Standards Met:

ISPP ICT scope and sequence.

COMMUNICATING

Independently select and use communication to effectively exchange, gain and share information with/from multiple perspectives.

CREATING

Experiment and combine a range of knowledge and skills of digital presentation techniques to represent and publish ideas in original and innovative ways.

Digital Citizenship

Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior.                                                                                                            

b. Exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity

ISTE standards

1 a. Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes

2 a. Interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media.

2 b. Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats.

To inquire into the following:

Transdisciplinary Theme -Where We Are in Time and Place: Migration

An inquiry into orientation in place and time; personal histories; homes and journeys; the discoveries, explorations and migrations of humankind; the relationships between and the interconnectedness of individuals and civilizations, from local and global perspectives.

(IM World view) (IM Global issues) (IM Human society)

Subject Focus: Social Studies

Strand: Continuity and Change Through Time

Summative assessment task(s):

What are the possible ways of assessing students' understanding of the central idea? What evidence, including student-initiated actions, will we look for?

Students to compose a narrative of a historical human migration. This narrative will be historically accurate and show perspective of immigrants in a new country. They can be performed live or be on a video, written as an autobiography, using blogs, a variety of media, or illustrated with a visual presentation.

Enduring Understanding:

Central Idea - Human migration has a diverse range of effects.

Essential Questions:

1. What has led people (including ancestors) to settle in different places? (causation)

2. How has migration impacted different groups and individuals at the new locations? (change)

3. What are the different points of view about migration in a community? (perspective)

GRASPS Task:

Goal: For students to communicate using blogs  about their migration stories, including their digital migration which will incorporate digital citizenship.

Role: Students are authors of their own narrative piece and co-reflectors on other students’ blogs in order to deepen their understanding.  Students will incorporate digital citizenship skills in their blog posts and responses.

Audience:  The audience is potential anyone, but specifically other grade ⅘ students and their extended learning community. This works with connectivism, connecting students to others to expand their learning.

Situation: Students will research independently regarding their migration stories.  Students will research and brainstorm digital citizenship ideas.  Together we will discuss how we migrate between the digital and physical world and what values we bring with us.

Product:  Students will blog about what migration means to them, and specifically digital citizenship skills they need to embed into their digital migration.  (some summative assessments will also be told on their blogs, scratch, movies, etc.)

Six Facets of Understanding:

Explain:  Students will be able to explain causes of migration and the different components of digital citizenship.

Interpret: Students will interpret what digital citizenship means to them, how it is similar/different  to different forms of citizenship.  Through their blogs students will how they differentiate between digital and physical migrations and some positive/negative aspects of each.

Apply: students will apply their knowledge through their blogs.

Have perspective: Students will read perspectives of each other and be able to see how other people view migration.  Different people from different cultures will have different viewpoints on migration, through commenting on blogs, students will be able to see how each other view a similar situation.  Students perspectives my change, or deepen due to these interactions with others.

Empathize:Through the narrative situation of these blogs students will be able to empathize with others’ stories of migrations.  Students can show their empathy through their comments and response to comments on the blogs.

Have self-knowledge: Students will have a better understanding of their family and themselves through talking about their personal  migration stories.  Students will be in a continual process of co-reflection with comments on the blogs.