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LESSON
THREE
Overall Unit Question: How have world religions shaped who I
am today?
Lesson 3 Includes:
- Lesson Question
- Learning Standards Addressed
- Performance Objective Addressed
- Resources Listed
- Learning tasks
- Assessment tasks
- Rubrics for assessment
- Reflection guide
Lesson Question:
How would you describe, illustrate, and present the main beliefs of Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Animism, Judaism, or Christianity if you were a believer and follower of that religion?
Learning Standards Addressed:
Standard 2 - World History of Learning Standards for Social
Studies.
- Students can analyze changing and competing interpretations
of issues, events, and developments throughout world history.
- They can analyze the roles and contributions of individuals
and groups to cultural and religious practices and activities.
- They can understand the development and connectedness of world
religions over time.
Performance Objective Addressed:
Describe, illustrate, and support main beliefs of Islam,
Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Animism, Judaism, and Christianity
as a believer of that religion might.
A. Set: Continue interview presentations. Share with
one peer your most significant fact recorded about each leader
interviewed.
B. Teaching and Learning Tasks:
Using at least five of your intelligences, present the main beliefs of one of the main world
religions or philosophies, in groups of three or four. Using charts in the room, review eight intelligence possibilities:
- Logical mathematical
- Bodily-kinesthetic
- Linguistic
- Spatial
- Musical
- Interpersonal
- Intrapersonal
- Naturalistic
C. Assessment Tasks:
Use the checklist below as a guide to completing the project and recording how many of the
intelligences were used in this presentation.
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Checklist for Assessment of MITA Projects at Cuba-Rushford School
Use this list to check your use of multiple intelligence activities
in your projects. The list will help you to make sure that you have
included at least five of these listed ways of knowing your topic.
Please pass in this checklist with your final project:
Student's or Group's Names:
__________________________________________.
Project Title:
_________________________________________.
Main question addressed by this project:
Materials or resources used:
Criteria to be used for assessment of project:
Checklist for multiple intelligences used:
Linguistic:
_____ clearly focused main idea
_____ well - written or spoken
_____ well documented facts, such as names,
places or events
_____ relevant sources used
_____ correct spelling and grammar
_____ creative ideas communicated verbally
_____ appropriate vocabulary to express ideas
_____ appropriate narratives used
_____ inclusion of word games, such as puns,
lyrics, or poetry
_____ other
Logical - Mathematical:
_____ clearly focused problems demonstrated
_____ well organized
_____ number games or strategies
_____ relevant computer demonstration
_____ correct facts and calculations
_____ creativity such as puzzles, games or
brain teasers
_____ appropriate abstract and concrete
examples to express ideas
_____ appropriate cause-effect illustrated
_____ organized into appropriate categories
or clusters
_____ other
Bodily-kinesthetic:
_____ clearly focused moves used
_____ well - coordinated fine-motor skills evident
_____ appropriate role plays or mimes
_____ relevant building projects evident
_____ correct assemblies of pieces
_____ creative and dramatic expression
_____ appropriate large motor skills
evidenced
_____ tactile activities such as clay
modeling or building mock-ups
_____ inclusion of running, dancing,
jumping or swinging
_____ other
Spatial:
_____ well - drafted maps, charts and diagrams
_____ creative pictorial expression
_____ relevant sources used
_____ clearly focused visual images
_____ sculptures or paintings included
_____ creative ideas communicated visually
_____ appropriate graphics, brainstorming
diagrams, or charts
_____ three-dimensional constructions
_____ inclusion of mazes, puzzles or visual games
_____ other
Musical:
_____ clearly focused sounds
_____ well sung
_____ well documented musical facts
_____ musical compositions
_____ correct timing and rhythm
_____ creative sounds and expressions
_____ appropriate instrumentals
_____ listening activities
_____ inclusion of rhyming, tapping, or
appropriate sound effects
_____ other
Intrapersonal:
_____ independent ideas
_____ sense of personal strengths
_____ knowledge and accommodation of personal
weaknesses
_____ work done independently
_____ personal reflections
_____ creative role playing
_____ self-motivation evident
_____ self-confident
_____ articulates appropriate ideas, feelings,
and preferences
_____ other
Interpersonal:
_____ works well with others
_____ includes others' ideas and input
_____ affirms others' strengths and abilities
_____ forms close friendships
_____ shows care and concern for others
_____ involves committees, clubs or groups
_____ appropriate collaboration and
communication evident
_____ requires contributions of others
_____ inclusion of team teaching and
learning opportunities.
_____ other
Naturalistic:
_____ collection of data from the natural world
_____ well-labeled specimens from nature
_____ well-organized collections
_____ sorts natural data, categorizes and
classifies information
_____ visiting museums and natural historic sites
_____ demonstrates research about nature
_____ appropriate vocabulary for experiments in
nature
_____ narratives from expert naturalists
_____ evidence of magnifiers, microscopes,
binoculars or photographs
_____ other
Checklist taken from the book, STUDENT ASSESSMENT
THAT WORKS: A PRACTICAL APPROACH. (Allyn and Bacon
1999)
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D. Rubrics for Assessment:
Use the criteria students listed on their assessment guide above, and add any criteria that you
feel is significant but that students may have omitted. Make sure these are added before students
present or pass in projects.
E. Closure:
Students briefly present projects and classmates critique
the presentations. All critiques are passed in and returned to
students with their corrected assignment.
F. Lesson Reflection:
Jot down a few notes about the process of this lesson. Look at it from the students' eyes and adjust the work so that they learn more successfully as the unit progresses.
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