MYP Unit Planner

Unit Title Teacher(s) Subject and Grade Level Time frame and Duration Telling your story - Minecraft Unit Jay Rojas Technology Grade 6 Year 1 15 Weeks

Stage 1: Integrate significant concept, area of interaction and unit question, and ensure it can be assessed
AOI Focus Environments: Students will investigate and discover how the use of technology is used to impact storytelling and society building. How do societies evolve and how can technology help us to tell digital stories about our communities? Significant Concepts How can we learn about how to tell digital stories about our communities through technology?

MYP Unit Question How can we inform our human experiences through technology? Assessment
What task(s) will allow students the opportunity to respond to the unit question? What will constitute acceptable evidence or understanding? How will students show what they have understood?
Project
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Image formats (Prezi) (A, B, C, D) Students will go online and research different types of digital image format and then use Prezi for presentation.

Project

Puzzle Photoshop (B, D, E, F) Students will create a Photoshop puzzle effect, turn any photo into a jigsaw puzzle, or at least, create the illusion that the photo is made up of small puzzle pieces. Minimum of 3 floating puzzles...

Project

Pop-up Photoshop (A, B, C, D, E, F) Students will choose an image of a famous landmark and manipulate the image into a pop-up photo using Photoshop. Using MS Word, students will write a short information (interesting facts) regarding...

Task

Minecraft Pyramids (A, B, C, D, E, F) Egypt, oh mystical Egypt! Are your pyramids made by aliens? Why the perfect geometrical shape? Does it have special powers that preserves the bodies of kings and pharoes? Are servants really trappe...

Personal engagement

Minecraft unit reflection (E, F) Now that you have completed your projects it is time for your reflective essay. Write a few paragraphs on your blog on how your project went and what you have learned about using Minecraft for educ...

Which specific MYP objectives will be addressed during this unit?

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Which MYP assessment criteria will be used?

Stage 2: Backward planning: from the assessment to the learning activities through inquiry
Content
What knowledge and/or skills (from my course overview) are going to be used to enable the student to respond to the guiding question? What (if any) Standard/skills are to be addressed?

Knowledge & Skills: Students will collaborate using a range of technologies including the Minecraft, blogging using their personal websites, online presentations using Prezi, graphics and multimedia skills using Photoshop, CamStudio, Handbrake.

Approaches to Learning
How will this unit contribute to the overall development of subject-specific and general ATL skills?

Collaboration: working in groups - including delegating and taking responsibility, adapting to roles, resolving group conflicts, demonstrating teamwork accepting others including analysing others ideas, respecting others points of view, using ideas critically Communication: being informed including the use of a variety of media Reflection: self-awareness: including seeking out positive criticism, reflecting on areas of perceived limitation Thinking: Generating ideas including the use of brainstorming

Learner Profile
Which characteristics of the learner profile will be emphasized? How will you make students aware of them?

Inquirers: Students are required to investigate technology and how it can be applied in a given context. Online searching. Knowledgeable: Students will become aware of how different technologies impact learning Communicators: Students will learn to collaborate and work in and across groups to achieve goals through the shared used of technology Risk takers: Students will become comfortable with technology and how to take risks in experimentation and use of technology to further personal and group goals and objectives Reflective: Students will reflect on use of technology to achieve goals. Students will reflect on how processes and decision making.

International Mindedness
How will international-mindedness be addressed?

Learning Experiences
How will students know what is expected of them? Will they see examples, rubrics, templates, etc.? Students will be encourage to use the their personal websites and to adapt to tasks as instructed on a daily or weekly basis. Online tools and services will be used to guide the student towards objectives. How will students aquire the knowledge and practice the skills required? How will they practice applying these? Students will have hands-on experience at using a variety of technologies and tools to solve problems, collaborate and be creative. They will use computers in the classroom, online tools and have the ability to access and share resources at home and online. Do the students have enough prior knowledge?

Teaching strategies
How will we use formative assessments to give students feedback during the unit? Project goals and objectives. Tasks and online project deliverables. Observation and direct instruction and practice.

What different teaching methodologies will be employed?

Project-based learning. Inquiry-based learning. Discovery learning. Connectivist approach to the use of technologies for group goals and objectives.

How are we differentiating teaching and learning for all? Have we considered those learning in the language other than their mother tongue? Have we considered those with special educational needs? Technologies offered have different language interface. Gifted children can push ahead and accomplish more with the same tools. Less gifted children can move at their own pace while still meeting objectives and goals.

The students are 'Digital Natives'. The students are already familiar with the technologies and services to be used - the teaching materials and practice are intended to allow the students to use the tools to further experimentation, direct experience and knowledge building.

Resources
What resources are available to us? How will our classroom environment, local environment and/or the community be used to facilitate students' experience during the unit?

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Ongoing reflections and evaluations

In keeping an ongoing record, consider the following questions. There are further stimulus questions in the unit planning section of MYP: from principles into practice.

Students And Teachers What did we find compelling? Were our disciplinary knowledge/skills challenged in any way? What inquiries arose during the learning? What, if any, extension activities arose? How did we reflectboth on the unit and on our own learning? Which attributes of the learner profile were encouraged through this unit? What opportunities were there for student-initiated action? Possible Connections

 How successful was the collaboration with other teachers within my subject group and from other subject groups? What interdisciplinary understandings were or could be forged through collaboration with other subjects? Assessment Were students able to demonstrate their learning? How did the assessment tasks allow students to demonstrate the learning objectives identified for this unit? How did I make sure students were invited to achieve at all levels of the criteria descriptors? Are we prepared for the next stage? Data Collection How did we decide on the data to collect? Was it useful?