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Rational Numbers and Exponents
Students will:
Continue to develop an understanding of the connections among ratios, fractions, decimals, and percents.
Integer Operations
Students will:
Begin to develop an understanding of and fluency with multiplication and division of fractions, decimals and integers.
Students will:
determine the slope, m, as rate of change in a proportional relationship between two quantities and write an equation in the form y = mx to represent the relationship;
graph a line representing a proportional relationship between two quantities given the slope and an ordered pair, or given the equation in y =mx form where m represents the slope as rate of change.
determine the y-intercept, b, in an additive relationship between two quantities and write an equation in the form y = x + b to represent the relationship;
graph a line representing an additive relationship between two quantities given the y-intercept and an ordered pair, or given the equation in the form y = x + b, where b represents the y-intercept; and
make connections between and among representations of a proportional or additive relationship between two quantities using verbal descriptions, tables, equations, and graphs.
Critical Reading
Readers understand that media messages represent beliefs held by the author and groups in a society.
Readers analyze the choices the author makes (organizational patterns, language, format) to construct power, position, and perspectives.
Readers take a critical stance while reading, analyzing the author’s explicit and implicit beliefs and comparing these beliefs to their own.
Readers determine whether or not to accept how the text is positioning them.
Debating
Writers investigate current events in order to put them into perspective.
Writers decide how to present their stance providing essential information and persuasive elements.
The Patterns of Weather unit develops student understanding of the properties of air, the structure of the atmosphere, weather, and air quality. It expands upon their understanding of the effects of solar radiation entering earth’s atmosphere on weather and the significance of convection and radiation in distribution of energy on Earth. This unit builds on the 4th grade science Weather unit in which students first learned about weather instruments and predictions. Students will understand that changes to the atmosphere can be caused naturally or by human action, whose results are not fully understood.