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Phonics Felt Board-Weather
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Through a series of learning activities focused on discovery, recognition, and application, the
student will practice phonetic skills. Students will experience words in a variety of modes,
including rhyme and story.
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Story Creator - Oceans
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Students can choose backgrounds, characters and words from the word bank to
retell or create a new story.
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Monkey See, Monkey Do
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Students match beginning blend sound of /fl/ to identify pictures with the same
beginning sound.
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Phonics Review: Letters m,r,h,a,s,d and t
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Students learn to recognize letters through pictures, correct pronunciation and
reinforcement through real life pictures.
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Invisible Ape
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Students will use metric units to measure, compare, and order objects according
to capacity.
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Fish Tales
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Students will use customary units to measure, compare, and order objects according
to lengths, in inches and feet.
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Rhino Raider
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Students will predict and extend existing numerical patterns using addition.
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Grouping Animals
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Students explore and learn about grouping animals by plant eaters, meat eaters,
and those that eat both.
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Voyage to the Earth, Moon and Sun
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Students explore and learn about the Earth, Moon and Sun and their relationship to
earth other in the Solar System.
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Tossed Up Talents
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Students will be introduced to word analysis by identifying various homophones that
sound the same, but are spelled differently, and have different meanings.
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Comma Confusion
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Students will learn the importance of using commas correctly in a variety of situations.
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Right Back at You
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Students will identify and classify angles as right, obtuse, or acute.
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If the Key Fits
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Students will apply a slide, flip, or turn to a plane figure. Predict the result.
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Package Company
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Students will identify the attributes of polygons (vertices, sides, and angles) and sort by
particular characteristics of the plane figure.
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Probably a Favorite
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Students will interpret line and stem-and-leaf plots, compare data, and draw conclusions.
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De vuelta a ti
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Spanish version of Right Back at You. Students will identify and classify angles as right,
obtuse, or acute.
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Si la llave Encaja
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Spanish version of If the Key Fits. Students will apply a slide, flip, or turn to a
plane figure. Predict the result.
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Compañia de Empaques
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Spanish version of Package Company. Students will identify the attributes of polygons
(vertices, sides, and angles) and sort by particular characteristics of the plane figure.
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Probablemente un favorite
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Spanish version of Probably a Favorite. Students will interpret line and stem-and-leaf
plots, compare data, and draw conclusions.
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Feel the Dots
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Students learn about Louis Braille and the invention of the Braille system.
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Cast Your Vote
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Students learn about women and the voting process.
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Area
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Students learn about area and perimeter by drawing various shapes and problem solving.
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Lines and Angles I
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Students learn about vertical, congruent and interior angles and how they relate
to parallel lines and transversal.
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Liberty or Death
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Students will analyze the early calls for independence by colonists and the early
battles of the American Revolution.
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The Distributive Property - Factoring
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This lesson discusses the use of the distributive property of multiplication
to find the factors of an expression.
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Organizing Data
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This lesson explains how to organize data in frequency tables, stem-and-leaf
plots, bar graphs, and histograms.
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Modeling Expressions
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Modeling Expressions, Students investigate representing and simplifying
Algebra in expressions using Algebra tiles.
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Winnie's World-The Family Home
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Winnie’s World-The Family Home, Acquire a vocabulary and background in family,
home, and community; categorize information by attribute and decipher the meaning
of an unfamiliar word in context; activate prior knowledge by listening and viewing
while acquiring background knowledge.
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Freddy's Islands: Travel Island
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Acquire and develop vocabulary and number sense and time; follow spoken directions;
determine the purpose of the material, identify the problem to be solved, follow a sequence
of events in a praocuedure and listen to direction; locate specific information while attending
to speaker; match spoken words to pictures.
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Freddy's Islands: Musical Jungle Island
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Develop a vocabulary in conservation, ecology, zoology, and music; adjust reading rate
appropriately; follow written and spoken directions; interpret animations and graphics;
listen to dialog and for keywords; add information and ideas; decipher words; listen for
amusement; retell information in own words; respond to stories.
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Odyssey High School
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Direct Proofs
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Students receive direct instruction and guided practice to learn about how to write geometric direct proofs.
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Parallel Lines and Transversals
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Students learn about theorems and postulates to solve problems
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Deductive Reasoning
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Students are introduced to the basic processes and elements of geometric reasoning and logic.
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Ideal Stoichiometric Calculations
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Students will calculate the mass of an unknown when given moles, mass, or number of particles of a known; calculate the moles of an unknown when given moles, mass, or number of particles of a known; calculate the number of particles of an unknown when given moles, mass, or number of particles of a known.
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Kinetic-Molecular Theory
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Students will predict the movement of molecules of gases under different circumstances.
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Charles's Law
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Students will relate the temperature and volume of a gas to the average kinetic energy of its molecules.
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Gay-Lussac's Law
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Students will relate the temperature and pressure of a gas to the average kinetic energy of its molecules.
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Alpha Decay
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Students will predict what happens during and after alpha decay.
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Introduction to Forces
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Students will identify examples of common forces, including friction, on everyday objects, and describe how forces can be measured.
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Analyzing Speed
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Students will analyze the motion of an object to identify its speed.
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Calculating Wave Properties
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Students will solve calculation problems involving the wavelength, frequency, period, speed, and amplitude of a given wave.
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Ray Diagrams
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Students will apply the ray theory of light by representing the motion of light.
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Cellular Reproduction
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Students are introduced to spontaneous generation and cell reproduction.
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Genetics
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Students learn about dominant and recessive traits.
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Viral Structures and Functions
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Students learn about viral structures and their functions.
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Invertebrates
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Students compare structure and function of invertebrate systems and how higher levels of organization result from changes in previous forms of organisms.
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The Respiratory System
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Students trace the path of oxygen or carbon dioxide through the respiratory system and compare its function to the overall function of the human body.
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The Nervous System
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Students learn about the structures and functions of the nervous system and compare its functions to the overall function of the human body.
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Volume and Mass
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Students learn about density using a triangular model to calculate.
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Motion
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Students will understand and calculate attributes of motion and forces.
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Newton’s Second Law of Motion
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Students will identify and describe situations that illustrate Newton's Laws of Motion.
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Compare Heat Transfer
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Students will compare and contrast various ways of heat transfer.
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Gift of the Magi: Part 2
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Students learn about irony in real world scenarios while reading the Gift of the Magi
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To Build a Fire – Jack London
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Students learn about the Yukon setting and the theme and conflict for this story.
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Thank You Ma’m
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Students will analyze characterization through dialogue and prediction in this story by Langston Hughes.
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Communication : Interview
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Students will identify the purpose and process of interviewing through topic research, developing appropriate questions, using mature and respectful language, organizing and compiling notes and information, and evaluating the effectiveness of the interview.
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"Dialogue Between Franklin and the Gout"; Almanac, Excerpts
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Students will distinguish between inductive and deductive reasoning and analyze the way Franklin used reasoning strategies in his text.
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Longfellow, Dickinson, and Whitman Poetry
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Students will compare, evaluate, and interpret literary devices, structures, and themes that convey mood, meaning, and aesthetic qualities.
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Experimentation and Social Unrest: 1960-1975
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After reading a variety of informational period text, students will explain how ideas, values, and themes reflect the historical period.
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"Raymond's Run"
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Students will examine the development of the characters and their impact on the plot.
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Macbeth: Act I
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Students will relate the characters, setting, and theme to the historical context. Students will use strategies to repair breakdowns in comprehension.
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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, Excerpts
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Students will analyze how the author conveys tone and how tone impacts meaning and conveys emotion.
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William Butler Yeats and Dylan Thomas Poetry
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Students will analyze, interpret, and compare poems for the effects of literary devices, structure, and theme to convey tone, mood, meaning, and aesthetic qualities.
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"Death by Landscape"
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Students will analyze the author's use of literary devices such as flashback.
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