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. .  .  .  .  . __Assessment Option #1__: Complete the handout | Access as a Google Drawing | Get an editable version at the Google Template Gallery __Assessment Option #2__: Use the Doodle Buddy iOS app to draw a picture and words related to winter storm needs and fun. (learn how) . "All About Climate and Seasons". Schlessinger Media. N.d. Television. (Search Safari Montage) . . Messner, Kate, and Christopher Silas. Neal. Over and Under the Snow. San Francisco: Chronicle, 2011. Print. . Na, Il Sung., and Il Sung. Na. Snow Rabbit, Spring Rabbit: A Book of Changing Seasons. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. Print. . Regan, Dian Curtis., and Doug Cushman. The Snow Blew Inn. New York: Holiday House, 2011. Print. . .  . || .  ..
 * **Unit Title** || **It's a Winter Storm!** ||
 * **Framework Alignment** || Social Sciences 3.0; Grade Kindergarten; Quarter 3 ||
 * **Enduring Understanding** || Humans interact with their environments to reflect their needs, interests, and values. Identity is shaped by dynamic interaction between: individuals and groups; agency and structure; nature and environment ||
 * **Essential Questions** || How can people have many identities at the same time? ||
 * **Day One Activities** || **Concept:** What are our needs and interests during winter?
 * **Essential Questions** || How can people have many identities at the same time? ||
 * **Day One Activities** || **Concept:** What are our needs and interests during winter?
 * **Day One Activities** || **Concept:** What are our needs and interests during winter?
 * **Day One Activities** || **Concept:** What are our needs and interests during winter?
 * CCSS:** RLK.2, RFK1, RFK3c, WK2, WK6, WK8, SL1, 4-5, L1a, L1f, L2a-d, L6
 * Information Literacy Skills:** Use of instructional videos
 * Technology Skills:** Use of app to create digital picture
 * Activity:**
 * 1) Access the video "All About Climate and Seasons" (Schlessinger) in Safari Montage (safari.cps.k12.il.us). Show several of the video clips related to weather and climate. Review the four seasons. Ask them which seasons we are in now. Discuss our special needs during a winter storm [heat, shelter, warm clothing, snow removal, etc]
 * 2) Discuss things we may enjoy doing in the snow [sledding, built a snowman, skate, make a snow angel, etc]
 * 3) Together, create a list of words related to snow and winter. Display these words for all to see.
 * 4) Complete graphic organizer "It's a Winter Storm!" or use the Doodle Buddy iOS app to draw a picture and words related to winter storm needs and fun. (learn how)
 * 5) Book Checkout/Recreational Reading
 * Personalized Learning:** The use of video and audio to provide multiple learning pathways; incorporate auditory responses as alternate assessment.
 * Assessment:**
 * Resources:**
 * Additional Resources**:
 * Print:**
 * CPS Virtual Library:** Winter Storm list (view in Internet Explorer or Firefox)
 * **Day Two Activities** || **Concept:** How do community workers and other help us survive during the winter season?
 * **Day Two Activities** || **Concept:** How do community workers and other help us survive during the winter season?
 * CCSS:** RI 1 ,7, 8, 10; RF 1a-d, 3c; W2, 5-8; SL 2, 4, 5,; L1, 2.
 * Information Literacy Skills:** Use of online databases; use of informational websites
 * Technology Skills:** Use of Google drawing
 * Activity**:
 * 1) Read the short reference article "Blizzards" together as a class. Ask students to share what they know about blizzards based on the reading. Create a short list of facts related to blizzards, written in complete sentences, and post them on the board for all to see.
 * 2) Ask students to recall snowstorms they may remember and how city workers and others help us to deal with bad snowstorms. Using a projector/computer/speakers, display the CBS Chicago webpage "A Look Back at 3 of Chicago's Worst Blizzards". Ask them to think about how people help each other during storms. Read appropriate portions of the webpage and look at pictures. Watch the video about the snowstorm of 1967. [Mute the ad, if it plays.] Talk about how city workers and other people helped each other. Write on the board some of the ways city workers help us during a winter storm.
 * 3) Complete the[[file:cpslibraries/Helping Hands- Winter Storm Workers Worksheet.pdf| "Helping Hands: Winter Storm Workers" ]]handout or Google drawing to share one way that city workers and others help us to cope with a winter storm.
 * 4) Book Checkout/Recreational Reading

. __Assessment Option #1__: Complete the handout | Access as a Google Drawing | Get editable version at the Google Template Gallery __Assessment Option #2__: Complete the handout "Helping Hands" via a computer in Google Drawing. . "Blizzards." Kids InfoBits Presents: Weather and Natural Disasters. Gale, 2009. Reproduced in Kids InfoBits. Detroit: Gale, 2013. [] . "Local." CBS Chicago. CPS Chicago News, n.d. Web. 03 Jan. 2013. <[]>. . Messner, Kate, and Christopher Silas. Neal. Over and Under the Snow. San Francisco: Chronicle, 2011. Print. . Na, Il Sung., and Il Sung. Na. Snow Rabbit, Spring Rabbit: A Book of Changing Seasons. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. Print. . Regan, Dian Curtis., and Doug Cushman. The Snow Blew Inn. New York: Holiday House, 2011. Print. . .  . ||
 * __Personalized Learning:__** The use of video and audio to provide multiple learning pathways; incorporate auditory responses as alternate assessment.
 * Assessment**:
 * Resources:**
 * __Additional Resources__:**
 * Print:**
 * CPS Virtual Library:** Winter Storm list (view in Internet Explorer or Firefox)