Christine Fittinger Holmes Elementary School- 5 th Grade Kimberly Duenas Prisk Elementary School- 4 th Grade Long Beach Unified School District

Common Core Standards:

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Anchor Standard #3-

Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

21 st Century Skill:

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Anchor Standard #2-

Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development.

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Problem Solving-

Synthesize and make connections between information and arguments.

GATE Strategies:

  Universal Concepts and Big Ideas: Structure, Change, Power, Adaptation Novelty & Acceleration

Objective: Students will be able to relate a single universal concept to other universal concepts within and between disciplines. Students will create a chart that illustrates the areas of overlap between ideas and events that interact in text.

 Can you identify items in the real world that overlap?

Advanced Organizer:

Ideas that overlap share something in common.

The farther apart from each other the objects are, the more critical and creative the thinking skills students will employ to find the overlap or commonality.

How does the concept of change apply across content areas or disciplines?

(math, science, history, etc.)

Take 5-10 minutes to closely read the article, “You Can Grow Your Intelligence”

What textual evidence from the article supports the idea that structures change?

What textual evidence from the excerpt proves overlap between adaptation and change?

On your own now, identify and apply the significant details in the selection that connect big ideas related to change and power.

Connect to the Real World: Have students identify areas of overlap between two of the universal concepts presented in class and a current newspaper article or event.

How do overlapping big ideas benefit our students when addressing the Common Core Standards?