Lesson-Building+Haiti+Village

= Designing and Building a Model of a Haiti Village =

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=Planning= - teachers planned using Adobe Connect from a distance

=Introduction=
 * Discussion about Haiti and devestation
 * Wavin' Flag video (below)
 * Introduce task (below)
 * Discuss learning goals and set success criteria

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=Project=
 * 1) In groups of 2 students from the grade 4/5 class and 2 students from grade 6 class
 * 2) Design 9 buildings to help rebuild a village in Haiti (discussion about 3-D shapes) in Adobe Connect.
 * 3) Grade 6's drew plans for the buildings on isometric dot paper and posted them in online forum
 * 4) Grade 4/5's drew nets of buildings and put together buildings
 * 5) Grade 6's drew "floor plan" of village on grid paper and posted them in online forum
 * 6) Grade 4/5's put buildings together to form village according to plans by grade 6's
 * 7) Grade 4/5's showed the grade 6's the final villages over video conference

=Student Work=

Sample plans from Adobe Connect rooms

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 * [[image:adobe2.png width="400" height="278"]]
 * [[image:church.png width="376" height="306"]]
 * [[image:firestation.png width="400" height="280"]]