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Home > INSTRUCTION > State Standards and Frameworks > English Language Arts > gr2_inventions_unitoverview

Gr. 2 Unit: Inventions

Essential Question

How is creative thinking an important trait?

Lesson Calendar

DAY 1 - SEED 1

DAY 2 - SEED 2A

DAY 6 - SEED 2B

DAY 3-5 - PLAN 1

DAY 7–8 - SEED 3

DAY 9 - SEED 4

DAY 10 - SEED 5

DAY 11 - PLAN 2

DAY 12 - PLAN 3

DAY 13 - PLAN 4

DAY 14 - PLAN 5

DAY 15 - PLAN 6

DAY 16 - SEED 6

DAY 17 - SEED 7

DAY 18 - SEED 8

DAY 19 - SEED 9

DAY 20 - SEED 10

DAY 21-22 - SEED 11

DAY 23-25 - SEED 12

DAY 26 - PLAN 7

DAY 27 - PLAN 8

DAY 28 - PLAN 9


CCSS Standards for this Unit

Monitoring Templates

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UNIT OVERVIEW

6 Weeks - "Unit at a Glance" Organizer

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Topic: Creative Problem Solving

Students will read a variety of texts (fiction and nonfiction) that focus on creative thinkers and problem solvers. Creative thinking can be described as inventive, original and "out of the box". The thinking typically evolves to solve a problem and/or make life's tasks easier. Students will read expository texts that provide factual information about creative thinkers that conceive unique or novel devices, methods, processes, or discoveries. Narrative texts will also be comprehended to discover how fictional characters can also possess creative thinking as an important trait and/or how contraptions have evolved.

Each week, the instruction will focus upon the following focus questions/big ideas:

  • How do people think creatively to solve problems? (Biographies)
  • How have inventions improved peoples' lives?
  • How can I use my creative thinking to solve problems?
  • How were everyday problems solved with creative thinking?
  • How can I solve a problem? / How are problems solved?

  • TEXT MODELS FORLESSONS AND LESSON SEEDS

    George Crum and the Saratoga Chip by Gaylia Taylo; Lee & Low Books, 2011; 910 Lexile, Guided Reading Level M

    "Kid Inventors Then and Now" (MacMillan/McGraw-Hill Treasures) by Kali Capria

    If I Built a Car by Chris Van Dusen, Dutton Children's Books, 2005

    Iggy Peck, Architect by Andrea Beaty

    Incredible Inventions Poems selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins- "What to Do with a Popsicle?"; HarperCollins Publishing, 2009

    Inventor McGregor by Kathleen T. Pelley; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006

    Listen Up! Alexander Graham Bell's Talking Machine (Monica Kulling; Random House 2007)

    Pop! The Invention of Bubble Gum by Megan McCarthy; Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, 2010; 740 Lexile

    Randy Riley's Really Big Hit by Chris Van Dusen

    African-American Inventors by Jim Haskins (Treasures 2.1, 2011)

    The Boy Who Invented TV: The Story of Philo Farnsworth by Kathleen Krull; Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2009; 860 Lexile

    The Day-Glo Brothers by Chris Barton; Charlesbridge Publishing, 2009; 990 Lexile, Guided Reading O

    The Kids' Invention Book by Arlene Bach.

    "Who's Calling" by Keith Reynolds (HM Reading Adventures, Journeys, pg. RA22)

    The Kid Who Invented the Popsicle by Don Wullfson

    Digital Resources:

    Tin-Can Phones
    http://www.dsokids.com /athome/instruments/ telephone.aspx http: //www.ehow.com /how_2067160_make -tin-can-phone.html

    www.maximumpc. com/article/features /tin_cans_touchscreens_ 40_most_important_phones _history

    Alexander Graham Bell Biography
    http://www.brain popjr.com/socialstu dies/biographies/ alexandergrahambell/

    Black Inventors and Pioneers of Science
    http://kids. nationalgeographic .com/kids/photos/ black-inventors-and- pioneers-of-science/ #/mae-j_16294_600x450. jpg

    This 13-Year-Old Has a Cure for Hiccups
    http:// living.msn.com/life-inspired /the-daily-dose-blog -post?post=76ae1c7a-c6e2 -42d0-b5e7-972e19f 22ee2& _nwpt=1

    The Ellen DeGeneres Show- Amazing Kid Inventors, Part 1
    http://www. youtube.com/ watch?v=yMWTn 9yLIyQ

    The Ellen DeGeneres Show- Amazing Kid Inventors, Part 2
    http://www. youtube.com/ watch?v=9TPBA 1Rnvy0

    Inspiring Inventions by Kids
    http://www. youtube.com/ watch?v=rC8vF pLX4uU

    Maryland Kid Inventors
    http://www. youtube.com/ watch?v=Cc0 ih2E1nKQ


    STUDENT OUTCOMES

    Students will be able to apply appropriate strategies before, during and after reading, viewing, or listening to a text.
    Students will be able to analyze details and events in a literary text to determine a message, lesson, or moral.
    Students will be able to identify and connect key details to determine the topic.
    Students will be able to draw conclusions about characters in a story to determine their traits.
    Students will be able to identify major events and challenges in the text.
    Students will be able to identify cause/effect relationships between characters and major story events and challenges in a text.
    Students will be able to identify and explain relationships between a series of events, ideas, or steps.
    Students will be able to explain how shape and repetition contributes to the meaning of the poem.
    Students will be able to write an opinion piece, supporting a point of view with reasons.
    Students will be able to produce writings in which the development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose.
    Students will be able to plan, draft, revise, and edit opinion writings.
    Students will be able to use technology to publish their writings.
    Students will be able to listen for and identify topic, main idea, and key details in a text read aloud.
    Students will strengthen writing by using reference materials when drafting and editing.
    Students will use context clues to determine meanings of unknown words.

    Assessments Description

    Lesson plans include suggestions for pre-assessments
    Students will complete a Performance Assessment at the end of the unit.

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