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Grade 3 Technology-Enhanced Unit
Noticing Egypt: Interpreting Images
Summary Unit Plan Standards
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Resources Summary
Students build skills in interpreting images and their understanding of other cultures by examining Unitedstreaming videos of Egypt. Students write articles for a class book on Egypt, using screen shots from the video to support their main idea.

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Standards and Performance Indicators TOP Social Studies
3.1: Students will: use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live—local, national, and global—including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earth’s surface. English Language Arts
1: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for information and understanding.• gather and interpret information from children’s reference books, magazines, textbooks, electronic bulletin boards, audio and media presentations, oral interviews, and from such sources as charts, graphs, maps, and diagrams • select information appropriate to the purpose of their investigation and relate ideas from one text to another • select and use strategies that have been taught for notetaking, organizing, and categorizing information • ask specific questions to clarify and extend meaning • make appropriate and effective use of strategies to construct meaning from print, such as prior knowledge about a subject, structural and context clues, and an understanding of letter-sound relationships to decode difficult words • support inferences about information and ideas with reference to text features, such as vocabulary and organizational patterns study about how people live, work, and utilize natural resources • draw maps and diagrams that serve as representations of places, physical features, and objects • locate places within the local community, State, and nation; locate the Earth’s continents in relation to each other and to principal parallels and meridians (Adapted from National Geography Standards, 1994) • identify and compare the physical, human, and cultural characteristics of different regions and people (Adapted from National Geography Standards, 1994) • investigate how people depend on and modify the physical environment Technology Benchmarks
(view complete grade-level benchmark here)
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  1. Insert images
  2. Create a product which incorporates a graphic to communicate an idea
  3. Use a word processing application to create, edit, revise, format, save and print a document to the same standards as hand-written
  4. Import appropriate graphics and pictures to illustrate text
  5. Respect intellectual property
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  • Class Materials
  • Samples of student work
  • Teachers who have used this unit:
    • Carol Graseck, Murray Avenue School