OBJECTIVES Students learn to:
• Understand the interdependence we have with nature and other animals
• Be introduced to the topic of global warming and the worldwide efforts being initiated to minimize it
• Be encouraged to think of ways they can contribute to the effort
OBJECTIVES Students learn to:
• Create design through repetition of a pattern
• Learn the definitions for “harmony” and “contrast” and how they work together in art
• Show an understanding of the definitions by creating a “unified” design
OBJECTIVES Students learn to:
• Recognize the difference in appearance between urban, suburban and rural communities
• Understand that there are different types of homes, jobs, schools and lifestyles within each
• Discuss how the type of community affects the lives of the people in them
OBJECTIVES Students learn to:
• Organize thoughts into sentences on the same topics
• Think creatively, about how sentences combine to make a paragraph
• Apply the guidelines to their own writing
OBJECTIVES Students learn to:
• Understand why the people who set up the U.S. government created three separate branches
• Know the three branches
• Know the general hierarchy within the branches
OBJECTIVES Students learn to:
• How timelines summarize events and put them into chronological order
• The general order of events during the settling of the West in the U.S.
• How to research events and their dates of occurrence
OBJECTIVES Students learn to:
• Understand that atoms are basic to all matter
• Learn the parts of an atom: Proton, Neutron, Nucleus, Electron, L & K Shells
• Are aware of how very small an atom is
OBJECTIVES Students learn to:
• The definition of volume
• How to calculate the volume of three dimensional items
• Understand how volume relates to addition and multiplication
OBJECTIVES Students learn to:
• The definitions of a root word, prefix and suffix
• How to use prefixes
• How to de-code a word by knowing what common prefixes mean
OBJECTIVES Students learn to:
• The definitions of rhythm and movement
• How the two terms are so connected
• The definition of emphasis and how it’s created