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Cou= rse: FLEX – Enrichment – Si= xth Grade – “Bones & Stones”

QUA= RTER: FIRST

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U= nit or General Topic, Theme, or Content Focus

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S= pecific Topics, Themes, or Content Focus

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S= kills Focus

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E= ssential Questions & Enduring Understandings

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D= istrict/Building

R= esources

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P= ossible Lessons, Projects, Assessments

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A= ligned Illinois Learn= ing Standards, Performance Descriptors, & Assessment Frameworks

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I= nterdisciplinary Connections

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D= ifferentiation Suggestions

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B= ones & Stones

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L= esson 1

(= one class period)

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L= esson 2 (one class period)

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L= esson 3

(= 3-4 class periods)

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L= esson 1M

(= 2-3 class periods)

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L= esson 2M (2 class periods)

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Bones & Stones is a unit= that allows students to participate in a simulation of what life was like for early humans in the Stone Age.

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S= tudents will learn the value of language while attempting to interpret a gibberish letter. Students will appreciate the value of body language to express emotion.

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S= tudents will learn how and why human speech developed.

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S= tudents will invent words and body language to communicate a Stone Age scenario t= o an audience who will try to interpret what they see and hear.

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Students will read about Stonehenge

and summarize what they have=

learned in a “Found Poem”.

S= tudents will simulate building a replica of Engla= nd’s circles of megaliths called Stonehenge= . They will use problem solving strategies to meet the challenge of moving stones to the building site, and lifting the stones into their mathematically precise position.

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“Bones & Stones” curricular materials = from Interaction Publishers.

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Champaign Schools “Bones & Stones” Tea= cher Guide.

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S= ee above.

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S= ee above.

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S= ee Above.

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S= ee Above.

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S= ee Above.

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Gibberish letter.

Acting out emotions.

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Information sheet.

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L= anguage Scenarios

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M= ysterious Stones of Prehistory Essay

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&= #8220;Found” Poems

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S= imulate the building of Stonehenge.=

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S= tate Goal 4.A.3b

S= tate Goal 4.B.3d

S= tate Goal 18.A.3

S= tate Goal 26.A.3b

S= tate Goal 26.B.3b

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S= tate Goal 1.A.3a

S= tate Goal 3.B.3a

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S= tate Goal 7.A.3b

S= tate Goal 18.A.3b

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E= LA – Speech

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S= ocial Studies – Language & Cultural Development

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F= ine Arts - Drama

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P= oetry

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M= easurement

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Working Cooperatively to achieve a goal.=

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D= o the Cave Court Cases.

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P= rovide students with a list of “starter words and gestures”.

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S= tudents create their own blueprints of another famous megalith and build it.=