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This unit implements all five of our District’s 5 C’s, the academic standards our district has made a priority for all of our students. The 5 C’s are: Communication, Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Civic Engagement.
Communication will be used between the students and in their mastery of the scientific skills and knowledge, as well as in their plans to disseminate knowledge they’ve gained to others.
Collaboration between me and my students, will take place, of course, as I teach them microscopy, breeding larva, zoonotic transmission of disease, and human circulatory reality. Collaboration will also be part of the teaching strategy, as students work in pairs to complete their final project.
Creativity will come into play, both in their breeding of mosquito larvae and in the choice and production of their final project.
Critical Thinking is required for the Socratic Seminar, and for synthesizing and reporting the information learned through microscopy and larval growth.
Civic Engagement is an umbrella under which all of the other C’s come into focus. It is what the culminating activity will include, where students accept their responsibility to make the world better for the future. Civic Engagement, on a global scale, where students reduce their carbon footprint to lessen their contribution to global warming and share their knowledge about the transmission of malaria, to improve the quality of life for all of us, including their families and loved ones in less-developed countries.
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