In December, all of the teachers that were a part of the ICCARS project were assigned to come up with the following for the unit that will use the knowledge and equipment we received from ICCARS:
Theme for Your Unit
Alignment to Specific Content Expectations
Key Knowledge and Skills for Your Students
Deena, John and I had decided that instead of doing a specific unit, that we were going to host a Field Day where all of our Freshmen and Sophmores would complete activities that would use the kites, Kestrels, and the soil thermometers, as well as take water samples from the Rouge River and our own pond (which is something that the DCMST Freshmen had already been doing for years). The details for this can be found on our Google Doc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z_zKpkjZ9Wbhzg1_E1FANASB6RF7Fn9FQHMagb26D_A/edit?hl=en&authkey=CIrkptwH
I decided to have Katie read through all of the units that the other schools planned to get an idea of waht everyone is doing so that maybe we can pull ideas from them.
We also had a teleconference on Monday, December 13th, which was recorded and can be found at the following link:
http://www.resa.net/curriculum/curriculum/science/professionaldevelopment/climatechange/
We learned that there was a lot of confusion, and that people still had questions about a lot of the technology, especially the Multipec. I personally wanted to learn about how to use the Kestrels. We therefore decided to meet again on Wednesday, December 22nd. Only a few of us were able to meet, but it was nice to be able to ask any questions that we didn't have time to ask before.
We were also given our next assignment: we have to come up with driving questions for our unit.
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