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=Understandings and Questions= Students will understand that exploration will give new insight on concepts and interactions. || 1. **Unit:** What can be learned from exploration of your environment? || Students will understand that following directions and having a goal in mind are important and can be more effective by utilizing descriptive words that create a climate and mood throughout the survival scenario ("how-to" survival guides, descriptive, five senses, poetry and mood writings).
 * ==Enduring Understandings== || ==Guided Questions== ||
 * 1. **Unit**:
 * 2. **English**:

Students will understand that reading books on survival help them feel how they should behave and the feelings and emotions experienced will be expressed in their journals. || 2. **English**: Why is following a set plan key in survival? How can descriptive words help locate someone when their lost?

Why do we journal specific moments in our expedition and how can journal connect with our feelings that we express and those we try to hide? || Students will understand that knowledge of fractions and how to manipulate them will impact island exploration.
 * 3. **Math**:

Students will understand that to find surface area, volume and area will play a role when exploring an island. || 3. **Math**: Why is it important to understand and know how to use fractions when trying to survive?

How is knowledge of volume, area and surface area useful when on a deserted island? || Students will understand that organisms interact with the physical, non-living environment and with other living organisms.
 * 4. **Science**:

Students will understand that energy and matter affect and flow through the ecosystem. || 4. **Science**: How do organisms interact on the island, and what roles and interactions are they a part of?

How does the energy and matter within an environment change forms and flow through the major food webs (terrestrial and marine)? || Students will understand that constitutional and legal rights, civic duties and responsibilities, and roles of citizens are a part of constitutional democracy. || 5. **Social Studies**: What are the rights, duties, and responsibilities of citizens of the island?
 * 5. **Social Studies**:

How are the powers of government used to protect and delegate these rights? ||


 * English: Alicia
 * Math: Brianna
 * Science: Christina
 * Social Studies: Integrated