• Exploration And Discovery

• Important Discoveries Through Time

• The Discovery of America

• Navigation

• EXPLORATION¿Do you know somethingabout Exploration? No? Ok,so, let’s talk about it! Themeaning of exploration is,explore the world and all thethings around you. You canexplore deserts, forests andalso your house. You canhave your exploration toolslike magnifying glass, or alsomicroscope. You can exploreplants, insects or your hands.Also, all those things with themicroscope.

And with those tools you cando a research, discover newthings and answer a lot ofquestions.

• DISCOVERY¿Do you know something aboutdiscoveries? No? Ok, so let’s talkabout them! The meaning ofdiscovery is that you findsomething accidentally withoutknowing about it .You candiscover things by navigating oralso exploring. The things that wecreate are very different fromdiscoveries. The things that wediscover are there, in nature, butthe things that we create are notthere until we create them. Wecan model the discoveries likefire. Fire has a model becausefirst, Homo Erectus rubbed arock and sticks and nowadays wehave electric and other types offireplaces.

We can use the SCIENTIFICMETHOD to model thisdiscoveries and like inexploration, answer questions

¿DO EXPLORATION AND DISCOVERIES LEAD US TO NEW LEARNING?Of course! Because, by discovering we learn new things like fire, with fire we learned how to cook or do anything like that so, we have to know how

¿Right? And to discover we have to explore.

Today am going to tell you about three discoveries through time of the world!

ECOSYSTEMS

An ecosystem is a place like deserts, forests or oceans where some animals live and share some similarities. Animals that live in these ecosystems have been adapted to them through

time.

¿WHAT DO WSE USE ECOSYSISTEMS FOR?

We can use ecosystems to take things from them like wood, leaves from the trees or evenly food and transform them. The cities and all the things we build are from materials we find in

ecosystems.

¿HOW DISCOVERED IT?

The person who discovered ecosystems was ROY CLAPHAM in 1920 and 1930 approximately. With the help of the British ARTHUR STANLEY and the biologist EUGENE ODHUME to

develop this discovery.

The second discovery i am going to talk about is…

FIREThe fire was discovered by Homo Erectus. The Homo Erectus

discovered fire because of a lightning that came from the sky. Fire has an evolution through time. The people transform fire.

X RaysThe x rays were discovered by Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895. X rays

are used to see the bones of our body, to see if they are ok or they have an injury into our body but they are not used only for

that. Also, they are used for security, when you are in the airport you put your bags into a tunnel, in that tunnel there are

x rays that could see what you have inside your bags for

security.

Once upon a time there was a little boy named Christopher Columbus. He went to a trip by the ocean,

to prove that the world was round He went to the king of Portugal and told him he had the idea to prove that the

world was round. The king said NO so, he had the idea to tell the Queen of Spain but she also said NO but 15 years later he went back to ask the same question. The queen

said YES, even if she had to give him all her jewels. He spent too long on three boats named La Pinta, La Niña and La Santa Maria until they saw land. They found

Indians that land. He thought it was Las Indias. He took a lot of treasures and went back. He gave the treasures to the queen and the queen was happy. Then he was put in

jail.

QUEENI think that the queen’s perspective was good because she was

more popular and was very rich and also, she was like the owner of America.

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUSI think that Christopher Columbus was very sad because he went to jail. He didn’t have an acknowledgement and got sick

and also he had only 15% of the treasure.

NATIVE AMERICANSI think that the discovery of America was very bad for the

native Americans because they got sick, they had a war. They were forced to learn Spanish, they became slaves and also,

catholic.

CREW MEMBERSI think that the crew members worked a lot during the trip, they

didn’t sleep in a clean place, etc. So what?

Do you know what is to navigate?

The meaning of navigation is getting from one place to another.

We can navigate in a boat, in a car or even in a bicycle. To navigate we have to know where we are going to go, right? But

for that, we need NAVIGATION TOOLS like maps, astrolabe, sextant, quadrant or also compass. Today I am going to explain

about them. They are used to guide us when we are lost.

COMPASSThe compass is a round thing that can show us

NORTH,SOUTH,EAST and WEST. We can be guided by it in any place of the world. So, if we are lost and we know in which

direction is the place we are looking for, we can use the compass.

MAPS

Maps are very important if you arte lost. That is why you have

to have a map in your car always. Maps are used to be a guide. Maps have all the places in the world. If you are lost, use them,

please.

WIND ROSEThe Wind Rose is very similar to the compass but it is very

different, too. Wind Rose shows NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST, NORTH EAST, NORTH WEST, SOUTH EAST and finally, SOUTH

WEST.

The use of this tool is similar to the compass one ,we can use the wind rose to be a guide if we are lost but we know in which

direction is the place we are looking for.

GPSThe global position system (GPS) is very technological. We can use it when we are lost and you just put the direction you need

and the GPS will guide you to the place you are looking for.

CRITERIA

1Student shows

minimum

comprehension

which does not

allow him/her

to fulfill the task.

2Student shows

limited

comprehension

when

completing the

task.

3Student shows

partial

comprehension

when

completing the

task.

4Student

completes the

task

successfully.

5Student applies

and transfers

their

understanding

in different

contexts.

6Student applies

and transfers

their

understanding

in a variety of

contexts taking

decisions about

their actions

and reflecting

about them.

Explains how

discoveries

and

exploration

lead to new

learning.

Identifies and

explains some

important

discoveries.

Explains

different

perspectives

towards the

Discovery of America.

Recognizes

different kinds

of navigation

tools and processes.

Identifies the

characteristics

and functions

of different

navigation

tools and processes.

The

informative

texts are clear and coherent.

The texts have

correct spelling.

The texts have

correct punctuation.

THE VICTORIA SCHOOL

WHERE WE ARE IN PLACE AND TIME

SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT RUBRIC

THIRD GRADE 2012 – 2013

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