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Entry Event: Read aloud the Revisit the list with student Administer pre-assesment. book City by Numbers. ideas. Initiate discussion by posing questions: did you see Discussion with students Ask if they think they could numbers around our school? about the numbers they saw find numbers around their Where else have you seen and liked. school just as in the book. numbers? Do you think we need numbers in our world? Make a list with student Take students around the Why? ideas. school and have them point Begin lesson on number out numbers. recognition
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Number recognition practice: Introduce the Project to flashcards, songs, videos. students. Share the expectations and Continue gathering the different components. information about what students know about Continue with number numbers lessons: recognition, writing and counting

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Notes: Number recognition, writing and counting is ongoing every day for the duration of the unit. Divide students into groups. Introduce the Learning Logs. Have a whole group Meet in small groups with Begin lessons with iPod use: Guide them in deciding the discussion on the types of each group to decide who Teach how to take pictures and places they should visit to Meet in small groups with questions they would like to they want to interview and video. look for numbers around the each group and discuss the ask potential people they will the types of questions they school. evidence they collected. be interviewing about how would like to ask. Continue with number they use numbers. (example: lessons: recognition, writing Visit the library, office, Adjust lessons to meet librarian, principal, teachers, and counting classrooms, playgrounds, etc.group/student needs. custodian, office manager) Students practice taking Make a list of the questions. video and pictures. Project: Numbers in Our World
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Notes: Number recognition, writing and counting is ongoing every day for the duration of the unit. Each group is now assigned Field Work: Students a school area and a person to conduct their investigation interview to gather around their assigned school information about how they area. Each group will use numbers. conduct an interview, take video, pictures and take Teacher meets with students necessary notes (drawings) to decide who will take to include in their final video, pictures, ask the project. questions, and make sketches
Meet with students in small groups to discuss their findings and help them adjust their projects. Review the evidence gathered and determine if they are ready to begin the final product.

Whole group discussion and sharing by each group about the evidence they have gathered so far. Students have an opportunity to ask and answer questions.

Share rubric about the iMovie project and presentation. Begin whole group iMovie lesson.

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Notes: Number recognition, writing and counting is ongoing every day for the duration of the unit. Continue with iMovie lessons. Meet with each group in small groups to help with any difficulties they might encounter. Begin meeting with each Continue developing and Practice video presentations Begin presentations. group to help them develop polishing the iMovie videos. and answering questions their iMovie videos. Presentations may spill into the fifth week depending on how students do in developing their final product and presentation practice.

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