Objectives
Children enjoy looking at art that shows animals and reading stories about animals. I believe this unit will provide the students with an engaging unit that teaches a larger concept by using examples that they will find appealing. Sixth-grade students are coming to middle school and are trying to figure where they fit and how to progress from being children to teenagers to ultimately adults. It is an awkward and confusing stage. I want this unit to influence the way they see the world and how they perceive the impact one person can make on that world. I want them by the end of the unit to feel that they can successfully make a difference, however small, in their world; in short, they will understand that they too can save at least one starfish. I hope to provide a vehicle by which they can concretely do something to make the world a better place. After this experience, my hope is that they will transfer this concept to their future community-service work and ultimately their lives even after their time in the IB program.
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