Goals_Understandings_Skills

=May-June Project: DESIRED RESULTS=

Topic: Immigration
===**Essential Question:** **//How can communities build solidarity and ensure equality as the population changes?//** ===

==These are our goals for our students during this project. To see acceptable evidence of these understandings and skills, see Evidence of Understanding. To see the experiences we have planned so that students can achieve these goals, see Learning Experiences.==

Established Goals:

 * 4.B.4b Use group discussion skills to assume leadership and participant roles within an assigned project or to reach a group goal.
 * 4.B.4a Deliver planned informative and persuasive oral presentations using visual aids and contemporary technology as individuals and members of a group; demonstrate organi­zation, clarity, vocabulary, credible and accurate supporting evidence.
 *    5.A.5b Research, design and present a project to an academic, business or school community audience on a topic selected from among contemporary issues.
 * 10.A.4c Predict from data using interpolation, extrapolation and trend lines, with and without the use of technology.
 * 11.A.5e Report, display and defend the results of investigations to audiences that may include professionals and technical experts.
 * 14.D.5 Interpret a variety of public policies and issues from the perspectives of different individuals and groups.
 * 16.C.4c (US) Describe how American eco­nomic institutions were shaped by industrialists, union leaders and groups including Southern migrants, Dust Bowl refugees, agricultural workers from Mexico and female workers since 1914.

// Students will understand… //

 * that the immigration struggle extends beyond the Latino community
 * that we are part of a historical struggle for social justice, and that immigration is a major injustice to fight right now
 * that there are different viewpoints (“different eyes see different things”)
 * causes as to why people and groups immigrate to the United States
 * contributions of immigrants to the United States (e.g., culture, economics, politics)

// Students will know… //

 * Key terms (immigration, globalization, NAFTA, citizenship, deportation, VISA, civil liberties)
 *    Process of applying for citizenship
 * How other immigrant groups (past and present) address their struggle
 * Current actions on the immigration front 
 * Issues and problems surrounding your particular issue (including data and statistics)
 * Causes behind the particular problem you are studying
 * Effects and environmental consequences of the immigration crisis

Students will be able to:

 * conduct research
 * communicate
 * mobilize others
 * recognize other points of view/ perspectives
 * work in teams
 * negotiate/ build consensus
 * self-reflect