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Overview of Community jobs in the 3rd and 8th grades.

Both grades will be reflecting an aspects of Social Studies; the importance of jobs. 3rd graders will be focusing on how jobs interlace the community whereas the 8th graders will try to become aware of how their lives will be governed by a job.

Standards used for Information Literacy are Standard 1- Recognizes the need for information, formulates questions based on informational needs, Standard 2 – Evaluates information, and an additional standard for eighth graders, Standard 4 – Pursues information. ~This unit would be taken prior to creating the freshman year’ schedule of high school. ~ (1998 American Library Association and the Association for Educational Communications and Technology).

Beginning with the third grade, students will view weaving of dependency in a situation familiar to them. They will see themselves as the job – learner- and how other jobs are connected to them. This strategy approach “ is something that can transfer from the teacher to learner so that the strategy becomes a skill or process the learner will employ on his or her own as the teacher fades from the situation” (Daniel Callison)

To expect quality research from eighth graders a genuine reason for the task is helpful. Authentic learning where “The students find problems and questions to be interesting, exciting, challenging, and personally meaningful.” (Callison and Lamb 2004) will stimulate the efforts. Comparison: Concept Mapping:

Daniel Callison says, “Concept mapping is a heuristic device that has proven to be useful in helping learners to visualize the relationships or connections between and among ideas.” “Concept mapping serves the purpose of helping the learner clarify what he or she has just read or heard.” In both the 3rd and 8th grades the students will report their findings using a visual activity. Third grades will have a simplistic map using the //__Kidspiration__// software available in the school system. The eighth graders will provide a modified concept map patterned from Tony Buzan’s mind mapping (1990 – Blue Book p.330)

Enhancements: Project 2