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**Weeks 1 and 2: The World**
What will we be doing in Media Studies? How has communication changed over time? How have maps and globes, and our understanding of the world, changed over time? =** WEEK 2 **=
 * GeoGames**

The Way Home
Do you know what this place is on the map? [|Start Here on the Map]

We can split our bodies into 7 major parts (Head, Shoulders, Torso, Arms, Fingers, Legs, Feet)

This makes it easier to talk about and to learn about ourselves. In the same way we can take The World we live on and split it into 7 major parts so that we can learn more about each part. There are 7 Major Land Masses or **Continents** on our planet. Let's take a moment to learn their names:

Now we will do an activity with a partner. Match your continent puzzle piece with your partners. Then go to the computer and see if you can start in the continent on your puzzle and find your way home to Livonia Elementary School. Be prepared to explain how you got there. Good luck! [|Africa Link]

[|Antarctica Link]

[|Asia Link]

[|Australia Link]

[|Europe Link]

[|North America Link]

[|South America Link]

If you are done early, please play some
 * GeoGames**

=** WEEK 3 **=

Today we will see what we know about continents by trying to find our "way home."
Be prepared to show a teacher how you can start on //any// continent and how you find your "way home" to Livonia Intermediate School.

[|Africa Link] [|Antarctica Link] [|Asia Link] [|Australia Link] [|Europe Link] [|North America Link] [|South America Link]

**Weeks 4 and 5: View From Space Webquest**
=Over the next two classes we will use "bing maps" to locate places on the seven continents.= We will: 1)Name the place 2)Tell what continent this place is on 3)Look at a physical map and make some decisions about what the land is like there 4)Respond to a thinking question based on what we know and what we see. The View from Space Webquest

When we return, next class we will play a game called "The Big Whopper." Working in teams, students will use what they know about their landmark to both give information to the class and they well also tell one "mistruth" to see if everyone is paying attention to their presentation.

Map of School
Sample Clue Amazing Race Clues

**Week 6: Dream School, Part 1**
Mapping our Dream School

**Week 7: Creating a Wiki Together**
**Fodor's Travel Website** View a travel site.

1.) What information is important on this website? 2.)What media is used? What “tools?” 3.)Who would visit this website and why would they visit it?
 * We'll reflect on these questions: **

//**What will we need to add to OUR wiki? **//

//**Week 8: Wiki Work! **//
 * Today, we begin building our own wiki. Work together to get your jobs done!**
 * Good picture and map resources are here:** **Continents and Countries and the CIA World Factbook **
 * When you are done with your job today, click here for our reflection!**

Today, your job might be...
 * Researcher,
 * a Historian,
 * a Picture Fetcher,
 * a Mapmaker,
 * or a member of the Legal Department.

Sharing the World: 3rd Grade Wiki //**Good researchers always save their sources! **//
 * Week 9 and 10: Wiki Building**
 * Today, we begin building the wiki!**


 * Week 11: Wiki Reflection**
 * Today we have a chance to look at the wiki pages we created.**
 * Open the 3rd grade wiki and go to your continent, and explore all the links.
 * Then do a reflection on VoiceThread. Answer at least one of these questions.
 * 1) What did you do for your job?2) What skills did you learn?3) Give an appreciation for your group.
 * Go to your class historian page (it's the link called "How we Made our Wiki.) Add a comment to the VoiceThread slide for **your** group.
 * Future Projects:**
 * Sharing What we Know: Maps**

Week 11
Unit 3:

Extreme Makeover (Dream School Edition)

In this unit we will design the school of our dreams.

We need lots of creative ideas, but we also need to know some things about architecture and building.

Let's start by watching this helpful video

How To Architect

Then we will listen to a great book by Gail Gibbons so that we can learn more about the building process.



As we finish our story, be thinking about your own "dream school."

Begin your sketches of what you would like to have in your "Dream School."

Don't forget these guiding questions:
1. What will be in your school?

2. How are these things different from what we already have in our school?

3. Will your ideas for a school help people to teach and learn?

4. Is your dream "realistic" enough that it could actually be built?

Please begin your sketches so that we can share our ideas next class!

Group Mindfulness

Week 12
Last week we watched this great video about architectural thinking How To Architect

Now take a look at these Architect's Drawings.

What do you notice about the drawings? Can you explain what a "Bird's Eye View" is?

Let's continue our sketches. Try to come up with at least 3 rooms to your "Dream School" that teach people different things in each room.

Don't forget these guiding questions:
1. What will be in your school? 2. How are these things different from what we already have in our school? 3. Will your ideas for a school help people to teach and learn? 4. Is your dream "realistic" enough that it could actually be built? Please begin your sketches so that we can share our ideas next class! Group Mindfulness

Are you done early? Try this cool, free room design software

Week 13
Design 3 Rooms Use this to brainstorm 3 ideas for your dream school. Mr. Lyons and Mrs. Gordon will show you how to use this planner.

If you finish, please go back and put the finishing touches on your Architectural drawings. You may wish to add the ideas from your planning page.

Are you finished with all of that?! Try this cool, free room design software Or go to these sites for more inspiration!
 * Tall Buildings**
 * My Imaginary City**

Week 14 Pareto Voting

 * Take a few minutes to look at your plans.**
 * You are going to present your ideas to your group today.**
 * Try to be PERSUASIVE.**

Don't forget our guiding questions:
1. What will be in your school? 2. How are these things different from what we already have in our school? 3. Will your ideas for a school help people to teach and learn? 4. Is your dream "realistic" enough that it could actually be built?

Problem: We only have enough money to build one room per group member (a group of 3 can only build 3 new rooms in their dream school.) Whose ideas will we use? Let's try Pareto Voting! Listen as Mr. Lyons and Mrs. Gordon explain how to do this!

While you are waiting to Vote please enjoy these cool websites about architecture

Week 15
__**Assign one room to each group member to draw and design.**__ Because you are using each other's ideas, you will need to //help// each other with the designs. room design software Use the site to make your room in your group's dream school. Using the text box, be sure to label your classroom with it's name and your group's name. Print a copy of your floor plan. When you are done, visit these sites:
 * Today we begin group work on our "Dream Schools".**
 * Go over the voting results from last class. (There should be one room per group member.)**
 * __Sit with your group,__ but each of you use a different computer.**
 * Open this website (Mr. Lyons and/ or Mrs. Gordon will demonstrate it for the class.)**
 * Tall Buildings**
 * My Imaginary City**

Each of us has designed a room for our dream school.

Today we will:

-Look at some books on Architecture to get ideas for how our school will look

-Meet with our group members

-Complete this

We will use this page next week to do our final project, so please make sure that you do a great job!!

=Remember: Blue Prints use a Bird's Eye View!=

** Week 18 **
Remember our **** from last class. Here is where we go for The Final Vote!

Extra time? Design another room or Go to GeoGames.

Week 17
** Extreme Makeover (Dream School Edition) ** =**Time to evaluate and vote:**=
 * FIrst we will look at the** **Evaluation Page**
 * When you know what to do:**


 * Walk to all 5 "Blueprints" and rate each one.**
 * Remember this is what YOU think,**
 * so please do not discuss this yet with your friends.**
 * When you are done rating, add your totals**
 * (Mr. Lyons and Mrs. Gordon will show you how.)**
 * Then use the rating page to** **cast 3 votes.**

[|Mrs. Carey's class] [|Mrs. Coyle's class] [|Mrs. Ellison's class] [|Mr. Estabrooks' class] [|Mrs. Morrow's class] [|Mrs. Patti's class]
 * Here's where you vote:**

Try a little game now.
 * Tall Buildings**

Week 17
** Extreme Makeover (Dream School Edition) ** =**Time to evaluate and vote:**=
 * FIrst we will look at the** **Evaluation Page**
 * When you know what to do:**


 * Walk to all 5 "Blueprints" and rate each one.**
 * Remember this is what YOU think,**
 * so please do not discuss this yet with your friends.**
 * When you are done rating, add your totals**
 * (Mr. Lyons and Mrs. Gordon will show you how.)**
 * Then use the rating page to** **cast 3 votes.**

Try a little game now.
 * Here's where you vote: Click here.**
 * Tall Buildings**

Week 18 Final Voting for Dream Schools
** Dream School: the FINAL VOTE! **


 * You will evaluate 6 possible blueprints the same way you did last week.**


 * **Walk to all 6 "Blueprints" and rate each one.**
 * **When you are done rating, add your totals.**
 * **Then VOTE!**

And here's a little glimpse of what's coming next! Recognize this place? Try a little game now.

** Take a Trip!: A closer look at maps **
First a read aloud: Listen to....

**__On the Same Day in March__**
//A Tour of the World's Weather// by Marilyn Singer

Recognize this place?

Type in:
your **house number** Your **street name** and **Livonia NY** in the search Try to find the place where you live

Scroll around the map and see if you can find your way to the Elementary School When you are done looking: Try a little game now.

** The Way Home **

 * Today we will play a game with a partner using Google Earth.**
 * Using our knowledge of maps we can find "The Way Home."**

If we click on **Google Earth** and zoom in on any location on our planet, we can find our way back home by following these simple steps: (Mr. Lyons or Mrs. Gordon will demonstrate).

1. find "**North**": There is a small compass in the upper right corner of the screen. 2. Find **North America** 3. Find the **Great Lakes** 4. Find **Lake Ontario** 5. Find the **Finger Lakes** 6. Find **Conesus Lake** 7. Go **East** and find **Livonia**
 * Make sure "N" is at the top of the circle.**

Now it's your turn! When you have finished 5 rounds play some GeoGames

**Review and Application**
First, we will refresh our memories of [|World Continents] and Oceans. -Next, we will review how to find Livonia from anywhere on the globe. Can you name the steps?

--Last, using what you have learned about globes, maps, and finding “The Way Home” to Livonia, use flash earth to help these visiting kids find their way back home //from// Livonia.

Start at Livonia,NY 14487
 * Livonia, NY to Washington D.C. **


 * 1) Find North
 * 2) Find North America
 * 3) Find the Great Lakes
 * 4) Go South to find Chesapeake Bay
 * 5) Find Potomac River
 * 6) Find Washington D.C.

Livonia, NY to La Paz

Start at Livonia, NY 14487
 * 1) Find North
 * 2) Find South America
 * 3) Find the Amazon River
 * 4) Find the big “Bump” on the west coast
 * 5) Find Lake Titicaca
 * 6) Find La Paz in the mountains

**The Way Home (lesson 4).**

Last week we reviewed how to find our way home to Livonia from any place on the globe. We also learned how to get a visitor to Livonia back to Washington, D.C. Well, we have gotten some //more// visitors who need to find their way home! Please use the directions and Google Earth to help these friends find their way home.

Start at Livonia, NY 14487
 * Livonia, NY to La Paz[[image:http://mrg.bz/nXQdpu width="358" height="350" align="right" caption="image from Morguefile"]] **
 * 1) Find North
 * 2) Find South America
 * 3) Find the Amazon River
 * 4) Find the big “Bump” on the west coast
 * 5) Go to the south of the "bump" where the land gets skinny again
 * 6) Find Lake Titicaca
 * 7) Find La Paz in the mountains

Start at Livonia, NY 14487
 * Livonia, NY to Cairo **
 * 1) Find North
 * 2) Find Africa
 * 3) Find the North Coast (where the seas meets the land in the North)
 * 4) Find the Nile River (near the Saudi Peninsula)
 * 5) Find the city south of the delta (where the river empties into the sea)
 * 6) Look for Cairo

Start at Livonia, NY 14487
 * Livonia, NY to Mumbai **
 * 1) Find North
 * 2) Find Asia
 * 3) Find India
 * 4) Find the big, triangular bump of India
 * 5) Find the West Coast of India
 * 6) Look for Mumbai

Start at Livonia, NY 14487
 * Livonia, NY to Dublin **
 * 1) Find North
 * 2) Find Europe
 * 3) Find the United Kingdom
 * 4) Find Ireland
 * 5) Find the East Coast of Ireland
 * 6) Find the Liffey River
 * 7) Follow the Liffey River to its mouth
 * 8) Look for Dublin

Start at Livonia, NY 14487
 * Livonia, NY to the Weddell Sea **
 * 1) Find North
 * 2) Find the Continent of Antarctica
 * 3) Find the tip of South America (north of Antarctica)
 * 4) Find the arm of the Arctic Peninsula
 * 5) Find the East Coast
 * 6) Look for the Weddell Sea

Start at Livonia, NY 14487
 * Livonia, NY to Adelaide **
 * 1) Find North
 * 2) Find Australia
 * 3) Find the Southern Coast of Australia
 * 4) Find Spencer Gulf (on the southern coast)
 * 5) Find Kangaroo Island
 * 6) Go East to find Adelaide

Have you found EVERY location on the map for our guests? If so, you should have no problem finding these [|World Continents]

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Where in the World is my Teacher?
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Unit 6: Where in the World is my Teacher?
= Geography Stations = 1. **Google Earth**: zoom in on each continent. Find Livonia, and find our school. 2. ** Bookflix :** Choose a fiction or nonfiction book from the category "People and Places." 3. ** GeoGames **: choose any geography game from the list. 4. ** Fun Station **: Choose the floor puzzle or the matching game. 5. ** Book Station **: Enjoy looking at the maps in the atlas.

Continent Commercials