The process
Step 1: you will form a group of 4 students, two girls and two boys, your main team. You will look up the words "agent" and "change" online using the following website:
Word Central Write down the definitions
(Tip: one pair on each word?)
(After reading/writing about Agent, you'll need to type Change in the orange bar and click on GO)
Step 2:
Discuss to define "Agent of Change." Write it down.
(Tip: the student with the best handwriting writes or taking turns?)
Step 3:
Check out: Voice of Youth by UNICEF
to infer what an Agent of Change can do in our world.
Write down at least two examples. (We can infer that an agent of change...)
Step 4:
The main team will research and report about an important woman and an important man selected from the list below (working in pairs might be more efficient.)
1) Choose and click on the name to access the website.
Abraham Lincoln Eleonor Roosevelt
Mahatma Gandhi Wangari Maathai
Michael Jordan Clara Barton
Sitting Bull Nelson Mandela (adv.)
Rosa Parks Harriet Tubman
Mother Teresa Golda Meir
2) Print and fill out the Famous Person Worksheet.
3) After filling out the worksheet, print one picture of this person.
Click here: Google - images and type your person's name. Search.
Choose one picture from page 1 or 2.
Click on the picture, then click on "See full size image" top left
Print.
4) You will share the new information of your famous person to your group.
Step 5: (homework)
Fill out Popular Agent of Change Worksheet by interviewing a family member about who he or she thinks is an Agent of Change. Use the worksheet which will help you with the interview.
Step 6: Back in your group,
1) Share your information with your group mates.
2) Evaluate all traits
to select the most important four qualities or/and actions
that define an "Agent of Change"
(An agent of change is someone who...
Step 7: POSTER TIME!
1. Each of you writes down and illustrates a selected quality.
Find a picture or a drawing in a magazine or online (google images)
2. Design the presentation on butcher paper.
Agree where the title, your names, all your work go (Qualities and your two famous people as examples.)
3. Present your design to the teacher who will give you a poster board.
Glue.
4. Rehearse your presentation. Everyone need to say something!
Word Central Write down the definitions
(Tip: one pair on each word?)
(After reading/writing about Agent, you'll need to type Change in the orange bar and click on GO)
Step 2:
Discuss to define "Agent of Change." Write it down.
(Tip: the student with the best handwriting writes or taking turns?)
Step 3:
Check out: Voice of Youth by UNICEF
to infer what an Agent of Change can do in our world.
Write down at least two examples. (We can infer that an agent of change...)
Step 4:
The main team will research and report about an important woman and an important man selected from the list below (working in pairs might be more efficient.)
1) Choose and click on the name to access the website.
Abraham Lincoln Eleonor Roosevelt
Mahatma Gandhi Wangari Maathai
Michael Jordan Clara Barton
Sitting Bull Nelson Mandela (adv.)
Rosa Parks Harriet Tubman
Mother Teresa Golda Meir
2) Print and fill out the Famous Person Worksheet.
3) After filling out the worksheet, print one picture of this person.
Click here: Google - images and type your person's name. Search.
Choose one picture from page 1 or 2.
Click on the picture, then click on "See full size image" top left
Print.
4) You will share the new information of your famous person to your group.
Step 5: (homework)
Fill out Popular Agent of Change Worksheet by interviewing a family member about who he or she thinks is an Agent of Change. Use the worksheet which will help you with the interview.
Step 6: Back in your group,
1) Share your information with your group mates.
2) Evaluate all traits
to select the most important four qualities or/and actions
that define an "Agent of Change"
(An agent of change is someone who...
Step 7: POSTER TIME!
1. Each of you writes down and illustrates a selected quality.
Find a picture or a drawing in a magazine or online (google images)
2. Design the presentation on butcher paper.
Agree where the title, your names, all your work go (Qualities and your two famous people as examples.)
3. Present your design to the teacher who will give you a poster board.
Glue.
4. Rehearse your presentation. Everyone need to say something!