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Understanding Goals
Before start planning the central ideas must be carefully addressed to ensure that learners
understand them completely. Prior goal is to understand how the world we live in works, and
specifically for this month how light and shadows work. Indeed, the central idea is that light
creates shadows and reflections but we invite all Edu1st family to put their thoughts and insights
in order to expand and explore this significant topic in the most creative way. Start with the Web
we already created and from there lets all the teachers add something new! And as we already
suggested an ongoing weekly assessment and a personal reflection will help each teacher to
reinforce or/and accommodate the initial goals and objectives.
Content-Related Areas

The students will learn:
The history and importance of light sources.
That light creates shadows
Concepts of reflection and refraction
How light effects color
Skill-Related Areas

Students will become proficient in:
Language and Literacy:
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Expand new vocabulary: Through hands on experiences and discussions, children
will become familiar with words such as shadow, light, bigger, smaller, closer and
farther.

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Print awareness: Children will see their words written on class charts. They will
listen and/or read along as the words are read back to them.