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3rd-grade Inquiry Unit - Immerse Lesson

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Lesson Title: What Can We Learn by Studying the Lives of César Chávez and Dolores Huerta?

Inquiry Phase: Immerse

Grade Level: 3rd Grade

Essential Questions:

1. What can we learn by studying the lives of people who have influenced the well-being of a community?
2. How do we formulate open-ended questions and conduct an inquiry project?

Lesson Plan Objectives: At the end of these lessons, students will be able to:

1. Use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the lives of two community leaders.

Assessment Tool: Venn Diagram

Resources for this Unit of Study: http://tinyurl.com/di4ll-3-resources

Resources for this Lesson
Side by Side/Lado a Lado: The Story of Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez by Monica Brown, illustrated by Joe Cepeda (HarperCollins 2010)
Venn Diagram
Venn Diagram Teacher Resource
Answer Garden (http://answergarden.ch) and Tagxedo (http://tagxedo.com) or Wordle (http://wordle.net) for Optional Word Cloud Follow Up

Estimated Lesson Time: One 30-minute Lesson

Instructional Plan Outline:

Classroom Teacher – School Librarian(s) Collaboration:
The classroom teacher and school librarian will co-read and use think alouds to co-model recording similarities and differences on a Venn diagram.

Measurable Outcome or Final Product: Each student will complete an individual Venn diagram and circle a note about which they might want to seek more information.

Preparation

• The educators make one copy of the Venn diagram for each student.
• Integrate academic vocabulary into think-alouds: inquiry and terms associated with notemaking: single words, short phrases, abbreviations.
• Integrate discipline-specific academic vocabulary into the lesson: leader, community, citizen, contract, and justice.

Motivation

• Play a short video clip focused on Dolores Huerta and César Chávez from Discovery Streaming: "Hispanic Americans Tell Their Story" (1992).
• Examine the Side by Side/Lado a Lado book jacket and make connections to the video clip.
• Educators post the lesson objectives and let students know the class will read the book together, complete a Venn diagram to compare Dolores Huerta and César Chávez, and collaboratively create a word cloud based on what they learned (optional).
  
  

Presentation

• Project the Venn diagram.
• While one educator reads, the other will record ideas on the Venn diagram.
• Both educators use think-alouds to ponder the similarities and differences between these two people. Involve students as much as possible.
• Point out notemaking rather than complete sentences and information recorded in one’s own words. If needed, review notemaking formats: single words, short phrases, and abbreviations.
• Students copy from the projected Venn diagram onto their individual Venn diagrams.
• After reading the book, educators model reviewing the information they learned and talking about something about which they would like more information. They circle that note.

Guided Practice

• Educators monitor as students talk with their elbow partners and circle the most compelling piece of information on their individual Venn diagrams.

Closure

• Ask volunteers to share what they want to know more about.
• Educators let students know they will be exploring these two famous Americans and learning more about how food gets to their table in Denton.

Assessment

• Educators review students’ Venn diagrams and most compelling information.

Follow Up (Optional)

• Use Answer Garden to crowd source keywords and ideas related to Dolores Huerta and César Chávez and use Tagxedo or Wordle to create a word cloud.

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