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TEACHING AND LEARNING UNIT INCORPORATING CROSS CURRICULUM USES OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
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PART A
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The Classroom Context
- Literature Focus
- Description of Class
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The Library
- The Layout
- The Books
- The Personnel
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The Children and Survey Implications
- Reasons for Using and adapting unit survey
- Graphing results
- Drawing conclusions of the results
- Overall report on survey
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Part B
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Sustainability Unit
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Rationale
- Need for it
- Responsible citizens of the future
- Knowledge acquisition
- Catholic school classroom
- Paulo Freire Pedagogy
- Critical thinking
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Overview
- Using xMind to map out my planning
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ACTIVITY IV
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"Growing Green" by Christina Goodings
- Explore story. Needs to be revisited
- Key sustainable concepts to be discussed
- Two MInute speech
- Transformative Speech manner and matter
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ACTIVITY III
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"A Forest" by Marc Martin
- Read story
- Discuss linework in illustrations
- Compare to Noah's Ark
- Writing up a Promise
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ACTIVITY II
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"Father Sky and Mother Earth" by Oodgeroo
- Explore story
- Explore illustrations
- Reflect on illustrations and draw their own
- "Worried Human Animal"
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ACTIVITY I
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Sustainability
- Definition
- Pre-existing knowledge
- Class lists of key terms
- Tagxedo
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ACTIVITY V
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Biodiversity "Threats To Plants and Animals" by Pryor
- Human activity lists
- Effect on biodiversity
- Movie using ToonTastic App