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WRITING

WEEK 10

POS- Students will interpret and apply information in a variety of transactive reading materials to complete authentic tasks.

  4.0.13 Explain how organizational patterns and/or text features (e.g., pictures, charts, graphs format) relate to the content of a practical/workplace passage.

  POS- Students will respond to a variety of reading materials by summarizing, identifying sequence, generalizing and comparing/contrasting.

  3.0.12 Identify an author’s opinion about a subject.

POS- Students will generalize a rule for ordered pairs.

  4.3.1 How patterns (e.g., numbers, pictures, words) are alike and different.

4.3.2 How rules involving number patterns can be explained.

  POS- Students will represent and describe relationships through the use of variables, ordered pairs, lists in tables, plots on graphs, and patterns.

4.1.1 Functions (input-output) through pictures, tables, and words.

Explorers

POS- Students will observe forms of energy transfer (e.g., vibrations in materials).

  1.3.1 Energy is a property of many substances and is associated with heat, light, electricity, and sound.  Energy is transferred in many ways.

  1.3.2 Heat energy moves in predictable ways, flowing from warmer objects to cooler ones, until both objects reach the same temperature.

1.3.3 Light energy interacts with matter by transmission (including refraction), absorption, or scattering (including reflection).

  1.3.4 The sun is a major source of energy for changes on Earth’s surface.  The Sun loses energy by emitting light.  A tiny fraction of that light reaches Earth, transferring energy from the Sun to Earth.

1.3.5 Electrical circuits provide a means of transferring electrical energy when heat, light, sound, and chemical changes are produce.

1.4.1 Nutritious foods play a role in growth of healthy bodies.

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WEEK 11

POS- Students will identify author’s positions, main idea, and techniques of support in persuasive materials.

3.0.14 Distinguish between fact and opinion.

  POS- Students will respond to reading, listening, observing and inquiry through applying writing-to-learn strategies in situations such as journals and graphic organizers and writing-to-demonstrate-learning strategies in situations as open-response questions and graphic organizers (additional supporting Academic Expectation 1.10, 5.1, 6.3)

POS- Students will compare and contrast number patterns.

4.2.2 Create tables to organize patterns and functions.

POS- Students will generalize a rule for ordered pairs.

4.2.1 Find rules for, extend, and create patterns.

POS- Students will create, recognize, extend, find, and write rules for number patterns.

4.3.2 How rules involving number patterns can be explained.

POS- Students will describe how good nutrition helps develop healthy individuals.

1.4.3 Nutritious snack choices (e.g., fruits, vegetables, dairy products) are preferable to snack foods (e.g. sugar-coated cereals, soft drinks, candy) for health and well-being.

POS- Students will examine food guide pyramid to determine appropriate servings and plan simple menus.

1.4.2 The food guide pyramid has an organizational structure that recommends the number of servings at each level.

WEEK 12

POS- Students will identify authors’ positions, main ideas, and techniques of support in persuasive materials.

3.0.17 Identify bias and/or misinformation.

4.1.2 Number sentences with a missing value or variable.

POS- Students will explore variables and solve equations using variables.

4.2.3 Find solutions to number sentences with a missing value (e.g., 7+N=10, N+5>14).

POS-  Students will understand human settlement patterns in the United States and how they were related to the physical environment.

4.3.1 Human populations gather in groups of different sizes and in different locations in the world.

POS- Students will understand human settlement patterns n the United States and how they were related to the physical environment.

4.3.2 Humans usually settle where there are adequate resources to meet their needs (e.g., areas with water, fertile land, protected land, different modes of transportation).

13 Colonies

3.1.1 Create and perform using creative dramatics (improvisation, mimicry, pantomime, role playing and storytelling).

3.1.2 Create a performance using the elements of production representing specific cultures, periods, and styles (folktales, myths and legends of West Africa, Native America, and Colonial America).

3.3.9 Discuss the effects of time and place on a dramatic work.

3.3.7 Identify and compare the similarities and differences between audiences attending live performances and audiences viewing theater, film and TV.

POS- Students will investigate the benefits of participation in leisure, recreational, and competitive physical activity.

2.2.2 Frequent practice contributes to improved performance.

POS- Students will refine practice techniques to achieve consistency for a variety of physical activities.

WEEK 13

POS- Students will identify authors’ positions, main ideas, and techniques of support in persuasive materials.

3.0.16 Identify commonly used persuasive techniques (e.g. expert opinions, statistics, testimonial, bandwagon).

Multiplication and Division

POS- Students will understand how the people of the United States have used technology to modify the environment to meet their needs.

  4.3.3 Technology allows humans to settle in areas previously inaccessible.

POS- Students will understand  settlement pattern in the United States and how they were related to the physical environment.

4.4.1 People depend upon the physical environment for food, shelter, and clothing.

POS- Students will understand human settlement patterns n the United States and how they were related to the physical environment.

4.4.2 People adapt to or modify the environment (e.g., produce food, build shelter, make clothing) to meet their needs.

POS- Students will recognize that the Sun’s energy arrives as light with a range of wavelengths and explore how light interacts with matter.

1.3.3 Light energy interacts with matter by transmission (including refraction), absorption, or scattering (including reflection).

1.3.4 The sun is a major source of energy for changes on Earth’s surface.  The Sun loses energy by emitting light.  A tiny fraction of that light reaches Earth, transferring energy from the Sun to Earth.

WEEK 14

POS- Students will identify authors’ positions, main ideas, and techniques of support in persuasive materials.

3.0.11 Distinguish between informative and persuasive passages.

POS- Students will examine how the history of the United States was influenced by its physical environment.

POS- Students will understand human settlement patterns n the United States and how they were related to the physical environment.

4.4.3 The physical environment both promotes and limits human activities (e.g., mountains as barriers or as protection, rivers used as boundaries or transportation routes).

POS- Students will understand how the people of the United States have used technology to modify the environment to meet their needs.

4.4.4 People may have different perspectives concerning the use of land (e.g., building developments, cutting down rain forest for farming).

POS – Students will improve competency and consistency performing locomotor (e.g., walk, run, hop) and nonlocomotor (e.g., push, pull, twist, turn, curl, stretch, balance) in games and sports.

2.1.1 There are fundamental motor skills for enhancing physical development: locomotor (moving from one place to another) (e.g., walking running, skipping, hopping, galloping, sliding, leaping, jumping), non-locomotor  (stationary) (e.g., turning, twisting, swinging, swaying, balancing).

WEEK 15

POS- Students will respond to a variety of reading materials by summarizing, identifying sequence, generalizing and comparing/contrasting.

3.0.15 Identify the argument and supporting evidence.

American Revolution

POS- Students will demonstrate that energy is a property of substances.

1.3.1 Energy is a property of many substances and is associated with heat, light, electricity, and sound.  Energy is transferred in many ways.

POS- Students will identify governmental health and safety regulations.

3.3.1 There are community organizations (e.g., fire department, police department, sanitation department, nonprofit health organizations that provide health and safety services.

POS- Students will describe and access health and safety  services that agencies (e.g., health department, fire department, police department) provide to the community.

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WEEK 16

POS- Students will respond to a variety of reading materials by summarizing, identifying sequence, generalizing and comparing/contrasting.

x.0.1 Identify and author’s purpose in  literary, informational, persuasive, and practical/workplace materials.

POS- Students will observe the ways heat can move.

1.3.2 Heat energy moves in predictable ways, flowing from warmer objects to cooler ones, until both objects reach the same temperature.

2.2.21 Perform traditional folk dances, square dances, and ethnic dances. (2.25)

2.1.11 Create movement ideas which could be used to compose a dance using locomotor and non-locomotor  movement. (1.15, 2.22)

Create a dance with a beginning middle, and end that communicates ideas, thoughts, and feeling. (1.15, 2.22)

POS- Students will demonstrate the ability to perform a dance alone, with a partner, and in a small group using the three elements of movement (space, time, force).

2.1.36 Explain, using appropriate terminology, how dance communicates ideas, thoughts, and feelings. (1.15, 2.23)

  2.1.34 Explain how dance movements are similar and different from everyday movements (e.g., brushing hair, tying shoes, walking). (1.15, 2.23)

WEEK 17

POS- Students will analysis elements of drama such as plot, character, visuals (e.g., scenery, costumes, props, make-up), and acting (e.g., voice, expression, diction, projection) in a variety of dramatic works.

3.1.34 Identify and describe basic scenery, props, and costumes that would be appropriate for the plot and characters in a short script or story. (2.22, 2.23)

3.1.1 Scarcity requires people to make choices about using goods, services, and limited resources.

POS- Students will examine basic components (e.g., taxes, goods and services provided by government) of the economic system of the United States.

3.1.2 Consumers use goods and services to satisfy economic wants and needs.

POS- Students will recognize the impact of economic factors (e.g., security, growth, desire for profits) on decisions made by individuals, businesses, and governments in the United States.

3.1.3 Every time a choice is made, an opportunity cost is incurred.  Opportunity cost refers to what is given up when an economic choice is made.

POS- Students will examine basic components (e.g., taxes, goods and services provided by government) of the economic system of the United States.

3.2.1 Economic systems can be large (e.g., U.S. economy) or small (e.g., individuals and households).

POS- Students will observe how electrical circuits transfer electrical energy.

1.3.5 Electrical circuits provide a means of transferring electrical energy when heat, light, sound, and chemical changes are produce.

3.2.32 or 3.3.10 Discuss specific cultures (West African, Native American), periods (Colonial American) and styles (folktales, myths, and legends) within dramatic works. (2.25, 2.26)

POS- Students will recognize basic similarities and differences in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

5.2.6 The United States, Canada, and Mexico have basic similarities and differences (e.g., indigenous peoples, immigrants, colonial backgrounds, cultural characteristics).

2.1.1 Language, music, art, dress, food, stories, and folktales help define culture and may be shared among various groups.

POS- Students will understand how culture in the United States has been influenced by languages, literature, arts, beliefs, and behaviors of diverse groups.

2.1.1 Language, music, art, dress, food, stories, and folk tales help define culture and maybe shared among various groups.

WEEK 18

POS- Students will analysis elements of drama such as plot, character, visuals (e.g., scenery, costumes, props, make-up), and acting (e.g., voice, expression, diction, projection) in a variety of dramatic works.

3.1.31 Identify and discuss the dramatic elements (plot or story line, beginning, middle, end, dialogue, monologue, conflict) in literature, films and plays. (2.23, 2.24)

3.3.1 A market exists whenever buyers and sellers exchange goods and services.  Prices and availability of goods and services are determined by supply and demand.

3.2.2 The U.S. economic system has financial institutions (e.g., banks).

POS- Students will examine basic components (e.g., taxes, goods and services provided by government) of the economic system of the United States.

POS- Students will recognize the impact of economic factors (e.g., security, growth, desire for profits) on decisions made by individuals, businesses, and governments in the United States.

3.2.3 The U.S. economic system is based on free enterprise where businesses seek to make profits by producing or selling goods or services.

3.4.3 Producers who specialize create specific goods or services (e.g., computer games, tennis shoes, movie theaters).

POS- Students will trace changes over time in the economic system of the United States, including changes in the goods and services produced by United States workers and the impact of specialization.

3.4.1 Producers create goods and services; consumers make economic choices about which ones to purchase.

3.2.4 Profit is the difference between revenues and the costs entailed in producing or selling goods or services.

3.3.2 The direct exchange of goods and services is called barter.  Money has generally replaced barter as a more efficient system for exchange.

POS- Students will understand how culture in the United States has been influenced by languages, literature, arts, beliefs, and behaviors of diverse groups.

2.2.1 All cultures develop institutions, customs, beliefs, and holidays reflecting their unique histories, situations, and perspectives.

2.1.2 Elements of culture (e.g., language, music, art, dress, food, stories, folktales) serve to define specific groups and may result in unique perspectives.