Unit Title: 3.7 Outer Spaceweek:# 3

Unit Title: 3.7 Outer SpaceWeek:# 3

Teacher: Subject: English Grade: 3rd Date:From ______to______20____

Desired Result
DurableComprehension (Key Understanding)
Students will understand thatscience fiction tells about the imagined future or imagined inventions that will change our world today.
AssessmentEvaluation
Summativeevaluation
(unit projects, exams, etc.) Main Idea and Details organizer, Create a cover of a Book, Performance Task, KWL Chart of Planets
Learning Plan
Suggested Learning Activities:
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
Standards / Language / Writing / Language and Writing / Writing and Language / Writing and Language
Expectations / 3.LA.5a / 3.W.4 / 3.L.1a, 3.W.2 / 3.W.6 / 3.W.6, 3.LA.1a, 3.W.FS.9
Academic Strategy
Instructional Strategy and Phase
Objective / Students will distinguish the literal and nonliteral meanings of words and phrases by listening and singing songs about planets. / By completing a KWL Chart about Planets characteristics, students will demonstrate the acquired and desire knowledge about them. / By asking and answering detailed questions and refers to details, students will complete a Main Idea and Detail organizer / With the chosen Planet they conducted a research, students will create the cover of a book and share it with their classmates. / After conducting a research about a planet they are interested in, students will create a book including important facts about it.
Depth of Knowledge (DOK) / ___ Recall / Memory
___ Skill / Concept
___ Strategic Thinking
___ Extended Thinking / ___ Recall / Memory
___ Skill / Concept
___ Strategic Thinking
___ Extended Thinking / ___ Recall / Memory
___ Skill / Concept
___ Strategic Thinking
___ Extended Thinking / ___ Recall / Memory
___ Skill / Concept
___ Strategic Thinking
___ Extended Thinking / ___ Recall / Memory
___ Skill / Concept
___ Strategic Thinking
___ Extended Thinking
Initial Activities / Play a planet song and students will sing along. / Brainstorm about Planets and characteristics. / Teacher show a model of the solar system. / Teacher will give the instructions to create the book cover. / Teacher give instructions to create the foldable book, using the attachment: Layered Book Foldable.
Development Activities /

Identify the characteristic of the planets presented in the song.
Identify the rhythm and beat of the music to determine the meaning in the song.

/ Draw a KWL or present on the board.
As group discussion fill out the KWL Chart. / The teacher asks the students if all planets are the same and write down their responses.
They choose a planet to conduct a research project. / Students will begin creating their book cover following the teacher’s instructions. / Students will start creating the book, following instructions given.
Closing Activities / Wrap Up class. / Recap class. . / Wrap up class, discussing the activity. / Recap class and present their book cover to their classmates. / Recap and present their books.
Formative Assessment – Other evidence / Use link / KWL Chart / Attachment Learning Diagram-Main Idea and Details Organizer / Book Cover / Performance Task
Materials
Homework
Differentiated Instruction Strategies
___ Special Education
___ LSP’
___ Section 504
___ Gifted
Teacher Reflection