3rd Grade Project

Winter/ Spring 2016

BE THE CHANGE
!

Why does diversity matter? What is our responsibility

to ourselves, our community, our world?

Our world is full of diversity: diversity in plants and animals, bees and flowers, and
diversity in humans, personality traits, race and religion, life experiences, languages and
gender. This project was inspired by our desire to raise the awareness of the diversity in
our community and our responsibility within environmental and sociopolitical systems.
Our initial research findings through field work and informational texts will help us
understand how bee diversity shows us the importance of diversity within a system. We
will explore how humans make choices that have both positive and negative impacts on
communities.
Simultaneously, students will begin exploring diversity through the stories of human
struggle within societal norms and stereotypes. In subsequent work, students will develop
empathy for marginalized members of our world. Specifically, this project is designed to
answer the driving question, How can I, as an agent of positive change, advocate for
environmental stewardship and social justice within my community?
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Be The Change

3rd Grade Project

Winter/ Spring 2016

STUDENT PRODUCTS

Students will recreate The Lorax from the

perspective of saving the bees, using artistic
imagery, poetic devices, and scientific
sketches to bring awareness to San Diegos
bee diversity.
Students will collect and curate a native bee
exhibit.
Students will create an artistic representation
of diversity in bees and humans.
Students will write lyrics that advocate for
social justice within our community.
Students will choose a medium and create a
product that demonstrates how they are an
agent of change by promoting social justice.

Develop understanding of fractions as

numbers. (CCS Math 3.NF.A)

Write informative/explanatory texts to

Understand properties of multiplication and

examine a topic and convey ideas and
the relationship between multiplication and
information clearly. (CCS W.3.2)

division. (CCS Math 3.OA.B)

Students will research and publish an

Students will
informational text on
create pie
pollination.

charts to exhibit
Write opinion pieces on topics
their data
or texts, supporting a point of
collections from
view with reasons. (CCS W.3.1)

the garden.

Write routinely over extended

Students will
time frames and shorter time
build 3frames for a range of disciplinedimensional

Ghandi
specific tasks, purposes, and
factor flowers in
audiences. (CCS W.3.10)

the essence of a
Use text features and search
local native
tools to locate information
plant.

relevant to a given topic eciently. (CCS RI.

Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems:
3.5)

Environmental impacts on organisms.

Compare and contrast the most important
(NGSS: LS2.C, LS4.C, LS4.D)
points and key details presented in two or
more texts on the same topic across various
genres. (CCS RI.3.9)

Determine the meaning of words and

Exhibition on March 15
phrases as they are used in a text,
distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.
at High Tech Elementary North County

(CCS RL.3.4)

STANDARDS AND LEARNING GOALS

Be The Change

Be the change you

wish to see in the
world.