TIE 512 Concept Map

Essential Questions

Essential Questions for Elementary Students PBL

SCIENCE

1. Did you ever wonder where ice goes when it melts, or where a puddle goes when the sun comes out?

11.A.1e Arrange data into logical patterns and describe the patterns.

2. How do life cycles differ from one living thing to another?

12.A.2a Describe simple life cycles of plants and animals and the similarities and differences in their offspring.

3. How are sounds made?

12.C.2a Describe and compare types of energy including light, heat, sound, electrical and mechanical.

4. What makes a bad storm?

11.A.2d Use data to produce reasonable explanations.

5. Are we at risk from earthquakes here?

6. 12.B.1a Describe and compare characteristics of living things in relationship to their environments.

7. How can you make the world a better place?

13.B.1e Demonstrate ways to reduce, reuse and recycle materials.

HEALTH

8. What do our bodies need to be healthy?

23.B.2 Differentiate between positive and negative effects of health-related actions on body systems

SOCIAL STUDIES

9. What is the American Dream and to what extent is it achievable for all Americans?

16.A.5a Analyze historical and contemporary developments using methods of historical inquiry (pose questions, collect and analyze data, make and support inferences with evidence, report findings).

10. How has the American Dream changed over time?

16.A.1c Describe how people in different times and places viewed the world in different ways.

11. How and why does a nation decide to go to war?

14.E.1 Identify relationships that the federal government establishes with other nations.

12. If you could change the town we live in, how would you make it better?

18.C.5 Analyze how social scientists’ inter­pretations of societies, cultures and institutions change over time.

13. What is needed to start a business?

15.C.2c Describe how entrepreneurs take risks in order to produce goods or services.

14. What factors shape our values and beliefs?

18.C.5 Analyze how social scientists’ inter­pretations of societies, cultures and institutions change over time.

15. How would life be different if I was born during my grand parents generation?

16.A.1a Explain the difference between past, present and future time; place themselves in time.

ENGLISH

16. If you were the boy in this story, how would you handle the problem he faces? What are the traits of a good leader?

2.B.1a Respond to literary materials by connecting them to their own experience and communicate those responses to others.

SOCIAL EMOTIONAL

17. How are we alike and how are we different?

2B.1a. Describe the ways that people are similar and different.

18. What makes a good friend?

2B.1b. Describe positive qualities in others.

19. What makes for a fair punishment?

2D.1b. Identify approaches to resolving conflicts constructively

20. From cocoa bean to a Hershey bar, have you ever wondered how they made that?

15.A.2a Explain how economic systems decide what goods and services are produced, how they are produced and who consumes them.

Sources
http://questioning.org/mar05/essential.html
http://www.oakcrest.net/news/essential.pdf
http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/ela/6-12/essential%20questions/Index.htm
http://connes.wcpss.net/pdf/Magnet/Second%20Grade%20Modules.pdf

What to cook?

A problem that exists in my life everyday, is what to cook for dinner. (Sorry I was tried about write about school life). Everyday when I come home from a long day at school I have to decide what to cook for dinner. There are a few possibilities:

1. Ordering/ going out

2. Cooking myself (which is involved and means I would have to go to the store)

3. Have cereal

4. Just snack throughout the night

Most of the time, I just find quick things in the cupboard that will satisfy my hunger but may not be very healthy or nutritious. I’ll get a snack when I first get home that that will keep me full until about 7:00 and then I don’t want anything really filling because I will be going to bed soon. Also, when I am just cooking for myself I am not motivated to spend a lot of time making a meal for myself. If I am cooking for someone else I will gladly spend that time to prepare a meal, because someone else is relying on me. But if it is just for myself I see the preparation time as time wasted.

Going out or ordering out is always fun, but can get expensive if you take out too often. The other problem about getting food from restaurants is that the food is usually unhealthy and loaded with a lot more grease and fat than what you could cook at home.

The fact is that cooking every night involves prep time and planning, but is cheaper in the long run than eating out every night and is also healthier for you. Now that I have decided which of these possibilities I am going to choose- cooking myself, I have to decide what to cook. Which might even be a bigger problem than my first. I only have a limited number of dishes in my repertoire that I know how to make and they are all very simple and planed.

To cook a complete meal you need to grocery shop and plan out what you are going to make so that you have the ingredients. (So now I have two disadvantages, I don’t know what to cook and I dislike grocery shopping.) Maybe I need to re-evaluate what my problem is :)