Rationale
My unit is intended for fourth grade students, but could easily be modified to educate other grade levels. The students who will be participating in this unit directly are students at Davis Street Interdistrict Magnet School. While the students in my classes range in academic performance, they all love science. My classroom is an inclusion setting where special education students are mainstreamed to full participation in the general education curriculum with modifications. My special education students will receive lower leveled books on space, picture cards for vocabulary words (See Appendix 1) and other means to assisting their learning such as graphic organizers and T charts. (See Appendix 2) The classroom also has students in TAG (Talented and Gifted) who receive modifications such as higher leveled books or become leaders. A peer leader assists other students who might struggle with the reading and writing section of an activity.
Students will have the opportunity to do research and report writing. At Davis Street Interdistrict Magnet School. our mission statement is:" We Celebrate Learning through the Arts, Technology, and Multiculturalism". I will utilize the computers and laptops we have in our classroom, along with the resources in the library. Students, for this Space unit, will begin by generating ten questions about Space Travel. Once they have the questions, they will begin their research. The final project will be a question and answer book that will look like a magazine. The magazine will include the ten questions, the answers, and illustrations. The students will publish their magazine, bind them, and present them to the entire classroom during our Publishing Party. At Davis we celebrate literacy with Publishing Parties three times a year.
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