Each grade level has a different overarching theme that students focus on throughout the year:
1st Grade - Transformation
2nd Grade - Adaptation
3rd Grade - Interpretation
4th Grade - Synchronization
5th Grade - Innovation
Current Unit of Study
We are excited to welcome students back to QUEST. We are beginning our QUEST year with an Affective Unit. Students will focus on their own unique skills, talents, and gifts and how they can make a difference in the world.
1st Grade Units of Study
Affective - Time Capsule Showcasing Skills, Talents, and Gifts
Creative Awareness and Creative Process - Instruments
Critical Thinking - Bloom's Taxonomy - Fables
Critical Thinking - Decision Making - The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Independent Study - Desert Animals
2nd Grade Units of Study
Affective - Skills, Talents, and Gifts Unit
Creative Awareness & Creative Process - Recycled Robots with stories
Critical Thinking -Decision Making - The 4th Little Pig
Independent Study - Rainforest Animal Adaptations
3rd Grade Units of Study
Affective - Skills, Talents, and Gifts Unit
Creative Awareness - Zoom and Re-Zoom Perspectives
Creative Process - Multiple Meaning Words "If I Were..." stories
Critical Thinking -Decision Making - Nitty Gritty
Independent Study - TBD with student input National Parks
4th Grade Units of Study
Affective Unit - Skills, Talents, and Gifts Unit
Creative Awareness & Creative Process - Rube Goldberg Machine
Critical Thinking - Decision Making - Fisherman & His Wife
Independent Study - Free Choice
5th Grade Units of Study
Affective Unit - Skills, Talents, and Gifts Unit
Creative Awareness & Creative Process - QUESTlandia (Careers and Community)
Community Outreach - Blankets of Hope
Critical Thinking - Decision Making - Pied Piper
Independent Study - Free Choice
Kindergarten
Fall Semester - Whole Class Kindergarten Lessons: Fluency, Flexibility, Originality, Elaboration
March 1st Kinder QUEST Students Units of Study
Transformation of name
Classifying and Sorting - Tangrams and other objects
Research - Insects