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Extreme Weather Unit: Student Road Map


As my second artifact for this course, I chose to use the Student Road Map which I developed as an introduction and guiding document to the unit. I am really proud of how this turned out, and I really am excited to show it to next year's students! While completing this assignment, I really thought about the model of PBL and how creating engaging situations connected to real life situations are motivating and exciting for students. With this mindset, I created this Road Map while pretending that the students were meteorologists who were attending a "National Meteorologist Association Summit on Extreme Weather" and chosen to conduct research while answering the essential questions for the unit! I think having the students role play during class will really connect them to the goals of the unit, and I'm thrilled to see how into it they get!!

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