Big Ideas:
- Developing our understanding of how language works allows us to use it purposefully.
- Questioning what we hear, read, and view contributes to our ability to be educated and engaged citizens.
Curricular Competencies
COMPREHEND/CONNECT
- Understand how literary elements, techniques, and devices enhance and shape meaning.
- Recognize an increasing range of text structures and how they contribute to meaning
- Assess and refine texts to improve their clarity, effectiveness, and impact according to purpose, audience, and message.
- Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaningful literary and informational texts for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Assignments/Activities:
Language Arts curricular competencies are also covered in Social Studies.
Language Arts curricular competencies are also covered in Social Studies.
- Reader's Theatre
- Big Book Project (Art)
- 40 Books Challenge
Big Ideas:
- Properties of objects and shapes can be described, measured, and compared using volume, area, perimeter, and angles.
- Data from the results of an experiment can be used to predict the theoretical probability of an event and to compare and interpret.
Curricular Competencies:
UNDERSTANDING/SOLVING
COMMUNICATING AND REPRESENTING
- Visualize to explore mathematical concepts
COMMUNICATING AND REPRESENTING
- Engage in problem-solving experiences that are connected to place, story, cultural practices, and perspectives relevant to local First Peoples communities, the local community, and other cultures
Assignments/Activities:
I teach math using a guided math concept. All the students are put into groups and they will work in stations such as problem solving, math drills, math games, apps etc. to help master the skills. Although sometimes the main concepts are the same between the two grades, the details are different.
I teach math using a guided math concept. All the students are put into groups and they will work in stations such as problem solving, math drills, math games, apps etc. to help master the skills. Although sometimes the main concepts are the same between the two grades, the details are different.
- Measurement
- Algebra
- Geometry (transformations)
- Probability
- Money management
Big Ideas:
- TBA
Curricular Competencies:
- TBA
Assignments/Activities:
- TBA
Big Ideas:
Curricular Competencies:
PROCESSING AND ANALYZING DATA AND INFORMATION
- Multicellular organisms rely on internal systems to survive, reproduce, and interact with their environment.
- Newton's 3 Laws of motion describe the relationship between force and motion.
Curricular Competencies:
PROCESSING AND ANALYZING DATA AND INFORMATION
- Compare data with predictions and develop explanations for results
- Suggest improvements to their investigation methods
- Generate and introduce new or refined ideas when problem solving
Assignments/Activities:
- Experiments using Newton's 3 Laws
Big Ideas:
Curricular Competencies:
- Complex global problems require international cooperation to make difficult choices for the future
Curricular Competencies:
- Differentiate between short- and long-term causes, and intended and unintended consequences, of events, decisions, or developments (cause and consequence)
- Make ethical judgments about events, decisions, or actions that consider the conditions of a particular time and place, and assess appropriate ways to respond (ethical judgment)
Assignments/Activities:
- World Conflicts
Big Ideas:
- TBA
Curricular Competencies
- TBA
Big Ideas:
- Learning about similarities and differences in individuals and groups influences community health.
Curricular Competencies:
- Recognize their personal preferences, skills, strengths, and abilities and connect them to possible career choices
- Demonstrate leadership skills through collaborative activities in the school and community.
- Recognize their personal preferences, skills, strengths, and abilities and connect them to possible career choices.
Assignments/Activities:
- Career Cards
- Classroom Economy
Big Ideas:
- Healthy choices influence our physical, emotional, and mental well-being.
Curricular Competencies:
PHYSICAL LITERACY
SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY HEALTH
SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY HEALTH
Assignments/Activities:
- Puberty
- Stereotypes and Prejudices
Big Ideas:
- TBA
Assignments/Activities:
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