Students will develop an understanding of how to understand and relate time, liquid, and mass in word problems. Students will also build on their ability to create bar and picture graphs with scales other than one. They will also represent data using line plots.
In this unit the students will learn to compare numbers of objects in groups within ten. They will compare and describe two objects’ measurable attributes such as height, weight, length and capacity.
Growing tensions over political power and economic issues sparked a movement for independence from Great Britain. New York played a critical role in the course and outcome of the American Revolution. In this unit students will study how conflicts between France and Great Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries in North America altered the relationship between the colonies and Great Britain. Students will investigate how American colonial leaders outlined their grievances against British policies and actions in the Declaration of Independence. In addition, students will examine how the outcome of the American Revolution was influenced by military strategies, geographic considerations, the involvement of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) and other Native American groups in the war.
Students will learn how to complete metric conversions, as well as customary conversions for length and time. Students will extend their knowledge of area and perimeter from third grade to complete multi-step real world and mathematical problems involving area, perimeter, and different types of rectangles.
In this culminating unit, students will ask and answer questions and make text connections across various genres. Students will use this genre study to both create various forms of verbal and written responses.
In this unit students will learn to recognize the need for standard units of measure (centimeter and inch) and apply this understanding to addition and subtraction problems involving length. The students will learn to recognize that the smaller the unit, the more iterations needed to cover a given length and they will learn to select appropriate tools to measure understanding that linear measure involves an iteration of units. The students will also learn to interpret and represent data in multiple ways, such as: line plot, bar graph, picture graph, and a tally chart.
Students will investigate how different groups of people did not have equal rights and freedoms and how as people worked to bring about change, the struggle for rights and freedoms was one factor in the division of the United States that resulted in the Civil War. Students will also begin exploring Women’s Rights and the role New York State played in the Civil War.
In this unit the students will learn to identify properties of dilations and compositions of dilations, describe the effect of dilations on two-dimensional figures in general and using coordinates. They will apply the Pythagorean Theorem to two and three dimensions using real world examples.
Students will build on their understanding of area from fourth grade to consider 3-D shapes and their volumes. Students will develop methods for finding the volume of rectangular prisms that include multiplying the area of the base times the height, multiplying length by the width by the height, and counting unit cubes.
In this unit, students will examine how communities meet their needs and wants in a variety of ways, forming the basis for their economy. Students will explore how world communities use human and natural resources in different ways and that people in communities have various ways of meeting their basic needs and earning a living. In addition, students will learn about how each community develops an economic system that addresses three essential questions. Through this study, students will learn about communities and the goods and services they provide as well as trade to meet the needs and wants of the community.
