Changes

<p>Changes are constantly occurring in life. The increase of technology and the needs of mankind continuously force change. The <i>Changes</i> curriculum asks students three main questions: “Can people control changes?” “Can using past information help you predict change?” and “Are changes positive or negative?”<br><br>The books in Prufrock's new Differentiated Curriculum Kits employ a differentiated, integrated curriculum based on broad themes. This all-in-one curriculum helps teachers save planning time, ensure compliance with national standards, and most importantly, pique their students' natural excitement and interest in discovery. By participating in the wide variety of activities in the Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grade 2, students will learn to discover the changes around them and gain a lifelong desire to learn.<br><br>In <i>Changes Book 2: Progress, Reactions, and History</i>, students focus on three main questions: “Is progress good or bad?” “What would happen if progress stopped?” and “How would this affect the field of technology, medicine, or education?” The second book in the <i>Changes</i> series will lead your students on a journey of understanding the nature of change.<br><br>Students also will investigate the universal concept of change. Students learn about chemical changes by examining the effects of salt on buoyancy, water on pasta, and heat on popcorn kernels. Students' investigation continues with the story and examination of a young character's life as she and her father go into the wilderness and live with Native Americans.<br><br>Other books in the <i>Changes</i> series include <i>Changes Book 1</i>: <i>Rights, Resources, and Weather</i>; and <i>Changes Book 3</i>: <i>Communication, Honesty, and Inventions</i>. Each book contains detailed lesson plans, reproducible activity sheets, and assessment tools.<br><br> Grade 2<br><br>This curriculum unit makes use of the following great children's literature books:</p><ul> <li> <i>The Little House</i> by Virginia Lee Burton;</li> <li> <i>Homer Price</i> by Robert McCloskey;</li> <li> <i>I Wonder Why Zippers Have Teeth: And Other Questions About Inventions</i> by Barbara Taylor;</li> <li> <i>It Looked Like Spilt Milk</i> by Charles Shaw;</li> <li> <i>Encounter</i> by Jane Yolen;</li> <li> <i>The Courage of Sarah Noble</i> by Alice Dalgliesh;</li> <li> <i>Willie's Not the Hugging Kinds</i> by Joyce Durham Barrett; and</li> <li> <i>Barn</i> by Debby Atwell.</li> </ul> <p>Planning Materials Page, Unit Planner and Overview, Enduring Understandings and Generalizations, Guiding Questions Activities 1. Pre-Assessment 2. Good or Bad? 3. Changing Times 4. Now and Then 5. Quick Change 6. Make a Change 7. Chemical Change 8. Poppin’ Changes 9. Spaghetti Shapes 10. Changing Vibrations 11. Changes in History 12. Changes and Courage 13. Personal Changes 14. Chalk It Up! 15. What if. 16. Post-Assessment Attachments: 1. Journal Assembly 2. Observation Rubric 3. Evaluation Rubric 4. Progress…Bah Humbug 5. Paper Pyramids 6. Pencil Discovery 7. Map of the United States 8. Blank Evaluation Rubric 9. Generalization Rubric 10. Self-Assessment Rubric 11. Presentation Rubric 12. Poppin’ Good Fun 13. Grid Pattern 14. Panpipe 15. Six Hat Thinking Checklists Page, Vocabulary and Materials, Differentiation Strategies and TEKS, National Standards</p>