Ms. Kim's Site - Quarter 4

Literacy: Responding to Inequality: Ratifying the 19th Amendment

Mathematics: Measurement

Science: Earth's Changing History

Science: Moon Phases

Literacy: Responding to Inequality: Ratifying the 19th Amendment

Big Ideas and Guiding Questions:
What can we learn from the process of ratifying the 19th Amendment?
How can stories stories inspire us to take action to contribute to a better world?
How and why can we encourage and support others to contribute to a better world?

Unit 1: Building Background Knowledge: Reading about and Analyzing Events in The Hope Chest

Mid-Unit 1 Assessment: Answering Questions about a Literary Text: Students read aloud a new excerpt from The Hope Chest and answer questions about meanings of words, synonym, and antonyms.

End of Unit 1 Assessment: Comparing Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts of the Same Event: Students will read first-hand text and answer questions about the meanings of words and phrases and then compare it to a second-hand account of the same event.

Unit 2: Analyze Characters and How Their Actions Contribute to Theme: Reading and Analyzing The Hope Chest

Mid-Unit 2 Assessment: Summarizing Events in a Chapter: Students read a new chapter of The Hope Chest and answer questions about similes, metaphors, idioms, adages, proverbes, relative pronouns, and relative adverbs.

End of Unit 2 Assessment: Writing a Literary Essay about a Theme in The Hope Chest: Students write an essay responding to a prompt to explore several themes.

Unit 3: Call to Action: How Can we Make a Difference?

Mid-Unit 3 Assessment: Researching How Kids Have Taken Action: Students learn about how two kids have taken action and record and categorize their notes into research categories.

End of Unit 3 Assessment: Writing a PSA: Students draft a script for a new PSA about the importance of kids taking action.

Module Performance Task: Taking Action Project Press Release

Students share their action plan by writing a press release. In the press release, students report their plan, explaining what they did, when and where it occurred, the results, and the impact.

Mathematics: Measurement

Unit 8: Applying Geometric Concepts

Students will be able to...

Identify points, lines, segments, rays, angles, parallel and perpendicular lines.
Use tools to draw points, lines, segments, rays, angles, parallel and perpendicular lines
Identify and classify quadrilaterals and triangles based on angle measure, side lengths, and the presence or absence of parallel or perpendicular lines.
Identify and draw lines of symmetry.
Identify and draw right, acute, obtuse, and straight angles.
Use a protractor to measure and draw angles
Solve for the unknown angle measures.
Estimate to assess reasonableness of the angle measure

Unit 9: Metric System

Students will be able to...

Solve problems involving metric units.
Convert metric measurements from a larger unit to a smaller unit (meter to centimeter, kilogram to gram, liter to milliliter).
Add and subtract time across the hour.
Represent 1/10 and 1/100 as decimals.
Make estimates and assess the reasonableness of those estimates during the process of measuring and make adjustments.
Generate and analyze numeric patterns using a conversion table.

Science: Earth's Changing History

Students will be able to...

Describe how fossils can be used as evidence of the history of Earth and its changing life forms.
Explain how changes in Earth’s surface can be used as evidence of Earth and its changing life forms.
Compare types of fossil evidence including molds, casts, and preserved parts of plants and animals.
Compare types of fossil evidence to living organisms.
Describe fossils.
Explain some characteristics of fossils.
Describe how organisms that lived long ago compare to existing organisms.
Explain how organisms that are alive today will leave fossil evidence under the right conditions.
Discuss and infer ideas about how Earth’s early environments are based on plant and animal fossil evidence.
Describe how fossils provide information about environmental conditions of the past including information about where, when and how the fossil organism lived.
Give examples of how the surface of the earth changes due to slow/subtle processes.
Give examples of how the surface of the earth changes due to rapid/drastic processes.
Describe how the surface of Earth can change over time.

Science: Moon Phases

Students will be able to...

Describe how Earth and its moon have patterns of motion.
Explain that day and night are caused by Earth’s pattern of motion.
Discuss that the observable changes in the moon’s appearance are caused by its patterns of motion.
Tell how day and night are caused by Earth's rotation.
Use a model to show that Earth rotates (spins completely around) on its axis.
Explain that Earth’s axis is an imaginary line that runs from the North Pole through its center to the South Pole.
Tell that Each complete spin (rotation) around the axis takes about 24 hours (a day).
Discuss that Earth’s rotation causes one side of planet Earth to receive light rays from the sun. This phenomenon is called day.
Discuss that Earth’s rotation causes one side of planet Earth not to receive light rays from the sun. This phenomenon causes darkness which is called night.
Explain that the moon's appearance (phase) changes in a specific and observable pattern.
Recognize that the moon's appearance (phase) changes from day to day.
Recall that the different shapes of the moon’s appearance are called phases.
Explain that the moon goes through and repeats a sequence of phases as it rotates and revolves (orbits) around Earth approximately every 28 days.
Describe and use a model to show that the moon’s appearance (phase) is determined by its position relative to Earth and the Sun.
Explain that during part of the moon phase cycle the moon’s visible portion appears to increase in size which is called waxing.
Explain that following the waxing phase the moon’s visible portion appears to reduce in size which is called waning.
Communicate that the phases of the moon appear differently based on the moon’s revolution (orbit) around Earth.
Describe that the moon phase cycle begins when we observe from Earth, that the moon appears completely dark. This phase is called the New Moon.
Describe that the moon phase cycle continues when we observe from Earth that the right half of the moon is illuminated by the Sun’s light. This phase is called the First Quarter.
Describe that about half way through the moon phase cycle when we observe from Earth that the moon is fully illuminated by the Sun’s light. This phase is called the Full Moon.
Describe that the moon phase cycle nears its end when we observe from Earth the left half of the moon is illuminated by the Sun’s light. This phase is called the Last Quarter.

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Literacy: Responding to Inequality: Ratifying the 19th Amendment

​Big Ideas and Guiding Questions:What can we learn from the process of ratifying the 19th Amendment?How can stories stories inspire us to take action to contribute to a better world?How and why can we encourage and support others to contribute to a better world?​

​Unit 1: Building Background Knowledge: Reading about and Analyzing Events in The Hope Chest

​Unit 2: Analyze Characters and How Their Actions Contribute to Theme: Reading and Analyzing The Hope Chest

Unit 3: Call to Action: How Can we Make a Difference?

Module Performance Task: Taking Action Project Press Release

Mathematics: Measurement

Unit 8: Applying Geometric Concepts

​Unit 9: Metric System

Science: Earth's Changing History

Science: Moon Phases

Big Ideas and Guiding Questions:
What can we learn from the process of ratifying the 19th Amendment?
How can stories stories inspire us to take action to contribute to a better world?
How and why can we encourage and support others to contribute to a better world?

Unit 1: Building Background Knowledge: Reading about and Analyzing Events in The Hope Chest

Unit 2: Analyze Characters and How Their Actions Contribute to Theme: Reading and Analyzing The Hope Chest

Unit 9: Metric System