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 * Essential Question: **

// What kind of community are we trying to create in our school and in the world? //

Working in pairs, students select and analyze the meaning of a core **concept** of the school’s mission and/or vision. Students meet clearly defined information requirements based on research, interviews, and reflections about their own personal experiences.
 * Big 6 Skill 1: Task Definition **

Students use iMovie on the iPads to create 4-5 minute films (using information and images obtained using desktop computers) in English OR Spanish that combine presentation slides, images, film, audio voiceovers, music, etc. Student videos contain film footage of both student researchers/documentarians, voiceovers by both students, and film footage and/or voiceovers by other students and teachers.


 * Information Requirements: EIGHT KEY ELEMENTS **


 * Element One: **** * Concept definition ** – Students clearly //define// their **concept**.

global community

According to The Free Dictionary by Farflex, ...

global community is defined as ...

(Government, Politics & Diplomacy)

the people or nations of the world, considered as being closely connected by modern telecommunications and as being economically, socially, and politically interdependent.

[] We found out about an organization called the Center for Global Community and World Law. This is their mission statement:
 * Element Two: ** * **Information/statistics** – Students //report// current information and/or statistics about their **concept** using digital information resources such as online journals, newspapers, and databases.

// The Center for Global Community and World Law brings together highly motivated citizens, groups and coalitions dedicated to collaborative efforts to create a peaceful, just and sustainable global society. It conducts research, and offers programs, services, education, conferences, publications and arts events through educational institutions, community-based organizations and the United Nations. //


 * Element Three: **** Connection to IAMS ** – Students //identify and report// about a **practice or tradition** of the IAMS program that addresses that **concept** of the school’s mission/vision.

The garden project started when the new building of inter american opened in 2006, that same year the fourth graders planted trees in our garden.

The garden project: Last year, 7th and 8th graders talked about the trees and plants surrounding the school. So the 7th and 8th graders every at inter american volunteer to help out for the garden project to everyone can learn how to work together that stuff is needed help for.


 * Element Four: **** Interview(s) ** – Students //interview// __other students__ and __at least one member of the faculty__ on camera to provide further insight about their mission and vision **concept** and the IAMS **practice or tradition** reported in Element Three.


 * Element Five: ** **Personal Experience** – Students //share// how the IAMS **practice or tradition** described in Element Three have 1.) impacted them personally **and** 2.) advanced the realization of their mission and vision **concept**.

The garden has impacted us because it has provided us an opportunity to come together as a community to work with nature and make our school grounds more beautiful.

This can help expand more programs like the garden project because almost the whole country are help planting to help make nature beautiful and for everyone to collaborate and help our world with things like this, like recycling and community service.

The garden project helps me and the others by coming together with nature and plant all around the school, helping our community. and what others can do to advance the garden project is helping plant one more each year.
 * Element Six: ** **Personal Commitment** - Students //explain// 1.) what they are doing and 2.) what others can do to advance the realization of their mission and vision **concept**.


 * Element Seven: **** Connecting the dots ** – 1. ) Students //establish a connection// between their selected **practice or tradition** and that of another group. 2.) Students explain how one **practice or tradition** advances more than one mission and vision **concept** simultaneously.

1.) Appreciation of othe cultures and the garden project can be compared by both of them having to do with planting and planting for food like tomatoes, carrots, ect,... So thats how they are compared.

2.) the global community can be a collaboration because they both have to do with people coming together and helping out with stuff that is needed help like the garden project that has to do with planting to make nature beautiful.


 * Element Eight: **** Essential Question ** – Students respond to the essential questions based on their research and personal opinions.

// What kind of community are we trying to create in our school and in the world? // // The community that we are trying to create is a wonderful community where everyone to come together and help out each other like the garden project because everyone comes together and helps out the world with making a garden to help out mother nature. //