After noticing second grade students struggling with active listening and peer relationships, we collaborated with classroom teachers to create a second -
grade unit focused on our social curriculum and their geology unit.
Not exact matches
We channeled our frustration into the development of four project - based learning (PBL)
units for second
grade that
focus on social studies and informational reading and writing.
By understanding each
grade's
units of study, we're able to
focus our curriculum on
grade - level topics.
For third - to - fifth
grade educators who teach a fairytale
unit or a book - of - the - month
focus, here are some activities where theater can enliven literature.
Hinijos
focused on risk as a concept in her sixth -
grade social studies and language arts class, and she talked with Bromfield about how he could incorporate risk into his math and science class at the beginning of his geosphere
unit.
The
unit is designed for one team of approximately 120 to 130 students but could easily be adapted to include an entire
grade level or school, each
focusing on a local environmental issue or problem.
At the
grade levels above that, each
grade focuses on specific curriculum
units of study.
«The second
grade social studies
unit focuses on communities, and the post office is part of the community.
The sixth
grade unit, Democracy in Ancient Greece,
focuses on democracy and citizenship within the context of the western world's first democracy in ancient Athens.
The seventh
grade unit, Constitution Today,
focuses on current issues of public debate relating to the Constitution of the United States.
Content is presented in
units that
focus on a specific reading passage or text and: (1) reading skills and strategies, (2) reading comprehension (
grades K - 5), or literary genres (
grades 5 and 6).
This hands - on
unit, targeted for
grades 3 - 5,
focuses on the field of aeronautical engineering and includes 8 lessons that are 45 - minutes each.
Here are two examples (1 and 2) of Hyperdocs by 4th
grade teacher, Courtney Ziska, who developed a great Project Based Learning
unit focused on Rube Goldberg Machines.
Consequently, the participants in this study consisted of the 18 fifth -
grade students who were working with the identified classroom teacher on a
unit focusing on the American Revolutionary period.
Consider a team of 2nd
grade teachers who are
focusing on a
unit on plant and animal survival.
Each
unit focuses on a different theme, specific to the developmental needs for that age and
grade level.
Excite and energize students in the summer months with 9 weeks of fun, theme - based
units focusing on key skills and objectives from third
grade and the beginning of fourth
grade.
Excite and energize students in the summer months with 9 weeks of fun, theme - based
units focusing on key skills and objectives from kindergarten and the beginning of first
grade.
Excite and energize students in the summer months with 9 weeks of fun, theme - based
units focusing on key skills and objectives from fourth
grade and the beginning of fifth
grade.
At all
grades, a
focused unit on bullying is a regular part of classroom lessons and discussions.