Unit 3 Imagination Grade 3

Teacher Notes: Content and technology standards with student outcomes for templates and activities are listed below. There may also be additional information about each activity. A video is available to introduce the unit. See Theme Connections.

  

 

Websites
Looking Through Leonardo's Eyes - use with Observation Web template	Content Standard: 2.A.1.a (SW read, use, and identify the characteristics of Web sites and other online materials  to gain information and content knowledge)
	Technology Standard: 5.A.1.a (SW  Select relevant information from appropriate technology resources (SLM 2.3.A1b)
U.S. Patent Office Kid's Pages	Content Standard: 2.A.1.a (SW read, use, and identify the characteristics of Web sites and other online materials  to gain information and content knowledge)
	Technology Standard: 5.A.1.a (SW  Select relevant information from appropriate technology resources (SLM 2.3.A1b)
Read About Common Toys/Products	Content Standard: 2.A.1.a (SW read, use, and identify the characteristics of Web sites and other online materials  to gain information and content knowledge)
	Technology Standard: 5.A.1.a (SW  Select relevant information from appropriate technology resources (SLM 2.3.A1b)
Artrageous Thinking	Content Standard: 1.E.4.h (SW connect the text to prior knowledge or personal experience)
	Technology Standard: 5.A.1.a (SW  Select relevant information from appropriate technology resources (SLM 2.3.A1b)
Mark Kistler's School of Imagination	Content Standard: 1.E.4.h (SW connect the text to prior knowledge or personal experience)
	Technology Standard: 5.A.1.a (SW  Select relevant information from appropriate technology resources (SLM 2.3.A1b)
Imagination Factory	Content Standard: 1.E.4.h (SW connect the text to prior knowledge or personal experience)
	Technology Standard: 5.A.1.a (SW  Select relevant information from appropriate technology resources (SLM 2.3.A1b)
Imagine Songs	Content Standard: 3.A.4.a (SW use structural features to identify poetry as a literary form)
	Technology Standard: 5.A.1.a (SW  Select relevant information from appropriate technology resources (SLM 2.3.A1b)
A. Pintura - Art Detective	Content Standard: 1.E.4.h (SW connect the text to prior knowledge or personal experience)
	Technology Standard: 5.A.1.a (SW  Select relevant information from appropriate technology resources (SLM 2.3.A1b)
Draw Like Picasso	Content Standard: 1.E.4.h (SW connect the text to prior knowledge or personal experience)
	Technology Standard: 4.B.1.a (SW Use multimedia and publishing tools to express original ideas with print, drawings, digital images, existing or original video, sounds, and/or personal recordings (R/ELA 4.3.A.2.a) (CUI, DII, PI, WPI)
Jack Prelutsky Website	Content Standard: 3.A.4.c (SW identify and explain sound elements of poetry) 4.A.2.b (SW describe in prose and poetry by using sensory details and vivid language with active verbs and colorful adjectives)
	Technology Standard: 5.A.1.a (SW  Select relevant information from appropriate technology resources (SLM 2.3.A1b)
Create a Cloak	Content Standard: 1.E.4.h (SW connect the text to prior knowledge or personal experience)
	Technology Standard: 4.B.1.a (SW Use multimedia and publishing tools to express original ideas with print, drawings, digital images, existing or original video, sounds, and/or personal recordings (R/ELA 4.3.A.2.a) (CUI, DII, PI, WPI)
New Clothes	Content Standard: 1.E.4.h (SW connect the text to prior knowledge or personal experience)
	Technology Standard: 4.B.1.a (SW Use multimedia and publishing tools to express original ideas with print, drawings, digital images, existing or original video, sounds, and/or personal recordings (R/ELA 4.3.A.2.a) (CUI, DII, PI, WPI)
Braille Name	Content Standard: 1.E.4.h (SW connect the text to prior knowledge or personal experience)
	Technology Standard: 5.A.1.a (SW  Select relevant information from appropriate technology resources (SLM 2.3.A1b)
Braille Riddles/Rhymes	Content Standard: 1.E.4.h (SW connect the text to prior knowledge or personal experience)
	Technology Standard: 5.A.1.a (SW  Select relevant information from appropriate technology resources (SLM 2.3.A1b)
Kidspiration/Inspiration/KidPix Templates
Reality or Fantasy	Content Standard: 3.A.8.a (SW identify and explain the believability of story events)
	Technology Standard: 3.C.1.b (SW Use templates or create new documents to complete learning assignments (WPI, PI, VOI, SI). Technology Standard: 4.A.1.b (SW Use technology tools identified by the teacher to communicate with various audiences (EI)
Famous Person: Imagination	Content Standard:  4.A.1.b (SW plan and organize ideas for a research project)
	Technology Standard: 5.A.1.a (SW  Select relevant information from appropriate technology resources (SLM 2.3.A1b) Technology Standard: 2.B.2.e (SW Cite sources of text and digital information used properly (SLM 7.3.A1a)
A Day's Outline (use with "Through Grandpa's Eyes").   Level A       Level B       Level C	Content Standard: 1.E.4.h (SW connect the text to prior knowledge or personal experience)
	Technology Standard: 3.C.1.b (SW Use templates or create new documents to complete learning assignments (WPI, PI, VOI, SI).
Compare/Contrast Activity for "Emperor's New Clothes"	Content Standard: 3.A.6.b  (SW Identify and explain a similar idea or theme in more than one text, such as different versions of the same story across eras or cultures.
	Technology Standard: 3.C.1.b (SW Use templates or create new documents to complete learning assignments (WPI, PI, VOI, SI).
Comparison Organizer for "Picasso"	Content Standard: 1.E.4.h (SW connect the text to prior knowledge or personal experience)
	Technology Standard: 3.C.1.b (SW Use templates or create new documents to complete learning assignments (WPI, PI, VOI, SI).
Observation Web - use with "Through Leonardo's Eyes" website	Technology Standard: 5.A.1.a (SW  Select relevant information from appropriate technology resources (SLM 2.3.A1b)
	Technology Standard: 3.C.1.b (SW Use templates or create new documents to complete learning assignments (WPI, PI, VOI, SI).
Coat-of-Arms Template	Content Standard: 1.E.4.h (SW connect the text to prior knowledge or personal experience)
	Technology Standard: 4.B.1.a (SW Use multimedia and publishing tools to express original ideas with print, drawings, digital images, existing or original video, sounds, and/or personal recordings (R/ELA 4.3.A.2.a) (CUI, DII, PI, WPI)
Sonoran Desert Research	Content Standard: 2.A.1.a (SW read, use, and identify the characteristics of Web sites and other online materials  to gain information and content knowledge)
	Technology Standard: 4.B.1.a (SW Use multimedia and publishing tools to express original ideas with print, drawings, digital images, existing or original video, sounds, and/or personal recordings (R/ELA 4.3.A.2.a) (CUI, DII, PI, WPI)
Discovering a New Planet	Content Standard: 1.E.4.h (SW connect the text to prior knowledge or personal experience)
	Technology Standard: 4.B.1.a (SW Use multimedia and publishing tools to express original ideas with print, drawings, digital images, existing or original video, sounds, and/or personal recordings (R/ELA 4.3.A.2.a) (CUI, DII, PI, WPI)
Point of View	Content Standard: 3.A.3.f Comprehension of Literary Text: Students will identify and describe the narrator: Point of view. Content Standard 4. A.1b Writing Plan and organize ideas for writing by using an appropriate organizational structure, such as chronological order, comparison and contrast .Complete an idea by providing topic, support, and concluding sentences
	Technology Standard: 4.B.1.a (SW Use multimedia and publishing tools to express original ideas with print, drawings, digital images, existing or original video, sounds, and/or personal recordings (R/ELA 4.3.A.2.a) (CUI, DII, PI, WPI)
Create-a-Bus	Content Standard: 1.E.4.h (SW connect the text to prior knowledge or personal experience)
	Technology Standard: 4.B.1.a (SW Use multimedia and publishing tools to express original ideas with print, drawings, digital images, existing or original video, sounds, and/or personal recordings (R/ELA 4.3.A.2.a) (CUI, DII, PI, WPI)
AppleWorks Template
Biography Cube - can be used with any of the above websites    Pablo Picasso Cube-research template. Use with the Open Court selection OR with the Picasso website from Enchanted Learning.	Content Standard: 2.A.1.a (SW read, use, and identify the characteristics of Web sites and other online materials  to gain information and content knowledge)                               4.A.2.c (SW compose to inform using summary and selection of major points and examples to support a main idea)
	Technology Standard: 4.B.1.a (SW Use multimedia and publishing tools to express original ideas with print, drawings, digital images, existing or original video, sounds, and/or personal recordings (R/ELA 4.3.A.2.a) (CUI, DII, PI, WPI)   Technology Standard: 2.B.2.e (SW Cite sources of text and digital information used properly (SLM 7.3.A1a)

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