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