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"The Common
Essential Learnings comprise six categories: Communication,
Numeracy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Technological Literacy,
Personal and Social Values and Skills, and Independent Learning."
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Communication
Communication is
incorporated in the production and delivery of the two presentations the
students need to create. Communication is also a large component of the
work groups students have been placed in. The students work together
daily in pairs helping one another grasp concepts and complete
assignments and tasks. Communication is also a large part of the Flame
Spectrum Lab. There are several instructions that are to followed and
coordination between the lab partners is essential. Lab partners also
comparatively analyze the flames produce and construct an agreed upon
observation.
Numeracy
Numeracy is nearly a
daily component of this unit. Only on days 5, 6, 10, 11, &12 are
students not working with numbers in one way or another.
Critical and Creative Thinking
Students use critical
and creative thinking on a large scale when creating their group
presentation answering such questions as "How do I get this information
across in an interesting and accurate way?" and "How can we incorporate
as much as possible within our time constraints and still have fun with
this?" Although the majority of questions on assignments do not involve
critical and creative thinking, the final 2-5 questions on several
assignments force students to take the information studied and apply it
to a different situation or look at the same material from a uniquely
different angle.
Technological Literacy
Students have access
to computers, recording equipment, power point, and other materials
related to professional presentations during eight of the units twenty
hours. Students also require the aid of a calculator when conduction
atomic mass from isotope percentages.
Personal and Social Values and Skills
Throughout the course
of the development of the atomic theory, we discuss the influence of the
church, the beliefs in those societies, and the roll technology has in
the dismantling and reconstruction of social beliefs.
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