Engage

ENGAGE The teacher fosters positive relations with and between students and develops shared expectations for learning and interacting. They stimulate interest and curiosity, promote questioning and connect learning to real world experiences. The teacher structures tasks, elicits students’ prior knowledge and supports them to make connections to past learning experiences.

The teacher will present a purpose for learning, introduce the topic determin challenging learning goals and develop assessment and performance requirements. The teacher assists students to consider and identify processes that will support the achievement of the learning goals.

You Tube ' Save Water Save Life' The teacher will use the video clip to begin a conversation about water and engage students in the topic. media type="youtube" key="BA2TCzzcybE?rel=0" height="315" width="420" align="center"

Discuss possible questions:
 * How do they think about water, what kinds of things do they associate with water?
 * What makes water so important?
 * Why are we so concerned about water?
 * How can we address these concerns?
 * On a global scale what concerns are there, do we know them?

Activity 1 Students will create a KWL chart which will assist the teacher in activating students' prior knowledge of a subject or topic and encourage inquisition, active reading, and research. KWL charts are especially helpful at dertermining students past experiences with the content and as an assessment tool for students to reflect on what they have learned during a unit of study.

 Discuss: How students will research the topic? Example template:  Read more on TeacherVision: [|http://www.teachervision.fen.com/graphic-organizers/skill-builder/48615.html#ixzz1ziVlZlpt]
 * The K stands for what students **know.**
 * The W stands for **what** students need to find out.
 * The L stands for what the students **learn** as they read or research, this part of the task will be completed as assessment at the end of the unit.

Activity 2 Students will work with the interactive tool [|WALLWISHER] to contribute there ideas created in their KWL charts. They will reflect on the information they have constructed about saving water and what they would like to learn and what they know. They will then select information that they would like to share and collaborate with the class to create an interactive KWL that can be used throughout the unit. 

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