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=Unit Planner=

Critical Content/Concept Web

 * Unit Theme**: Force & Motion
 * Conceptual Lens:** Design
 * Unit Length:**
 * Class List: Grade 8 Students**


 * ===Unit Overview=== ||
 * When a visitor walks through the gates of a theme park, the expectations are high, but the sky is the limit. Why do people keep going back to a theme park? Is it the familiar smell of fried dough? Or is it the way a freshly made cotton candy melts in your mouth? This could be true, but what makes the park? Is it the intricate design and planning of a park or the speed and adrenaline experienced from a roller coaster? Visitors remember the way the roller coaster drove them to the verge of screaming, but do they consider the forces and motion that gave them the moment of weightlessness; where your heart is in your throat and the wind is zipping through your hair? Ride junkies hunger the urge to splash spectators that stand by the edge of the water ride without realizing the projectile motion of the water. These skim the surface of your visitor’s expectations. ||

Student will understand that the laws of physics, budgeting, advertising, and demographics play a role in creating purposeful structures for a community. How do the laws of physics, budgeting, advertising, and demographics play a role in creating purposeful structures for a community?
 * Unit Understanding**
 * Unit Essential Question**

Advertising || Functions Graphing Collecting Data || Physics (Newtonian mechanics: momentum, gravity, laws of motion, friction, velocity) || Google SketchUp Advertising (Social media, graphic design) ||
 * **English** || **Mathematics** || **Science** || **Technology** ||
 * Business proposals (persuasive writing)

Designer(s):
Kaitlyn Haase, Cam Fecteau, Charli Sayward

The mission of our Kennebago Team is to provide assistance for every student to achieve academic and social excellence by creating a supportive learning community and integrating subjects for a meaningful learning experience.
 * Mission Statement:**


 * Schedule:**
 * **Time** || **Monday** || **Tuesday** || **Wednesday** || **Thursday** || **Friday** ||
 * **7:30-7:55** || Advisory || Core Block || Advisory || Core Block || Core Block ||
 * **8:00-11:30** || Core Block || Core Block || Core Block || Core Block || Core Block ||
 * **11:30-12:00** || Lunch || Lunch || Lunch || Lunch || Lunch ||
 * **12:05-1:00** || Elective || Elective || Elective || Elective || Core Block ||
 * **1:05-2:00** || Elective || Elective || Elective || Elective || Common Time ||