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=Surviving a Hurricane=

Assessment will be ongoing (see bullets below) with the culmination for the publication of the campaign ||
 * Title: ||< Keeping My Community Safe (I have changed from my original idea but did not change the page name) ||
 * Subject: ||< All subject areas ||
 * Grade: ||< All Grades ||
 * Purpose: || Students will research and design campaign for his/her community to prepare and survive a hurricane. ||
 * Time Frame: ||< 4-6 weeks Researching, Designing and Publishing ||
 * Summary: ||< Students will work in campaign teams (of 4-5) designing an effective campaign for their community on how to prepare and/or survive a hurricane. Initially students will research/gather information on hurricanes, their impact on their community (including issues from the past, possible problems, survival tips, etc.) and resources. Students will interact with various experts (CERT, meterologists, traffic managers, community leaders, etc.) via Skype, blogs, and/or in person. Experts would assist the students to create the Rubric which a team of the experts would help create and use to select the most effective campaign. The winning campaigns would be published to the community within and outside the school. ||
 * Tasks: ||< 1) Describe the main steps of the activity/lesson/project here
 * Students are presented with the problem of how to prepare the community for a hurricane and other emergencies.
 * Students are asked to interview family members and neighbors about how they prepare (their plan) for a hurricane and other emergencies.(This information would be shared with the class either hard copy or electronically via the wiki, google.docs, etc.) //Explore students interviewing each other digitally on surviving an emergency/hurricane.//
 * After sharing what they gathered from their interview (small group). identifying and scribing the most important information on to an anchor chart, students will gather whole group to debried and consolidate their findings. This information could be use to create a to B-W-L (this could be done hard copy and/or digitally)charts in the "B" column.(This //B-W-L will be visible and revised throughout the course of this project).//
 * In groups, students add on to the "B" column what they know about hurricanes including how to prepare and/or survive.
 * Students generate questions from what t
 * Teacher shares class wiki created for students to use in during this process -this will house all of the links, resources, examples and work space for students to utilize/collaborate with peers and teacher.
 * Students navigate through/view various videos about hurricanes and/or community issues with hurricanes to harvest information and/or generate questions to add to their B-W-L
 * [|general example]: this is an activity that asks students to "retell" information, and is general enough to be applied across the curriculum
 * [|more specific example]: this is an activity connected with 3rd grade Science - circuits & electricity ||
 * Objectives: || * Research, Persuasive Writing, Information Literacy,
 * Information Literacy, Please include at least one "Mash-Up" objective here, as well (student roles, Information Literacy, global empathy, higher-order thinking, etc.) ||
 * Assessment: ||< How will you assess the students learning?
 * Assessment: ||< How will you assess the students learning?
 * Resources: ||< Accss to the internet, wiki page, flipcameras,movie makers ||
 * Examples: ||< * Links to teacher or student examples. ||

Discussion:
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