August 19/20 - Unit 1

Unit #: Title

Unit 1 Weather ( IC 2 Lesson 11)

Unit Learning Outcomes

  • Students will be able to understand basic terms for weather patterns and phenomena
  • Students will be able to describe simple weather changes

  • Students will be able to compare the weather of two places 

  • Students will be able to show & tell "seven things about me" poster to know their classmate better.
  • Students will be able to describe four seasons and activity they like to do on their show & tell "four seasons" poster. 

  • Students will be able to write their four seasons preference about the city they live and give the reason why by using sentence drills from the text 

Unit Biblical Integration Goals

Student will be able to

  • Connect the regular patterns of weather and the four seasons (春夏秋冬) to God's faithfulness and divine timing. ( “Four Seasons” project )

  • Discuss briefly how God created predictable seasons for the Earth, and ask students to reflect on how each season of life has a specific purpose under God's timing. 

  • Memorize “地还存留的时候，稼穑、寒暑、冬夏、昼夜就永不停息了。” （创世记8：22）"While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease." （Genesis 8:22) 

Unit Standards

  • NSFLI: 1.1  1.2   1.3  2.1   2.2   4.1  4.2      ACSI BI. WL.  1  2  3  4  5  6  8  10   ISTE: 1.a   1.b   4.c   5.b   6.a  
Objectives
  • Students will be able to...

Employ basic terms for weather patterns and phenomena

Describe simple weather changes

Compare the weather of two places

Talk about what you may do in nice or bad weather

Present a simple weather forecast

Classroom Activities
  1. Devotional/Prayer...
  2. Bell work: join my quizlet class
  3. Daily routine
  4. L11 D1 video, Q & A, Read aloud , wbp. 2 T/F, p. 3 Q & A & B ask partner
  5. Learn D1 characters (notes taking, making sentence at least 7 character for each , underline the phrase you use)

Homework
  • Complete...

1. Submit your summer work if you have them ( class time / this Wednesday / Friday office hour)

2. "Seven Things about Me" show & tell due August 21 (upload your poster)

3. Course Syllabus return slip (parent & student sign) due August 25

4. Review worksheet due 8/27