StacyMiller

All About Nets


 * Topic of your Unit:**

**Summary of ideas for overall project:**
====All About Nets is an integrative unit. Students demonstrate an understanding of the influence of today's media and advertisements by creating a commercial and print advertisements to promote their fundraising event. Students will be raising funds to purchase mosquito nets through the Nothing But Nets Foundation.====

====Students are planning and holding a fundraising event to support the Nothing But Nets organization. Students will assume the role of fundraising planners and promoters. They will assume a variety of roles during the production of their commercials advertising the fundraising event.====
 * The project idea-real world connections, authenticity:**

**Curriculum Framing Questions**

 * **Essential Question:**
 * Can you impact the life of someone you never met?
 * **Unit Questions:**
 * How does the media impact our decisions?
 * How can we (as a class) help prevent the spread of malaria in Africa?
 * **Content Questions:**
 * What is malaria?
 * What different climates are found in Africa?
 * What areas in Africa are most affected by malaria?

**Visual Ranking:**

 * Students will begin the unit by ranking people or things that influence their decisions. This will then be done at the end of the unit to determine if students are more aware of the influences around them. In the comments box, they can explain how the people or things influence them as well as justify the boxes placement.
 * Using the data from the //Commercial Investigation of Three Shows// each group will rank the prevalence of each type of commercial during their show. In the comments box, they can give the statistical information for each type of commercial. They can then make a conjecture about why they think the category was represented for the amount of time it was.

**Seeing Reason:**

 * As part of the webquest, students will be researching malaria. Once they figure out what malaria is, they will gather information about the cause, effects, and prevention of the disease. Students will then use this information to create a Seeing Reason map that shows the factors that influence the spread of malaria.

**Showing Evidence:**

 * Students will be working in small groups to prepare for a class debate. While the service learning project is to raise funds to buy mosquito nets for people living in Africa, in the classroom we will be focusing on the effects media has on us. Throughout the world, several countries have regulations about the amount or type of commercials young children are exposed to. The question presented to students is: //__Should there be a ban on advertisements aimed at children?__// Students will work in teams of 2-3 students.