Unit Author
First and Last Name					Tripti P Singh
School Name					Shree Swaminarayan School
School City, State					NASHIK
Unit Overview Module 2: Think of a topic and possible project scenario for your unit. Revise this section as you work through the remaining modules. Write first draft of your Unit Summary.
Unit Title
Suicide cases
Unit Summary
Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often carried out as a result of despair, the cause of which is frequently attributed to a mental disorder such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia,borderline personality disorder, alcoholism, or drug abuse, as well as stress factors such as financial difficulties, troubles with interpersonal relationships, and bullying.
Subject area
SOCIOLOGY
Class Level
9
Approximate Time Needed
3 Months , 12weeks, 3 lectures per week
Unit Foundation Module 2: Choose 21st century skills, higher-order thinking skills, syllabus guidelines, unit topic, create objectives, and develop Curriculum-Framing Questions for your unit. Revise this section as you work through the remaining modules.
Targeted Syllabus Guidelines
AS PER 9 STD SYLLABUS
Targeted 21st Century and Higher Order Thinking Skills
·         Critical Thinking and Problem Solving, ·         Communication and Collaboration, ·         Information Literacy, ·         ICT (Information, Communications and Tech.) ·         Flexibility and adaptability. ·         Initiative and self direction. ·         Leadership and responsibility
Student Objectives/Learning Outcomes
™   To  aware the people about the suicide. ™  To get  the information about the suicide ™  To understand the basic concepts useful in counselling students about behavioural change. ™  To learn how to apply social justice. ™  To recognise the symptoms of stress, depression and to treat them.
Curriculum-Framing Questions
Essential Question		What is suicide?
Unit Questions		What are the reasons of suicide?
Content Questions		Role of teacher to prevent suicide?
Assessment Plan Module 3: Draft an Assessment Timeline. Module 6: Draft an Assessment Summary and create an assessment to gauge student needs. Create an assessment for your student sample. Module 7: Create an assessment to foster student self-direction and update your Assessment Plan.
Assessment Timeline
Before project work begins Students work on projects and complete tasks After project work is completed ·         Discussion Rubric  k-w-l ·         chart ·         Communication Rubric ·         Questioning Rubric ·         Survey rubric ·         data collection ·         journal writing §   Survey Rubric. §  Problem Solving Rubric §  Blog Checklist ·         Commune -cat ion rubric §  presentation rubric K-W-L Chart Blog Rubric Discussion rubric
Assessment Summary
The assessments will be a mix of student self-assessment and teacher-based feedback.  Discussion rubric will be use to assess discussion ability of students. K-W-L Chart will be used to gauge students’ understanding about the importance of suicide.  Data collection is used to gauge student needs and help students explore important questions and stimulate thinking. Communication rubric is used to assess student’s communication skills, how they communicate with people. Survey rubric will be use to assess survey. Student learning will be assessed by organizing a rally. Student will do a presentation and with the help of   presentation rubric their creativity will be evaluated. Opinion posted on blog shares student learning on the field. Problem solving rubric will be used to assess problem. Blog rubric will be use to evaluate blog. As students post their entries for debate, share their thoughts, ask them to use the blog checklist to guide their work.
Unit Details
Prerequisite Skills
§  Knowledge of  computer – MS-Office- Word, Excel, Power Point, and Internet §  Knowledge on Internet research §  Knowledge of Blog §  Skill of Communication & Discussion §  Skill in reading, writing, drawing, creativity
Instructional Procedures
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE PROJECT §  Explain the project outline to the school Principal with goals and objectives of the projects and support required to complete the project. §  Submit a project concept paper to the school head and computer HOD with time lines, requesting their support. §  Ask local leader permission for performing awareness rally in the community. §  Prepare discussion rubric and presentation rubric. §  Organize a meeting with different offices for the permission to survey about their recycling process §  Aware people about the domestic case of water pollution. INITIAL PHASE : ·         Introduce the students about the name of the topic & give them basic idea about it. GROUP DISCUSSION : ·         Initiate the students to participate in the discussions by giving the topics like SUICIDE ·           Distribute discussion rubric to the students so as to encourage quality discussions and also to self-assess their participation in the discussion. ·         Ask students to discuss in their groups and log in their thoughts in the Journal. Ask group leaders to document the discussion and present it to the large group. Ask the students to refer discussion rubric to encourage quality discussions. Give enough time for Question and Answer sessions to clarify doubts. k-w-l chart:  ·         Have the students fill in K and W column of the k-w-l chart to understand the                                                             prior knowledge of students on SUICIDE Then the students will be divided into 6 groups of 5 students each  and will ask  them to find answers to the  following questions like: QUESTION why educational burden is imposed upon the students by teachers as well as parents_? QUESTION why proper attention is not paid to all the students to minimize the act of ragging or bullying? QUESTION what necessary steps should be taken by the government to prevent student suicide? ·         Give enough time for Question and Answer sessions to clarify doubts. Communication rubric: Let the students use their Communication skills and do proper questioning and teacher will give suggestions, participate in discussions, and listen actively. Student’s will interpret and elaborate their ideas & views .Students will be given the communication rubric to self assess their communication skills. Data collection rubric: ·         Students will collect information about What is water conservation, causes & effects as well as need & importance of water conservation through books, articles, magazines & mainly by searching on Internet ·         To collect information students will visit various websites. Survey: Survey can be used as an effective tool for doing research. Ask students to prepare a questionnaire for survey purpose which can be utilized for online survey as well as a survey in a selected area. Provide ample time for students to conduct survey. AWARENESS PROGRAMME : Students will conduct awareness programme like seminar & really in selected area to create awareness. ·          Students will also conduct awareness programmed especially for industries. BLOG : ·         Students will create blog to share their views, ideas & findings of the information for the topic Water pollution. ·         Students will also share their ideas of water purifying techniques through blog & appeal people to share their views & opinions about water saving and pure water techniques. DETERMINATION : ·         Teacher will again ask the questions like, (why suicide cases are increasing day by day?) Ask them to discuss about these questions by considering their experience during the project. ·         Give them an opportunity to share their views in front of the whole class and give a presentation. ·         Later on ask the students to fill the remaining part of the ‘K-W-L’ chart. ·         Finally ask the students to write their experiences regarding the project in their journals.
Accommodations for Differentiated Instruction Module 7: Draft ideas to support all learners and create student support material.
Special Needs Student	To give extra time & special attention To give extra time to complete their assignment, survey. Providing simple task to complete. To arrange extra lecture for computer knowledge. Provide website list for data collection. Explaining need & importance of data collection in detail again. Utilization of audio-visual aids.
Gifted/Talented Student	Assigning the role of a leader. Giving extra task related to collection of information. To collect all the possible techniques of water purifying. Giving them responsibility to help the special need students. Ask them to arrange the rally, awareness programmes. To collect the percentage of water pollution in India.
Materials and Resources Required for Unit Module 4: Identify Internet resources for research, communication, collaboration, and problem solving. Module 5: Incorporate into your Instructional Procedures.
Technology—Hardware (Click boxes of all equipment needed)
Camera  Computer(s)  Digital Camera b  DVD Player  Internet Connection				Laser Disk  Printer  Projection System  Scanner  Television		VCR  Video Camera  Video Conferencing Equip.  Other
Technology—Software (Click boxes of all software needed.)
Database/Spreadsheet  Desktop Publishing  E-mail Software  Encyclopedia on CD-ROM				Image Processing  Internet Web Browser  Multimedia		Web Page Development  Word Processing  Other
Printed Materials			IX grade text book Articles on suicide Reference books
Supplies			Note Book Pen / Pencil for survey
internet			http://www.bullyingstatistics.org/content/bullying-and-suicide.html http://www.suicide.org/college-student-suicide.html http://www.counselling.cam.ac.uk/staffcouns/leaflets/suiciderisk http://kidshealth.org/parent/emotions/behavior/suicide.html
Other Resources			Invite experts to talk to the leaders on the importance of suicide. ·         Visit to sites where suicide solutions are implemented.