Fall: Investigating Characterization: Author Studies

Winter: Historical Fiction Book Clubs

Spring: Essential Research Skills for Teens

Fall: Realistic Fiction

Winter: The Literary Essay: From Character to Compare/Contrast Companion Books

Spring: Research-based Essays

Ratios and Proportional Relationships

The Number System

Expressions and Equations

Geometry

Statistics and Probability

All Year: Engineering: Defining Problems, Developing Solutions, Optimizing Solutions

Unit 1: The Changing Earth: Rock Cycle, Geoscience Processes, Plate Tectonics

Unit 2: Environmental Impacts: Weather, Climate, Impacts

Unit 3: Space: Scale Properties

Unit 4: Chemistry: Reactions

Unit 5: Physics: Forces, Waves

Unit 6: Human Body: Systems, Sensory Receptors, Cellular Respiration, Reproduction, & Genetics (technology included)

Unit 7: Evolution: Mutations, & Evolution

Unit 8: Engineering

Time Period 1500 - 1791(US Bill of Rights)

• Trimester 1/Unit 1: Individual in History/Natives & Explorers

• Trimester 2/Unit 2: Revolution, Reaction, & Reform

• Trimester 3/Unit 3: Taking a Stand/Constitution