The Four Seasons

What makes the seasons different?

First Grade
By: Mack Leftwich
Thematic Unit Planning Matrix

Content Essential Centers Technology Assessment Student Standards:

or Questions (Activities) Integration and/or Rubric Products or The ISTE NETS and Performance
Subject (Must include at least Scale Portfolio Indicators for Teachers and Students
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English Can I During the Mind Map- Teacher will The student ISTE for Students: 6. Creative
brainstorm lesson the Students will have a rubric will produce Communicator Students communicate
brainstorm their with both a
ideas? Can students will specifications completed clearly and express themselves
ideas with a
I make be asked to Mind Map for the digital Mind Map that creatively for a variety of purposes using
connections pick their Digital storybook, such shows their the platforms, tools, styles, formats and
between the favorite Storybook- as amount of pre writing digital media appropriate to their goals.
ideas? Is season and Students will put pages and flow process as well Students:
their of story. as a completed
there a way write a story Digital b. create original works or responsibly
brainstormed
to organize about ideas together The Mind Map Storybook that repurpose or remix digital resources into
my ideas something into a story in a will be graded shows how new creations.
into a they enjoy digital storybook based on the they put ISTE for Teachers: 1. Facilitate and Inspire
story? Does doing during amount of ideas together their Student Learning and Creativity
and if the ideas into an
my story that time of connections organized Teachers use their knowledge of subject
make year. make sense. story. matter, teaching and learning, and
sense? This will be technology to facilitate experiences that
an individual advance student learning, creativity and
assignment innovation in both face-to-face and
that will start virtual environments.
with the b. Engage students in exploring real-
student world issues and solving authentic
brainstorming problems using digital tools and
Content Essential Centers Technology Assessment Student Standards:
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ideas and resources.

organizing (18) Writing/Literary Texts. Students
their write literary texts to express their ideas
thoughts. and feelings about real or imagined
After the pre people, events, and ideas. Students are
writing expected to: (A) write brief stories that
process the include a beginning, middle, and end;
student will and
then construct
an original
story using a
digital
storybook
program. The
students
should start to
think about
how they do
different
activities each
season
because the
weather is
different.
Science What makes We will start Google Slide- The teacher will The ISTE for Students: 1.
Empowered Learner
the seasons class by have a rubric students Students leverage technology to take an
different? breaking the
Students will for the
How do I students into be in groups presentation and will produce active role in choosing, achieving and
present that groups of no and create a the students will and execute demonstrating competency in their
information? more than four. presentation be graded on a learning goals, informed by the learning
Can I listen Each group will on participation of presentation sciences. Students:
and learn be assigned a all group as well as a. articulate and set personal learning
from my topic, such as
characteristics members,
classmates? Summer of the information be graded goals, develop strategies leveraging
How well do I weather, or seasons. Each presented, and on a quiz technology to achieve them and
Content Essential Centers Technology Assessment Student Standards:
or Questions (Activities) Integration and/or Rubric Products or The ISTE NETS and Performance
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Area 2 Web 2.0 tools) TEKS

retain Seasons daylight group will be presentation submitted reflect on the learning process itself
information? times. The given a quality. The through to improve learning outcomes.
group will be quiz will be
responsible for different topic graded by the Google ISTE for Teachers: 1. Facilitate and Inspire
doing the to present on. program. Forms. Student Learning and Creativity
research and Google Teachers use their knowledge of subject
creating a Forms- matter, teaching and learning, and
presentation technology to facilitate experiences that
using Google
After all the
Slides. They presentations advance student learning, creativity and
will give a students will innovation in both face-to-face and
presentation that take a virtual environments.
should be at cumulative a. Promote, support, and model creative
least 5 minutes and innovative thinking and
long. The
quiz on
teacher will be google forms inventiveness.
responsible for in order to (8) Earth and space. The student knows
creating a Quiz make sure that the natural world includes the air
as the students they were around us and objects in the sky. The
present with student is expected to:
information
listening to
covered. After the other C) identify characteristics of the seasons
all the presentations. of the year and day and night;
presentations the
teacher can fill
in any gaps of
learning the
students missed.
Math How long are The instruction Timeline- The teacher The student ISTE for Students: 5. Computational
the seasons? will begin with will grade will produce a Thinker Students develop and employ
How do I how to convert
Students will timeline of the
convert? How from years to create a each student seasons that strategies for understanding and solving
many days are months to days, timeline based based on includes how problems in ways that leverage the
in a month? etc.. Then the on the seasons accuracy of many months, power of technological methods to
How many students will be that will calculations. days, hours, develop and test solutions. Students:
hours are in a taught what day minutes, and
include their b. collect data or identify relevant data
day? officially starts seconds each
How many each season. calculations. season is. sets, use digital tools to analyze them,
minutes are in They will then Time Lapse- and represent data in various ways to
an hour? How be asked to facilitate problem-solving and decision-
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or Questions (Activities) Integration and/or Rubric Products or The ISTE NETS and Performance
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Area 2 Web 2.0 tools) TEKS

many seconds convert the Students will making.

are in a length of each watch a video ISTE for Teachers: 3. Model Digital Age
minute? season all the
way down to on the rotation Work and Learning Teachers exhibit
seconds. Using of the earth knowledge, skills and work processes
a calculator will and how long representative of an innovative
be allowed, and it takes to professional in a global and digital
after the rotate and go
calculations the
society.
students will be through a. Demonstrate fluency in technology
asked to transfer different systems and the transfer of current
their information seasons. knowledge to new technologies and
onto a timeline situations
created using a
computer
program.
TEKS: (1) Mathematical process
standards. The student uses
mathematical processes to acquire and
demonstrate mathematical
understanding. The student is expected
to: (A) apply mathematics to problems
arising in everyday life, society, and the
workplace;