How We Organize Ourselves

How do systems in our community impact the world around us?

Scholars will explore systems within a community that have an impact on the greater community. They will discuss and debate systems that are for the benefit of others or are harmful to some members of the community. This understanding will bring awareness to the systems around us and promote an interest in taking action to improve systems within our own communities. In these texts scholars will explore many types of systems within communities, from mobile libraries to systemic racism.

Eureka Module 5- Addition and Subtraction within 1000 with word problems to 100

Module 5 builds upon the work of Module 4. Students again use place value strategies, manipulatives, and math drawings to extend their conceptual understanding of the addition and subtraction algorithms to numbers within 1000. They maintain addition and subtraction fluency within 100 through daily application work to solve one- and two-step word problems of all types. A key component of Modules 4 and 5 is that students use place value reasoning to explain why their addition and subtraction strategies work.

In this unit, scholars will explore the genre of Realistic fiction stories which include: stories involving people or animals that could have actually happened, events occurring in a believable setting, characters’ reactions that are similar to how real people would react, and no aspects of fantasy or fairy tale within these stories.

By the end of the unit, scholars will write a realistic fictional story about a time when someone wanted or needed to change a system that was not working. Their story should include:

• The problem with the system
• The steps the character or characters take to make the changes
• The impact of those changes
• The lesson the character(s) learn

In this unit, scholars will understand how to describe rocks by size, texture, and color by observing different types of rocks. They will also be able to explain how technology has changed communication over many years. This is a great example of our central idea, of how citizens use systems and organizations to create change in their community. Lastly, scholars will compare and contrast natural and manmade resources.