Module 1: Schools and Community

Guiding Questions and Big Ideas:

• What is school, and why are schools important?
• Why is it hard for some children to go to school in their communities?
• How do communities solve these problems so their children can go to school?
• How are schools around the world different? How are they similar?

Performance Task:

Informative Writing: "The Most Important Thing about Schools" Book

Students will use information from whole class and small group research to compile a book that compares and contrasts their own school with a school they read about in class. Students will orally present their books to a kindergarten class for a Celebration of Learning at the end of the module.

Letterland:

Skills:

Unit 1 Building a Mathematical Community while Working with Numbers within 20

NC.2.MD.6

Represent whole numbers as lengths from 0 on a number line diagram with equally spaced points and represent whole-number sums and differences, within 100 (only up to 20 at this point), on a number line diagram.

NC.2.OA.2

Demonstrate fluency with addition and subtraction, within 20, using mental strategies.

NC.2.OA.3

Determine whether a group of objects, within 20, has an odd or even number of members by:

● Pairing objects, then counting them by 2s.

● Determining whether objects can be placed into two equal groups.

● Writing an equation to express an even number as a sum of two equal addends.

Unit 2 Adding and Subtracting Within 20

NC.2.OA.1 Represent and solve addition and subtraction word problems, within 100, with unknowns in all positions, by using representations and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem, when solving:

• One-Step problems:
  • Add to/Take from - Start Unknown
  • Compare - Bigger Unknown
  • Compare - Smaller Unknown

NC.2.NBT.2 Count within 1,000 (100 at this point in the year); skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s.

NC.2.NBT.5 Demonstrate fluency with addition and subtraction, within 100, by:

• Flexibly using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.
• Comparing addition and subtraction strategies, and explaining why they work.
• Selecting an appropriate strategy in order to efficiently compute sums and differences.

NC.2.NBT.6 Add up to three two-digit numbers using strategies based on place value and properties of operations.

NC.2.NBT.8 Mentally add 10 or 100 to a given number [within]100–900, and mentally subtract 10 or 100 from a given number 100–900.

.NC.2.MD.6 Represent whole numbers as lengths from 0 on a number line diagram with equally spaced points and represent whole-number

2.P.2 Matter: Properties and Change

Understand properties of solids and liquids and the changes they undergo.

2.P.2.1

Give examples of matter that change from a solid to a liquid and from a liquid to a solid by heating and cooling.

2.P.2.2

Compare the amount (volume and weight) of water in a container before and after freezing.

2.P.2.3

Compare what happens to water left in an open container over time as to water left in a closed container.

Unit 1 Civics and Governance

2.C&G.1 Understand the purpose of governments.

2.C & G.1.1 Explain government services and their value to the community. (libraries, schools, parks, etc)

2.C&G.1.2 Explain how governments establish order, provide security and create laws to manage conflict.

2.C&G.2 Understand the roles and responsibilities of citizens.

2.C&G.2.1 Exemplify characteristics of good citizenship through historical figures and everyday citizens

2.C&G.2.2 Explain why it is important for citizens to participate in their community