Julie

Ideas: Use visual ranking tool to rank the characteristics of eight planets come up with ideas for real world sernios. Trip around the solar system. Use visual ranking and the seeing reason tool.

ancient civilizations: Mesopotamia, India, Egypt, China, Greece, and Rome.

Essential question: How is the past important to the future.

Possible Unit Question: Which Ancient Civilization has had the most impact on your life today?

Essential - what is critical to survival?

What characteristics sustain life? ||  || Why is the location of the sun important to sustaining life? What are the life sustaining characteristics of Earth? ||  ||
 * ** Curriculum-Framing Questions ** ||
 * ** Essential Question ** || What is critical to survival?  ||   ||
 * ** Unit Questions ** ||  Why can we live on earth, but not on other planets?
 * ** Content Questions ** || Why is oxygen necessary for life?

Idea for Training.

Take the first few activities from the tool modules and put them at the begining of the training. Then when it is time to put the tools into the unit go back to modules and finish by adding the tools in. **Great ideas developing here. Sometimes when you start working, you find there are several lessons you could develop around a theme. Carla**


 * Visual Ranking tools**

Prompt examples - Rank characteristics that are critical to human life on a planet - most important to least

Based on current knowledge of planets rank them from most inhabital to least inhabital.


 * Seeing reason tool**

Not really going to be able to use this tool in my unit but think this would be a great tool in any unit that needs students to see cause and effect.

Showing Evidence Thoughts - How can the evidence be manipulated against my argument? - Forming an opinion after studying a topic and then hearing a different view point. - Jule thinks Matt is awesome!


 * Showing Evidence tool**

What planet would be the easiest to sustain human life. What evidence would support that.

claim: Pluto would be the easiest planet to build a biodome for human inhabitants. not really thrilled with this. Feel like I am trying to force this into my lesson.

What planet can we live on???? || Mercury Mars Venus Jupiter Saturn Neptune <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Uranus ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontweight: normal;">Visual Ranking Project Name **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt;">(For the // Visual Ranking // workspace)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontweight: normal;">Visual Ranking Project Name **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt;">(For the // Visual Ranking // workspace)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontweight: normal;">Project Description **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt;"> (For the // Visual Ranking // workspace) ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontweight: normal;">Prompt **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt;"> (For the // Visual Ranking // workspace) ||
 * Based on current knowledge of planets rank them from most inhabital to least inhabital. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontweight: normal;">Sorting List **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt;"> (For the // Visual Ranking // workspace) ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Earth
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontweight: normal;">Sorting List **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt;"> (For the // Visual Ranking // workspace) ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Earth