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Unit Author
First and Last Name
Nahla Arnaout
School District
North Lebanon
School Name
Saint-Famille
Tripoli Lebanon
Unit Overview
Unit Title
Astronomy
Unit Summary
This unit is to let children understand the big question learning points:
Subject Area
Life Science
Grade Level
Grade 4
Approximate Time Needed
4 weeks
Unit Foundation
Student Objectives/Learning Outcomes
Students have to use and understand prediction with will and future real condition
Students have to pronounce and use words with ei and words with suffix ance and ant
Students have to be familiar with and use words about the universe and to apply own
experience and a reading strategies to help comprehension of text
Students have to read, understand, and discuss a fictional tex; to apply a reading strategies
to impove comprehension
Students have to demonstrate understanding of a text; to understand the meaning and form
of the grammar structure.
Students have to learn and practice listening, speaking, and writing strategies to facilitate
effective communication.
Curriculum-Framing Questions
What is the commonly accepted theory of the origin and age of the universe?
Why is it a theory?
Essential
Question
Unit
Questions
Content
Questions
Assessment Plan
Assessment Timeline
Before project work begins
Let the
students to
watch a brief
video about
the solar
system than I
ask them to
sit down on
the carpet in a
circle
explain to the
student that,
each one of
them have to
choose a
different kind
of planet that
they watch it
on video.
Assessment Summary
After
each student
choose his
planet.I ask
them to write a
small paragraph
together about
the planet that
they choose it.
Student
finshed the
small
paragraph than
each student
have to say
why he/she
chooses this
planets, and
how many
planets do we
have in our
solar system
I ask
them to sit
down on
their desk
and I ask
them
questions like
what did they
learn about
the solar
sytem.
Where
do we live?
How
the universe
affect our
life?
Can
we live in a
planet other
than the
earth
We
discuss
together which
planet did they
like the most.
The target of this lesson is to make the child can read, write, participate and do classes work
homework and interaction with others. And to know more the solar system, and in which planet we
are living.
Unit Details
Prerequisite Skills
Ability to research and use information to answers academic question, know how prewriting, editing
and drafting and reading. have a general information about sentence structure, using the right
verbs .
Instructional Procedures
Visual and practical
Accommodations for Differentiated Instruction
Resource
Student
NonNative
English
Speaker
Gifted
Student
Google.
Encyclopedia.
Laser Disk
VCR
Computer(s)
Printer
Video Camera
Digital Camera
Projection System
DVD Player
Scanner
Other
Internet Connection
Television
Image Processing
Desktop Publishing
Word Processing
E-mail Software
Multimedia
Other
Encyclopedia on CD-ROM
Printed Materials
Supplies
Internet Resources
www.youtube.com
Other Resources