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Bike Path
Denise Cady, Cindy Megli, Julie Noord, and Vicki Waldbusser

Milieu (setting / background):
The Prophetstown Lyndon Tampico CUSD #3 will join with Whiteside in the creation of a new bike/walk path. This project will offer Kindergarten and 1st grade students many learning opportunities.

Journey (task):
The students will learn about bike safety, develop an understanding of state and local government, study environmental issues and observe area plants, insects, and wildlife. The students will participate in field trips within the area.

Provisions (Resources):
This area is to list web links, technology and non technology resources.

Wheels on the Bike	Map
Tiptoe through the Tulips	Fly
Flight of the Bumblebee	Bicycle Safety
Write to your congressman	Hennepin Canal
Insect recipes	Plant life
More fun recipes	KinderGarden

Commodity (products produced):
1. Write a letter in support of bike path.
2. Plant flowers.
3. Make a class book about insects and wildlife along the bike path.
4. Make a class graph about the color of their bikes.
5. Draw a picture using a paint program.
6. Create a recipe to look like an insect.
7. Document changes(seasons) in journals.
8. Create insects from recyclable items.

Navigational Facilitation (Process)
1. The students will learn about area government officials and write a group letter in support of the bike trail.
2. The students will visit the bike trail and plant flowers along it.
3. After their visit, the students will brainstorm a list of all the animals and insects that they saw, choose one, and make a page for a classroom book.
4. The teacher will ask the students what color their bike is and make a class graph.
5. The teacher will demonstrate how to use a Paint program and the students will create a scene about the bike trail.
6. In groups of 4 or 5, the students will create a snack that looks like an insect.
7. Students will draw and document in their journals what they think the bike path will look like in each of the four seasons.
8. At home, students will create an insect out of recyclable items and bring them to share with their classmates.

Epilogue (evaluation):

This area is used to display the assessment process.

The project will be graded with the following rubric:

Scored Items	5
Listening	raises hands, refrains from interruptions and stays on topic
Math	creates, records, sorts,and classifies
Writng	draws pictures to convey meaning, uses directionality
Home project	follows directions and complete project on time.
Bicycle Safety	applies aprropriate rules to promote safety
Science	states the characteristics of the four seasons, identifies ways to protect the environment, identifies basic plant life-seed to plant.
Economics	participates in preservation of natural resources by reducing, reusing, and recycling in the classroom.
Citizenship	contributes to and works cooperativly in large and small groups, explains how rules and law protect us at home, school, and in the community, understanding basic government structure
Grade	5= always 3= sometines 1=seldom

Principle Calibration (standards alignments)
Illinois State Learning Standards

State Goal 1A: Apply word analysis and vocabulary skills to comprehend selections.
State Goal 1B: Apply reading strategies to improve understanding and fluency.
State Goal 1C: Comprehend a broad range of reading materials.
State Goal 3A: Use correct grammar, spelling, punctuation, capitalization and structure.
State Goal 3B: Compose well organized and coherent writing for specific purposes and audiences.
State Goal 3C: Communicate ideas in writing to accomplish a variety of purposes.
State Goal 4A: Listen effectively in formal and informal situations.
State Goal 4B: Speak effectively using language appropriate to the situation and audience.
State Goal 5A: Locate, organize, and use information from various sources to answer questions, solve problems and communicate ideas.
State Goal 5C: Apply acquired information, concepts and ideas to communicate in a variety of formats.
State Goal 6A: Demonstrate knowledge and use of numbers and their representations in a broad range of theoretical and practical settings.
State Goal 6B: Investigate represent and solve problems using number facts, operations(additions, subtraction, multiplication, division) and their properties, algorithms and relationships.
State Goal 6D: Solve problems using comparison of quantities, ratios, proportions and percents.
State Goal 8B: Interpret and describe numerical relationships using tables, graphs and symbols.
State Goal 10A: Organize, describe and make predictions from existing data.
State Goal 10B: Formulate questions, design data collection methods, gather and analyze data and communicate findings.
State Goal 11A: Know and apply the concepts, principles and processes of scientific inquiry.
State Goal 12A: Know and apply concepts that explain how living things function, adapt and change.
State Goal 12B: Know and apply concepts that describe how living things interact with each other and with their environment.
State Goal 12E: Know and apply concepts that describe the features and processes of the Earth and its resources.
State Goal 13A: Know and apply the accepted practices of science.
State Goal 13B: Know and apply concepts that describe the interaction between science, technology and society.

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