PLAN A PLAYGROUND 11
Stage 3 – Learning Plan
Code Learning Events Progress Monitoring
ACQUISITION
Create a Multi-Tab Foldable® containing academic vocabulary terms, definitions, and
example sentences: budget, design, equipment, estimate, persuade, proposal,
safety, survey.
Instructor models, guides
and monitors student
understanding of each
literacy connection.
Instructor reviews
Assessment Guides with
individual students and
project teams during
progress checks to make
sure students are working
toward expectations.
Instructor monitors
students’ understanding
of Essential Questions
through discussion and
writings on Days 8, 9, 14
and 15.
Instructor evaluates
student understandings of
content in Write to Reflect
activities.
Build background and activate prior knowledge by viewing the Plan a Playground
video and discussing why play is important.
Understand how to identify and use text features to locate and organize information.
Understand and apply how to integrate information from multiple points of view to
understand events or a topic.
Apply basic steps in interpreting website information.
Understand how to identify and use text features to locate and organize information
on a website.
Understand how to identify relevant information to include in opinion texts.
Understand and identify the elements of opinion writing.
Identify facts and details and how they are used to support an opinion.
Understand and apply the elements of strong introductions.
Understand and apply how to choose words to create a specific effect.
Understand and apply how to use visual information to support presentations.
Understand and apply how to summarize a text to produce an effective presentation.
MEANING
Apply academic vocabulary terms (budget, design, equipment, estimate, persuade,
proposal, safety, survey) as they relate to the content of this project.
Evaluate information on websites to research planning a playground.
Collaborate in preparing an opinion-based proposal, implementing the writing
process with each section before publishing.
Present Playground Proposal to the class.
Observe other teams’ Playground Proposal presentations, using the information
learned to engage in an informed discussion.
Reflect and evaluate their understanding of the benefits of play and playgrounds
based on the project's essential questions and other teams’ Playground Proposal
presentations.
TRANSFER
Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions.
Write opinion-based text to examine a topic and convey ideas and information
clearly.
Use the writing process and traits of writing to develop and strengthen writing.
Use technology to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with
others.