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Essential Understanding
Each family has unique characteristics.
MLO
7.1 Students demonstrate understanding of
the similarities and differences in the ways individuals, groups, societies,
and cultures live and interact in the world.
Student Outcomes
Students will identify and compare the role
and composition of families.
Students will write to inform about a partner’s
family.
Technology Indicator
4.2 Design, develop, publish, and present
products using technology resources that demonstrate and communicate curriculum
concepts to audiences inside and outside the classroom.
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Your media specialist and I were talking about our families the other day. We found that our families are different. We were then wondering what your families are like. The media specialist asked if I could find out what your families are like and let her know. During this WebQuest, you will do just that!
Your task will be to learn
about our first grade families and to write and illustrate a page for our
class book about families. The book will be a gift to our media specialist.
Step
One
READING
ABOUT FAMILIES:
Open KidPix. Use the
drawing and stamping tools to create a picture that tells about your family.
You might draw and label the members of your family. You might draw
one or more family members involved in an activity together. Or you
might stamp favorite foods or pets that your family has.
Step
Three
WRITING ABOUT FAMILIES:
Click on Book Page and print a page for our class book about our families. You are going to interview another student and write the page about their family. Remember to make a picture of the family at the bottom. Do your best work. The media specialist will be reading our book to learn about our families.
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| All tasks are completed. | Most tasks are complete. | Some tasks are complete. |
| Work is very neat | Work is somewhat neat | Neatness needs to be improved |
| Student clearly and completely explains 4-5 ways that families are the same and different. | Student explains 3 ways that families are the same and different. | Student explains 1 or 2 ways that families are the same and different. |
You have learned a lot about families. You have found that families can be alike and can be different, but they are all special. If you want to read about families, ask the media specialist for these books:
Daniel’s Waiting Day
My Uncle’s Apron
A Coat For Anna
Extension Activity
Your class may want to work together to make a graph that shows the number of people in your families. The software program, Graphers, can be used for this activity. (Sample: You and your partner may use the graph to find the smallest and largest families in the class.)
After you have created your graph, open the Graphers notebook. Write to tell how many people are in the smallest family and how many people are in the largest family.