Where we are in Place and Time

Transdisciplinary Learning
@melines and how they are used
Measurement: Students will learn about
by historians to keep track of events.

Language Arts
and play scripts to develop their
Reading: Students will read fairytales
Mathema.cs

comprehension by making connec@ons with their lives, other texts and the
world.
Wri@ng: 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 @mes.
Viewing and Presen@ng: Students will look and listen to dierent media to
gain further knowledge about their past.
Listening and Speaking: Students will give feedback to presenta@ons as
well as learn to use intona@on, volume, pace and body language to
communicate ideas.
Thai Studies: Students will use tradi@onal Thai ar@facts to explore how life
was in the past in Thailand.

Central Idea

Understanding the past allows us to recognize the

lifestyle we have now and prepare for the future.

Disciplinary Learning
Language Arts
Mathema.cs

Window

by: Jeannie Baker

Lines of Inquiry
1. Lifestyle in the past.

2. How things change.

3. Why things change over @me.

Unit Vocabulary
Fun Links

Tradi@on
Ar@facts
Timeline
History

Technology
Compare and Contrast
Progress
Lifestyle

Drive through @me:

h]p://amhistory.si.edu/on themove/games/game2/
game2.html
Timeline of inven@ons:
h]p://www.historypin.com/project/31-remember-@meline/
#!photos/@meline/

5 Essential Elements
Knowledge
Students will learn
about their lifestyle as
well as their familys
lifestyle. They will
explore how @me
brings change and why
people have felt the
need to change their
lifestyle through @me.
They will look at
recognizing what we
have today and
develop an
understanding of how
progress can have both
posi@ve and nega@ve
eects.

Important Dates

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

Kamthieng House Field Trip:

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

June 4: 3AK
June 5: 3JJ

Concepts

Skills

Form
Change
Causa.on

Related concepts:
lifestyle, ar.facts

Research: Students will look for Students will be able to

informa@on about their past,
use their learning to
their familys past and
foster exibility in their
humanitys past.
thinking that will allow

them to approach change
Thinking: Students will use
with enthusiasm.
informa@on they collect to
compare and contrast changes
in our lifestyle as well as reect
on their own future.

"History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can

give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our
common humanity, so that we can be]er face the future."
Robert Penn Warren

Word Study:
Students con@nue
to learn word
pa]erns to
develop their
spelling skills.
Grammar:
Students will keep
developing an
understanding of
sentence structure
as well as using
the past tense.

Knowledge:
*Place value
*Basic Facts
*Order and
sequence
*Pa]erns
Strategy:
* Addi@on and
Subtrac@on
*Mul@plica@on
and Division
*Ra@os and
Propor@ons

Action

Learner Profile
and Attitudes
* curiosity
* apprecia@on
* empathy
* inquirers
* open minded