Wicked Weather
Project Overview: Students will create a product of their choice about their natural disaster, a readiness preparedness list to be distributed at local businesses and community buildings, and a readiness preparedness kit to demonstrate to other classes what we need to be prepared.
Driving Question: How can we, as citizens of Plymouth, Indiana, prepare for natural disasters?
Standards: Science 4.1.5 & 4.1.7, LA 4.4.5, 4.4.7, 4.4.11, 4.7.11. & 4.7.12
THERE'S MORE THAN CORN IN INDIANA
Project Overview: Students will uncover information about Indiana’s geographic features, human & natural landmarks, and the changing climate to create an interactive tourist map to persuade tourists to visit Indiana.
Driving Question: How an we persuade more tourists to visit Indiana?
Standards:
4.3.2 Estimate distances between two places on a map, using a scale of miles, and use cardinal and intermediate directions when referring to relative location.
4.3.3 Students will explain essential facts of Earth/sun relationships and be able to relate these to the climate of Indiana.
4.3.4 Locate Indiana on a map as one of the 50 United States. Identify and describe the location of the state capital, major cities and rivers in Indiana, and place these on a blank map of the state.
Driving Question: How an we persuade more tourists to visit Indiana?
Standards:
4.3.2 Estimate distances between two places on a map, using a scale of miles, and use cardinal and intermediate directions when referring to relative location.
4.3.3 Students will explain essential facts of Earth/sun relationships and be able to relate these to the climate of Indiana.
4.3.4 Locate Indiana on a map as one of the 50 United States. Identify and describe the location of the state capital, major cities and rivers in Indiana, and place these on a blank map of the state.
TO DIG OR NOT TO DIG?
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Project Overview:
Students will explore how erosion and weathering create different types of soil. Driving Question: How do non-living natural resources cause changes in the Earth's surface? Standards: SCI 4.2.2 Describe-investigate how wind, water, and glacial ice shape and reshape earth's land surface by eroding rock and soil in some places and depositing them in other areas. SCI 4.2.3 Describe and investigate how volcanoes, landslides, and earthquakes suddenly change the earth's surface. SCI 4.2.6 Describe ways in which humans have changed the natural environments, explain if these changes have been detrimental or beneficial DOES IT MATTER?Project Overview: The students will explore the different states of matter and how they change from one form to another.
Driving Question: How can you force a physical change in matter? Standards:
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EducatorsThe following teachers have been and will continually be trained by the principles of the Buck Institute For Education for best practices using project-based learning techniques.
Sue Jamriska sjamriska@plymouth.k12.in.us Amanda Dreibelbis adreibelbis@plymouth.k12.in.us Chris VanVactor cvanvactor@plymouth.k12.in.us |
GET YOUR GREEN ON!
Project Overview: Our challenge is to improve the school by finding ways to encourage recycling, reuse
waste materials and creatively recycle those materials that cannot be
reused or recycled directly.
Driving Question: How can we, as students, promote recycling at Washington Discovery Academy?
Standards:
SCI 4.2.4 Investigate Earth materials that serve as natural resources and gather data to determine which ones are limited by supply SCI 4.2.5 Describe methods that humans currently use to extend the use of natural resources
SCI 4.2.6 Describe ways in which humans have changed the natural environments, explain if these changes have been detrimental or beneficial
Driving Question: How can we, as students, promote recycling at Washington Discovery Academy?
Standards:
SCI 4.2.4 Investigate Earth materials that serve as natural resources and gather data to determine which ones are limited by supply SCI 4.2.5 Describe methods that humans currently use to extend the use of natural resources
SCI 4.2.6 Describe ways in which humans have changed the natural environments, explain if these changes have been detrimental or beneficial
