Learning & Leading With Habits of Mind

Integrating the Habits of Mind: A District Perspective 365

FIGURE 22.2

Overview of a Curriculum Unit

Source: Tahoma School District No. 409. Used with permission.

Puget Sound Communities

Grade 3

Outcome and Guiding Questions

Students will explore the systems, cycles, and relationships that make up the

Puget Sound Communities of Seattle and Maple Valley in order to practice the

skills of Self-Directed Learners and Community Contributors working toward

improving the quality of our local environment.

1. What communities make up the Puget Sound?
   •Puget Sound Region
   
   
   • Maple Valley Area
     •Map skills
     •Guided reading (See Guided Reading Unit supplement)
   
   
   • Introduction to problem solving
     Apply Attending, Risk Taking, Persistence,and Deliberativenessthinking
     behaviors.
   
   
   
   


2. What are the relationships, past and present, that are part of the
   Puget Sound communities?
   
   
   • Relationships: History of Maple Valley/Black Diamond/Seattle
   
   
   • Interviewing
   
   
   • Writing a friendly letter
   
   
   • Complete sentences/sentence fluency/variety
     •Systems:Community systems in Maple Valley,past and present
     Apply Inferring, Sequencing,and Comparing/Contrastingthinking skills.
     Apply Persistence, Risk Taking,and Deliberativeness thinking behaviors.
   
   
   
   


3. How can we contribute to preserving and protecting our local
   ecology while practicing the skills of Community Contributors?
   •Cycles:salmon
   •Community Contributors:identify roles and methods
   
   
   • •Interviews
   
   
   • •Friendly letter
   
   
   • Community service project: Preserving and Protecting Our Salmon
     (Community Contributoroutcome)
   
   
   • Local authors
     •Project Menu (Self-Directed Learner and Quality Produceroutcome)
     Apply Problem Solvingthinking skill.
     Apply Deliberativeness, Persistence,and Risk Taking thinking behaviors.