EL : Reading Literary Texts and Overcoming Learning Challenges - School and Education
EL Education is a curriculum written by and for teachers with emphasis placed on active learning and student engagement. Classrooms are structured with highly collaborative activities that allow students to engage in academic conversations and investigations of rich academic topics.
Big Question: Why are education, reading, and books important? Students will be reading texts about how children face challenges with access to school and education and how they overcome those challenges.
Mathematics
Essential Questions: Students will come away with an understanding of the following big questions in the first quarter.
How can equal groups make you more efficient at counting?
How do we solve problems with equal groups?
How are mathematical operations related to each other?
Vocabulary:
Product
Division
Multiplication
Properties of Operations
Equal Groups
Multiple
Factor
Arrays
Multiply
Divide
Numerical Patterns
Repeated Addition
Graphing
Why do people collect data?
How can data be organized in a way that is is easy to understand/interpret?
vocabulary:
Axes
Horizontal
Vertical
Frequency Table
Scale
Scaled picture graph
Scaled bar graph
Addition and Subtraction
Why is problem solving important?
Addition
Addend
Sum
Regroup
Place Value
Equation
Unknown
Place Value Drawing
Expression
Subtraction
Missing Addend
Difference
Ungroup
More
Fewer
Decompose
Subtotals
Expanded Form
Expanded Method
Number Line
Precision
Greater
Value
Rounding
Inverse Operation
Estimation
Exact
About
Reasonable
Actual
Symbol
Comparison
Operation
Compare
Relationship
Social Studies - Civics and Government
Standards:
3.C&G.1.1 Compare the structure and function of both state and local government.
3.C&G.1.2 Classify the roles and responsibilities of leaders in state and local government.
3.C&G.1.3 Compare how state, local, and tribal governments help solve problems within communities
Essential Questions:
How is the structure and function of the state and local government similar and different?
What are the roles and responsibilities of state and local government?
How do governments (state and local) establish policies, rules, and laws to help solve problems and maintain conflict within communities?
How do governments work with people in the community to solve the problems and issues?
Science - Matter and Its Interactions
Standards:
PS 3.1 Understand the structure and properties of matter before and after they undergo a change.
PS 3.1.1 Engage in argument from evidence to infer that air is a substance that surrounds us, takes up space, and has mass.
PS 3.1.2 Carry out investigations to classify solids, liquids, and gases based on their basic properties.
PS 3.1.3 Engage in argument from evidence to explain observable changes to the properties of matter when heated or cooled.
PS 3.3 Understand how energy can be transferred from one object to another.
PS 3.3.2 Carry out investigations to explain how energy can be transferred from a warmer object to a cooler one by contact or at a distance.