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Thematic Unit

Titus Luckhaupt

Ivy Tech Community College

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InTASC Standard, Description and Rationale

Standard #7: Planning for Instruction

The teacher plans instruction that supports every student in meeting rigorous learning goals by
drawing upon knowledge of content areas, curriculum, cross-disciplinary skills, and pedagogy, as
well as knowledge of learners and the community context.

Name of Artifact: Thematic Unit

Date: January 29, 2016

Course: EDUC 255

Brief Description:
I created this thematic unit for second grade children and it is be based around the childrens
book: Abbie Rose and the Magic Suitcase: The Day a Panda Saved My Life. The central theme is
Pandas. I created panda based activities for each subject area. Each subject area also has the
corresponding Indiana Academic Standard it fulfills.
Rationale:
To certify my comprehension of standard #7 Ive create a thematic unit. This thematic unit
summarizes my ability to plan a lesson that fits all subject areas while strengthening the students
knowledge and abilities in each subject area.

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Music
Perform a song in
chinese and create
an interprative
'panda' dance to
go along with the
song.

Social Studies
Research the
natural habitat in
which pandas live
and compare it to
our own
environment.

Science
Organize the
panda's lifecycle
on a given
worktext as well
as discuss the
dangers pandas
face on a daily
basis.

Theme: Pandas
2nd Grade
Abbie Rose and the
Magic Suitcase: The Day
a Panda Saved My Life
By Neil Humphreys
Marshall Cavendish Int., 2012

Mathematics
Count the pandas
on the given
worktext page by
ones,fives, tens,
and hundreds.

Language Arts/
Reading
Read Abbie
Rose and the
Magic
Suitcase: The
Day a Panda
Saved My Life.
Summerize
the whole
story when
finsihed
reading.
Art
Create a water
painting of a
panda on a white
sheet of paper
using solely black
paint and show it
to the rest of the
class.

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Indiana Academic Standards

Mathematics
Number Sense:
2.NS.1: Count by ones, twos, fives, tens, and hundreds up to at least 1,000 for any given number.

English/ Language Arts

Reading: Fluency
2.RF.5: Orally read grade-level appropriate or higher texts smoothly and accurately, with
expression that connotes comprehension at the independent level.

Science
Standard 3: Life Science
Core Standard: Observe, ask questions and describe how organisms change their forms and
behaviors during their life cycles.

Music
Standard 1: Performing music
2.1.1: Sing with accurate pitch, appropriate tone quality, clear diction, and good posture.
2.1.3: Sing songs in other languages of other cultures, adding any movement considered intrinsic
to authentic performance of the music.

Social Studies
Standard 3: Geography
Places and Regions
2.3.4: Compare neighborhoods in your community with those in other parts of the world.

Art
Standard 6: Develop a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas for artwork and utilize skills
of critique, reflection, and revision.
2.6.1: Demonstrate refined perceptual skills in the production of artwork.

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2.6.6: Demonstrate respect for personal work and the work of others.