Lesson+Plan+Ideas

=**Common Core Standards**=

Text Types and Purposes

 * Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
 * Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
 * Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.

**Geometry**
= = =**National Social Studies Standards**=
 * Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes, and describe the relative positions of these objects using terms such as //above//, //below//, //beside//, //in front of//, //behind//, and //next to//.
 * Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size.
 * Identify shapes as two-dimensional (lying in a plane, “flat”) or three-dimensional (“solid”).

**Culture**

 * **Human beings create, learn, share, and adapt to culture.** The study of culture examines the socially transmitted beliefs, values, institutions, behaviors, traditions and way of life of a group of people; it also encompasses other cultural attributes and products, such as language, literature, music, arts and artifacts, and foods. Students come to understand that human cultures exhibit both similarities and differences, and they learn to see themselves both as individuals and as members of a particular culture that shares similarities with other cultural groups, but is also distinctive. In a multicultural, democratic society and globally connected world, students need to understand the multiple perspectives that derive from different cultural vantage points.

=**21st Century Skills**=
 * Collaboration
 * Integration…cross-curricular
 * Creativity
 * Inquiry
 * Critical thinking
 * Problem-solving…what they want to present