ENTRY EVENT:

Project-Based Learning UNIT PLAN

SUPPLIES AND RESOURCES:
What special supplies will be needed?
*This is a general PBL planning sheet. Adapt the boxes to fit your specific project!
What will excite students and introduce the
project? Collect recyclables the week before (tissue boxes, cereal
boxes, paper towel roles, water bottles. Materials will be
Students will be shown
Name: a video
The of theGingerbread
Great Man
based Boatinput
on student Race
from brainstorm session.
gingerbread man running away from his
captors andGrade
reachingLevel: What technology will be needed?
a river. At the end Kindergarten
of the
video the gingerbread man will ask the iPads if necessary for filming presentation.
students forSubject:
help with designing something
STEM, SCI, LA to
help him get across the river.
What storage needs do you have?

N/A

PROJECT OVERVIEW:

Students will act as boat designers and build a boat to carry the Gingerbread Man across the river
CALENDAR/TIMELINE:
to safety.
How many sessions will the project take to complete?

2 week timeline including preliminary sink/float science lessons, brainstorming session, planning, building and final
authentic presentation
CONTENT:
Day 1: April 20th Sink and Float Science Lesson
Science:
Day 2: April 21Student
st
Entry will
Eventdemonstrate
and Need to Know an understanding of scientific reasoning, logic, and the nature of
Day 3: Boatby
science Research
planning(complete KWL- fill in theinvestigations
and conducting L) in which basic characteristics of properties of
Day 4: Individual Plans
objects are identified. and Group Request
Day 5: Group Planning Session
Day 6-9: Testing
st actual boat building materials and building boats, revision and reflection on initial design ideas
POG
Day 10:21MayCentury Skills (Growth
5th Presentation to CommunityMindset)
and Final Test

Language
What do you Arts-
have Listens and to
to do before speaks
make for
thisspecific purpose,
fit into your class Planning,
time? Drafting, Editing, Revising

DRIVING QUESTION:
N/A
How can you, as a part of a design team, create a boat that can carry the Gingerbread man across
the river safely?
PUBLIC PRESENTATION/AUDIENCE:
How will students share?

Students will create filmed, in-person, or print ad to sell their idea to the Gingerbread Man

Who will students present to (real-world connection)?

Parents, Teachers and Administration

Gingerbread Man will be projected on the screen asking students to show him what they came up with
POG SKILLS: STUDENT GROUPING:
What do you have to schedule in advance?
Which will be focused on? How will they be grouped?
N/A
Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking Teacher will pick groups of 3-4 students based on
What will other students do during presentations? student input and knowledge of skill level.
Think about I like, I wonders for other groups to share after presentation
What roles will students have in groups?
What strategies will you use to explicitly
model and assess them? Every student will work on the planning, design and
building process. 1-4 student(s) will present final
Observation and teacher notes of group work product.
participation

Class brainstorm of ideas and materials to be How will you have collaboration if it is not a
successful group project?