Curriculum

ELA: McGraw Hill Wonders

Unit 1: Thinking it Through

Week 1: Clever Ideas

Week 2: Think of Others

Week 3: Take Action

Week 4: Ideas in Motion

Week 5: Putting Ideas to Work

Week 6: Unit 1 Test

Unit 2: Amazing Animals

   Week 1: Literary Lessons

     Week 2: Animals in Fiction

     Week 3: Natural Connections

     Week 4: Adaptations

     Week 5: Animals All Around

     Week 6: Unit 2 Test

Unit 3: That's the Spirit!

    Week 1: Friendship

      Week 2: Helping the Community

      Week 3: Liberty and Justice

      Week 4: Powerful Words

      Week 5: Feeding the World

      Week 6: Unit 3 Test/Essay

Unit 4: Fact or Fiction?

    Week 1: Our Government

       Week 2: Leadership

       Week 3: Breakthroughs

       Week 4: Wonders in the Sky

       Week 5: Achievements

       Week 6: Unit 4 Test and Essay

Unit 5: Figure it Out

Week 1: Making it Happen

Week 2: On the Move

Week 3: Inventions

Week 4: Zoom In

Week 5: Digging up the Past

Week 6: Unit 5 Test and Essay


STATE TESTING PREP

STATE TESTING - ELA

Math: McGraw Hill My Math

Chapter 1: Place Value

Chapter 2: Add and Subtract Whole Numbers

Chapter 3: Understand Multiplication and Division

Chapter 4: Multiply with One-Digit Numbers

Chapter 5: Multiply with Two-Digit Numbers

Chapter 6: Divide by a One-Digit Number

Chapter 7: Patterns and Sequences

Chapter 8: Fractions

Chapter 9: Operations with Fractions

Chapter 10: Fractions and Decimals

Chapter 11: Customary Measurement

Chapter 12: Metric Measurement

Chapter 13: Perimeter and Area

Chapter 14: Geometry

STATE TEST PREP

STATE TESTING - MATH

History/Social Studies: Studies Weekly

Unit 1: Inquiry

Week 1: The Year Ahead

Week 2: Developing Questions and Planning Inquires

Week 3: Sources

Unit 2: Geography

Week 5: Themes of Geography

Week 6: Map Skills and Place

Week 7: Human-Environment Interaction

Week 8: Regions of the United States

Week 9: Regions of California

Week 10: Culture

Unit 3: Early California and the Mission System

Week 11: Life in North America Before European and Colonization

Week 12: California American Indian Tribes of the Pacific Coast and Desert Region

Week 13: California American Indian Tribes of the Mountain, Central Valley, and Delta Regions

Week 14: Exploration and Encounters

Week 15: Colonization

Week 16: The Mission System

Week 17: The End of the Mission System

Week 18: Government and Economy of California Under Mexican Rule

Week 19: Early Settlers

Week 20: The Mexican-American War and the Bear Flag Revolt 

Week 21: Gold is Discovered in California

Week 22: Migration to California

Week 23: The Gold Rush

Week 24: Gold Rush Stories

Week 25: California Statehood

Week 26: Technology Changes

Week 27: Challenges to Immigration

Week 28: California Government

Week 29: California's Educational System

Week 30: California at the Turn of the 20th Century

Week 31: The Great Depression and the Dust Bowl

Week 32: World War II

Week 33: The Quest for Civil Rights

Week 34: The Economy of California

Week 35: Water and its Impact on California

Week 36: Looking Back, Looking Forward


Science: Amplify

     Unit 1: Energy Conversions

       Chapter 1: What happened to the electrical system the night of the blackout?

          1.1: Pre-Unit Discussion

          1.2: Introducing Systems

          1.3: Exploring Systems

          1.4: Electrical Energy

          1.5: Forms of Energy

      Chapter 2: What makes the devices in Ergstown output or fail to output energy?

          2.1: Energy Converters

          2.2: Energy Past and Present 

          2.3: Energy in the System

         2.4: Electrical Devices

     Chapter 3: Where does the electrical energy for the devices in Ergstown come from?

         3.1: Investigating Energy Sources

         3.2: Converting Energy from Sources

         3.3: Sunlight and Showers

         3.4-3.5: Designing and Redesigning Wind Turbines

    Chapter 4: How does energy get to the devices all over Ergstown?

         4.1: Blackout!

         4.2: Investigating System Failure

         4.3: Improving the Electrical Grid

         4.4-4.5: System Improvements

        4.6: UNIT 1 ASSESSMENT

Unit 2: Vision and Light

Chapter 1: How does a Tokay gecko get information about its environment?

Lesson 1.1: Pre-Unit Discussion

Lesson 1.2: Introducing Animal Senses

Lesson 1.3: Investigation Animal Senses

Lesson 1.4: Exploring how Animals Survive

Chapter 2: How does light allow a Tokay gecko to see its prey?

Lesson 2.1: Investigating Light

Lesson 2.2: Modeling Ideas about Light

Lesson 2.3: I See What you Mean

Lesson 2.4: Reviewing Models about Vision and Light

Lesson 2.5: Explaining How Light Allows an Animal to See

Chapter 3: How does a Tokay gecko know that it is looking at its prey?

Lesson 3.1: Exploring Animal Eye Structures

Lesson 3.2: Crow Scientist

Lesson 3.3: Investigating Information Processing

Lesson 3.4: Investigating How Animals React to Information

Lesson 3.5: Explaining How Animals Recognize Prey

Chapter 4: How could more light at night make it hard for a Tokay gecko to see its prey?

Lesson 4.1: Seeing like a shrimp and smelling like a snake

Lesson 4.2: Investigating what different animals see

Lesson 4.3: Investigating receptor sensitivity

END OF UNIT 2 - ASSESSMENT


Unit 3: Earth's Features

Chapter 1: How did the fossil get inside the rocky outcrop?

Chapter 2: What was the environment of Desert Rocks National Park like in the past?

Chapter 3: What is the order of the past environments of Desert Rocks National Park?

Chapter 4: Why did more rock layers get exposed in Desert Rocks Canyon than in Keller’s Canyon?

END OF UNIT 3 - Assessment