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 * ===Title of Unit or Project: How Do You Think?===
 * ===Grade Level and/or Subject Area: Second Grade===
 * ===Summary of Project: Costa and Kallicks "Habits of Mind"===
 * ===Summary of Project: Students will be introduced to Costa's and Kallick's Habits of Mind. They will learn to recognize habits in real and fictional characters and apply them to their thinking. The book, The Fourth Little Pig by Teresa Celsi, will be read and discussed. Students will identify Habit of Mind traits exhibited by book characters. They will complete an on-line survey about the book. From a collection of other book titles, they will identify Habits of Mind traits. Finally, the students will create a Powerpoint to teach Habits of Mind to classroom peers. A rubric will be used to assess content and presentation. Students will use the rubric as a self-assessment and teacher will complete a group assessment. A final conference will be conducted to discuss results.===
 * ===Curriculum Framing Questions===
 * ===Essential Questions- How do you think?===
 * ===Just because you can, should you?===
 * ===Is it worth it?===
 * ===Unit Questions-===
 * ===What do smart people do when they don't know the answer?===
 * ===When is a risk worth taking?===
 * ===Is doing something wrong ever the right thing to do?===
 * ===Content Questions-===
 * ===What are Habits of Mind?===
 * ===Define Responsible risk taking===
 * ===Identify habits of mind exemplied by book characters===
 * ===Define responsible risk-taking===
 * ===**Real world connection- Students incorporate Habits of Mind in their own life situations**===
 * ===[[file:PP rubric.doc]]===