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Project: Amazing Race 4 Grade

Major Product(s) and
Presentation
students need to complete

Students will
create an
"Amazing Race"
challenge for
another class.
Students will be
assigned CA
regions and must
produce a poster
(digital) and an
artifact specific
to their assigned
region.

Knowledge and Skills Needed by Students

Scaffolding / Materials / Lessons to be Provided

to successfully complete major

products and presentations

by the project teacher, other teachers, experts,

mentors, community members

California Regions, cultures, climates,

landforms

Direct instruction using adopted SS &

Science curriculum, websites, experts,
Techbook, digital texts, Assessment:
Formative individual quizzes and journal, and
summative chapter/unit tests

Digital presentation skills using Ipads or

netbooks.

Direct instruction by the teacher or expert

on software. Student draft presentations
would be used as formative individual
assessments. Final presentations are the
Summative assessments. Materials: Ipads,
Netbooks, software, projectors

Collaboration skills

Peer critique, fishbowl, note-taking skills,

journaling, poster template, artifact
exemplar, clips from the Amazing Race.
Stems for critique (sentence frames) and BIE
presentation rubric. Formative individual
assessment using journals, rubrics, and
rough-drafts. Summative assessment: oral
presentation with rubric

Research Skills including summarizing, and

note taking
In-depth Inquiry

HM note taking lessons and summarization

lessons and rubrics. Document camera,
teacher direct instruction and modeling.
Visuals, Step Up to Writing materials.
Scaffold instruction utilizing HM and Step up
to Writing, curriculum. Formative individual
assessments in the form of graphic
organizers. Summative assessment: written

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portion (poster or PowerPoint) using rubric.

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