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//**SPRING 2011 GRANT CLASS WORK**//

Adam Gruse 6th Grade Writing

Character Counts! Discussion Forum Unit Description:

This sixth grade writing unit is being used to supplement the students' previous knowledge of character and the Character Counts curriculum. The students will be using the website www.CourseSites.com to reflect, analyze, and post their feelings and responses based on a variety of character-based prompts. Before the students begin their research, the students will be required to work in a small group setting to discuss what it truly means to show character and address how each student individually uses character in his/her everyday life. Through using the web 2.0 tool, CourseSites, the students will be able to interact with one another digitally as well as personally. They will have an opportunity to not only respond to their own issues of character, but also to respond to the responses of their peers.

Student Work Examples:
(Each student was required to write on all six of the Character Counts Pillars. This is just a sampling of ONE of the six responses each student needed to write. )

//**FALL 2010 GRANT CLASS WORK**//

Adam Gruse 6th Grade Science

6th Grade Weather Unit Unit Description: The sixth grade weather unit is being used to supplement the students' previous knowledge of our weather unit for science class. The students will be using multiple websites to research information, share that information with his/her partner by using todaysmeet.com, write a reflective weather summary, and then post the information to wikispaces.com. Before the students begin their research, a lesson on using and finding credible sources was presented to the students to provide them with the essential information needed to complete this project. Through using these web 2.0 tools, the students will be able to interact with one another digitally as well as personally. My portion of the project was the creation and implementation of the credible sources activity and PowerPoint presentation.

Unit Plan:

Unit Worksheets:

Student Work Samples (Good, Mid, Below Average):

Writing Assessment (Good, Mid, Below Average)

Weather Unit Post-Test (Good, Mid, Below Average)

Credible Sources Activity (Good, Mid, Below Average)

Student Webpages: http://weather329.wikispaces.com/T.+Evans (Good Summary) http://weather329.wikispaces.com/Markaz (Good Chart & Voki) http://weather329.wikispaces.com/Chris (Below Average)

Student Today's Meet Pages: (Some of the pages were deleted due to the one month deadline. The rest of the posted pages has a one-year deadline.) []

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