Allie+B

Ideas
**D-Quadrant Backward Planning **


 * Lesson Title: Understanding the Colorado Immigrant Experience Through Podcasting (collaboration with 8th Grade Social Studies Teacher on Immigration Unit) **

__**What is it you Want Students to Know and Be Able to Do? – **//Content Standards for Our Independent School (St. Mary's Academy) //__

In the spirit of the independent school community's rather subjective standards: Design a podcast concept related to the immigrant experience in metropolitan Denver, Colorado in order to synthesize concepts covered in the 8th Grade Immigration Unit.

__**21st Century Skills (ISTE NETS) **//What will you assess, specifically? //__
 * Critical thinking and reasoning: Design podcast theme, assign specific production and post-production tasks to each student in group.
 * Information literacy: Use Garage Band technology to successfully edit and produce a podcast.
 * Collaboration: Work in small groups to produce the final podcast product.
 * Self-direction: Troubleshoot technological and intellectual roadblocks, properly credit sources (i.e. music, interviewees), and protect the anonymity of subjects where necessary.
 * Invention: Create original podcast that explores and examines the Denver immigrant experience and share information with the St. Mary's Academy community.

__**Transfer **: //Students will be able to independently use their knowledge, understandings, and skills acquired to //__//_//
 * Successfully interview people in their community by creating interview questions based on information learned via academic and/or personal research.
 * Use technical and technological skills (i.e. Garage Band) to create podcasts about other topics in the future.
 * Develop enduring empathy for others in the community by nurturing the skills to interact with them directly.

__**Essential Question **//Big, broad open question not subject specific //__ How can we use qualitative research and technological skills to learn about the community in which we live?

__**Enduring Understanding: **// What do you hope students to remember 10 years from now? //__ That they were a part of a student-driven team that mastered the technical skills and had the intellectual capacity necessary to design an informative, moving, relevant podcast about the Denver immigrant experience.

__**Unit Questions: **//Open questions – subject specific //__ How do immigrants in Denver experience life? How do these personal stories inform our concept of immigration in Colorado/the United States?

__**Content/Guiding Questions: **//<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Closed questions – fact finding //__ What are some of the challenges immigrants in Denver face? How is the legal system in Colorado helping and/or hurting them?

__**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">How will you know they know it? **//<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Formative & Summative Assessment Strategies of content //__//and __skills__//

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Formative Assessments:

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Summative Assessments:


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Performance Assessment Task – G.R.A.S.P.S. :**

Your task is to conduct interviews with Denver-area immigrants from other countries in an effort to understand their experiences and present their stories in an interesting way.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Goal: **//<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The “hook” //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">– //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Your task is… ////<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">an ////<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">engaging introduction that kids can connect with – the “real world” situation //

Journalists, bloggers, humanitarians.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The Role **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> - //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Who does this kind of work or problem solving in the “real world?” //

Entire St. Mary's Academy Middle School community (i.e. students, faculty, parents, administration).
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The Audience – **//<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Who will you present your product to (other than the teacher)? //


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The Situation – **//<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">More details on the goal //

A website with links to each completed podcast and a description of the students involved, their process, and their reflections.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The product **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> – //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">What would you turn in to your boss? //


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Standards & Criteria for Success – **//<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Rubric criteria – what is expected? Should align with learning goals //