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Instructional Objectives

Theresa Johnson Discussion 2

Social Studies

Objectives:

The students will Identify the Reason and the Purpose of the Freedom Riders, and what kind of affect it has on today's society.

Unpacking a Standard:

Ø Racial Segregation - who was segregation against and why
Ø Right to Vote- what people had the right to vote and who were they
Ø Jim Crow Law- who evented this law, and what type of law was it
Ø Public Transportation- who use the public transportation, and how did it effect their daily life.
Ø Public Places- what public places discriminated against who and why, how was it dissolved and by who.

This assignment will take approximately a week to complete, with a project featuring pictures, a Timeline to discuss the event that lead up to the Freedom Riders. Student will be assign to a group, newspapers article, computers, trip to library will help with this assignment.

Tiffany Fijalkovic

Science

Objectives: The student will investigate and understand the role of solar energy in driving most natural processes within the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, and on Earth's surface.

a) Earth's energy budget;

b) the role of radiation and convection in the distribution of energy;

c) the motion of the atmosphere and the oceans;

d) cloud formation; and

e) the role of thermal energy in weather-related phenomena including thunderstorms and hurricanes.

This lesson in the Sun and its many effects on our planet will take five class days to complete. We will have a science experiment on how the sun's energy correlates with different weather patterns. We will research on our computers in the classroom, at home, and the school library.