Unit Overview

aka: I Can Dream, Can't I?

The following unit was conceived as (approximately) a 6 (but looking like an 8) week interdisciplinary, collaborative unit for grades 5/6, involving all curriculum areas.  It assumes the complete, open, and willing collaboration in all areas, as well as the assumption of all aspects of technology and other teaching tools being available in every quantity needed, at any time, and with the latest-and-greatest updates, and will culminate with a student-written and acted performance, with student-created scenery - all videotaped/podcast by the students, and shared with family and friends through an online resource chosen by the class.

Art, Music, PE responsibility:

• Art - Calligraphy and quill-pens, basket-weaving, pottery, sundials or candle-making, scenery planning and creation
• Music - Colonial and Native American music and instruments
• PE - Colonial and Native American games and dances

Guidance responsibility: Issues of moving, isolation, desertion, friendship, prejudice

Language Arts responsibility: Reading of the book, vocabulary, journals kept during reading

Library responsibility: Gathering materials for each segment of learning, guiding through research process, teaching technology when needed

Mathematics responsibility: Measurements for miniature log cabin creation and/or longhouse creations, charts/graphs of plant life, mapping

Science responsibility: Plant and animal life in the area of the book's setting; edible plants, survival techniques, animal tracking, hunting/trapping

Social Studies responsibility: History of the movement of people to the colonies, then westward.  Native American history, housing of the times

Please select the Unit Outline to see some of the things we will discover! Or click here for a Power Point (I've never done one before - it's basic!)

Please move on to the Welcome Page to begin research on the Pathfinder for this unit!