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Language arts Concepts:
Students will know and understand that:
· Reading, comprehending
and responding to a variety of genres is essential in becoming a well-rounded
student · Good readers use many strategies
before, during and after reading to understand a variety of genres · There is a consistent
set of elements in expository writing
as well as other genres · Written and oral
responses to text should be supported with evidence · Proper grammar,
spelling, capitalization and punctuation need to be utilized when speaking
and/or writing · There are a variety of
ways to communicate effectively Skills:
As a result of what students know and understand, they
will be able to:
· Select and apply strategies
to understand what they read · Write with effective
focus, organization, elaboration and mechanics to express ideas · Use details and examples
from texts and background knowledge to support ideas · Speak and write using
Standard English for a specific audience or task · Increase word
recognition and vocabulary skills · Understand that society
influences authors and readers · Appreciate that
literature has affected society and continues to do so · Express ideas in a
variety of ways MATH Concepts: Using a variety of tools,
strategies and technology, students will know and understand that: · The understanding of and
ability to use and manipulate fractions, decimals and percents are important
skills for daily living · There is a direct
relationship between geometry and measurement, and it is important to develop
strategies and algorithms for understanding this relationship. · Collecting, organizing
and displaying data helps us make informed and reasonable decisions about
future events · A functional
understanding of patterns and relationships is essential to solving
real-world problems Skills: As a result of what students
know and understand, and by working with real-world problems through an
inquiry-based approach, they will be able to: · Develop an understanding
of the relationships among factors, multiples, divisors and products · Identify the
relationship among fractions, decimals and percents · Compare, order, estimate
and perform computations with whole numbers, fractions, decimals and percents
· Construct, draw,
describe and compare 2 & 3-dimensional shapes · Select and use
appropriate strategies to estimate and measure length, mass, time, angles,
perimeter, area and volume · Collect, organize, display
and analyze data · Investigate the
probability of events using a variety of approaches · Explore algebraic concepts through problem solving
involving
one-step equations SCIENCE Concepts: Students will know and understand that: · A scientist works with measurement and the scientific
process · There are four states of matter · Through the transfer of heat, the states of matter
can change · Local weather conditions are the result of four weather
elements: temperature, wind speed, moisture and air pressure · An ecosystem is composed of living and non-living
factors that interact with each other Skills: As a result of what students
know and understand, they will be able to: · Write a complete lab report with guidance · Work safely as a scientist in the lab · Experiment with the chemical and physical properties of
different kinds of matter · Identify states of matter in the environment · Understand how weather affects our life in Connecticut · Build a living and working ecosystem Social Studies Concepts: Students will know and
understand that: · There are similarities and differences among the
ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and Greece · The Mayans and aspects of the Middle Ages influenced
our present society · Europeans explored America for a variety of purposes Skills: As a result of what
students know and understand, they will be able to: · Interpret and create timelines · Define historical vocabulary specific to ancient
civilizations and use that vocabulary in context · Use before, during and after reading strategies to gain
knowledge from a text · Make connections between ancient civilizations and
modern civilization · Make connections among different ancient civilizations · Use various forms of media to share new information · Demonstrate an awareness of past and present geography
and its affect on culture · Understand how ancient civilizations impact our present
society · Use print and electronic resources to acquire
background knowledge · Apply learned knowledge to complete a variety of
projects and writing tasks |
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