How The World Works

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How the World

Works

Transdisciplinary Learning
Language Arts
Reading and Writing: Procedure and Reflective Writing,
Poetry and Skimming and Scanning
Listening /Speaking: Speech and Poetry recitation
Viewing and Presenting: Students will find inspiring and
helpful sources of information. They will also use
sketching to present their observations and new
learning.
Art
Students will inquire into sketching and how it are
helpful when recording scientific observations. They will
develop skills to record their own observations.

Disciplinary Learning

Central Idea
Scientific knowledge is
always expanding and
impacts
our life.
Lines of Inquiry
1 Scientific theories changing over time
2 how scientific theories are accepted
3 How we know if evidence is accurate
4 How science influences our daily lives

Strategy:
-Ratios and
Proportions
-Multiplication
and Division

Mathematics
Knowledge:
-Place value
-Basic Facts
-Order and
sequence
-Patterns

Grammar:
Students will work on
paragraphs and
transitional words.

Measurement:
-Mass and Weight
-Volume and
Capacity

Books
-My life with
the
chimpanzees
.

Links
Twitter @NASA
Scientific America

Language Arts
Word Study:
Students continue to
learn word patterns to
develop their spelling
skills.

Bearded Science
Guy
Livescience

Important Dates
Mar 25: Easter
Holiday
Apr 11: Back to
school
Apr 14: Student Led
Conferences

Mission Juno

5 Essential Elements
Knowledge

Concepts

Skills
Communication:
* Non-Verbal
Communication: I
communicate with
others without using
words

Action

Learner
Profile
Attitudes
*and
Creativity

Students will use


Function:
Students will
How
are
their knowledge
learn about the
scientific
to create and
importance of
* Thinkers
theories
design
scientific
* Confidence
accepted?
experiments
knowledge and
* Risk Takers
how this
that will lead
Change:
Research:
knowledge
them to change
How has
* Observation: can
changes due
scientific
their thinking or
use all 5 senses to
to curiosity
knowledge
notice different
confirm their
and
changed over
features of an
thinking.
object.
time?
questioning.
They will learn
Connection:
Thinking:
how science
How does
*Application: I can
has impacted
science influence think use what I
our life and
have learned in a
our daily life?
continues to
new way.
Reflection:
*Evaluation: I can
do so
decide
if something
How
can
we
Science my lad, is full of mistakes,
but
they are mistakes which it is useful to make
everyday.
is good or bad
know
if
scientific
because they lead little by little to the truth. Jules Verne

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