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The focus of Unit 7 is on geology and learning about how the Earth is constantly changing because of the geological processes it experiences. This unit requires students have prior knowledge of the content that they might have seen in previous grades in Science and Social Studies.

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The Big Idea of this unit is that earth is made of layers movements which results in geological features. More importantly, tectonic plate theory supports comprehension with analyzing how mountains, volcanoes, and trenches are created on land and as well as under the sea. How the earth is continually to change is possibly described by the content in relation to the rock cycle, weathering, and erosion.

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The Big picture of the unit is having to do with the earth and its composed layers. There is heat and pressure that cause movements that result in geological features above and below the earth's surface. Students will also learn about the Tectonic Plate Theory which explains mountains, volcanos and trenches that are created on land and under the sea.

-Brittney Elliott

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The Big Picture of this unit is for the students to gain confidence in reading nonfiction texts, use evidence-based reasoning, and develop a stronger understanding of how Earth’s surface changes over time, a concept their going to need throughout the teks for reading

- Journey Primary

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The big picture in the unit is to build connections with science, social studies, and reading. This unit will also help the students build more prior knowledge and making inferences.

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The big picture for Unit 7 is to not only introduce and engage students with the knowledge of geology but to also incorporate prior knowledge and skills to help obtain new knowledge and deepen student understanding.

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I believe the "Big Picture" of this unit is to take students on a deeper and more intense dive into expository text, allowing them to get their feet wet with a very complex topic like geology. Students will have to rely heavily on text evidence and use it in every single response in order to connect ideas. Students will see previously introduced skills like author's purpose, cause & effect, and well as drawing conclusions and these skills will be assessed, as well as new skills like paired selection (requiring students to call on genre knowledge and connection).

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The Big picture of unit 7 is to have students get the opportunity to explore geology and learning the process of scientific thinking of creating hypotheses of the world creating and forming through myths or facts of scientific thinking. Scholars get to explore the environments of the earth and the process of changes that have occurred over time.

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Big picture is for students to use background knowledge of earth related phenomena to answer text based questions

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The big picture in unit 7 is that students will need to be able to evaluate the details and determine the key ideas of each chapter which will build their knowledge of the content. Students will need to know the purpose of specific graphic and print features and how it adds to their understanding of the topic.

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The big picture of the unit is understanding earth's changes and the natural forces behind them. Students will be introduced to the myths that once inspired the understanding of the world along with the information that science now teaches us about the world. The Arc of Learning includes students making inferences using the information from the text, text connections, comma rules and vocabulary. These standards are spiraled through with the use of both informational and fiction/ myth texts that allows for them to be able to show their learning with a paired passage assessment.

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The big picture is for students to be able to annotate and support their answers, by also being able to determine the similarities and differences for paired passages.

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The big picture focuses on the composition of the earth and forces that change Earth's surface. Builds content knowledge and draws connections to science and social studies. Making inferences and using text evidence to support ideas.

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By the end of Unit 7, students will walk away understanding geology and how the earth was/is formed. Students will also carry over and strengthen skills in their grammar concept, phonetic knowledge and critical thinking.

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Our focus is on geology and how the Earth changes. The kiddos should be able to use prior knowledge combined with what they learn in Unit 7 to better understand the theories of how mountain, ridges, volcanos, and more are created and exist on our planet

-Tatum (Legacy)

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The big picture of this unit is for students to understand Earth and the difference structures. It allows students to access Social Studies and Science topics through literacy.

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The big picture is to deepen knowledge about Earth. Students will have to use several different reading skills in order to be successful with this unit.

Focus standard throughout the unit is 4.7.C.

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The Big picture of unit 7 is students will get to learn all about the Earth and how it is composed. Students will learn about the Earth's layers, and geological features above and below the Earth's surface. The unit also will explore the relationship s between the different geological processes and how they affect the environment.

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The Big Picture and the task and skills that build upon each other is that students are understanding the correlation between science and how to incorporate figurative language within informational text.

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The big picture of Unit 7 is for students have a great understanding of geology. More specifically, the earth, and tectonic plates. Also students will know how to do paired passages by comparing a non-ficition article to a myth story.

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The big picture of Unit 8 is having students learn/ engage in the understanding of The Native American culture. Students will do this by reading realistic fictional stories about their lives/ journey. Throughout the unit students will on many different skills such as showing understanding of comparing/contrasting, cause/effect, sequence of events, text features, map skills, and more.

-Ervin

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The "Big Picture" is for students to understand and gain information of how Native Americans first migrated from Asia to North America, how scientists believe they mirgrated throughout the continents of NA and SA, and how their ways of obtaining food changed over the years.

This unit give students the opportunity to build content knowledge and draw connections to Social Studies by holding class discussions to support cross-curricular connections.

Students will get practice writing in a variety of ways build content vocabulary and use of context cluses. Students will understand the point of view from realistic fiction texts and identify how events are connected through the central idea supporting details.

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In Unit 8 it gives the overall foundation in the Native American culture spreading throughout the continents and how they lived. The unit also gives opportunities for students to make a connection to the unit and the unit ending with stories from real families and specific ways they enjoyed this culture day to day.

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Unit 8 focuses on the life of Native Americans. The text are not necessarily true, but they include realistic details. Students will learn about how life changed for the Native Americans as they settled in different parts of the America. They will also get to explore many different types of writing.

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The big picture of Unit 8 is students will be able to explore their own identities and culture by making connections to the indigenous people of North America.

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The Big Picture of unit 7 is all about learning about the Native American culture and history from their perspective, or as close to their perspective as possible. It's about thinking critically about history while practicing our reading skills.

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The Big Picture of this unit is to introduce Native American history. Build on the background knowledge of their landscape and make connections through while building their social studies background.

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The big picture of this unit is to allow students to understand Native American history while exploring their ways of life through a more personal lens with the realistic accounts of the events that took place.

The arc of learning of this unit consists of students doing a lot of the heavy lifting with their writing through the various prompts throughout the unit.

The tasks and skills build on each other because they go from simple to complex as far as how the activities are introduced in the book.

The teks  3.9Di, 3.9Diii, 3.10A. 3.10B are being spiraled and assessed throughout the unit through exit tickets and worksheets in the activity book.

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The big picture of Unit 7 is the focus on the historical and contemporary experiences of Native American tribes in relation to the U.S. government and society.

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This unit covers Native Americans history. Students will be able to gather information and make inference about the interactions and relationships that Native American have experience while using text evidence to express thier thoughts.

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Tiffany Sowells:

The Big picture and Focus of Unit 8 are Native Americans culture. This unit is a realistic fictional piece that our students will be introduced to for the 1st time. Through this unit students will be able to learn more about this culture if they don't know have prior knowledge. Students will be introduced to some good vocabulary, and learn some good social studies information as well.

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The big picture here is how the Native Americans culture, traditions and relations with their environment, shapes the overall concept of culture unity.

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The overall theme of the unit is a history of the Native American Culture. The big picture of the unit is informational with an emphasis on argumentative writing.

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This unit is focused on learning about different Native American tribes that arrived here thousands of years ago. Students are able to compare their own cultures to those of the Native Americans and will read about different cultures through the eyes of Native American Children. Our students will focus on nonfiction text and objectives like making predictions, text features, character traits, and cause/effect.

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Bygrave

The big picture of the Unit 8 is for the kiddos to learn and have a good understanding about the Native Americans through fiction. I am noticing a heavy push for the students to really go back into the text for understanding.

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The big picture of this unit is celebrating the culture and historical impact of several Native American groups in the United States while looking at real historical accounts. Students will also be able to practice their essay writing.

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In this unit students will be learning about Native American history while learning about the culture of a select amount of tribes.

I will give attention to students being able to make connection between text and illustrations, cause and effect, character analysis .

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In Unit 8, scholars will learn background information about the Native American Regions and their cultures. Furthermore, scholars will learn details about how people adapted to the environment of the region in which they settled and how that adaptation shaped their cultural identify.

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The entirety of this text is for students to gather information from a nonfiction historical informational text to later write an essay with fidelity using evi. based on what they’ve learned. By gathering information they will learn the components needed to answer questions based on what they know already and what they retained from their lessons.

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This unit will explore the history/culture of Native Americans, students will be able to begin using informational texts using text evidence from this unit. They will have plenty of writing practice, which will especially support their argumentative essay.

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This Unit acutally builds on the knowledge gained from previous units when we discussed civilization. This unit will takea deeper dive into what Native American culture really looks like and the realitie sof their lifestyle.

Most of the TEKS are centered around identification, cause and effect, predictions and realtionships.

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The Big Picture of unit 8 focuses on realistic fiction, giving our students information about real life stories in a storytelling manner. They’ll be learning about Native Americans and showing mastery in summarization, relationships between characters, point of view, and text evidence.

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This Unit focuses on the history of Native Americans and talks about their journey to settling. Students will also be able to make connections to the text through their personal lives while in self reflection. In addition to that, students will be getting practice with comparing and contrasting, learning the proper usage of plural possessive nouns, and new morphology suffixes. -Ms. LeSure

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This unit dives into the Native Americans and how they were connected to their land. It gives students the chance to connect with a culture they may or may not know much about. It also gives them the opportunity to expand their writing skills by adding argumentative styled writing to their skill set.

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This unit explores the first known inhabitants of North America, focusing on how Native Americans migrated, spread across the continent, and adapted to different environments. Students will learn about changes in food sources and how adaptation shaped cultural identity. While the unit builds content knowledge and connects to social studies, it does not explicitly teach Social Studies. Mr. Davis

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Big Picture: The unit focuses on the history of Native Americans through stories. Students will focus on making inferences and using supporting details from the text.

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The "Big Picture" of Unit 8 is allowing a connection to students' personal culture(s) and experiences through learning about Native American cultures and traditions. The unit allows for explicit connections to culture, identity, and traditions.

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The big picture of unit 8 is all about the Native American culture. Through this student will master the skills of key idea, text structure, and many writing elements.

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Cynthia Daniels

Big Picture: students will be able to gain a better understanding of earth as it pertains to theories and how it is structured.

Students will be required to build knowledge on earth and its geological theories and how it is structured.

This unit will focus heavily on the students making inferences and providing evidence support appropriate responses

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This unit dives into how Native Americans were deeply connected to their land and how their lives were changed by U.S. government policies, westward expansion, and contact with settlers, missionaries, traders, and explorers. The main focus is understanding how these interactions shaped Native American culture, traditions, and relationships with their environment.

It also challenges the misconception that Native Americans were one unified group by highlighting different tribes and their distinct ways of life. The unit weaves in literature, historical events, and writing skills to help students build a well-rounded understanding of Native American history.

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The big picture for ELAR, Unit 7 is to teach students about geology. Students will learn the how's about why earth is shaped the way it is and what forces change to its surface. The TEKS are introduced in each lesson insuring a connection is made through reading.

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This unit focuses on the arrival and spread of Native American cultures using realistic fictional accounts with the goal of conveying nonfiction information in the journey of the many peoples who arrived and inhabited the Americas. These cultures are in a variety of regions with differing climates, geography, and terrain presented in the student’s readings.

These readings will combine with daily, routinized work with fresh ‘a’ and ‘e’ spelling words, fresh grammar with different nouns and pronouns, continued suffix work, and a light addition of dictionary skills. Our writing work will live in a journal building a “unit dictionary” notebook, quick writes responding to illustrations and prompts, with extended critical responses combined with “Around the Table” writing/sharing activities.

The Unit Assessment looks at their skills of plot analysis and sequencing, identifying character details, summarization of a selection, point of view with a specific character, grammatical revisions of specific sentences, and defining a work by putting it into the context of the sentence. The short critical writings both ask for an examination of characters from the readings and motivations that could be found therein.

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The big picture of this unit is the historical events and culture of Native Americans using realistic fictional accounts. Students will work on pov, nonfiction information, and writing practice daily.

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The big pictures of this unit is informational with an emphasis on argumentative writing.

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This unit focuses on the historical events and culture of Native Americans. It will have write and share activities. It needs to cover key ideas, point of view and context clues.

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This unit explores the history, culture, and impact of Native American tribes in the United States, focusing on their geographical adaptations, interactions with European settlers, and responses to forced removals and land conflicts. Students will analyze primary and secondary sources, compare perspectives on land ownership, and develop argumentative writing skills. By the end of the unit, students will have a deeper understanding of Native American resilience, cultural preservation, and the lasting effects of historical events on indigenous communities today.

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Student will be focusing on Native American studies. Students will make inferences, and will use text evidence to support their thinking.

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The big picture of 4th grade ELAR is about geology. Students should be able to make a pamphlet at the end and a Wiki page about a specific volcano.

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The big picture of Unit 7 is to get students familiar with some of the science of geology. Particularly how different features in the world are created through tectonic plates.

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The big picture of this unit is realistic fiction with a focus on Native American history conveying real information through stories. Students will be keeping a journal for daily short writing assignments.

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This unit focuses on the composition of the earth and the forces that change its surface. Students learn about the theory of plate tectonics and how it explains the presence of volcanoes, mountains, underwater trenches, ridges, and other geological features. Students will also study geological processes like rock formation, weathering, and erosion in order to understand how the earth changes over time and why it looks the way it does

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Students will be learning about geology which is an informational text. They will be writing a tsunami pamphlet and a wiki entry about a volcano.

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This unit will focus on Historical ans cultural events specifically realistic fictional.Students will read how Native Americans spread through the continents. They also will have writing opportunities through a journal.

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The writing arc is focused on argumentative essay based on an image to connect Native Americans and the land. The Reading arc includes complex text which will increase their vocabulary and syntax as well as enrich their knowledge of Native American tribes and how our shared values and histories are important across generations.

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The unit focuses on the migration and adaptation of the different Native American groups across North America. The students will be learning about different traditions and cultures. Students will be identifying key ideas to summarize information. We will be working on sharpening up the skills of writing a well constructed paragraph.

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In Unit 8, students will gain knowledge on the history of Native Americans. Students will be able to practice skills like cause and effect, relationships between characters along with grammar skills (possessive pronouns). They will also practice identifying text features such as maps, illustrations and photographs. Daily writing practice (with evidence) will improve their stamina and writing skills.

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the big picture of Unit 7 is getting an understanding of earth and how it changes. Student's will be able to connect prior knowledge learned in previous years to get more insight.

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kacp: in module 7 we will be making inferences and using text evidence to support student thinking on indigenous american history. students will focus on drafting/writing an argumentative essay using text evidence to support their claim. this will help them be successful for the end of unit exam.

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The big picture of ELA unit 8 is learning about The Native American stories and culture. The selections are fictional, but they convey non-fiction information about Native Americans. A big focus I want to break down in this unit is the free response questions and how to build a strong paragraph using all of the RACE elements.

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The big picture of unit 7 is for students to gain an understanding of geology and how our knowledge has developed through time.

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The Big Picture of Module 7 is the disenfranchisement of Native peoples in North America.

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Unit 8 is helping students with breaking down non-fiction text and explaining the importance as well as using text evidence/ features to help understand the main idea

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The Big Picture of module 7 is getting more of an insight of area and perimeter using geometric shapes (2D and 3D), area, volume, and angles, length/width.

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