This is my initial, very rough and basic, lesson plan for a novel unit based on the book By the Great Horn Spoon by Sid Fleischman.
Unit Topic: By the Great Horn Spoon by: Sid Fleischman
Subject: English Language Arts & History Social Studies
Grade: 4th
Time Frame to complete: 1 - 2 months
Stage 1 - desired resultsWhat should students learn as a result of this unit?
1. Reasons for people going to CA for gold & how it changed their lives.2. How the Gold Rush of 1849 changed CA.
3. How the Gold Rush is still shaping CA today.
Stage 2 - EvidenceWhat evidence will show that students have met the Stage 1 goals?
- students will understand & articulate a human's desire for gold vs. their current state (physically, emotionally, financially, relationally)
- students can articulate the ethical (good & bad) positions of:
- leaving home (family, friends, community)
- traveling for more than a year
- finding gold, or not finding gold
- students will understand & articulate the ecological and human impacts the Gold Rush had.
- students will understand & articulate how the Gold Rush played a major role in the ethnic diversity in CA.
- leaving home (family, friends, community)
- traveling for more than a year
- finding gold, or not finding gold
Stage 3 - Learning PlanWhat key learning events will help students reach the goals and be successful on the assessments?
- Read and discuss the novel By the Great Horn Spoon by Sid Fleischman
- discuss and act our basic human desires and motivations (age appropriate)
- group write a fiction story using Google Draw & Google Docs for collaboration about leaving home at age 10 for more than a year with one other person. Share with other groups to peer review and rewrite as needed.
- discuss global differences of money
- how much people live on in a day
- how they compare to different people on the globe
- have a debate, choose some as "we need more $, and some as "we need less $"
- Webquest on ecological effects/human impact of the CA Gold Rush (web resources
- Create a wiki page posing as different groups and how they were affected by the rush of people coming to CA.
- discuss and act our basic human desires and motivations (age appropriate)
- group write a fiction story using Google Draw & Google Docs for collaboration about leaving home at age 10 for more than a year with one other person. Share with other groups to peer review and rewrite as needed.
- discuss global differences of money
- how much people live on in a day
- how they compare to different people on the globe
- have a debate, choose some as "we need more $, and some as "we need less $"
- Webquest on ecological effects/human impact of the CA Gold Rush (web resources
- Create a wiki page posing as different groups and how they were affected by the rush of people coming to CA.
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