Type of Assessment

Curriculum
Priority

Learning Objective

Worth Being
Familiar

Students will be able

to use good
questioning skills to
learn about another
culture/area of the
world.

Important to
Know and Do

Enduring
Understanding

Students will be able

to report factually on
current events,
summarizing the main
points of the article.
Students will learn
about a worldwide
issue/happening in a
specific region and
focus on
understanding the
details of it.

Standard

SS.35.PSCL.5

Formative
Students brainstorm questions to
ask their pen pal and turn in to
teacher

SS.3.5.G.1

Class discussion on important

current events in their lives to bring
into their letters.

SS.35.PSCL.1

Students will get in groups and

create a dialogue to follow for their
news report, focusing on the current
event.

SS.35.BS.2
SS.35.PSCL.5
SS.35.PSCL.1
SS.3-5.G.1

Students will be given an example

news article to practice summarizing
and searching for the key ideas that
the whole class will go through.
World maps will be given out and
the students and teacher will identify
the area that the news article is
taking place and mark it on the map.

Summative
Students will write a letter to a pen
pal from another nation, telling them
about what is happening in the area
around them and asking about
whats happening in and around
their lives.

Students will make a video with their

Ipads as news anchors reporting on
a current event.

Students will write a two-paragraph

piece on each news article they find,
summarizing it with key ideas from
the news article that directly
correlate to the main idea.
Students will map out the parts of
the world where they identify their
happenings.
While students research on their
Ipads, ask them questions to gauge
their understanding.