English Language Arts Aligned

Essential Question: How might we use scientific fact, our skills of identifying key details and organizing events in timelines to help us make decisions or discover the truth?

Science: Students will analyze and interpret data to provide evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these traits exists in a group of similar organisms.

Social Studies: Students understand the role of rules and laws in our daily lives and the basic structure of the U.S. government.

Mathematics Aligned

Essential Question: How can we use the engineering and design process to design a tiny house that meets the needs of our clients and fits in their budget?

Science: Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost. Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

Social Studies: Students demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills and an understanding of the economy of the local region. 

English Language Arts Aligned

Essential Question: How might we use coding to create a movie to tell a fairytale story that would make a profit in the movie business?

Science: Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost. 

Social Studies: Students demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills and an understanding of the economy of the local region.