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=Unit Planner=

Critical Content/Concept Web

 * Unit Theme**: The Solar System
 * Conceptual Lens:** Changes
 * Unit Length:**


 * ===Unit Overview=== ||
 * //In a galaxy far, far away lies the Milky Way//


 * Miss****ion:** As a citizen of galaxy M102 you have been chosen to uncover important information about our sister solar system the Milky Way and how it is run by focusing on how this galaxy impacts the culture of its inhabitants.


 * How you will complete your mission:** You will gather information from uncovering classified files, calculating schematics, analyzing components of our sister solar system, and discussing the tales told by its citizens in order to understand how organisms from their galaxy differ from our own. ||

Students will understand that our solar system and world are continuously changing which impacts our society and culture. How does our solar system and world continuously change and impact our society and culture?
 * Unit Understanding**
 * Essential Question**


 * **English** || **Mathematics** || **Science** || **History** ||
 * * How characters change
 * Change in setting
 * How character's decisions change the story
 * How singular events change the story
 * What elements of the story would you change? || * Calculate measurements using multiple variables (distance = rate*time)
 * Approximate metric given conversion factor
 * Convert derived measures (ft/s -> mph)
 * Find volume and surface area of planets (spheres or circles) || * Origin of the solar system.
 * The sun.
 * Planets and their moons.
 * Planetary motion.
 * Earth. || * Space Race
 * Cold War
 * Apollo Program
 * Assassination of important people
 * Civil Rights Movement
 * Cuban Missle Crisis
 * U.S invades Cambodia
 * Vietnam War
 * Watergate Scandal ||

Designer(s):
Amanda Fitzpatrick Darcie Simmons Erin O'Halloran Justin Stewart