Benchmark 

Unit 1: Cultivating Natural Resources

Essential Question: How do we decide which resources we should develop?

Strategies and Skills we focus on:

• Identify Key Details and Determine Central Ideas

• Draw on Information from Multiple Sources: Charts and Graphs

• Explain Cause and Effect Relationships in a Text

• Determine Author’s Point of View and Purpose

• Integrate Information from Several Texts on the Same Topic

• Use Context Clues to Determine the Meaning of Words and Phrases

ELA Homework

• Bring your just right book to school and home again every day.

• Read your "just right" book for 20-30 minutes at least 4 times a week. 

4 Units & Essential Questions to explore and answer:

1. What Happens to our Garbage? (Life and Physical Science)

2. Why did the Tiger Salamanders 

Disappear? (Life Science)

3. Why does it Matter if I Drink 

Tap or Bottled Water? 

(Earth Science)

4. Why do Falling Stars Fall? (Space Science)