Welcome to Cambridge Global Perspectives. Cambridge Primary/Secondary 1 Global Perspectives is an educational program which seeks to equip students with twenty-first century skills. It does this by departing from traditional models of education, in which the learner is a passive recipient of knowledge, and instead places the student at the heart of the educational process, as an active participant in their own learning and development. As such, it adopts an enquiry-based approach, focusing explicitly on a range of interdisciplinary skills, and involving the learners in formative assessments of their own achievements and progress.
As Cambridge Global Perspectives is a skills-based course, the specific content of the course is less important than the way learners handle the information. The materials for this program therefore focus less on the information that teachers need to communicate, and more on the questions and prompts in the Challenges that will scaffold the development of skills. Each Challenge encourages learners to become independent, active and lifelong learners, and therefore includes activities that require learners to make decisions about where to find information and how to present this information. The Challenges also provide teachers with guidance on how to encourage learners to consider and connect personal, national and global perspectives.
Week of 5/15-5/18
Monday: Student groups will begin presenting foods challenge:
Monday: Students will get his/her research questions approved by typing them in this form. Students will then begin to research for his/her sustainability research question using this template.
Tuesday-Friday: Students will continue to research for his/her sustainability research question using this template.
Students will also conference with Ms. M to finalize their questions.
Research due by Friday end of class.
Week of 2/27-3/3
Monday-Thursday: Students will begin preliminary research for their sustainability project.
Friday: Students will develop research questions and get approval by Friday (Powerpoint to guide you)
Tuesday-Thursday: Students will view introductory videos on the topic of Sustainability in order to help them define topic for our next Challenge.
Friday: Students will brainstorm different topics related to the concept of sustainability and will begin to decide which ones they would like to research.
Week of 2/13
Monday: Students will finish the Education for All presentations
Tuesday-Wed: Students will begin reflecting upon his/her personal performance with the Education for All challenge. (Reflection)
Thur-Friday: Students will create a brochure of the Top 5 places to visit on ASU's campus using the photos from their team scavenger hunt. They will work in groups of 2-3 to complete this brochure (Due Monday) (Template if needed)
Week of 2/6-2/10
Monday: Students will present their Education for All Challenge to another group in order to receive feedback. Students will then make revisions to the project based on student feedback.
Wednesday-Friday:Students will work on the proposal presentation portion of the Education for All Challenge. (Draft presentation due Monday for small group presentations)
Week 1/23-1/27
Monday: Students will interview a panelist of people who have participated in foreign exchange programs to help them evaluate the differences in educational systems around the world.
Tuesday: Students will complete the teach and run posters they started on Friday.
Wednesday: Students will discuss the implication of education on his/her own lives, society, and the world.
Thursday: Students will be introduced to our next challenge and will begin to generate questions for our guest speaker.
Friday: Students will meet with a guest speaker to learn about his experiences building schools in Africa.
Week 1/9-1/13
Monday: Students will be introduced to our new Challenge--"Education for All" and will participate in a Game of Life activity to evaluate how different educational opportunities impact one's life.
Tuesday-Wednesday: Students will watch the documentary "On the Way to School" to evaluate how different educational opportunities impact one's life.
Thursday: Students will discuss the impact education has on them, the society, and the world using a graphic organizer and discussing in groups.
Friday: Students will jigsaw different educational articles while summarizing the articles to share with others who read different articles.
Week 1/3-1/6
Tuesday: Students will view a video of another mock trial and compare and contrast our mock trial with the one we did during exam week.
Wednesday: Students will participate in the drafting process for the character essay.
Thursday: Students will watch our mock trial video to prepare for the reflection process.
Friday: Students will reflect upon his/her performance in the mock trial and our class performance as a whole.
Week of 12/12-12/6
Monday and Tuesday: Students will prepare and plan for our mock trial which will occur during our exam slot on Friday.
Monday: Students will research and develop their company fact file. Fact File project due Friday.
Tuesday:Students will research and develop their company fact file. Fact File project due Friday.
Wednesday:Students will research and develop their company fact file. Fact File project due Friday.
Thursday:Students will research and develop their company fact file. Fact File project due Monday at the start of class (Rubric)
Friday:Students will research and develop their company fact file. Fact File project due start of class Monday (Rubric)
Week of 11/21-22
Monday: Students will finalize surveys (Directions here.) and will email them out to 5-10 people. Students will also receive the Fact File project description
Tuesday: Students will start reviewing survey data and will begin to research for the the Fact File project.
Week of 11/14-11/18
Mon-Tues:Students will present their "A Warm Welcome" challenge projects to the class.
Wednesday-Thurs: Students will write a reflection based on his/her performance on the Warm Welcome challenge. (Due Fri start of class)
Friday: Students will be introduced to our next challenge on Globalization and will begin to write google form surveys---Directions here.
Week of 11/7-11/11
Monday: Students will present their "A Warm Welcome" challenge projects in small groups in order to receive feedback.
Tuesday: Students will use the feedback from yesterday to tweak any aspects of his/her projects.
Wed-Thurs: Students will present their "A Warm Welcome" challenge projects to the class.
Week of 10/31-11/4 Monday: MIX IT UP DAY Tuesday: Students will read an article and annotate as additional research for their "A Warm Welcome" challenge project. Wed-Friday: Students will have time to work on their "A Warm Welcome" challenge project (Rubric) (We will do small group practices presentations on Monday to provide feedback to one another--Meunier's sample)
Week of 10/24-10/28
Monday: Students will interview guest speakers who have moved either cross country or from another country using interview questions they developed.
Tuesday: Students will debrief about conversations had with guest speakers and will view videos of students their age acclimating to US Culture (Video link, Notes link for videos)
Wednesday-Friday: Students will begin working on his/her challenge projects for "A Warm Welcome" (Project
Week of 10/17-10/21
Monday: Students will reflect upon his/her performance on our last challenge and we will discuss as a class.(Reminder, re-dos for the Making a Difference Challenge are due Wed. by 3:00)
Tuesday/Wednesday: In Small groups, students will discuss the reasons why people move and will generate interview questions to ask friends and family about different moves they have made (Interviews due Friday).
Thursday: Students will discuss challenges and opportunities associated moving using these two pages (page 1, page 2)
Friday: Students will share the findings from their interviews and will tweak the interview questions for our guest speakers on Monday.
Week of 10/3-10/7
Monday: Students will work on finalizing their Making a Difference Challengeprojects. Presentations begin tomorrow. Please review the rubric and make changes accordingly.
Tues-Thur: Students will practice presenting his or her Making a Difference Challengeprojects and present the projects to the class.
Monday: Students will use survey results to narrow down their focus for research. Students will begin using the research template to research his/her topic (Due Thursday).
Tuesday: Students will continue to research and also develop questions for our guest speaker, City Councilman Skip Hall, later this week (Research Due Thursday).
Wednesday: Students will continue research (due Thursday).
Thursday: Students will submit research and begin to work on their final products for this Making a Difference Challenge (presentations begin next week on Tues.) Students will also listen to our guest speaker answer their questions during specials time.
Friday: No school, please continue to work over the weekend (presentations begin next week on Wed.)
Week 9/19-9/23
Monday: Students will work in small groups to examine local news sources and identify issues within the community that need resolution using this chart.
Tuesday: As a class we will discuss and identify the issues students found on Monday. We will talk about how the issues can be seen at a local and national level. Students will receive the Making a Difference Challenge Project.
Wednesday: Students will begin to develop surveys for the Making a Difference Challenge Project and should distribute the surveys by Monday (Sample survey template).
Thursday and Friday: Students will use technology to conduct research surrounding the problem issue they identified (research organizer)
Week of 9/12-9/16
Monday-Wednesday: Student groups will present their Olympic Project presentations (Due the day they present).
Thursday: Students will reflect upon how his/her Olympic Project and presentations went. Self reflections are due before the end of the hour.
Friday: In small groups, students will work with one another to examine newspapers and identify different issues within our local community.
Week of 9/6-9/9
Tuesday: Students are to finalize Olympics research and begin working on their final project to be presented next week. Olympic Project
Wed-Friday: Students will work together in their small groups to work on completing their Olympic Project and presentation for next week.
Week of 8/29-9/2
Monday: Students will examine the data from his/her survey and use data as part of their research.
Tuesday-Thursday: Students will use technology to research for the Olympic Project Challenge. Students will use googledocs to collaborate with small groups and summarize information found in research (Research Should be completed by Tuesday).
Friday:Students will listen to a guest speaker who attended and worked at the Olympics as a translator. (Research Should be completed by Tuesday).
Week of 8/22-8/26
Monday: Students will revise and edit their surveys with the help of other groups feedback. Surveys must be administered by next Monday.
Tuesday: Students will participate in a mini-lesson regarding bias and then identify bias in writing (HW give the survey by Monday)
Wednesday-Friday: Students will use technology to research for the Olympic Project Challenge. Students will use googledocs to collaborate with small groups and summarize information found in research.
Week of 8/15-8/19
Monday: Students will continue with the webquest they started on Friday. Webquests are due before the start of class on Tuesday (Link to questions, remember to share with Ms. M).
Tuesday: Students will receive the Olympic Project and get to know their group members. Students will learn about putting together appropriate survey questions with help from this website.
Wednesday: Students will begin writing their own surveys in their small Olympic Project Groups.
Thursday/Friday: Depending on the day, students will have a guest speaker from the library to discuss research skills with students. Other students will provide feedback to one-another's survey questions and finalize the survey to be administered over next week.
Week of 8/8-8/12
Monday: Students will discuss the Olympic coverage they watched and the preparation Rio needed to put in before hosting the games. Students will also work in groups to read and summarize and article pertaining to the Olympics.
Tuesday/Wednesday: Students will create a poster to teach their classmates about the Olympic article they read. Posters should be a mix of words and images.
Thursday: Students will participate in the "Teach and Run" activity in which they use the posters they've created to teach classmates the summary of what they've read.
Friday: Students will complete this webquest. See questions here
Week of 8/4-8/5
Thursday: Happy First Day of School!!!! Today students will get to know one another using some ice breaker activities.
Friday: Students will review the syllabus and must get it signed and returned by Monday. Students will view videos surrounding the Olympics. Hw is to watch some Olympic Coverage