Hypotheses and Experiments – Students use information gathered during the immersive experience and the
building background knowledge phase to generate hypotheses and to test them through experiments; may
occur simultaneously with the building background knowledge phase.
Big Ideas
Essential Questions
Arts Pedagogy
Activities & Art
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Creative Synthesis – Allows students to synthesize all of the information they have learned over the course
of the unit and to express their understandings through an artistic product.
Big Ideas
Essential Questions
Arts Pedagogy
Activities & Art
Materials/
Making
Resources
Presentation of Findings – Provides students with an authentic audience for sharing their scientific findings
and artistic expression.
Big Ideas
Essential Questions
Arts Pedagogy
Activities & Art
Materials/
Making
Resources