Understanding By Design (UbD) McTighe and Wiggins Working Backwards (from your goals) * identify your goals * design your assessment (how will students

Understanding By Design (UbD)McTighe and Wiggins

Working Backwards (from your goals)

* identify your goals

* design your assessment (how will students show what they have learned)

* plan your activities

ICSD - Project Look Sharpmedia literacy integration units for elementary social studies + ELA

1st grade Families unit

2nd grade community unit

3rd grade Africa unit

4th grade Iroquois curriculum

5th grade Peru project

What do you see as the goals of this kit?

Where or how are the goals addressed?

1st grade All Our Families Curriculum Kit

Goals of the Kit:Appreciation for the beauty and diversity of the families in our community.Media literacy and critical thinking skills: identifying key information, drawing conclusions from evidence, provide evidence to back up a statement, synthesizing information to draw conclusions.Literacy skills: recognizing and labeling with vocabulary words, listing, making meaning with wordsAcademic processing skills: reflective listening, following directions, working in groups, sharing orally, sorting, comparing.vocabulary and concepts related to family.

2nd grade communities

unit:

UrbanRural

Suburban

Why?

What goals?

What goals?

* understanding Urban, Rural, Suburban

* close reading of visual images

* giving evidence to back up an interpretation

* asking questions

2nd grade Community Video

Cayuga Heights Elementary School

What Goals?

What goals?

What goals? * understanding Urban, Rural, Suburban,* conceptualizing a video production,* planning visuals, audio and narration,* script writing – shot sheets,* sequencing and transitioning,* learning the grammar of video, group work skills, public speaking, time management, seeking help, editing, making revisions w/feedback…

3rd Grade

Culture study

Africa

Is this picture from Africa?

What goals?

3rd grade Introducing Africa lesson:

* understanding stereotypes

* getting information from various texts

* questioning the credibility of sources

* recognizing the diversity of Africa

* using evidence to back up a hypothesis

The LACS Middle East Debates3rd quarter demonstration for

10th grade Global Studies and English8 weeks of preparation for

3 days (5 hours) of speeches, debates, votingtelevised public performance

To see an excerpt from student

speeches - YouTube -

LACS Middle East Debates

The LACS Middle East Debates3rd quarter demonstration for

10th grade Global Studies and English8 weeks of preparation for

3 days (5 hours) of speeches, debates, votingtelevised public performance

What goals do you see

addressed in this

performance?

EB: I learned to back up my opinions with reason and fact. I learned to listen to others and to consider opposing views, and I learned that I (perhaps too often) judge. Sometimes during the Debates I nearly burst out laughing, not because anything was particularly funny but because I was amazed by how much my classmates knew and how quickly and passionately they could respond.

6/22/09

LK: Through this course I have looked far into myself, questioned my morals and beliefs, and have begun to search for my place in history and my place in the world. I have now glimpsed how much there is to learn, and I am overwhelmed. I can now understand the obstacles that lie on the road to peace, and I am terrified. 6/22/09

MF: I have a newfound desire to learn as well as be aware of the world, how it is presented to me and how I perceive it. I feel better prepared for school as well as life in general.

6/22/09

AO: One of the most important aspects of this class for me, was the fact that it not only made me stand by some of my beliefs, but it made me question others of my beliefs. Some of the views I have carried with me my whole life were questioned, not only by others, but by myself as well. This year at times has been a tangled maze of me trying to find where I fit. Though I am not yet sure on many of the issues we covered, I now know what must be done and I have started on a path that many struggle with for life.

6/22/09

Chapter 7Media Literacy Lesson Plans

with links to over 20 documents for teaching

this unit.

Media Construction of the Middle East:

* introduction to the Middle East

* Israel/Palestine

* the war in Iraq

* Islam, militant Muslim movements and the United States

22 lessons, 260 page teacher guide, video, audio and slide materialsprojectlooksahrp.org

Unit 1: Introducing the Middle East

Lesson 1: Picturing the Middle East

What are the messages

communicated in this text

about the Arab world?

give your evidence from the text

Lesson 2: The Magic of Sterotypes

See Handout

Ky Concepts for Media Analysis

KEY CONCEPTS OF MEDIA ANALYSIS

1. All media messages are “constructed.”

2. Each medium has different characteristics, strengths, and a unique “language” of construction.

3. Media messages are produced for particular purposes.

4. All media messages contain embedded values and points of view.

5. People use their individual skills, beliefs and experiences to construct their own meanings from media messages.

6. Media and media messages can influence beliefs, values,

attitudes, behaviors and the democratic process.

Islam: The literal meaning of Islam is peace: surrender of one’s will i.e. losing oneself for the sake of God and surrendering one’s pleasure for the pleasure of God. The message of Islam was revealed to the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be on him) 1,400 years ago. It was revealed through the angel Gabriel (on whom be peace) and was thus preserved in the Holy Quran.

Islam: Major World Religion founded by Muhammad in Arabia in the early 7th century AD. The Arabic word Islam means “submission” - specifically, submission to the will of one God, called Allah in Arabic. Islam is a strictly monotheistic religion, and its adherents, called Muslims, regard the Prophet Muhammad as the last and most perfect of God’s messengers, who include Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and others.

Islam.com or Encyclopedia Britanica online?

Lesson 1: Same Land: Different Histories - Textbooks

Unit 2: Israel/Palestine: Histories in Conflict

History Lessons:

How Textbooks From Around the World Portray U.S. History

Dana Lindaman and Hyle Ward

2004, The New Press


Lesson 2: Independence or Catastrophe – Web Sites

Lesson 3: 1967: Deepening the Divide – Web Sites





Lesson 4: The Intifada - Documentary Film






Lesson 5: Singing the Struggle – songs/music






Lesson 5: Singing the Struggle – songs/music

Lesson 6: The Politics of Maps – online Maps


Lesson 1: Background History- Timelines#2: TV Totalitarianism – Iraqi TV News#3: Media Coverage of the Gulf War– Doc. Film#4: Why War? - Editorial Cartoons#5: Covering War – Newspaper Front Pages#6: Celebration vs Protest – German vs US TV#7: Jessica Lynch – News vs. Entertainment#8: War Crimes at Abu Ghraib – Photographs

Unit 3: War in Iraq: Whose Voice, Whose Story?

Major Operations Begin - 3/22/03

Rome, Georgia Middletown, NY

Human Cost of War - 3/24/03

Washington D.C. Madrid, Spain

Baghdad Toppled - 4/10/03

IndiaDes Moines, Iowa

Christchurch, New Zealand Dothan, Alabama

Election Day in Iraq - 1/31/05

How did the US

government influence

media coverage during the Gulf War?

Clip from Lines in the Sand Documentary Film

• rehearsed military briefers

• selected troops to be interviewed• censored reports

• left critical reporters out of press pools• provided officials and footage to media• kept cameras away from casualties

What is the perspective or

bias of this documentary

clip?

What is your evidence?

The U.S. Government and military manipulated

the media coverage

• interview with the Iraqi father, sad music, photographs of his dead daughters

• juxtaposition of military spokespeople with narration about manipulation

• no mention of anti-war

media coverage

ZB: This class has taught me how to think, how to question. It taught me that everything has a bias, and to never accept anything as the only truth, because there is never only one side of the story.

3/25/13

Key Concept of Media Analysis

2. Each medium has different characteristics, strengths, and a unique “language” of construction.

MM: I also learned that perspective and culture has a long part in the history that is kept, and that even facts may be biased based on what is included and left out. From all this I learned that I as a student must be aware of my own biases.

3/25/13

CN: This was a very powerful experience, and it made me realize just how much power people have to change or control things, for better or worse. I, however, am not passive to this change, I can be a part of it, and affect it.

6/22/09

In most classes I study equations,but in this class… I was the equation

projectlooksharp.org

Understanding By Design (UbD)McTighe and Wiggins

Working Backwards (from your goals)

* identify your goals

* design your assessment (how will students show what they have learned)

* plan your activities

Documents

Understanding By Design (UbD) McTighe and Wiggins Working Backwards (from your goals) * identify your goals * design your assessment (how will students