Leigh

While creating a travel brochure in small groups, about a state of the United States, students will be using a variety of higher order thinking skills.
== **Taken from the Twenty-First Century Skills** - students will utilize technology and design/execute and evaluate what information to include in their travel brochures of the state of their choosing. == == **Taken from Bloom's Revised Taxonomy Higher Order Thinking** - Students will recognize and retrieve information through recall. Students will implement, carry out, use and execute information that they have researched on the internet when composing which information is significant for their travel brochure. ==

** Taken from DOK (Depth of Knowledge)- ** Students will describe, interpret and explain information gatherered for their travel brochures.
== ** Taken from Marzono's Taxonomy Knowledge Utilization - ** Students will apply the knowledge they have learned about their state through the presentation of their travel brochures through power point presentations and other project based learning. ==

== **Costa and Kallick's Habits of the Mind Patterns of Intellectual Behavior Students-** Students will remain open to continuous information and learning processes as they continue to work in communities together. ==

__** AUTHENTIC LEARNING: **__

Real world connections and student interests
 * What affect on learning might occur by using authentic tasks to meet standards expectations?**

Student self assessments Students are interested in the tasks
 * What might be some positive benefits that could result when using authentic tasks in the classroom?**

Learning through social interaction - problem solving and exploring issues of the real world tasks.
 * What correlations might be made between authentic tasks, constructivism, student centered learning or higher order thinking?**