Connect and Explore

Connect students to the topic and spark their interest in learning more

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Investigate and Gather

Allow students to develop question/s of personal interest and have time to gather relevant information to answer the question/s

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Create

Encourage students to demonstrate understanding of the information gathered, and synthesize into an appropriate format

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Share and Reflect

Allow students to share with an audience for an authentic purpose

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Essential Questions

Social Studies

How are communities physically different from each other?

Science

Why are natural resources important?

What are resources of water?

TEKS Addressed

Social Studies

1.5 The student understands physical and human characteristics of place to better understand their community and the world around them

1.5A identify and describe the physical characteristics of place suchs as landforms, bodies of water, Earth’s resources, and weather;

Science

1.7B identify and describe a variety of natural sources of water, including streams, lakes and oceans

ELAR

(13) Inquiry and research: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student engages in both short-term and sustained recursive inquiry processes for a variety of purposes.