Seniors+Week+01+Sep11

=Week 1: September 11=

**Super Seniors introduction and orientation**
**Objectives:** Learn the definition of a senior Discuss what special things seniors can offer to others Experience what it feels like when your body gets older Start to think about what life was like when seniors were young **High Level - 5 min** Forge, JrFLL, new topic (Super Seniors) Agenda for the day

**S** ** eniors - 10 min ** What is a senior? (Usually someone retirement age or older, so 65 or older) Who do you know who is that old? What do you think of when you think of seniors? I'm going to read a book that celebrates a special person (Grandpa's Song) -OR- I'm going to read a book about a boy with lots of senior friends (Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge)

What do you think it's like to be a senior? Will you ever be one? How will it happen? ( 80 years in 40 seconds - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9wToWdXaQg
 * Connections (story discussion and/or other ideas) - 10 min **

- What is one way we can find out more about how things were like 60 - 90 years ago? (Interview) - Good/bad interview example
 * Interviews - 10 min**

Feel what it's like to get older - try experiment from here - @http://fcs.tamu.edu/families/aging/aging_simulation/index.php Interview practice and/or play a game ( @http://www.storydynamics.com/Articles/Education/interviewing.html )
 * Small Groups - 25 min **


 * Snack (during Timeline discussion) **

- What is a timeline? A way of putting things in order. (Show timeline we created) - Where are we now? When were you born? When were your parents born? Grandparents? Great grandparents? (Add some examples to board) We are going to work on a timeline this season that we can add to each week. If you brought pictures, we'll add them later - Trivia - first lego in 1949 (add to timeline) - How do you think things were different when seniors were born? ( @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbzrx7frD90 and/or @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKQ5QSfRdBI&feature=relmfu )
 * Timeline - 15 min **

Build something you saw in the videos from the 40s and 50s
 * Senior Challenge - 40 min **

Interview about communication for next week
 * Wrap up - 5 min **

The world is getting older http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0907/090721-senior_citizens.html
 * Resources:**

Revisit display boards -- could they be 3D and work in pairs so their boards witll be interactive?

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