UNIT X 284 | UNIT 8 Connect to the Theme • Activate prior knowledge Say: Innovation. What is innovation? Cue students by pointing out the solar panels and battery pack. • Use a semantic organizer Sketch an idea map on the board. Write innovation in the center circle. Explain to students that an innovation is a new way of doing something or a new piece of technology. Ask: What kind of innovations do we use at school? What kind of innovations do you use at home? What kind of innovations do we see in our community? In the outer circles, draw and label what students name. Guide them to understand that an innovation can either be new technology or a new way of solving problems. Connect to THE THEME Play the Connect to the Theme video. Ask students to describe what they see. This will help you assess what vocabulary terms students already know. Theme-related Vocabulary Use pictures to identify theme Direct students’ attention to the photo. Ask: What do you see? Let students discover the following terms in context: invention, solar cell, greenhouse, power switch, recycle, diagram. Ask students to talk about what problem the boy’s innovation solves. Assess Language Levels Related to the Theme Answer questions Hold up the book and do a picture walk of Unit 8. Have students identify examples of innovations both old and new. For example, point to the canoe. Ask: Is this an innovation? If students respond easily to yes/no questions, progress to simple who, what, where, and how questions that can be answered with one or two words. For example: What is this? How is this used? Finally, ask more advanced, open-ended questions that allow discussion. Ask: Why do people innovate? What innovations do you find useful? Connect to the BIG Idea Develop prior knowledge Say: People innovate to solve the problems they encounter. What does that mean? Connect this idea to how students solve problems in their daily lives. Say: Some students use online quiz programs to help them memorize vocabulary. Many students use apps to help them study. These innovations make learning more fun. Extend this idea to the greater community. DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION Scaffold As you introduce the concept of innovation, provide comprehensible input for new vocabulary. Display images of concepts, such as electronic, solar, green energy, recycle, straw, planet, invention. Use examples to explain problems and innovations as you discuss. Guide students to use the new vocabulary as they discuss innovations that make solve common problems. Amplify Have students say more about innovations they know about and the problems those innovations are meant to solve. Model by describing an important educational innovation. Say: Computers are an innovation that help us with school. Who has used the internet to learn something new? What other ways do we use computers? BIG Idea Innovation changes the world. Innovation UNIT 8 284 Unit 8 UNIT 8
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