1.Lesson Plan
2. Activities
3. Note/Material
4 Group Activities
5. Videos
6. Quiz
7. Exercises
8. Residence Assignment
9. Presentation
Unit of Inquiry Planner
Grade: VII Teachers: Sushil Silwal
Theme
Overview |
An Inquiry into: Our Existence ((Where we are in place and time)
An inquiry of discoveries, explorations, migrations of human beings; personal histories, and the interconnectedness of people and civilization, from local to global perspective. (An inquiry into orientation in place and time; personal histories; homes and journeys; the discoveries, explorations and migrations of humankind; the relationships between and the interconnectedness of individuals and civilizations, from local and global perspectives.) The students will be become familiar about the origin and evolution of society. |
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Central Idea | The development of human Life depends upon the development of Society | |||
Line of Inquiry | 1. Origin of the Society (Form)
2. Development/ Evolution of the Society (Change) 3. Necessity of the Society (Function)
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Key Concepts | Form, Function, Change, Civilization, | Related Concepts
Evolution, Primitive stage, savagery stage, Civilized Stage, |
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Subject Competencies | Students’ desired learning outcomes include | |||
Skills | Thinking Skills
Social Skills Research Skills |
Content Connection to Language Arts | The students will be given comprehension passage to improve their comprehension skills. | |
Content Connection to Social Studies | Content Connection to Science | |||
Content Connection to Math | Content Connection to other subjects (Robotics) | |||
Content Connection to Art, Music and PE | Content Connection to Computer | |||
Learning Plan (Activities) | The students will be given few pictures based on different stages of evolution of society. They will be asked to put it in order and explain the what the pictures explain them.
The students will be given few more activities for next day: – What could have been the condition of our life if there was no development of Society? Discuss and share in the class. What do you think we will be doing if we were in the primitive age i.e. just in the starting of human life? Discuss and write. Compare and contrast the main features of your society to the features of savagery, barbarian and civilized societies. Make a Venn diagram to compare and Contrast.
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Stand-alone subjects/objectives |
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Formative Assessments | 1. State any five characteristics of present society.
2. What benefits are you getting from your society? Make a list. 3. How did Society originate? 4. What was life like for our early ancestors? 5. Why is society needed? 6. What are the reasons for the development of most of the old human civilization on the banks of rivers? 7. What benefits do we get from the society? 8. The life of early humans was nomadic. Why?
The students will be given a comprehension passage. They will have to complete the short answer questions and quiz based on the passage. 1. How was human society similar to animal society? 2. Why did individual choose to live in a group? 3. How was life of earliest people? 4. What are the achievements of modern society?
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Key
Vocabulary |
Anthropologist,
Band, Evolution, Hominids Kinship Primitive Savagery Sociology Splendor subsistence |
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Summative Assessment
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1. Write the process of development of society in five sentences. 2. Write any four differences between Savagery and Barbarian age of Society.
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Modifications /
Extensions |
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Texts /
Resources |
Social Studies and Population Education – Readmore Publication
Reading Material
YouTube Videos People Evolved from Apes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8rGUQc0rxg&feature=youtu.be Stories from the Stone Age – 1of15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7bqi70B3tE&feature=youtu.be Stories from the Stone Age – 2of15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XD9ehC6MWo&feature=youtu.be Stories from the Stone Age – 7of15
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Field Trips | The students will be taken to the Chauni Museum and other historical museums in the valley along with Military Museum in the next central idea based on Gehendra Shumsher. | Projects | Do you think the necessity of Society for the different aspects of human life is fulfilled in your society? If yes, how? If not, what should be done? Do an inquiry and observe the facts in your society and write it. | |
Time line | Savagery Stage or Stone Age (Preliminary Age)
Barbarian Stage (Middle Age) Civilized Age (Modern Age) |
Remarks | ||