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This American Life: An Immigration Project In this task, students will explore the trials of immigration as well as the history of a group of immigrants through interviews, literature circles, and field experiences. This task includes: |
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Through My Eyes: Photography and Literacy In this task, students will engage in a long term visual project with multiple components to be presented to family and friends at the end of the year. This task includes: |
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Time Travel to Pre-Colonial California In this task, students will roleplay as Native American Indians and write a piece depicting what their experiences were. This task includes: |
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Toy Story In this task, students will roleplay as engineers, advertising executives, and authors at a small toy campany. After researching the toy market, students will conduct field studies to help them in creating and marketing a new line of toys. This project will culminate in an exhibition presentation in which the the 8th grade classrooms are converted into toy factories. This task includes: |
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Traveling to School The Traveling to School unit includes an introduction, the learning focus, 6 teaching and learning activities, assessment criteria, and resources. Unit description from source: Traveling to school uses student experiences of travelling to and from school to develop their knowledge of road safety and skills in graphing and mapping. Students conduct surveys and develop pictographs to show how students travel to and from school. They develop a pictorial map of a route they are familiar with, identifying key features along the way. They consider rules and behaviours that make travelling safer. They develop and publish an electronic text to demonstrate road safety knowledge, skills and behaviours. |
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Urban Ecology In this task, students will explore the urban ecosystem and how people are able to interact with nature. This will culminate in students creating a magazine to be presented at exhibition. This task includes: |
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Vive Le Revelucion! In this task, students will combine chemisty, art, and history in a piece depicting their researched revolution. This task includes: |
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Waterways for Peace: A Study of the Middle East In this task, students will work in groups to examine the Middle Eastern countries' methodological approaches to running a country and create strategies to create a more peaceful and sustainable society. This task includes: |
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We Can Take Care of Our Planet! In this task, students will be a part of this two part task to tackle environmental issues and brainstorm what can be done in the future to solve these problems. This task includes: |
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Writing on the Walls In this task, students will study and research the issue of graffiti, exploring its history and modern sociological impact. They will represent their journey through a photo journal. This task includes: |
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