Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- the importance the metric system plays in measurements throughout the world.
- that weather patterns are dependant on geographical locations.
- currency changes from country to country and exchange rates are variable
- where the target language is spoken.
Skills
Students are able to:
Novice Mid Level
Students are able to:
Novice Mid Level
- use map skills to identify countries and geographical features around the world.
- identify resources needed to calculate exchange rates and measurments.
Students are able to:
- use map skills to identify countries and geographical features around the world.
- identify resources needed to calculate exchange rates and measurments.
- investigate other disciplines using the target language language.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- proficiency in a foreign language is a vehicle to gaining knowledge that can only be acquired through that language and its culture.
- world language learning offers opportunities to uncover big ideas in and about other disciplines.
- strategies used to acquire a language are transferable to other areas of learning throughout life.
- a second language facilitates the acquisition of information about the world outside our experiences.
