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 * Title of Unit: Pioneering Communities
 * Grade Level: Kindergarten


 * Summary of Project: A major theme for young children is learning to be part of a community. This unit focuses on our community of the past. We will look at how those people met their basic needs and make comparisons with how our needs are met today.
 * Curriculum Framing Questions
 * ** Essential Question ** || 

How are we different/same?  || Where did they live? What did they eat? What did they wear? What did they do for fun? How did they do it?  ||
 * Unit Questions **
 * How did people meet their needs a long time ago?

How were they built? Where did people get their groceries? Meat – vegetables – dairy – bread <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Where did their clothing come from? <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Flax – cotton – wool – spinning – weaving – sewing <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">What did they do for fun? <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Home made toys – instruments – games – ‘bees’ || The project idea-real world connections, authenticity
 * <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Content Questions **
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Where did people choose to build? What were houses made of?
 * Visual Ranking Project Name: Farm Animals of Long Ago**

Chickens Cows Dogs Ducks Elephants Horses Pigs Roosters Zebras <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> ||
 * Project Description:**
 * // A long time ago, people needed animals on the farm to help them meet their basic needs. Some animals provided food, some clothing, some provided transportation and helped with heavy work. Families valued their animals and took good care of them. //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> ||
 * **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Prompt **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> ||
 * **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Sort the animals in the list below from most useful to not useful at all **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">. ||
 * **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Sorting List **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> ||
 * Cats
 * **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Seeing Reason Elements **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">(Complete this section if this tool will be used in the unit) <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> ||
 * **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Seeing Reason Project Name ** ||
 * **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">No McDonald’s! Where did they get their food? **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> ||
 * **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Project Description **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> ||
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">A long time ago, people didn’t have local grocery stores and restaurants. What did they eat? Where did they get the food that they needed? <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> ||
 * **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Research Question **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> ||
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Think about the foods you eat. A long time ago, people needed meat, vegetables, fruits, dairy products, and bread, too. How did people get these foods on their table a long time ago  ||
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">

Assessment: Historical Writing Rubric**
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: white; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Showing Evidence Elements **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: white; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; COLOR: white; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">(Complete this section if this tool will be used in the unit) <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: white; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> ||
 * **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Showing Evidence Project Name **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> ||
 * **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">Literacy: Assessing Young Children ** ||
 * **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Project Description **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> ||
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Our county is using DIBELS in grades K-2 to assess literacy skills in order to target individual instruction to areas of need. One minute probes are used to assess a child's ability in a particular literacy skill. In kindergarten, for example, Initial Sound Fluency(ISF), Letter Naming Fluency(LNF), Word Use fluency(WUF), and Non-sense Word Fluency(NWF) all have one-minute probes to assess the skill. ||
 * **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Prompt **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> ||
 * **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Are timed assessment probes reliable for young children? ** ||
 * **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Practice Case **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> (For your future quick reference) ||
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Practice Team ID: || <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Password: ||
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Reviewing Team ID: <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> || <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Password: ||
 * Unit Plans : Pioneering Communities[[file:Pioneering Communities Unit.doc]]