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Phonological Awareness: The Sound of ''m''

Students will identify and associate the /m/ sound.

Writer's Corner with /m/ and /s/

Students will select backgrounds (settings), characters, and objects from the stories and activities in the chapter. After building their own stories, these stories may be printed.

Pam's Pad: A Decodable Reader

Students have the opportunity to practice decoding skills using the sounds that they have previously learned.

Sorting Under the Sea

Students will sort pictures by appearance (i.e. color, size, shape).

Estimate and Measure with Chef Pierre

Students use non-standard units to estimate and measure.

Phonics Felt Board-Weather

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.

Story Creator - Oceans

Students can choose backgrounds, characters and words from the word bank to retell or create a new story.

Monkey See, Monkey Do

Students match beginning blend sound of /fl/ to identify pictures with the same beginning sound.

Phonics Review: Letters m,r,h,a,s,d and t

Students learn to recognize letters through pictures, correct pronunciation and reinforcement through real life pictures.

Invisible Ape

Students will use metric units to measure, compare, and order objects according to capacity.

Fish Tales

Students will use customary units to measure, compare, and order objects according to lengths, in inches and feet.

Rhino Raider

Students will predict and extend existing numerical patterns using addition.

Grouping Animals

Students explore and learn about grouping animals by plant eaters, meat eaters, and those that eat both.

Voyage to the Earth, Moon and Sun

Students explore and learn about the Earth, Moon and Sun and their relationship to earth other in the Solar System.

Over the Edge

Students learn about using a compass and understanding directions of NESW.

It's a Matter of Time

Students learn about timelines and the order of events.

Tossed Up Talents

Students will be introduced to word analysis by identifying various homophones that sound the same, but are spelled differently, and have different meanings.

Comma Confusion

Students will learn the importance of using commas correctly in a variety of situations.

Right Back at You

Students will identify and classify angles as right, obtuse, or acute.

If the Key Fits

Students will apply a slide, flip, or turn to a plane figure. Predict the result.

Package Company

Students will identify the attributes of polygons (vertices, sides, and angles) and sort by particular characteristics of the plane figure.

Probably a Favorite

Students will interpret line and stem-and-leaf plots, compare data, and draw conclusions.

De vuelta a ti

Spanish version of Right Back at You. Students will identify and classify angles as right, obtuse, or acute.

Si la llave Encaja

Spanish version of If the Key Fits. Students will apply a slide, flip, or turn to a plane figure. Predict the result.

Compañia de Empaques

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.

Probablemente un favorite

Spanish version of Probably a Favorite. Students will interpret line and stem-and-leaf plots, compare data, and draw conclusions.

Mission to Mercury

Students learn about the planet Mercury.

What Should I Eat?

Students will learn about food groups and eating healthy.

Lupita Mañana - Background

Students will explore content through discovery and activate prior knowledge in preparation for reading the literature selection.

Lupita Mañana - Comprehension: Draw Conclusions

Students will use a variety of strategies to comprehend by drawing conclusions after reading the literature selection.

Expanding Up To Billions

Students will learn about place value using an interactive format.

Solving Equations with Addition and Subtraction

Students solve algebraic equations using inverse operations.

Compare and Order Decimals

Students use a number line to compare decimals.

Solving One Step Equations with Integers

Students solve one-step equations by finding the value of the variable.

Make Predictions and Solving Problems with Multiple Steps

Students use multiple steps to solve problems.

Translations

Students learn about translations, reflections and rotations.

Feel the Dots

Students learn about Louis Braille and the invention of the Braille system.

Cast Your Vote

Students learn about women and the voting process.

Scarlet Pimpernel Background

Students will explore to acquire background information to set the stage for the play ''The Scarlet Pimpernel.''

Scarlet Pimpernel Comprehension

Students will learn about the impact of different points of view on the reader.

The Scarlet Pimpernel-Writing Application

Students will learn how to write their own movie review.

Area

Students learn about area and perimeter by drawing various shapes and problem solving.

Lines and Angles I

Students learn about vertical, congruent and interior angles and how they relate to parallel lines and transversal.

Liberty or Death

Students will analyze the early calls for independence by colonists and the early battles of the American Revolution.

The Distributive Property - Factoring

This lesson discusses the use of the distributive property of multiplication to find the factors of an expression.

Organizing Data

This lesson explains how to organize data in frequency tables, stem-and-leaf plots, bar graphs, and histograms.

Modeling Expressions

Modeling Expressions, Students investigate representing and simplifying Algebra in expressions using Algebra tiles.

Winnie's World-The Family Home

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.

Freddy's Islands: Travel Island

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.

Freddy's Islands: Musical Jungle Island

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.


Odyssey High School

Combinations and Pascal’s Triangles

Students learn about different combinations of sets of objects.

Rate of Change and Slope

Students learn about finding the rate of change and slope using linear equations.

Direct Proofs

Students receive direct instruction and guided practice to learn about how to write geometric direct proofs.

Parallel Lines and Transversals

Students learn about theorems and postulates to solve problems

Deductive Reasoning

Students are introduced to the basic processes and elements of geometric reasoning and logic.

Simplifying Complex Fractions

Students will simplify complex fractions.

Reflections and Translations

Students will graph and transform parent functions using vertical and horizontal reflections and translations.

Other Sequences

Students will identify patterns in sequences, including the Fibonacci sequence.

Matrix Addition, Subtraction, and Scalar Multiplication

Students will perform the operations of addition, subtraction, and scalar multiplication on matrices.

Vector Addition and Subtraction

Students will add and subtract vectors.

Finding the Area of a Triangle

Students will use Heron's Formula and the Sine Area Formula to find the area of a triangle.

Inverse Trigonometric Functions

Students will define, evaluate, and recognize graphs of inverse trigonometric functions.

End Behavior of a Function

Students will determine whether functions increase without bounds or approach horizontal asymptotes, and compare relative magnitudes of the end behavior of functions.

Synthetic Division and Remainder Theorem

Students will use synthetic division and the Remainder Theorem to find roots and evaluate polynomial functions.

Graphing Rational Functions

Students will use roots, asymptotes, maxima and minima, and end behavior to graph rational functions.

Gauss-Jordan Method for Solving Systems

Students will use the geometric and algebraic methods to find solutions for systems of matrices.

Ideal Stoichiometric Calculations

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.

Kinetic-Molecular Theory

Students will predict the movement of molecules of gases under different circumstances.

Charles's Law

Students will relate the temperature and volume of a gas to the average kinetic energy of its molecules.

Gay-Lussac's Law

Students will relate the temperature and pressure of a gas to the average kinetic energy of its molecules.

Alpha Decay

Students will predict what happens during and after alpha decay.

Introduction to Forces

Students will identify examples of common forces, including friction, on everyday objects, and describe how forces can be measured.

Analyzing Speed

Students will analyze the motion of an object to identify its speed.

Calculating Wave Properties

Students will solve calculation problems involving the wavelength, frequency, period, speed, and amplitude of a given wave.

Ray Diagrams

Students will apply the ray theory of light by representing the motion of light.

Cellular Reproduction

Students are introduced to spontaneous generation and cell reproduction.

Genetics

Students learn about dominant and recessive traits.

Viral Structures and Functions

Students learn about viral structures and their functions.

Invertebrates

Students compare structure and function of invertebrate systems and how higher levels of organization result from changes in previous forms of organisms.

The Respiratory System

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.

The Nervous System

Students learn about the structures and functions of the nervous system and compare its functions to the overall function of the human body.

Volume and Mass

Students learn about density using a triangular model to calculate.

Motion

Students will understand and calculate attributes of motion and forces.

Newton’s Second Law of Motion

Students will identify and describe situations that illustrate Newton's Laws of Motion.

Compare Heat Transfer

Students will compare and contrast various ways of heat transfer.

Gift of the Magi: Part 2

Students learn about irony in real world scenarios while reading the Gift of the Magi

To Build a Fire – Jack London

Students learn about the Yukon setting and the theme and conflict for this story.

Thank You Ma’m

Students will analyze characterization through dialogue and prediction in this story by Langston Hughes.

Communication : Interview

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.

The Bet

Students explore capital punishment with a paired reading of a fictional text and an expository article.

A Raid on the Oyster Pirates

Students learn about character development and the impact on the plot of the story.

Children’s Hour-Lyric Poetry - Longfellow

Students explore Longfellow’s lyric poetry with simile, metaphor and personification.

"Dialogue Between Franklin and the Gout"; Almanac, Excerpts

Students will distinguish between inductive and deductive reasoning and analyze the way Franklin used reasoning strategies in his text.

Longfellow, Dickinson, and Whitman Poetry

Students will compare, evaluate, and interpret literary devices, structures, and themes that convey mood, meaning, and aesthetic qualities.

Experimentation and Social Unrest: 1960-1975

After reading a variety of informational period text, students will explain how ideas, values, and themes reflect the historical period.

"Raymond's Run"

Students will examine the development of the characters and their impact on the plot.

Macbeth: Act I

Students will relate the characters, setting, and theme to the historical context. Students will use strategies to repair breakdowns in comprehension.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, Excerpts

Students will analyze how the author conveys tone and how tone impacts meaning and conveys emotion.

William Butler Yeats and Dylan Thomas Poetry

Students will analyze, interpret, and compare poems for the effects of literary devices, structure, and theme to convey tone, mood, meaning, and aesthetic qualities.

"Death by Landscape"

Students will analyze the author's use of literary devices such as flashback.

Colonial Resistance

Students will compare the colonial factions, including who was considered a patriot and who was not.

The Move Toward Indepndence

Students will evaluate the olive branch petition and discuss the impact of the failed petition.

Jeffersonian Democracy

Students will evaluate the development of an American identity.

The Embargo and the Failure of Diplomacy

Students will assess the foreign and domestic impact of the embargo.

The Uprooted: Immigration and the United States

Students learn about immigration and the effect toward industrialization.

FDR and Hope

Students examine the life of Franklin Roosevelt as President and The Great Depression.

Society Reinvented

Students examine the emergence of the 1950’s teenager and how it changed our society.

The Federalist Papers and Ratification

Students learn about Federalism and the constitution.

The Electoral College Today

Students learn about the importance and the impact of the Electoral College on our election process.

Womens’ Rights

Students evaluate the role of women and their rights and how they came about.

World War I Outside of Europe

Students will analyze the impact of the entrance of the United States in World War One.

World War I in Europe, 1914-1916

Students will evaluate the effect of modern warfare, including trench warfare and air power.

World War II, part 1

Students will evaluate the conquest of the Japanese.

World War II, part 2

Students will discuss the effects of technology on warfare.

World War II, part 3

Students will trace the major events leading to the surrender of the Axis Powers and victory for the Allies.

1945: End of European Dominance

Students will evaluate the devastation of Europe and Japan and discuss the impact of the ruin on the future of each region.