1. People: A Teaching Strategy for the Real World.
1.1. Extended Case Study
1.1.1. 1. Topic: Timber Wolves
1.1.2. 2. Background Knowledge: What do we already know about these animals?
1.1.3. 3. Explore: Students explore the topic by completing many real life tasks and activities such as mailed surveys to get to understand the views and opinions of real world people who can relate to the topic in some way.
1.1.4. 4. Action: Students evaluated their information in order to make a decision to take action or not.
2. Places: Let's Try Spanish!
2.1. Making a Connection between Spanish terms and places
2.1.1. 1. Topic: Spanish origins in the names of locations.
2.1.2. 2. Background Knowledge: Do students know the meaning of the Spanish words they come across?
2.1.3. 3. Explore: Students explored by locating Spanish words in the names of different locations while using different resources to do so.
2.1.4. 4. Action: Evaluate findings and discuss why they've used Spanish origins for the names of the locations.
3. Environment: Nurturing an Environmental and Social Ethic.
3.1. How do we understand the world around us?
3.1.1. 1. Topic: Our Environements
3.1.2. 2. Knowledge: How does our background knowledge help us to understand our roles and impact on our environment?
3.1.3. 3. Explore: "During the course of a typical school day, they should be provided ample opportunities to interact with and learn from, natural and social phenomena."
3.1.4. 4. Action: How will our findings and new perspectives lead us to act?