Glenda Winborne, First Grade, Bain Elementary School
Final Unit (PDF) Implementing Common Core Standards (PDF)
200 Word Synopsis
The unit, A Quest for Homemade Energy: Earth friendly ideas to produce a global effect is designed to engage first grade students in the need for renewable resources, to concern them with the future of our planet and encourage them to consider and expand upon their ideas for a better future for all. Our first grade curriculum is limited to reduce, recycle, and reuse for our students. With this unit, the goal is to encourage students to question the types of energy and motivate them toward solutions through thought, play and reasoning. The unit, A Quest for Homemade Energy: Earth friendly ideas to produce a global effect is designed to bring about fresh, young ideas to a perplexing and frustrating need for renewable resources that are also economical for all people. This module will encourage students to investigate both the positive and negative effects for each source. Students will collaborate with classmates on a given problem and will work to research and develop a solution. Students will work in groups to develop a miniature town that models the type of energy chosen by the group. The culminating activity will produce a model town complete with hydro, solar and wind energies.
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