Attached are several anchor charts we completed together in class during the unit. Also included is our word wall and investigation questions anchor chart.

Students viewed image clusters and engaged in a "predict-observe-conclude" protocol.

Students chose a final product of either a picture book, a play, or a puppet show. They had the BEST time showing their learning.

Students made posters to encourage people to conserve resources in English and Spanish.

The students were overall inspired by the Champions for Change and deeply cared about protecting the plants and animals in our environment. They took a hint from "Bellen the Crayon Activist" and decided that they would first try to inspire their families to make changes at home to help better our community and world. The students loved the creation part of this inquiry as it gave them the most time to share their individual ideas and collaborate with friends. They were truly empowered. My only regret is that we started it so late in the year. I would've loved to have been able to continue to foster this mindset.

We shared all of our learning with our community by holding an Innovation Museum. The museum had three exhibits- past, present and future. The past exhibit shared all about innovators of the past. The present exhibit shared how we innovated at our school and our future exhibit shared about our future innovation ideas. Students rotated throughout the exhibits presenting about their learning.

Students write one word/short phrases on index cards that describe what contributes to a healthy democracy and add to poster throughout unit.

Students wrote paragraphs and built dioramas to share information with younger students about the history of the Dakota and Anishinaabe people in Minnesota.

These are from my class last year. The first step was to create a display board that included physical and human characteristics, travel plan, raw materials and products, inquiry statement, and other facts about the country. The teams of students created an inquiry statement and project based on their country. The students had a World Expo inviting the first grade students. Each team had a table and presented their country's display board and inquiry project. Some presentations were interactive while others were oral presentations. The first grade students had "passport" books that were stamped by the third grade students at each booth.

To kick off our innovation unit, we explored innovations of the past.

This is our classroom quilt square display. Each student has at least 1 completed square that is displayed, and some from each lesson are combined to make our quilt.

Half of my class chose to create “calm down bracelets.” They interviewed our school counselor about good strategies and made templates for their bracelets. They shared about their bracelets on announcements and made a green screen video. They packaged and delivered bracelets to each class in our building and gave our school counselor a supply as well. Classrooms added them to their calm down centers in their classrooms.