Curriculum Information – still current as of December 8, 2009
The Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions guide what the students
are learning in the curriculum. We have just begun new Units in ELA, Math,
Science, and Social Studies. Revised information for those Units is included
below.
English Language Arts, Unit 3, Sharing Ideas
Enduring Understandings:
• Listening to others can help me learn new things.
• I communicate to understand others.
• I communicate to help others understand me.
Essential Questions:
• Why is it important to listen to others?
• How does looking, listening, speaking, reading, and writing help me
to understand others?
• How does looking, listening, speaking, reading, and writing help
others to understand me?
Mathematics, Unit 3, Collecting and Sorting Data
Enduring Understandings:
• I can make my own decisions if I think,
• I can show my thinking in different ways.
Essential Questions:
• Why do I need to think?
• How can I make a good decision?
• Why is it important to show my thinking in different ways?
• How can I tell others about my ideas?
• How can ideas change?
Social Studies, Unit 3, History and Family
Enduring Understandings:
• I understand the passage of time.
• I can use primary resources to learn about and describe the past,
present, and future as they relate to my family and roles of my family
members.
• I understand the modes of transportation used in my community.
Essential Questions:
• Can students identify changes in families over time?
• Can students describe time in terms of past, present, and future?
Science, Unit 2, All Sorts of Solids
Enduring Understandings:
• I understand that solid objects have varying physical characteristics.
• I can explore the process of experimentation in order to sort and
classify solid objects.
Essential Questions:
• Can students measure the length of an object in nonstandard units?
• Can students use physical properties to sort things?
• Can students predict and determine, through experimentation, if
objects are magnetic or non-magnetic?
• Can students predict and determine, through experimentation, if
objects sink or float?
