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Unit: Grade:
Established Goals (Standards)
ISTE NETS Standard 2: Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments: Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessment incorporating contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the NETS•S.


Teachers: design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.
Enduring Understandings Essential Questions
  • Rice is the staple food of more than half of the world’s population. Yet to harvest it is both physically challenging and environmentally hazardous.
  • How to feed a hungry planet?
Stage 2 – Assessment Evidence
GRASPS Task Six Facets of Understanding
Goal: Develop meaningful ideas about how to generate food supplies to feed a rapidly expanding population while not endangering the environment.

Role: Students will eventually take on several roles: from farmer to politician, and use information about the current and future staus of the planet to inform their decisions.

Audience: Combined core classes.

Situation: Students will investigate features of soil and fertilizer using panthernet forums, discussion groups, readings, and quizzes, in an effort to find nitrogen-based fertilizer alternatives that can be used to increase the growth rate of rice.

Product Performance: Group science labs based on the reading and learning culminate the unit.

Extension: The unit continues with a integrated experience with the Humanities classes where resources are traded and negotiated for. 		(Explain, Apply, Interpret, Perspective, Self-Knowledge, Empathize)

Explain the urgency of distributing the world's resources. Explain the importance of finding alternatives to chemical and nitrogen-enhanced fertilizers.

Apply digital collaboration, peer reviews, comments and feedback to the development of one's position on human needs vs environmental protection.

Interpret the implications of home gardening vs commercial farming.

Perspective - understand the reality of being hungry. Alternatively, being fed while those all around you are hungry.

Self-Knowledge - know where you fit in to the picture of global hunger, global wealth and global food distribution.

Empathize - use web sites such as Kiva to loan interest-free money to entrepraneurial rice farmers from less affluent countries.
Lesson Notes: See Panthernet.



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