Description of Our Project!

Our project covers three countries. They are Italy, Dominican Republic, and Africa. The students created many different projects and writing based on their country. The main goal for this project was to see that diversity is everywhere and many cultures do things differently. Looking at these three countries they have also realized that some things are the same no matter where they travel, but it is just the type of people that changes.

Our Curriculum Map!

Below is our curriculum map!
CURRICULUM MAP

Big Idea for Content Area:
Reproduction and Heredity

Essential Question for Content Area: Science:
How does the understanding of genetics and the life cycle effect the human life?

Enduring Understandings: Describing the variations of how their parent’s genes combine and how the punnet square will help them understand their genes that they have.



Teacher: M. Cappello School: Camden Middle School

Theme/Topic: Diversity in Society Content Areas: Science

Grade: 8 Timeframe: May and June


ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

CONTENT

SKILLS

ASSESSMENTS

RESOURCES

Why do we look different?

How do our genes affect the way we look?
CONCEPT:
Today’s society we are all diverse and we don’t look the same. Some of us have a lighter completion them the others. Some of us have lighter or darker eyes then others. We are all different and there is a reason why.

Students need to see that even though they live and go to the same school together they all have their own genes. The parent’s traits were given to them and they will carry that on to their own children.


CONTENT:

Students will create a family tree to show their family history.

Students will create a punnet square to show dominant and recessive genes.

Students will create their own dominant and recessive genes based on their mother and father’s traits.






FIND: Students are able to understand and determine how genes are different based on our parent’s traits. 5.5.8.C
DETERMINE: Students will determine how our genes make us who we are and how we look.
CONDUCT: a family tree and survey to see what dominate and recessive traits we have.
DETERMINE/ORGANIZE:
The students will determine what dominate and recessive genes they have.
CREATE: punnet square, dominate and recessive trait chart and family tree.
COMPARE: The difference between how dominate and recessive their genes are to the way the people look in the country they are studying.
DESCRIBE: the students will describe how different their genes are and where they got certain traits from.
EXPLORE: how different their family is and how diverse they are.
RECOGNIZE: their traits and the way they look and act. Their genes and parent’s traits have to do with this.
DEFINE:
Genes
Traits
Chromosomes
Family tree
Dominate
Recessive
READ, INTERPRET, DRAW INFERENCES:
Students will read information in their science textbook and interpret their genes and punnet square from this information.




Family tree

Punnet Square

Dominate and Recessive chart
Websites

Science Textbook










Key Terms:
Dominant
Recessive
Punnet square
Family tree
Genes

NJCCS/Areas of Focus:
CCCS 5.1, 5.2


CURRICULUM MAP

Big Idea for Content Area:
Numeric reasoning involves fluency and facility with numbers.


Essential Question for Content Area: Math:
How can we compare and contrast numbers?
How can counting, measuring, and labeling help us in the world around us?


Enduring Understandings: - A quantity can be represented numerically in various ways. Problem solving depends upon choosing wise ways.- Numeric fluency includes both the understanding of and the ability to appropriately use numbers.



Teacher: M. Cappello School: Camden Middle School

Theme/Topic: Diversity in Society Content Areas: Math

Grade: 8 Timeframe: May and June


ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

CONTENT

SKILLS

ASSESSMENTS

RESOURCES

How does numbers express people’s population and wealth in countries around us?

How does measurement help us understand how to cook and make dishes from other countries?
CONCEPT:
Today’s society we are all diverse and numbers are the same way. People who live in other countries spend and cook differently.

Students need to see that when they visit other countries the prices are different and their dishes are different as well. If the prices are different them they will have to learn how to spend and use their money differently.


CONTENT:

Create a graph showing the population of their country.

Create recipes of the country they are studying and make the dish.

Understand and use numbers to help give information from their country.







FIND: Students are able to understand and determine how writing expressing themselves. 4.1.8.A
DETERMINE: Students will determine how the writing process helps them organize their thoughts and process.
CONDUCT: Poem and two paragraphs about their different projects.
DETERMINE/ORGANIZE:
The students will determine and organize poems.
CREATE: charts, graphs, and recipes for the country they are studying.
COMPARE: The prices where they live to the where they are studying.
DESCRIBE: how much money they will need if they traveled to that country.
EXPLORE: how numbers are different and how prices change.
RECOGNIZE: the way different people are and express themselves in different countries especially with money and numbers.
DEFINE: Money
Number Terms
Recipes
Measurement
Population
Charts
graphs
READ, INTERPRET, DRAW INFERENCES: Students will read the graph, interprets the information and draws the graph to represent what they are discussing.




Recipes

Measurement

Charts

Line or Bar graph

Websites

Countries websites

Math facts


Key Terms:
Money
Number Terms
Recipes
Measurement
Population
Charts
graphs
NJCCS/Areas of Focus:
CCCS 4.1 4.2


CURRICULUM MAP

Big Idea for Content Area:
All students will write in clear, concise, organized language that varies in content and form for different audiences and purposes.
Writing as a Product (resulting in a publication)


Essential Question for Content Area: Writing:
How do good writers express themselves? How does the process shape the writing product?
How do writers develop a well written product?


Enduring Understandings: - Good writers develop and refine their ideas for thinking, learning, communicating, and aesthetic expression.
- Good writers use a repertoire of strategies that enables them to vary form and style, in order to write for different purposes, audiences, and contexts.


Teacher: M. Cappello School: Camden Middle School

Theme/Topic: Diversity in Society Content Areas: Writing

Grade: 8 Timeframe: May and June


ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

CONTENT

SKILLS

ASSESSMENTS

RESOURCES

How does writing express people’s emotions and feelings?

How does writing change when people live all over the world?
CONCEPT:
Today’s society we are all diverse and people need to understand that all of us are not the same. Many of us explain that in our writing.
The focus for the project was to discover the way people view themselves in other countries and then look at oneself. It is important to look at oneself and see that even if we all live in the same city same state that we act and look different.

CONTENT:

Write a poem about being successful.

Understand the way writers from other countries express themselves.

Write and express as if the student lived in another country.

FIND: Students are able to understand and determine how writing expressing themselves. 3.2.8.A
DETERMINE: Students will determine how the writing process helps them organize their thoughts and process.
CONDUCT: Poem and two paragraphs about their different projects.
DETERMINE/ORGANIZE:
The students will determine and organize poems.
CREATE: graphic organizer, poem, writing frames.
COMPARE: Poems from other countries to poems the students and read today.
DESCRIBE: feelings, emotions, and ways to express oneself
EXPLORE: other authors expression and way they reach into their feelings
RECOGNIZE: the way different people are and express themselves in different countries.
DEFINE: country, different, frame, and organizer. (Writing vocab)
READ,INTERPRET,DRAW INFERENCES: Students will read poems, interpret the feelings, and draw inferences from the authors viewpoint

Poems

Graphic Organizers

Frames

Writing Process


Websites

Mr. Thomas resources

Library

Writing Process information

Key Terms:
Poem
Country
Writing
Process
Living different
Frame
Graphic organizer

NJCCS/Areas of Focus:
CCCS 3.1 3.2


























M.Cappello

What does Diverity mean to me?

Poem on Being Diversed

When I hear diversity I though it was going to be hard for me us but it was very fun



KEVIN SIMMONS

Why is it important that we are all different?

If we are the same It wouldn't be fun I would get tries of wear the same thing that other people





KEVIN SIMMONS

Utopia or Newark?

Utopia they all the same the got to follow the samething and newark we don't wear thing samethnig







KEVIN SIMMONS

Different Faces

Please provide a blog on your diversed face? Why did you chose tht culture and how do you view your own culture?

Monday, June 15, 2009

Living in Newark

I like living in Newark and not living in a Utopia World. If I lived in a Utopia world I would not know how to function. I would not like to live the same as my community members because they might be doing something that I dont like. Things would be the same and I dont like things the same. Living in Newark nothing is the same and I like to have things different around me.

Noel Johnson

Why is it good to be different?

Being different is a good thing because if we were all different the world would be very boring. I wouldnt want to have another me in the world. I like that there is only me and that I make people laugh in a different way. If we were all the same then people would be copying off each other and noone would be unqiue.

Noel Johnson

Different Faces

I chose being Chinese because I always wondered what it would be like to be part of that culture. I like the way they value family and are very focused with their acdemics. They are very focused and want to become very successful people.

Noel Johnson

What does diversity Mean to Me?

Diversity means that people are different and they have different cultures and values. We all live in the same community and area, but all our houses are different. Many of us have similiar values, but our families are different and do different things.

Noel Johnson

different faces

The reason i picked Jamicia is because i wanted to see how it felt to be like them and what they was doing in there country. And do they live the same way we live and when i went there they hade some very nice houses but the only things there streets are different from owers but it is a very nice place to be when i get the chance i would love to go back there one last time.

Different Faces?

I picked black african American because i wanted to experience being a black person will be like. I picked black aferican mostly because some of my friends are black and i wanted to seehow it would be like to be black and Dominican

by scarlet liriano

Different Faces?

As you can see here on the left is me as a hispanic person. And on the right side it's me as a African American. I choose African American cause there have alot of partry and they kind of kool.


By JohnnyMedina

live in a utopia world or newark

I would rather live in newark because the utopia world they don't realy be going any ware or doing anything. They all ways have to stay on the front porch and the only time they can leave off the porch is when they parents are going some were and if they ask but other than that they have to stay on the porch.But in newark its not like that you can go wware you want to go and do what you want and most of the time you don't have to ask to leave off of the porch we can just go and have a good time.

Live In a Utopia World or Newark?

I think that Utopia is a very unique community, but i'd rather live in Newark. I'd rather live in Newark because this is whear all my bestfriends and family are. This is also where i go to school. Newark is a place where i can experience new things

Living in Utopia world or Newark?

I'll live in newark because in the utopia world very body do the same thing at the same time. In newark you can do anything you want but theres laws.



By JohnnyMedina

It is good to be different?

It is good to be different because when you are different you are an individuel. You can have your own style and personality.I think it's very important to be different,so that other can be leader s and not followers

why is it good to be different

It is good to be different because you never want to be like no body els you should all ways want to be your self and go in the right path.You should never want to follow some one els footsteps and if you do they will take you to the wrong path and get you in a lot of trouble but if you make the right choice none of that will happen if you follow your own footsteps.

Why is it good to be different?

Being different is good because if you have people who acts like you, drees like you and do very thing you do it can get annoying and you will be trieder of it.



By Johnny Medina

What Does Diversity Mean to me

I think Diversity mean s different. Diversity can also mean not always the same. im diversity i always act different that what make me Diversity because i have different personality

what does diversity mean to me

Diversity means that things and people are not the same.We all come from different cultures and we are very different from oneonther.We have a lot of different things in common an we might not be the same, but we might do the same things like eachother.

Dondre Wint

Please provide a blog on your diversed face? Why did you chose tht culture and how do you view your own culture?

If I would change to to another person It will be chinese.It will be chinese because I love their food.they way they live I liked it.
by Kevin Wilkins

What does Diversity Mean to Me?

Diversity mean differances, what color eye do they have, what they'r cultures or countries. All of the people in the U.S.A is not the same as one another person. Verybody is different in they'r own way.

by Johnny Medina

Utopia they all the same the got to follow the samething and newark we don't wear thing samething

I live in Newark community because Utopia its a very good place to live but theirs something wrong with Utopia community.Newark is a good place to live.In theirs are partys that Newark does.Newark is a normal community to live in.

by Kevin Wilkins

Different Faces

I pick the outher side of my face to be Indian because I wanted to see how I would look as an Indian. Also I wanted to know how it would see myself out of an Indian ponit of view.





By Tashawnia Basley

When I hear diversity I though it was going to be hard for me us but it was very fun

I good to be different because If your th same it will be alot of probelms in this world.Everyone will say to the peoplethat act like them will argue because because they act the same.Nobody do not like people acting like them.

by Kevin Wilkins

Live in a Utopia World or Newark

I would love to live in Newark because in the Utopia World you don't get to be yourself. In Newarkyou get to be yourself. You also get to be a different person from all people. in Newark you get to be who you are.



By Tashawnia Basley

What does Diverity mean to me?

Diversity mean to me by everyone is different in certin way.Everybody learns different,reads different,and talk different.Everyone acts different,eats different,and dreses different.

By.Kevin Wilkins

Why Is It Good To Be Different

It is good to be different because being different is what makes you you. It is also good to be different because being different makes you more of a person. If you are not different then you would not know what to do in life




By Tashawnia Basley

What Does Diversity Mean To Me

Diversity mean to me that no two people are alike. It also mean to me that all people are different. We might live in the same place, but we are not the same. Some might look the same but in the inside we are all different. We all have different minds and looks.



By Tashawnia Basley

Different Faces

I picked Cuba because i wanted to know what it was like to be a Cuba person.I picked cuba m0stly because they do alot of fun stuff like swimming,and shopping

Different Faces

I picked Domincan Repubilc face because I want to see how I looked African American and Dominican Repubilc. I also picked Dominican Repubilc so I can learn about there culture and what they do.
Mariah Williams

I would want to live in a Utopia world or Newark

I would want to live in Newark because it's fun and everyone don't dress the same and nothing is the same. I won't no want to live in a place where everyone do the same thinh and talk the same everyone one do the same thing. I woule live in newark because it's different.
Mariah Williams

Live in a Utopia world or in Newark

If i had a choice to live in a Utopia world or in Newark i would pick Newark because i would be more familiar with living and more familiar with the places there.Living in Newark might not be the best place to live but I would be familiar with all the people there and all the mall and stores in Newark

Why is it good to be different

It is good to be different so you won't feel, sound, and look different. Also every one have to different in there own way. Every place will become fun if everyone is different.
Mariah Williams

Why is it good to be different?

It is good to be different because you can have your own personality.Being different can be goood because you dont have to act like other people other than yourself.When you act like yourself and not try to be like someone else it can keep you out of trouble and you will be your own person

What Does Diversity Mean to Me

Diversity means the differense beteen people, places, and things.
mariah williams

What Does Diversity Mean To Me?

I think Diversity means to mean to different types of things.Diversity can mean to different things that arent the same because it is different.Diversity can mean a whole lot of different things

What Does Diversity Mean To Me

Diversity mean is two different like newark and africa newark has alot trash all over the street we had alot of house , building and store and africa dirt they don't alot thing that newark got.

What does Diversity Mean To Me?

Diversity means that everyone is different and we are all not the same. We live in a world that has many different cultures and many different values. Understanding that we are all different makes us become better people to know that we all can live in one place.

Michelle Cappello

Thursday, May 21, 2009