Lesson AC.10: Lesson AC.11: Lesson AC.12: Lesson AC.13: Lesson AC.14: Lesson AC.15:
..............................
................................
..........................................................
.................................................................
............................................................................
...........................................................
Social Studies .......................................................................... 104 Lesson SS.1: Community ....................................................................................... 108 Lesson SS.2: Human Rights ................................................................................... 110 Lesson SS.3: (Dis)abilities ..................................................................................... 112 Lesson SS.4: Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 .......................................................... 114 Lesson SS.5: Hijab ................................................................................................. 116 Lesson SS.6: Duke Kahanamoku, Competitive Surfer ........................................... 118 Lesson SS.7: Juneteenth ........................................................................................ 120 Lesson SS.8: Holi, Festival of Colors ...................................................................... 122 Lesson SS.9: Indigenous Peoples’ Day ................................................................... 124 Lesson SS.10: Nicodemus, Kansas ........................................................................... 126 Lesson SS.11: Pilot Harry Stewart Jr. and the Tuskegee Airmen ............................. 128 Lesson SS.12: Women Athletes and Timelines ........................................................ 130 Lesson SS.13: Hip-Hop ............................................................................................. 132 Lesson SS.14: Tea and Culture ................................................................................. 134 Lesson SS.15: Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and Possibility ................................. 136 English Language Arts .......................................................... 70 Lesson ELA.1: Love .................................................................................................. 74 Lesson ELA.2: Our People ........................................................................................ 76 Lesson ELA.3: Letter Writing ................................................................................... 78 Lesson ELA.4: American Sign Language .................................................................. 80 Lesson ELA.5: Adinkra Symbols .............................................................................. 82 Lesson ELA.6: Interviews ......................................................................................... 84 Lesson ELA.7: Advertisements and the First Television Ad .................................... 86 Lesson ELA.8: Arturo Schomburg, Genius, Historian, Writer, and Curator .............. 88 Lesson ELA.9: Freedom ........................................................................................... 90 Lesson ELA.10: Friendship ........................................................................................ 92 Lesson ELA.11: Jackie Ormes, Cartoonist .................................................................. 94 Lesson ELA.12: Ethel L. Payne, Journalist ................................................................. 96 Lesson ELA.13: Justice and Poetry ............................................................................ 98 Lesson ELA.14: Gratitude ........................................................................................ 100 Lesson ELA.15: Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune and Life, Death, and Legacies ............... 102 Contents ....................................................................................................... ..................................................................................................................... ............................................................................................................... ......................................................................................... .......................................................................................... .................................................................................. ..................................................................................... The Five Pursuits: Their Origin, Their Promise . . . . . . ......................................................................................... ............................................................................................ .......................................................................................................... .............................................................................................................. ......................................................................................................... ....................................................................................................... ................................................................................................................. ....................................................................................... CHAPTER 5 CHAPTER 4
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) ................................................................. 138 Conditions for Doing the Work ........................................ ..................................................... ........................................................................................................... ........................................................................... ................................................................... ........................................... ..................................................
CHAPTER 6
Lesson STEM.1: The North Star ............................................................................. 142 Lesson STEM.2: Trees ............................................................................................ 144 Lesson STEM.3: Women in STEM ........................................................................... 146 Lesson STEM.4: Meditation ................................................................................... 148 Lesson STEM.5: Bees ............................................................................................. 150 Lesson STEM.6: Monarch Butterflies ..................................................................... 152 Lesson STEM.7: Nutrition Facts Labels ................................................................. 154 Lesson STEM.8: Pomegranates ............................................................................. 156 Lesson STEM.9: Desserts ....................................................................................... 158 Lesson STEM.10: Sneakers ...................................................................................... 160 Lesson STEM.11: Entrepreneurship ........................................................................ 162 Lesson STEM.12: Alfred L. Cralle, Inventor of the Ice Cream Scoop ........................ 164 Lesson STEM.13: Climate Change ........................................................................... 166 Lesson STEM.14: Wildfires and Statistics ............................................................... 168 Lesson STEM.15: Frederick Pelham, Bridge Engineer ............................................. 170 ..................................................................... ................................................................ ...................................................................... ....................................................................................... ...................................... .................................................................................................................. Lesson STEM.1: Lesson STEM.2: Lesson STEM.3: Lesson STEM.4: Lesson STEM.5: Lesson STEM.6: Lesson STEM.7: Lesson STEM.8: Lesson STEM.9: Lesson STEM.10: Lesson STEM.11: Lesson STEM.12: Lesson STEM.13: Lesson STEM.14: Lesson STEM.15:
15 pursuit-driven lessons per content area
Creating Your Own Pursuit-Driven Lessons ............ 172 ................................................................................................................ 175
CHAPTER 7
References
Children’s Books Cited .............................................................................................. 175 Appendix of Focus Texts ........................................................................................... 178 ......................................................................................................................... 207 Index
3
Made with FlippingBook Online newsletter maker