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Welcome to All About Explorers

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We hope you find this site useful! Please explore, and be sure to let us know how we can improve your experience here.

Evaluation

Submitted by teachergwa on August 11, 2009 - 1:28am
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Students will be evaluated according to the rubric below. Use this as a guide while you are working to be sure you are meeting all the criteria.

Resources Needed

Submitted by teachergwa on August 11, 2009 - 1:26am
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This page is currently under construction.

Phase 3: Developing Your Presentation

Submitted by teachergwa on August 11, 2009 - 1:22am
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The last step is to create a presentation for a committee of state legislators to persuade them that the team’s plan for a new holiday should be adopted. The role of the committee will be played by a group of teachers and students from our class. You might consider enlisting the support of a few other teachers to participate by listening to the presentations and being part of the “committee.”

Phase 2: Choosing an Explorer

Submitted by teachergwa on August 11, 2009 - 1:18am
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In the next step, each team will identify one explorer who is worthy of being honored with a new holiday and to learn about that person so they can design an appropriate celebration.

Phase 1: World Holidays

Submitted by teachergwa on August 11, 2009 - 1:15am
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(2 class sessions, 45-60 minutes each)

In this phase, students will learn as much as they can about how we honor people with holidays.

Have students each select one of the holidays from the list below. Each person in a team should have a different holiday. Encourage teams to select at least one US and one world holiday among the team members.

Process

Submitted by teachergwa on August 11, 2009 - 1:06am
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This project will take approximately 10 class sessions depending on the level of detail you want the students to provide in their final presentation. Sessions can be taught on separate days or may be combined into one longer instructional period depending on the needs of the students.

Divide students into teams of 3-4. Each team will work together on all three phases of the project. Provide each team with a folder containing the following:

Printed instruction packet for the project
4 copies of Big6 Data chart for Phase 1 (2-sided)
4 copies of Big6 Data chart for Phase 2

Standards

Submitted by teachergwa on August 11, 2009 - 1:02am
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Language Arts Standards Addressed

Learners

Submitted by teachergwa on August 11, 2009 - 1:01am
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This lesson is built around Pennsylvania language arts standards (reading, writing, speaking, and listening) and also addresses some history standards to a lesser extent.

Credits

Submitted by teachergwa on August 11, 2009 - 12:58am
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Thanks to the Centennial School District for supporting this project by allowing us time to develop the All About Explorers web site, create the lessons, and field test all the activities. Thanks also to Centennial teacher-librarians Nancy Ring, Jack McAvoy, Chris Shepper, Joanne Brown, and George Fisher for assistance with writing biographies and field testing activities. Special thanks to Dr. Jenny without whom none of this would have been conceivable, let alone possible.

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