Where we are in Place and

Time

Central Idea

Transdisciplinary Learning

Mathematics

Measurement: Students will learn about timelines and how

they are used by historians to keep track of events.
Language Arts
Reading: Students will read fairytales and play scripts to
develop their comprehension by making connections with
their lives, other texts and the world.
Writing: Students will explore and write fairy tales and
fables. They will look at classic examples and think about
how they could change them for contemporary times.
Viewing and Presenting: Students will look and listen to
different media to gain further knowledge about their past.
Listening and Speaking: Students will give feedback to
presentations as well as learn to use intonation, volume,
pace and body language to communicate ideas.
Thai Studies: Students will use traditional Thai artifacts to
explore how life was in the past in Thailand.

Disciplinary Learning

Window

Understanding the past allows us to

recognize the lifestyle we have now and
prepare for the future.

by: Jeannie Baker

Mathematic
s
Knowledge:
*Place value
*Basic Facts
*Order and
sequence
*Patterns
Strategy:
* Addition
and
Subtraction
*Multiplicatio
n and
Division
*Ratios and
Proportions

Lines of Inquiry
1. Lifestyle in the past.
2. How things change.
3. Why things change over time.

Unit Vocabulary
Tradition Technology
Artifacts Compare and
Timeline Contrast
History Progress
Drive through time:
Lifestyle
http://amhistory.si.edu/on themove

Fun Links

/games/game2/game2.html
Timeline of inventions:
http://www.historypin.com/project/31-remember-t
imeline/#!photos/timeline
/

5 Essential Elements
Knowledge

Concepts

Important Dates
June 1: No school
June 11: Y3 end of year
party
(9:30)
June 12: End of year
Assembly.
Skills

Language
Arts
Word Study:
Students
continue to
learn word
patterns to
develop their
spelling skills.
Grammar:
Students will
keep
developing an
understanding
of sentence
structure as
well as using
the past tense.

Kamthieng House Field Trip:

June 2: 3LK
June 3: 3BC
June 3: 3MS

Students will learn

Research: Students will
about their
Form
look for information about
lifestyle as well as
Change
their past, their familys
their familys
Causation
past and humanitys past.
lifestyle. They will
explore how time
brings change and
Related concepts: Thinking: Students will
why people have
lifestyle, artifactsuse information they
felt the need to
collect to
change their
compare and contrast
lifestyle through
changes in our lifestyle as
time. They will
well as reflect on their
look at
own future.
recognizing what
we have today
and develop an
understanding of
how
progress
can
"History
cannot
give us a program for the
have
both
future,
but positive
it can give us a fuller understanding
and
negativeand of our common humanity, so
of ourselves,
effects.
that we can better face the future."

June 4: 3AK
June 5: 3JJ

Action
Students will be able
to use their learning
to foster flexibility in
their thinking that
will allow them to
approach change
with enthusiasm.

Learner Profile
and Attitudes
* curiosity
*
appreciation
* empathy
* inquirers
* open
minded