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Weekend Activities and Universal Concepts: Reflection on Connections

Reflecting on weekend activities like spending time with family, shopping, hosting parties, and exercising, and exploring their connections to universal concepts such as power, relationships, and generalizations across various disciplines. Discover the interplay between personal experiences and big ideas in different fields.

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Weekend Activities and Universal Concepts: Reflection on Connections

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  1. Five Things I Did Over the Weekend? - Spent time with family and friends - Shopping for presents - Studied/prepared lesson plans - Hosted holiday parties - Exercised at Gym

  2. Universal Concepts & Big Ideas

  3. Concepts A general idea generated from specific facts. The collective is the concept. fruits F F F F an orange is orange F F a pear is yummy F F strawberries are good an apple is round

  4. - Spent time with family and friends - Personal - Relationships - People - Systems - Shopping for presents - Studied/prepared lesson plans - Hosted holiday parties - Exercised at Gym

  5. Progression trucks bikes subway airplane

  6. Practice house apartment building car tower

  7. Connection to a Universal Concept How could you relate each of the universal concepts to multiple disciplines? Patterns Order vs Chaos Conflict Structure Power Relationships Systems Change

  8. Generalization of the Universal Concept • Power • Power is the ability to influence • Power may be used or abused • Power is always present in dome form • Power may take many forms (chemical, electrical, political, mechanical)

  9. Big Ideas • Theories, principles, or generalizations. • A theory is a belief that is perpetuated over time • A principle is a law. • A generalization is a gross statement that may or may not be true

  10. Big ideas can be constructed by looking at dichotomies Power can be over or covert.

  11. Big Ideas Change is inevitable. Visual/Performing Arts Changing primary colors into secondary colors. Language Arts Language patterns (slang, speech conventions, internet acronyms) Social Studies Animal and human migration Mathematics Change from decimals to percents. Science Life cycle

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