Project+Overview+and+Objectives

==**ELEMENTARY GROUP PROJECT:** == ==**絶滅の恐れのある動物** == By: クロスナー・ベッキー、ヘンダーソン・マーク、松鷹姿帆

**OVERVIEW** : Students will distinguish between endangered and non-endangered animals. The students will then investigate why certain animals are endangered. In groups they will create a PowerPoint presentation describing the animal (in Japanese), explaining why it is endangered and giving their thoughts about what we can do to help this animal both in written and oral formats (in English). Students will then post their PowerPoint to the class website and these website will be exchanged with an elementary school in Japan.

**TARGET GRADE** : Grade 5

**TARGET LENGTH** : This unit will cover seven weeks, with three days per week, totaling nine 30-minute classes. The unit can also be converted into two days per week at 45-minutes each. Unit may be stretched longer with additional activities if necessary.

**FINAL PROJECT** : The student’s final project will be a PowerPoint presentation in groups about one endangered species. The students will explain about their group’s animal (in Japanese), why it is endangered and give their thoughts about how we can help this animal (in English). Students will then post their PowerPoint to the class website and these website will be exchanged with an elementary school in Japan.

**OBJECTIVES: By the end of this unit, students will be able to:**
 * Make origami and understand the cultural significance of some animals in Japan
 * Compare and contrast animal sounds in Japanese and American English
 * Describe and identify endangered and non-endangered animals (using colors, body parts and descriptive adjectives)
 * Classify animals into endangered and non-endangered species (ANALYSIS)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Type in Hiragana and Katakana using a word processor
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Present information about their endangered animal to the class (in Japanese)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Investigate why animals are endangered and brainstorm solutions to these problems in small groups (in English) (ANALYSIS)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Recommend how we can save endangered animals by creating a poster with a simple message in Japanese (EVALUATION & SYNTHESIS)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**TARGETED STANDARDS COMMUNICATION 1.1:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students discuss global warming, descriptions, likes and dislikes, where animals live, what they eat, brainstorm and discuss the reasons why the animals are becoming endangered.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**1.2:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students understand and interpret written and spoken language on a variety of topics
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students read a short paragraph in Japanese and draw the picture based on that paragraph. Students listen to teacher and draw, write, or color an animal
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students make animal sounds.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**1.3:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students give presentations of their animals and read several sentences about the animal, its habitat, and a short message.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students give a presentation about an endangered species: short biography, message, why it is endangered, and how we can save
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students post their presentations on their school website

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
 * CULTURES**
 * 2.2:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products and perspectives of the culture studied
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Discuss the significance of different animals in Japan and then make origami of those animals

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**CONNECTIONS 3.1:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Students reinforce and further their knowledge of other disciplines through the foreign language
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Language Arts: In the WebQuest assignment, students will read, think and write about their endangered species
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Technology: Students will use the internet to complete a WebQuest, post their PowerPoint presentations on the school website, and learn how to use Hiragana/Katakana on a word processor
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Science: Students learn about environmental issues (global warming), students identify endangered and not endangered animals

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**COMPARISONS 4.1:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Students demonstrate understanding of the nature of language through comparisons of the language studied and their own
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Compare and contrast animal sound in Japanese and American English

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**4.2:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Students demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Discuss the significance of different animals in Japan and then make origami of those animals

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**COMMUNITIES 5.1:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Students use the language both within and beyond the school setting
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students will post their completed PowerPoints on the web (WikiSpace, school website)