How have ideas from the past influenced the present?
Science
Math
Social Studies
Athens/ Democracy
How has Ancient Athens influenced our government and society today?
Where did society come from? where is it going? What is my role is society?
Sky Science
What is my impact on the environment ?
How did the people of Ancient Athens explore sky science/ Astronomy? what role did it play in their society?
Statistics/ Trees and forests- How much of our forests have we lost over the years
Art
Technology
Ancient Athens Architecture/ Shape and Space
Graphing/ Show a impact over time
Recording a short video/ explanation of work
Laptops/ Research
Photo blog
What makes a well planned/ functioning society?
What does it mean to be a good citizen?
Who am I?
What is progress?
Constellations/ planets
Recognize that the Moon’s phases are regular and predictable, and describe the cycle of its phases.
Phases of the moon art/ Illustrate the phases of the moon
Shapes evolve and change over time
Continue to use paint in combination with
other media and techniques.
Phases of the moon art/ circles/ fractions
Stats / ratios of deforestation
Illumination of the moon- line graphs
Finding information and data online
Lunar calendars and solar astronomical years
How did the people of ancient Athens use the moon to keep track of time?
Painting with sponges
Lunisolar calendars
Illustrate the phases of the moon
Chart the illumination percentage of the moon for 29 days (lunar cycle) to understand that the phases of the moon are predictable. Start to understand how the people of ancient Athens created their calendars and holidays
Topic C: Sky Science
Illustrate the phases of the Moon in drawings and by using improvised models. An improvised model might involve such things as a table lamp and a sponge ball.
C.1 Students will access, use and communicate information from a variety of technologies.
2.1 access and retrieve appropriate information from the Internet by using a specific search path or from given uniform resource locations (URLs)
Continue to paint, using experimental methods including without a brush.
1.1 read information from a prepared database
Painting techniques
Visual journaling
How has the way we track the moon phases changed from ancient Athenians did? How has the way we keep time changed?
How have we, as a society, progressed over time?
How have technological advances changed our society
How does the past influence the present?
How have have progressed in our understanding of the world?
Why is it important to understand history? Why is it important to understand where we came from?
astronomy- comes from a Greek word. How did the ancient Athenians influence they way we view space today?
Why were the findings of the ancient Athens important? How do they influence our world today? How have we progressed? What is the same? What is different?
Continue to paint, using experimental methods including without a brush.
How has our understanding of science changed over time? What did we know then? What do we know now?