Grade K Communication and Collaboration Stage 1 (In Development)

Grade K

Creative Communicator/Global Collaborator

Unit Overview

In the Communication and Collaboration unit students will develop the skills and attitudes necessary to become responsible communicators in a digital community. They will identify how to work together as a team and the different roles that teammates play. Students will understand different cultures that exist in our school and community and the ways in which we communicate with others. Throughout the unit, students will access the Internet through different online collaborative tools and resources to complete lesson activities.

Content Standards

2016 ISTE Standards for Students Links to an external site.

Reading

RI3 With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
SL1 Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.

Writing

W6 With guidance and support from adults, explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.
W7 Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., explore a number of books by a favorite author and express opinions about them).

Math

MP1 Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
MP6 Attend to precision.

Transfer

T6 Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals.

T7Students use digital tools to broaden their perspectives and enrich their learning by collaborating with others and working effectively in teams locally and globally.

Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions

Enduring Understandings go beyond discrete facts or skills to focus on larger concepts, principles, or processes. They are transferable–applicable to new situations within or beyond the subject. For Enduring Understandings, answer, "What specifically do you want students to understand?"

A good essential question is open-ended, thought-provoking, intellectually engaging and calls for higher-order thinking, such as analysis, inference, evaluation, prediction. It cannot be effectively answered by recall alone. For Essential Questions, answer, "What thought-provoking questions will foster inquiry, meaning making, and transfer?"

Enduring Understandings	Essential Questions
U6a. Students choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication.	What are the different ways that we can communicate?
U6c. Students communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.	What is team work? How do we work together as a team?
U7a. Students use digital tools to connect with learners from a variety of backgrounds and cultures, engaging with them in ways that broaden mutual understanding and learning.	How do we work with and talk to different people?
U7b. Students use collaborative technologies to work with others, including peers, experts or community members, to examine issues and problems from multiple viewpoints.	What is team work? How do we work together as a team?
U7c. Students contribute constructively to project teams, assuming various roles and responsibilities to work effectively toward a common goal.	What roles are important for teamwork? How can working with collaborative teams help you solve problems?

Acquisition

The identified knowledge and skill are needed to address the established goals, achieve the targeted understanding(s), and support effective transfer. Answer, "What facts and basic concepts should students know and be able to do?" and "What discrete skills and processes should students be able to use?"

NOTE: It is important to understand that simply acquiring these discrete skills does not guarantee transfer (or understanding). We are teaching for transfer and these skills support the transfer but are not sufficient alone.

Students will know...	Students will be skilled at...
K1. that different roles are important to teamwork.	S1. working as a team in a variety of different roles
K2. different ways that we communicate.	S2. understanding the various ways that we communicate with our friends.
K3. how to work together as a team.	S3. working together as a team with their classmates in Kindergarten.
K4. that different cultures exist in school and community.	S4. communicating with others that may come from different cultural backgrounds.

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