A.W.E.some+Summer+Olympics



Project Title: **The A.W.E.some Summer Olympics** Grade: **First Grade** Name: **Brenna Hamric and Laura Frisbee** Project Idea:** Using customs and traditions of our selected Country, create an opening ceremony that includes a mascot, music and dance, and a menu that best represents the country. ** Driving Question:** We are going to the Olympics! How are we going to share our culture and traditions with other countries from around the world while we are at the Olympics? **
 * Take TWO (We changed our minds)

Content Standards: Social Studies**-1.C.1.1 Compare the languages, traditions, and holidays of various cultures.** Social Studies**-1.C.1.2 Use literature to help people understand diverse cultures.** Math-1.MD.4-**Organize represent and interpret data with up to three categories, ask and answer questions about the total number of data points and how many in each category and how many more or less are in one category than in another.** ELA**- SL.1.4. Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly.** ELA**-SL.1.5. Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.** ELA**- W.1.7. Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., explore a number of “how-to” books on a given topic and use them to write a sequence of instructions).**
 * Social Studies-1.G.1.3-understand the basic elements of geographic representations using maps (cardinal directions and map symbols)**

Major Student Products:**
 * Create an informational text about our adopted country
 * Create a class book about our adopted country
 * Create a digital photo story about our adopted country






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 * Project Title:** The A.W.E.some Summer Olympics
 * Grade:** First Grade
 * Name:** Brenna Hamric and Laura Frisbee
 * Project Idea:** Using customs and traditions of our selected Country, create an opening ceremony that includes a mascot, music and dance, and a menu that best represents the country.


 * Driving Question:** As host country to the 2016 Summer Olympics, how can we best share our country’s cultures and traditions in our Opening Ceremonies?


 * Content Standards:**
 * Social Studies**-1.C.1.1 Compare the languages, traditions, and holidays of various cultures.
 * Social Studies**-1.C.1.2 Use literature to help people understand diverse cultures.
 * Dance**- 1.CP.1.4: Create movement that expresses words, ideas, experiences, and feelings.
 * Music**- 1.ML.1.3: Execute rhythmic patterns using body, instruments, or voice.
 * Art**- 1.V.1.2: Create original art that expresses ideas, themes, and events.
 * ELA**- SL.1.4. Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly.
 * ELA**-SL.1.5. Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
 * ELA**- W.1.7. Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., explore a number of “how-to” books on a given topic and use them to write a sequence of instructions).


 * Major Student Products:**
 * Drawing or create a model of the country’s mascot
 * Create menus that reflect the country’s diet
 * Demonstrate a cultural dance
 * Create musical instruments typical of our country’s customs