Grade 5 Communication and Collaboration Stage 1 (In Development)

Grade 5

Communication and Collaboration

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 understand that teams what makes an effective team. Students will understand that backgrounds and viewpoints of different cultures can benefit learning and creativity. Students will identify and evaluate different tools available to collaborate and communicate. 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.	How do I select the best collaborative tool to present my information? What criteria would you use to select the most appropriate collaborative technology tool to present my information? What criteria would I use to select the most appropriate communication technology tool to present my information?
U6b. Students create original works or responsibly re-purpose or remix digital resources into new creations.	What criteria would I use to select the most appropriate communication technology tool to present my information?
U6c. Students communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.	What criteria would I use to select the most appropriate communication technology tool to present my information?
U6d. Students publish or present content that customizes the message and medium for their intended audiences.	How does communication improve our creativity and innovation when connecting with learners of other cultures? What criteria would I use to select the most appropriate communication technology tool to present my information?
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 does communication improve our creativity and innovation when connecting with learners of other cultures?
U7b. Students use collaborative technologies to work with others, including peers, experts or community members, to examine issues and problems from multiple viewpoints.	How do you build an effective team? How do I select the best collaborative tool to present my information? What criteria would you use to select the most appropriate collaborative technology tool to present my information?
U7c. Students contribute constructively to project teams, assuming various roles and responsibilities to work effectively toward a common goal.	How do you build an effective team?
U7d. Students explore local and global issues and use collaborative technologies to work with others to investigate solutions.	How does communication improve our creativity and innovation when connecting with learners of other cultures?

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...
5.1. that it's important for an effective team that all members contribute.	S1. contributing to an team to complete a project.
5.2. we can learn and improve working with people of other cultures.	S2. communicating with people from other cultures to learn and innovate.
5.3. that their are different tools that can be used to collaborate.	S3. evaluating and selecting a collaboration tool.
5.4. that tools are selected to meet the purpose of communication.	S4. selecting tool to communicate ideas.

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