ATLANIC Community Schools - Unit Planning
Teacher’s Name: DEREK BAIR
Subject: 21st Century Tech
Grade: 9th
Overview of the Unit: Think Green will increase student awareness of the environmental issues
caused by waste. Student will analyze four Rs reduce, reuse, recycle and recover.
Iowa Core/Content Standards.
●
Communicate and work productively with others, incorporating different perspectives and
cross cultural understanding, to increase innovation and the quality of work.
● Demonstrate leadership skills, integrity, ethical behavior, and social responsibility while
collaborating to achieve common goals.
● Understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal
and ethical behavior.
Enduring
Understanding:
Sustainability is an
important problem for
any individual living in
the 21st century.
Concepts:
Sustainability
Content:
Identifying current
problems and some of
the solutions currently
in place for
environmental
sustainability.
Demonstrate
understanding of
vocabulary.
Essential/Higher
Order Questions:
What can be done to
make your
home/school/communi
ty more green?
Disciplinary
Processes:
Identify common
trends by observation.
Brainstorm ideas for
solutions. Implement
solutions at a
controllable level.
Skills:
Team work, analyzing
observations,
researching,
presentation.
Academic
Vocabulary:
Sustainability, Organic
Waste,
Decomposition,
Waste Stream,
Recycle, Methane,
Composting,
Biodegradable,
Landfill, Climate
Change, reduce,
reuse, recycle,
recover, energy,
carbon footprint
See Attachments
Day 1
Lesson:
Ask students what they know about Sustainability using Google Docs. They will be defining
terms based off of the Pre-assessment worksheet. They have 9 terms; we would like them to
have 12. They will work with a partner to define each term and use them in a complete
sentence.
AIW Standards: IDK/SU SWCK SWEC
Day 2
Lesson:
Recycling Solid waste worksheet. Students will go to thinkgreen.com website and get more
information and then answer the 5 questions on worksheet. We will discuss as a class after. #5students MUST add a question to discuss after filling out the previous 4 questions.
AIW Standards: IDK/SU SWEC
Day 3
Lesson:
Janitors will come in to one class and answer questions about the 4 R’s-solid waste (building
WS). Take home the Landfill Solid Waste worksheet (city or county) at the end of class, need to
have questions answered that they know.
AIW Standards: IHOT SWEC
Day 4
Lesson:
Landfill activity- Finish answering questions about Landfill sold waste. Wendy Whitrock will
discuss with the kids some of the attributes of the Cass County Landfill. (Fall Semester
Fieldtrip).
AIW Standards: SWEC IVBS
Day 5
Lesson:
Students Create a poster answering the Question - What is our impact on the environment from
our production of solid wastes? Students present next day.
AIW Standards: SWCU IHOT
Day 6
Lesson:
Watch student presentation posters.
Start Discussing recovery. Take a small piece of paper and safe container and burn it and
students are supposed to document the reaction.
AIW Standards: SWEC TEC SWCK
Day 7
Lesson:
Write the word “methane” on the board. Review what students know about methane, and talk
about methane in a controlled environment, predict some of the characteristics of methane
burning.
AIW Standards: IDK/SU ISC IHOT
Day 8
Lesson:
Methane bubbles and reflection. Take students to Chemistry lab. See Attached:
AIW Standards: SWCU
Day 9
Lesson:
Get online and go to thinkgreen.com and go over how landfills burn waste and open up
discussion on the 4 R’s. Ask class to discuss their responsibilities now that they have this
information. Students take home WS- waste reduction at home
AIW Standards: SWEC TVBS IHOT ISC
Day 10
Lesson:
Where Does it Go From Here? Do pre-assessment WS first-how we use them? Get into groups
of 2-4, and discuss opportunities for implementing 1 of the 4 R’s in home/school/community.
AIW Standards: IDK/SU SWCK SWEC
Assessment
Students will have a paper over the unit. See Where does it go from here? document.
AIW Standards: IDK/SU SWEC
Differentiation
Students are pared for large writing or reading projects.
Unit Planning Process
1. Identify Subject/Course – Unit Selection
2. Iowa Core – Common Core – National
Standards
(Unwrap the Standard)
3. Enduring Understandings and Essential
Questions
4. Disciplined Inquiry
5. Unit Plan –
a. Outlining Unit
b. Developing Daily Lessons
6. Crosswalk AIW Standards with Unit
7. Revise and further develop the Unit
8. Rubrics – Checklist – Assessments
9. Differentiation
10. Implement Unit
Unit Planning Key:
TCK (Task – Construction of Knowledge)
TEC (Task – Elaborated Communication)
TVBS (Task – Value Beyond School)
SWCK (Student Work – Construction of
Knowledge)
SWCU (Student Work – Conceptual
Understanding)
SWEC (Student Work – Elaborated
Communication)
IHOT – (Instruction – Higher Order Thinking)
IDK/SU – (Instruction – Depth of Knowledge
and Student Understanding)
ISC – (Instruction – Substantive Conversation)
IVBS – (Instruction – Value Beyond School)