1. I see great potential for programs which support active literacy through a math/science curriculum. Using a problem based math curriculum and a inquiry based science curriculum goes hand in hand with many literacy and reading activities which require critical thinking and reading fluency. We can incorporate literature into our lessons to help introduce, support, or produce curiosity around a math or science concept. We can ask our students to respond to the evidence which they find in their experiments by writing to senators, other scientists, or policy decision makers so that students go beyond performing inquiry and problem solving techniques. They learn how to apply their knowledge to real world problems and affect change through the use of communication and literacy skills. Through this aproach I believe that students are more likely to make lifelong decisions to seek "truth" through the use of scientific inquiry and problem based math.

2.For our math question I would ask the question, "Which of the following best explains why the Sun appears to move across the sky every day?" This question be a good pre-asesment for our sciene unit which will focus on using the North Star to navigate to determine which earth movements students are familiar with. Students would use several literacy skills with this question. They would need to unerstand the sentence structure and word meanings in order to answer this.

3. For our math lesson where we are going to ask students to chart their findings using a tool and the north star to determine direction. They will create a bar graph of all class findings. As a pre-asesment we could ask the question, "In the school sale Bob sold 10 boxes of fruit, Kyla sold 20 boxes, and Chris sold 15 boxes. Complete the bar graph below to show how many boxes each student sold." This would help us to see how familiar students were with bar graphs. It would require reading comprehension skills to decifer this question.