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Kindergarten Social Studies Unit 2

Students will learn about rights and responsibilities at home, at school, in the classroom, and in the community, both their own and those of their adult counterparts. Students will learn about the basic universal rights and protections they have. They will have the opportunity to learn about rules within these same environments, what would happen if rules were not followed, and how to ensure health and safety for all. Students will be given the opportunity to contribute to the development of rules or laws as needed for class activities.

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Grade 4 Science Unit 2

In Part I, Students explore how energy can be transferred by/from moving objects, sound, light, heat, or electric currents. When moving objects collide the object’s motion changes. Students learn about the different types of energy; where and how we find and use this energy. In Part II, students learn properties of waves and how we use this information to design high tech devices, and transmit digitized information.

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Grade 8 Math Unit 2

In this unit, students learn about translations, reflections, and rotations in the plane and how to use them to define the concept of congruence. They will learn to use and apply knowledge of rigid motions to determine similarity and congruence when solving real world problems. They will learn to identify a sequence of transformation that will map a figure onto itself. Students will learn to prove/disprove similarity/congruence using translations, reflections and rotations. Students will learn to use knowledge of angle pairs, degrees of a triangle and exterior angles to solve for missing angles. Students will learn to use the Pythagorean Theorem to find missing sides of a triangle, find distance in the coordinate plane, and solve real-world problems. 

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Grade 7 ELA Unit 2

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Grade 7 Social Studies Unit 7

Social, political, and economic inequalities sparked various reform movements and resistance efforts. Influenced by the Second Great Awakening, New York State played a key role in major reform efforts. In this unit, students will define and explore the Second Great Awakening and the strong presence of reform movements during this time, with an emphasis on the abolitionist movement which worked to raise awareness of and generate resistance to the institution of slavery. Students will also investigate the presence of women in these movements as they fought for more rights.

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Kindergarten Math Unit 2

Students will describe, identify and sort items in their physical world using geometric ideas (e.g., shape, orientation, spatial relations) and vocabulary. They will use basic shapes and spatial reasoning to model objects in their environment and to construct construct two dimensional and three dimensional shapes. 

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Grade 4 ELA Unit 2

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Grade 8 Social Studies Unit 9

Students will study the civil rights movement and the Great Society and they were attempts by people and the government to address major social, legal, economic, and environmental problems. Additionally, students will investigate how the subsequent economic recession called for a new economic program.

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Grade 5 ELA Unit 2

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Grade 2 Social Studies Unit 2

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