Earth Science – Weather & Climate
Earth Science – Weather & Climate: Students explore the roles of water in Earth’s surface processes, variables that influence weather and climate, and human activities that cause global climate change
Earth Science – History of Earth
Students explore the history of Planet Earth, Earth’s materials and systems, plate tectonics and large-scale interactions, and the roles of water in Earth’s surface processes.
Grade 3 Science Unit 1
Weather and Climate: Students learn about Earth processes that contribute to various types of weather. They analyze and interpret data and information to learn about weather patterns and climate from a local and global perspective. Students learn about Earth processes that result in natural hazards, and ways to reduce the impact of weather-related hazards.
Grade 3 Social Studies Unit 1
Students learn about communities around the globe and about global citizenship. Students bring with them knowledge about their communities. In this course, students make comparisons across time and space, examining different communities and their cultures. Culture includes social organization, customs and traditions, language, arts and literature, religion, forms of government, and economic systems. Students are introduced to the concepts of prejudice, discrimination and human rights, as well as to social action.
Kindergarten Social Studies Unit 1
Students will learn about similarities and differences between children, families, and communities and about holidays, symbols and traditions that unite us as Americans. Students learn about respect for others, and rights and responsibilities of individuals.
Grade 6 ELA Unit 1
Argumentation: In this introductory unit, students will identify an author’s argument, and analyze how it develops over the course of the text through relevant or irrelevant evidence. Students will also look deeply at a text to identify other factors that could affect an author’s perspective (i.e. geographic location, culture, etc.) This unit will culminate in students generating their own arguments on a topic(s), and providing relevant and specific evidence to support their claim.
Kindergarten ELA Unit 1
UPDATED FOR 2021-22: What Is a Reader and a Writer? empowers students with emergent and beginning literacy skills. This unit should be paired with the Reading Foundations which focus on the acquisition of phonological awareness and phonics which are essential foundations for reading and writing. It is essential that these skills are not taught in isolation, but applied within students reading and writing.
Grade 8 Social Studies Unit 1
Reconstruction: Reunifying the nation brought many challenges. While freed African Americans created new lives for themselves in the absence of slavery, constitutional amendments and federal legislation sought to expand rights and protect the citizenship of African Americans. These federal initiatives begun during Reconstruction were challenged on many levels impacting the lives of all Americans.
Grade 8 Math Unit 1
Rational Numbers and Exponents: Students will deepen their understanding of rational numbers, as they investigate irrational numbers and their place in the number system. Students will also consider exponents and how solving for a base can yield a rational or irrational number.
Life Science – Matter & Energy in Organisms & Ecosystems
Life Science – Matter & Energy in Organisms & Ecosystems: Students explore the organization of matter and energy flow in organisms, interdependent relationships in ecosystems, the cycle of matter and energy transfer that occurs in ecosystems, ecosystem dynamics, functioning, and resilience, and energy in chemical processes and everyday life.