Week

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

1

Introduce Project:

-Present Anchor Video

- Describe Driving Question and possible questions that would follow

-Show examples of project

-Give students some websites to begin looking at possibilities

-Have students forms groups

-Pick a topic

-Begin brainstorming what they want to figure out.

Goal: Students turn in question they want to answer.

-Lesson:

How to research a topic and evaluate the quality of sources.

- Students Research Topic

Goal: Students will enter annotated sources into a class webpage.

- Students Research topic

Goal: Students turn in a concept map that explains the information they have found. Also turn in list of resources they have used to base their concept map on.

Modify questions based on Previous day's research.

Benchmark Lesson:

Different ways that human activity can/has affected the Earth.

TEKS: 8.14.C

2

Students prepare a mini-presentation of information to present to other students.

Will be graded with Presentation rubric

Present to each other and give feedback, round robin style.

Students brainstorm how they are going to make a model of their natural disaster.

Students finish up how they are going to make their model and make a calendar that will be used as a rubric for what they are going to need to get done each day for making their model.

Goal: Turn in project calendar and plans for model.

Students make up material list and meet with teacher about project.

3

Students make up material list, meet with teacher about project, and gather material.

Goal:  Turn in material list.

Begin work on Model of natural disaster and collecting data for how its frequency and strength has changed through time.

Use student rubric/calendar to grade day's progress.

Work on Model of natural disaster and collecting data for how its frequency and strength has changed through time.

Use student rubric/calendar to grade day's progress.

Work on Model of natural disaster and collecting data for how its frequency and strength has changed through time.

Goal: Students turn in a memo stating what they have done, what they need to still do and questions they still have.

Benchmark lesson:  How to analyze data.

TEKS

8.2. A, B, C, D, E

8.3 A, C, D

Students discuss as group how they are going to analyze data.

Goal: Turn in to teacher how they are going to analyze their data. 

4

Work on model and analyze data.

Use student rubric/calendar to grade day's progress.

Work on model and analyze data.

Use student rubric/calendar to grade day's progress.

Meet with teacher and revise.

Meet with teacher and revise.

Pause day to discuss in their groups what they need to change, if anything, and discuss how they are going to continue to analyze their data and discuss what they have discovered about their data.

Goal: Turn in memo of progress to teacher

5

Make revisions and finish up data analyzes and model.

Make revisions and finish up data analyzes and model.

Make revisions and finish up data analyzes and model.

Present Groups 1 and 2.

Will be graded using presentation rubric.

Present Groups 3 and 4.

Will be graded using presentation rubric.

6

Present remaining groups. 

Introduce Debate.

Lesson:

Good debate etiquette and how to formulate arguments supported by research.

Prepare Debate.

Prepare Debate.

Debate.

Will be graded using Debate rubric.

Debate.

Will be graded using Debate rubric.