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; take notes and categorized information and provide a list of sources. W.4.9. Draw information from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection and research. W.4.10. Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences  AASL: || NETS: <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">3c. Communicate relevant information and ideas effectively to students, parents, and peers using a variety of digital age media and formats <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">4b. Address the diverse needs of all learners by using learner-centered strategies providing equitable success to appropriate digital tools and resources. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">4d. Model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate,and use information resource || >> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Library Media Specialist; <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">* Collaborate with Classroom Teacher in creating and administering diagnostic, formative, summative, and self-evaluative assessments ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Teachers |||||| <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Lisa Malakoff and Mary O'Connor ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Grade Level || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">4 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Content Area(s): Social Studies ||  ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Unit of Study |||||| <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Northeast Region of the United States ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Time Frame |||||| <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">8 weeks <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Two 45-min periods per week in the classroom (with classroom teacher) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">One 45 minute period per week in Library (with LMS) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">One 45 minute period per week in Library (With Classroom Teacher and LMS) ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Estimated Sessions in
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Areas of Collaboration |||| <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">( x) Planning ( x) Teaching ( x) Co-Teaching ( x) Resources ||
 * ===Essential Questions=== ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">How do the geography, climate, people, and history shape each state in the Northeast Region? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">In what ways do states in the Northeast region affect others in that region? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">How do states of the Northeast region affect the country as a whole? ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Standards:
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">1.1.2 Use prior and background knowledge as context for new learning. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">1.1.6 Read, view, and listen for information presented in any format (e.g., textual, visual, media, digital) in order to make inferences and gather meaning. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">1.1.9 Collaborate with others to broaden and deepen understanding. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">1.2.6 Display emotional resilience by persisting in information searching despite challenges. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">1.3.4 Contribute to the exchange of ideas within the learning community. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">1.3.5 Use information technology responsibly. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">1.4.1 Monitor own information-seeking processes for effectiveness and progress, and adapt as necessary. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">1.4.2 Use interaction with and feedback from teachers and peers to guide own inquiry process. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">1.4.3 Monitor gathered information, and assess for gaps or weaknesses. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">2.1.4 Use technology and other information tools to analyze and organize information. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">2.1.5 Collaborate with others to exchange ideas, develop new understandings, make decisions, and solve problems. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">2.1.6 Use the writing process, media and visual literacy, and technology skills to create products that express new understandings. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">3.3.4 Create products that apply to authentic, real-world contexts.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Unit Objectives/Learning Outcomes ||
 * * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Students will be able to create a persuasive product (eg. Prezi) that provides evidence of an understanding of how a state in the Northeast Region of the U.S.A. contributes to the economical and cultural growth of the Unites States. ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Assessment ||
 * ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Diagnostic assessment of content material will be administered prior to the start of the Unit
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Formative Assessment involving observation by both the classroom teacher and LMS will take place during research and product development
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Formative Assessment in the form of Exit Slips related to content and Information Literacy skills will be used by both instructors throughout the unit.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Students will periodically self-evaluate and peer evaluate product using a rubric and checklist
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Students will be given periodic exit slips) to assess content knowledge throughout the Unit ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Lessons/Learning Activities (What are our tasks/activities?): Pre-reading activities that activate prior knowledge about the Northeast Region (KWL graphic organizer to tell what you know and don't know), class discussions, researching print and digital media ||
 * ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Read picture books and text books about Northeast that activate prior knowledge
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Research (using print and digital resources) the geography, climate, people and history of one state in the Northeast region
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Create questions to ask of government representative
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Communicate using Skype with a government representative of state
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Gather, edit, and store photos and video
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Analyze data from research
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Write a persuasive argument in favor of keeping state in union ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Materials Needed ||
 * * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Technology: Webquest
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">[|Print Resources]
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Livebinder
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Other: computer lab, mobile lab, library research materials, Social Studies Content Materials, Maps, Atlas, globes ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Final Product ||
 * * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Students will create a persuasive PREZI with words, animations, video, photographs, and citations ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">How will students evaluate final product/process? ||
 * * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Students will use formative assessments to assess progress and understanding
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Students will evaluate final product by using a checklist as well as a presentation and content rubric ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Roles & Responsibilities <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Classroom Teacher <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">* Collaborate with Library Media Specialist in creating and administering diagnostic, formative, summative, and self-evaluative assessments
 * Teach Content
 * Teach Literacy skills
 * Support students in navigating and completing the Webquest
 * Support students in the creation of the Prezi
 * Teach Information Literacy and inquiry skills
 * Support students in navigating and completing the Webquest
 * Support students in accessing resource materials
 * Support students in utilizing Digital Applications
 * Support students in the creation of the Prezi