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 discover the changes around them and gain a lifelong desire to learn.<br><br><i>Changes Book 3: Communication, Honesty, and Invention</i> asks students: “What is the difference between a tall tale, a lie, and a fib?” The third 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 investigage the different ways to communicate, such as with the Braille system. Through this process, students will come to understand language barriers and how to overcome thesm. Students' investigation will continue on the topic of inventions and innovations, and how these progresses sometimes create problems instead of alleviating them.<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 2</i>: <i>Progress, Reactions, and History</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>Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky</i> by Elphinstone Dayrell;</li> <li> <i>Strider</i> by Beverly Cleary;</li> <li> <i>Baloney (Henry P.)</i> by Jon Scieszka</li> <li> <i>Sam, Bangs and Moonshine</i> by Evaline Ness</li> <li> <i>The Whipping Boy</i> by Sid Fleischman</li> <li> <i>The Empty Pot</i> by Demi</li> <li> <i>Eyewitness Books: Car</i> by Richard Sutton; and</li> <li> <i>Super Size Me</i> (movie).</li> </ul> <p>Planning Materials Page, Unit Planner and Overview, Enduring Understandings and Generalizations, Guiding Questions, Activities 1. Pre-Assessment 2. The Language Barrier 3. Hello? 4. Reading Faces 5. Who Can I Talk to? 6. Strider 7. What a Bunch of Baloney! 8. Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine 9. A Royal Change 10. Honest to Goodness 11. Inventing the Changing Times 12. An Apple a Day 13. A Road Well Traveled 14. It’s TV Dinner Night at the Drive-Thru 15. Small Ideas With Big Results 16. Post-Assessment, Attachments 1. Journal Assembly 2. Response Rubric 3. How Many Ways 4. Presentation Rubric 5. Research Guide 6. Latin Lingo Research 7. Evaluation Rubric 8. Project Development Survey 9. Blank Evaluation Rubric 10. Paper Pyramid 11. Communication Grid 12. Six Hat Thinking 13. Consequence Cards 14. Choose Your Own Adventure Book 15. Flap Book Instructions 16. Tic Tac Toe 17. Kings of the Auto Industry Reader’s Theater, Attachments, 18. Self Assessment Rubric 19. Generalization Rubric 20. Mask Models, Checklists</p>