Students will work in the classroom, media center, and at home to complete assigned projects. Students will work cooperatively and individually to inform others using a Hyperstudio stack. Teacher will facilitate student learning groups. Students will work in small groups by topic and individually by sub-topic to research. The media specialist will facilitate small group research and collaborate with planning and instruction.
Daily assessment is dependent on student participation and completion of assigned tasks.
At the completion of the unit, students will be assessed two ways. First, the teacher will assess orally as students share information they have learned during a whole class sharing time. Second, student writing of informational paragraphs will be assessed for accurate content by using the Project Rubric . Student writing will be assessed for use of the writing process, evidence of factual content, and application of the genre.