Unit Map 2011-2012

Saigon South International School

Bass, Jill / Swimming 5 / Grade 5 (Elementary School)
Friday, November 25, 2011, 12:41PM

Unit: Aquatic Empire (Week 17, 22 Weeks)
Stage 1: Desired Results
Standards & Benchmarks
ESLR, Schoolwide, ESLR
Academic Excellence
demonstrate effective communication skills in spoken and written English
use technology tools responsibly and effectively
Sense of Self
express their convictions and viewpoints effectively
Balance
lead a healthy lifestyle
ETS: Educational Technology (2007), ETS: All Grades, ETS.S: The ext
Generation
1. Creativity and Innovation
Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative
products and processes using technology. Students:
b. create original works as a means of personal or group expression.
3. Research and Information Fluency
Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information. Students:
d.process data and report results.
5. Digital Citizenship
Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice
legal and ethical behavior. Students:
b.exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration,
learning, and productivity.
c.demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning.
ASPE: Physical Education, ASPE: 3 - 5 , Movement concepts and tactics
Standard 2: Demonstrates understanding of movement concepts, principles, strategies, and
tactics as they apply to the learning and performance of physical activities.
They use performance feedback to increase their cognitive understanding of a skill
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as well as to improve performance.
ASPE: Physical Education, ASPE: 3 - 5 , Physical fitness
Standard 4: Achieves and maintains a health-enhancing level of physical fitness.
Older children regularly participate in physical activity for the purpose of improving
physical fitness.
With teacher assistance, students interpret the results and understand the
significance of information provided by formal measures of physical fitness.
ASPE: Physical Education, ASPE: 3 - 5 , Health,enjoyment&social interaction
Standard 6: Values physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression,
and/or social interaction.
Success and improvement are attributed to effort and practice.
Brief Summary (IB:Include TOK/Int'l Connections)
In this unit, Aquatic Empire, students will reflect and make self assessments about their
aquatics class via blogging. This is a work in progress and an ongoing unit of study until
the end of the school year. They will make goals, track their progress through time trials
and write reflections on the lessons in swim class. However, the long term goal is to lead a
healthy and active lifestyle to promote fitness for their overall well being.

Understandings
Swimming goals promote life long fitness and
a healthy lifestyle.

Topical Understandings:
1. Computers are a useful tool for
collaborating and integrating different
disciplines. Blogs are useful for self
expression, reflection, self assessment and
communication.

2. There are ethics and responsibilities
associated with social media.

Essential Questions
How can I set aquatics goal that could be
reached by the end of the school year and
create a mechanism to reflect on the
attainment of these goals?

Topical Questions:
1. What are the useful technology tools that
I can use for collaborating and
integrating different disciplines?

2. How can blogging demonstrate the ESLRs,
Sense of Self, Balance in Life, and Academic
Excellence?




3. Why is it important to reflect and edit a
blog before it is published to a world
audience?








Knowledge

Making goals are healthy and important.

Goals can be short and/or ongoing.

The goal needs to be by the end of the school
year.

Practice improves performance.

Vocabulary related to technology.

Blogs are published and viewed by the public.

Skills
Students will be able to..

Improve stroke technique through practice.

Track their progress with time trials using a
google spreadsheet.

Write reflections on their classroom blogs
based on their goals and lessons in class.

Make self assessments and share them with
parents and teachers.

Understand the implications of social media
and how their work is published and viewed.

Reflections are valuable self assessments.


Red Cross Check List
Year at a Glance
Time Trials
Stage 2: Assessment Evidence
Performance Tasks & Assessments
Goals
Performance: On Line Postings
Students will make individual goals and describe the means to reach their goal.
Time Trials
Performance
Students will strive to decrease their time over the year by improving their strokes for time
trials as a pre and post assessment using a google spreadsheet.
Learning Journeys
ESLR Activities: Multimedia Presentations
Students will share their blogs with their parents at Learning Journeys to demonstrate the
ESLRs- Balance in Life, Sense of Self and Academic Excellence.
Reflections
Other Evidence: On Line Postings
Students will write reflections and self assessments based on lessons in Aquatics class.
Goal Setting Rubric
Independent Projects
Students will understand the criteria for the rubric on setting goals.

Aquatics Goal Setting Rubric
SSullivan G5 Time Trials
Stage 3: Learning Plan
Learning Plan
The students will make individual goals for
aquatics class to achieve by the end of the
school year.

The students will write reflections on their
blogs related to their goals and health and
fitness at least once a month using the
following tags; swimming5, swimming 5KR,
swimming5SS or swimming5RG.
Resources
Computer
Classroom Teacher with IT experience
Swimming pool
Personal blog
Time Trials
Year at a Glance
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The aquatics teacher will respond and post
comments on their blogs at least once
a month.

The students will compare their time trials at
the beginning, mid-year and the end of the
year and track their progress using google
spreadsheet.

The students will make a self assessment
about their goal to share with their
parents for Learning Journeys.

Grade 5 Mr Sullivan.docx
G5 Student Blogs
Google form

G5 Year at a Glance
SSullivan G5 Time Trials
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