Mapping the Year: Mid Year Review

It was difficult to map a year this summer with a grade change and new curriculum.  Now that the year is well established, it's much easier to look ahead to the year's important learning/teaching events.

December

• Place Value Exercises, Assessment
• Hour of Code Operations Animations
• Operations: Computation "boot camp" Teaching, Review: Students helping Students
• Earth and Space Science: Facts and Figures
• Prep Simple Machines, STEAM, and Science Visitor Events for Spring
• Prep Fractions Unit 
• Prep Ted Talk Science Effort

January

• Fractions: Introduce with lots of number line activities
• Earth and Space Science: TedTalk Project Exemplar

February

• Fractions continued
• Science Ted Talk Project: Students choose questions, create learning path, research, write speeches, prepare Google headline/image presentation, and practice, practice, practice. 

March

• Fractions continued
• Science Ted Talk Project continued
• Geometry: couple days review 
• PARCC Test #1 ELA
• Science Ted Talk Project
• Simple Machines Project
• Visiting Scientists

April 

• PARCC Test #1 Math
• STEAM 
• Simple Machines: K'Nex Project
• Marble Maze Building Project
• Biography Project
• Science MCAS Prep

May

• STEAM 
• Simple Machines
• Biography Project
• PARCC #2
• MCAS Science

June

• Portfolios
• End-of-Year Special Events

In addition, we'll embed the STEAM stars picture book biographies as we can.