New Unit! “Communication is the KEY”
Hello Everyone!
Time for a new unit! Here’s what is going up on the UNIT board today!
Title: Communication is the Key
Unit Focus Statement: Being an educated citizen requires reflection and critical thinking about how we communicate and receive information.
An Inquiry Into:
- Forms of media and how they work
- Fake news and social media safety
- Questioning and research skills
- Effective use of communication skills (presentations, writing, team sports, drama, visual arts)
- Science Labs and Communicating Results
- Communicating with others using French
- Numbers in the news
- The power of an “educated citizen”
CONCEPT FOCUS: Power, Patterns, Relationships
CORE COMPETENCY FOCUS: Communication, Creative, and Critical-Thinking Skills
More to come on this as we begin to unpack our unit!! This unit will take us through Spring Break and the end of term two. For term three, we will be doing a unit all about interconnectedness with nature, another shorter unit on government and action, and our independent project.
Stay tuned!
Ms. D