UPT

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**__ Universal Planning Tool (UPT) __**
//**Maine Learning Results (2007):**//  Students understand economic aspects of unity and diversity in the community, Maine, and regions of the United States and the world, including Maine Native American communities.  a. Describe economic similarities and differences within the community, Maine, and the United States.  Students understand geographic aspects of unity and diversity in the community, Maine, and regions of the United States and the world, including Maine Native American communities.  b. Describe impacts of geographic features on the daily life of various cultures, including Maine Native Americans and other cultures in the United States and the world.
 * Working Title:** Maine Studies
 * Content Standards:**
 * C2 Individual, Cultural, International, and Global Connections in Economics. **
 *  D2 Individual, Cultural, International, and Global Connections in Geography. **

 AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner  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.  1.1.8 Demonstrate mastery of technology tools for accessing information and pursuing inquiry.  2.1.3 Use strategies to draw conclusions from information and apply knowledge to curricular areas, real-world situations, and further investigations.  3.1.5 Connect learning to community issues.
 * Information Literacy/Inquiry Standards/21st Century Skills:**


 * Purpose:** Students will display their knowledge and research through the creation of a web site that will include text and images. This web site will inform peers about specific products that are important and vital to the state of Maine. Currently the Maine Kids page has links to web sites about products but some are not appropriate for 4th grade students.


 * Essential Question connecting content to purpose:** Why are these products important to Maine? How do these products affect our lives as residents of Maine?


 * Work Habits:** Attending to Details and Accuracy; Thinking Critically.


 * Thinking Skills:** Students will describe a product that is produced in Maine. Using their research, the students will synthesize the information to create a web site that displays thorough knowledge of this particular product.


 * Formats of Products and/or Performances:** A web site using Google Sites. Text and images will be included. Within these sites, the students will create a short commercial/advertisement for their chosen product. These web sites will be linked to our school's web site and used by future students.


 * Audience:** The general public.


 * Role of learner in task:** Product researcher.


 * Instructional arrangement(s):**
 * **individual**
 * **small group**
 * **large group**
 * whole class


 * Technology or resources suggested:** Laptops, Flip Video Camera, Google Apps, Marvel, Nettrekker.

I will begin this lesson with my I Met a Moose in Maine One Day lesson. Following this lesson I will show the students the Maine Kids Page and the links to Maine products. We will discuss the pros and cons of the web sites and the information given. The goal is for the students to evaluate web sites and to create a web site that is age appropriate for a kids page while incorporating what they have learned. I would also like them to create a short advertisement/commercial to be part of their web site. I am thinking they can work on their script during class time and we can film during scheduled library times. Together Ms. Ayers (4th grade teacher) and I will create a rubric. Students will have access to the rubric before beginning the project. I will introduce students to available resources such as Marvel and Nettrekker. I will give students a refresher on citing their research resources and will instruct the students how to use Google Sites for their project as well as how to add images. I will also teach a lesson on the importance of and how to cite images.
 * Collaborative teaching roles and responsibilities:**


 * Timeline:** I think we may need about 4 weeks to complete this project. The first week to go over/refresh basic research skills. Then continue on with the research. I would allow a week to create the web site.