Lesson

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Specific Outcomes

Learning Activities/Teaching Strategies

Assessment/ Evaluation/ Communication

DELANEY MOORE

4.1.1.1
4.1.1.1
4.1.2.2
4.1.2.2
4.1.3.2
4.1.3.2
4.S.5.4
4.S.7.1
4.S.7.3
4.S.7.2

4.S.7.7
4.S.8.1

Introduce
Rocky
Mountain Region
-KWL
chart for progress and CFU
-Students use
Chromebooks
to work on project
-Monitoring
-Homemade Alberta Prezi
-group jigsaw mind maps
SS4:AlbertaSenseofLandUnitPlan
-Interactive Video (Zooming
into Albertas Regions
http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/sszi/en/index.html)
-Jigsaw mind map group activity

4.1.1.1
4.1.1.1
4.1.2.2
4.1.1.3
4.1.3.2
4.1.2.2
4.S.4.6
4.1.2.3
4.S.3.5
4.1.1.1
4.1.1.4
4.1.1.1
4.1.2.2
4.1.2.2
4.1.2.5
4.1.2.3
4.1.3.2
4.1.3.2
4.1.1.1
4.1.2.2
4.1.1.1
4.1.3.2
4.1.2.2
4.S.7.1
4.1.3.2
4.S.8.1
4.1.1.1
4.1.2.2
4.1.3.2
4.S.7.1

4.1.1.4
4.1.2.4
4.1.2.5
4.1.3.2
4.1.1.6
4.1.4.1
4.1.4.2
4.S.7.3
4.S.7.3
4.1.4.2
4.S.7.3

-Story
of the to
Rockies
Introduction
Canadian Shield Region
-Jasper Glacier Skywalk discussion (conservation vs. tourism
-Prezi/video
T-chart)
-Canadian Shield mindmap (fill-in-the-blanks)
-Natural resource map
-Climate
(review community location)
Introducediscussion
Foothills Region
-Prezi/video
-Unit test
-Foothills mindmap group sort activity
-News articleGrizzly bear threat
-Distribute culminating project assignment (discuss rubric)

-background
-mindmaps probeexperience with Rockies
-Sticky note exit
ticket
-observation
for participation
and understanding

4.S.7.2
4.S.7.7
4.S.8.1

-Students use Chromebooks to start Slideshow or booklet

project
-Students present their Alberta roadtrip projects to the class
for as many classes as is required

-monitoring for understanding

-formal assessment (assessment of learning)
-rubric

4.S.7.2
4.S.7.7
4.S.8.1

-Students use Chromebooks to work on project

-Explicit skills lesson on Chromebook and Google Drive
technologies (i.e., how to add images and shapes)

-monitoring and observation

4.1.1.1
4.1.2.2
4.1.3.2
4.S.7.1

4.S.7.2
4.S.7.7
4.S.8.1

-Students use Chromebooks to work on project

-Review rubric guidelines and encourage students to use
checklist

-Monitoring and observations

-Students self-assess progress

4.1.1.1
4.1.2.2
4.1.3.2
4.S.4.6
4.1.1.5

4.1.1.3
4.1.2.4
4.1.4.1
4.1.4.2
4.S.3.5

-Add rivers and regions to Alberta resource map

-Discussion about resources and industries and respective
community locations

-Formative assessmentbackground probe

4.1.1.1
4.1.2.2
4.1.3.2
4.1.1.4
4.1.1.6
4.1.1.5
4.1.2.4

4.1.1.3
4.1.4.1
4.1.4.2
4.1.4.3
4.S.3.5
4.S.7.3

Introduce Grassland Region

-Prezi/Video
-Grassland mindmap (think-pair-share)
-Discussion on hoodoo formation and preservation
-Fossil discovery and current event video
-Water usage discussion activity
-Add Grassland and resources to natural resource map

-Informal observation during discussion

-CFU with critical questioning

-informal observation during group work

-student
input in project
rubric design
-formal assessment
(assessment
of learning)