Overview and Background: Unit: Life Long Learning

Kay Wulf : Cheney USD 268

Education. : Education. : Education.

Cheney : Grades 1 - 1 : Aug. - Jun.

Title:	Life Long Learning
Topics:	Learning
Time Frame:
Start Date:	-
Status:	Draft
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Summary:
This unit will have students look at adults and how they have continued to learn throughout their lives.

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Stage 1: Identify Desired Results

State:	Local Standard
Title:	Mission Statement
Standard(s):	Develop lifelong learners who are responsible and productive citizens.

Understandings:
user	People learn throughout their lives.

Essential Questions:
User	When does learning begin and end? Why is it important to learn? How does learning affect our lives, good or bad? How has learning changed over the years? What is important to learn?

Knowledge and Skills:

K
That adults continue to study and learn.
That careers and job involve learning and the need to continue learning.

S
Interview skills

Stage 2: Determine Acceptable Evidence

Assessment Summary:
Each student will make a presentation based on their interviews as to why lifelong learning is important.

Task/Prompt: Learning Lasts a Lifetime

Type: Performance Task

Topics: Learning

Summary:
Each student will make a presentation based on their interviews as to why lifelong learning is important.

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Link 2: http://
Link 3: http://
Link 4: http://
Link 5: http://

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Student Directions:
You are a researcher. You should interview two people - a family member and someone not in your family - to find out how they have continued to learn throughout their lives.

You should find out about:
-their career choice and the training required.
-training required to keep their job or to advance.
-learning they do in their personal lives such as hobbies and responsibilities around the house.
-how they teach others.

You need to make an oral presentation about how learning is important throughout life.

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Stage 3: Plan Learning Experiences and Instruction

Learning Activities:

W
Invite a resource person to tell how later in life they returned to college or continued their education or changed their career.

H
The counselor will discuss career choices and the education needed. Each child will make a drawing of their career choice.

E
Each child will interview a family member and a non-family member about their continuing to learn and how learning has changed over the years. This information will listed on a chart showing the reasons to continue learning.
Visit a rest home and discuss with residents the importance of life long learning.

R
The interviews and the chart will be discussed. Each child will prepare and practice on a presentation for the class.

E
Each child will make a presentation on why lifelong learning is important based on their interviews and discussion.

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