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Wayne RESA / Grade 6 / Science / OpenSciEd_6 / Week 1
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Overview

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Unit Abstract
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Storyline

The OpenSciEd Instructional Model uses a storyline approach– a logical sequence of lessons that are motivated by students’ questions that arise from students’ interactions with phenomena.

To help teachers and students advance through a unit storyline, the instructional model takes advantage of five routines—activities that play specific roles in advancing the storyline with structures to help students achieve the objectives of those activities. The routines typically follow a pattern as students kick off a unit of study, investigate different questions they have, put the pieces together from those investigations, and then problematize the next set of questions to investigate.

 

Click here to view the complete 6.4 Rock Cycling & Plate Tectonics Storyline document.

 

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Narrative
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Expectations/Standards
Learning Targets
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Enduring Understandings

Please click here for a description of the big ideas that connect middle school NGSS (Achieve, 2017).

Essential Questions

Unit Level Question:

 

Lesson Level Questions: See Lesson Planner Tab

 

Quick Links to More Info about Science and Engineering Practice 1: Asking Questions and Defining Problems:

Wonder of Science (Paul Anderson)

NGSS, OpenSciEd and the Question Formulation Technique (NAGT)

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Content (Key Concepts)

Please refer to OpenSciEd Unit and Lesson Level Documentation:

A lesson-level performance expectation (LLPE) is a three-dimensional learning statement for each lesson aimed at highlighting the key student expectations for that lesson. Every OpenSciEd lesson includes one or more LLPEs. The structure of every LLPE is designed to be a three-dimensional learning, combining elements of science and engineering practices, disciplinary core ideas and cross cutting concepts. The font used in the

LLPE indicates the source/alignment of each piece of the text used in the statement as it relates to the NGSS dimensions: alignment to Science and Engineering Practice(s) , alignment to Cross-Cutting Concept(s) , and alignment to the Disciplinary Core Ideas .

Each unit includes a table that summarizes opportunities in each lesson for assessing every lesson-level performance expectation (LLPE). Examples of these opportunities include student handouts, home learning assignments, progress trackers, or student discussions. Most LLPEs are recommended as potential formative assessments. Assessing every LLPE listed for each student can be logistically difficult. Strategically picking which LLPEs to assess and how to provide timely and informative feedback to students on their progress

toward meeting these is left to the teacher's discretion. However, the system is designed to support a quick review of the LLPE, assessment guidance, and a subset of student work to help inform instructional decisions throughout the unit even if you are not assessing each student individually every time.

Skills (Intellectual Processes)
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