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September 25-November 25

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Essential Question: How does food get to your table?

In this module, students will listen to, read, and view a variety of texts and media that present them with information about where our food comes from.

A genre focus on informational text provides students with opportunities to identify text structure, central idea, and text and graphic features in order to better understand unfamiliar texts. Students will also encounter video to build knowledge across genres.

As students build their vocabulary and synthesize topic knowledge, they will learn that food’s journey to our table often begins on a farm.

WRITING_ Poetry- Poem

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August 19-September 24

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An inquiry into the diversity of voice, perspectives, and expression through:

• inspiration, imagination, creativity

• personal, social and cultural modes and

practices of communication

• intentions, perceptions, interpretations and

responses

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Essential Question: What makes a character interesting?

In this module, students will listen to, read, and view a variety of texts and media that present them with information about bold, interesting characters.

A genre focus on realistic fiction provides students with opportunities to identify point of view, literary elements, and theme in order to better understand unfamiliar texts. Students will also encounter fantasy to build knowledge across genres.

As students build their vocabulary and synthesize topic knowledge, they will learn that each protagonist is a unique individual, just as they are.

WRITING_ Narrative-Personal Narrative

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Feb 16, 2026- April 24, 2026

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January 12, 2026- February 13, 2026

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December 1, 2025 - January 9, 2026

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An inquiry into identity as individuals and as part of a collective through:

• physical, emotional and spiritual health and

well- being

• relationships and belonging

• learning and growing

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An inquiry into the interdependence of human and natural worlds through:

rights, responsibilities and dignity of all

pathways to just, peaceful and reimagined futures

nature, complexity, coexistence and wisdom.

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An inquiry into systems, structures and networks:

interactions within and between social and ecological systems

approaches to livelihoods and trade practices: intended and unintended consequences

representation, collaboration and decision-making

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April 27, 2026- May 29, 2026

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An inquiry into understandings of the world and phenomena through:

• patterns, cycles, systems

• diverse practices, methods and tools

• discovery, design, innovation: possibilities and

impacts

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An inquiry into histories and orientation in place, space and time through:

• periods, events and artefacts

• communities, heritage, culture and

environment

• natural and human drivers of movement, adaptation, and transformation

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Function

Connection

Responsibility

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Teacher Facing_Into Reading ELA Implementation Specifics1 (2) (2)

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Function

Causation

Perspective

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Change

Responsibility

Connection

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Function

Causation

Responsibility

CONNECTION:  The connection between sports and working together

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Causation

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Grade 3 - All of the OHIO LEARNING STANDARDS by subject

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Grade 3 - All of the OHIO LEARNING STANDARDS by subject

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Form

Causation

Perspective

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Essential Question: What does it take to make a successful invention?

In this module, students will listen to, read, and view a variety of texts and media that provide information about inventors and inventions.

A genre focus on nonfiction provides students with opportunities to identify author’s purpose and central idea in order to better understand unfamiliar texts. Students will also encounter narrative poetry and opinion text to build knowledge across genres.

As students build their vocabulary and synthesize topic knowledge, they will learn more about the way an idea, determination, support, and hard work can create an environment where anything is possible.

WRITING_ Informational Text- Research Report

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PYP Planning Center

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Social Studies

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Essential Question: Why is it important to pass stories down to the next generation?

In this module, students will listen to, read, and view a variety of texts and media that present them with information about stories that are worth retelling.

A genre focus on tales provides students with opportunities to identify author’s craft, theme, and figurative language in order to better understand unfamiliar texts.

As students build their vocabulary and synthesize topic knowledge, they will learn more about how people pass their culture’s tales from one generation to the next.

WRITING_ Narrative-Imaginative Story

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Essential Question: What can sports teach us about working together?

In this module, students will listen to, read, and view a variety of texts and media that present them with information about the concept of teamwork.

A genre focus on realistic fiction provides students with opportunities to identify literary elements, author’s craft, and theme in order to better understand unfamiliar texts. Students will also encounter narrative nonfiction and video to build knowledge across genres.

As students build their vocabulary and synthesize topic knowledge, they will learn more about the way that sports can bring people together to work as a team.

WRITING_ Persuasive Letter

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Essential Question: What behaviors help animals survive?

In this module, students will listen to, read, and view a variety of texts and media that present them with information about animal survival.

A genre focus on nonfiction provides students with opportunities to identify author’s purpose, central idea, and text structure in order to better understand unfamiliar texts.

As students build their vocabulary and synthesize topic knowledge, they will learn more about the way animals utilize behaviors and characteristics, or traits, to help them survive.

WRITING _ Informational Text- Expository Essay

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Essential Question: Why might some stories be better told as plays?

In this module, students will listen to, read, and view a variety of texts and media that give them information about the features of drama.

A genre focus on drama provides students with opportunities to identify elements of drama and literary elements in order to better understand unfamiliar texts. Students will also encounter fables and video to build knowledge across genres.

As students build their vocabulary and synthesize topic knowledge, they will learn more about the value of drama and the key differences between stories and plays.

WRITING_ Narrative - Story

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In this unit, students will enhance their understanding of the engineering design process. For example, they will design a solution while considering criteria and constraints. They will also work with others to determine which of several solutions best meets the determined criteria and constraints.

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Essential Question: How can one person make a meaningful difference in their local or global community?

In this module, students will listen to, read, and view a variety of texts and media that provide information about building communities.

A genre focus on narrative nonfiction provides students with opportunities to identify author’s purpose, text structure, and text and graphic features in order to better understand unfamiliar texts. Students will also encounter historical fiction to build knowledge across genres.

As students build their vocabulary and synthesize topic knowledge, they will learn more about the way a dedicated individual or group of people can help make a community stronger and better.

WRITING_ Argument- Opinion Essay

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In Unit 4, students investigated the relationships between organisms and their environments and deepened their understanding of how ecosystems function and how environments change over time. In this Unit, students further their understanding of the environment by exploring weather and climates. They learn about the components of weather that can be measured. They analyze and interpret data to predict future weather. They investigate seasonal weather changes and look for patterns. Students also design their own solutions for reducing damage from a severe weather hazard. In the last lesson, they analyze climate zone data for patterns, using what they discover to relocate a blue penguin colony.

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5. Daily life is influenced by the agriculture, industry and natural resources in different communities.

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18. A market is where buyers and sellers exchange goods and services.

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19. Making decisions involves weighing costs and benefits.

20. A budget is a plan to help people make personal economic decisions for the present and future and to become more financially responsible.

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17. A consumer is a person whose wants are satisfied by using goods and services. A producer makes goods and/or provides services

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15. Both positive and negative incentives affect individuals’ choices and behaviors.

16. Individuals must make decisions because of the scarcity of resources. Making a decision involves a trade-off.

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6. Evidence of positive and negative human modification of the environment can be observed in the local community.

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Science - life cycles and inherited traits

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Science - life cycles and inherited traits

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In Unit 1, students explored how engineers use the design process to solve problems. Students observed how forces may cause problems, such as the wind’s effect on bridges, or may provide solutions, such as gravity’s effect on drip irrigation. In this unit, students will explore gravity and other types of forces, the effects those forces have on objects, and the ways some forces act on objects from a distance. They will also observe how patterns in motion can be used to predict future motion.

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Content Statements: 1. Events in local history can be shown on timelines organized by years, decades and centuries.

2. Primary and secondary sources can be used to show change over time.

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3. Local communities change overtime.

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In Unit 1, students explored how engineers use the design process to solve problems. Students observed how forces may cause problems, such as the wind’s effect on bridges, or may provide solutions, such as gravity’s effect on drip irrigation. In this unit, students will explore gravity and other types of forces, the effects those forces have on objects, and the ways some forces act on objects from a distance. They will also observe how patterns in motion can be used to predict future motion.

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Essential Questions: What are the characteristics of informational text? What are the characteristics of narrative nonfiction? What are the characteristics of opinion text?

WRITING_ Argument -Persuasive

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Essential Question: How do people use words to express themselves?

In this module, students will listen to, read, and view a variety of texts and media that present them with information about the importance of words and how they are used to express ideas and feelings.

A genre focus on letters and poetry provides students with opportunities to identify elements of poetry and figurative language in order to better understand unfamiliar texts. Students will also encounter memoir and fantasy to build knowledge across genres.

As students build vocabulary and synthesize topic knowledge, they will learn that words can take them on an adventure or teach them something new.

WRITING_ Correspondence- Letter

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Essential Questions: What are the characteristics of realistic fiction? What are the characteristics of poetry? What are the characteristics of traditional tales?

WRITING_ Informational Text-Biographical Essay

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14. Line graphs are used to show changes in data over time.

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Essential Question: How do historic places, documents, and symbols represent our nation?

In this module, students will listen to, read, and view a variety of texts and media that present them with information about important U.S. documents and symbols.

A genre focus on nonfiction provides students with opportunities to identify central idea, text structure, and media techniques in order to better understand unfamiliar texts. Students will also encounter video to build knowledge across genres.

As students build their vocabulary and synthesize topic knowledge, they will learn more about our country’s history and how various symbols came to represent the values and ideals of the United States.

WRITING_ Informational Text- Descriptive Essay

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9. Members of local communities have rights and responsibilities.

10. Individuals make the community a better place by taking action to solve problems in a way that promotes the common good.

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12. Governments have authority to make and enforce laws.

13. The structure of local governments may differ from one community to another.

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11. Laws are rules which apply to all people in a community and describe ways people are expected to behave. Laws promote order and security, provide public services and protect the rights of individuals in the local community

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In Unit 3, students explored the similarities and differences among various organisms. They observed patterns in traits that help identify parent- offspring relationships, then modeled how inherited traits help organisms survive. In this Unit, students further their investigation of the cause-and- effect relationships between organisms and their environment. They use what they discover to explain adaptation and survival, and deepen their understanding of how organisms live in specific habitats. Students also investigate fossils and what can be learned from them about extinct organisms. As students compare fossils and organisms living today, they infer past environments of fossilized organisms.

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6. Evidence of positive and negative human modification of the environment can be observed in the local community.

7. Systems of transportation and communication move people, products and ideas from place to place.

8. Communities may include diverse cultural groups.

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4. Physical and political maps have distinctive characteristics and purposes. Places can be located on a map by using the title, key, alphanumeric grid and cardinal directions.

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WWPT Slides (Essential Question/Lines of Inquiry)

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WWPT Slides (Essential Question/Lines of Inquiry)