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Big Idea: Number Theory
Enduring Understanding: Numbers have value and can be compared.
EQ: Why do we compare numbers?
Know: Numbers can be compared.
Understand: When comparing two numbers, they can be equal, not equal, greater than or less than.

Do:Students will use objects, drawings, and numbers to compare numbers.

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Big Ideas: Classification
Enduring Understanding: Matter is all around us, classification of types, changes of classifications
EQ: What are examples of matter? What different types of matter are there? How can states of matter change?
Know: Matter is anything that takes up space. Matter exists in 3 types/forms. Matter can change from one state to another.
Understand: Everything that exists around us falls into one state of matter. Matter changes states constantly through natural and forced application.
Do: Scientific experiments: freeze water, melt ice, create condensation
Describe the observations and record data of changes that occur
Classify objects into matter state
Apply key vocabulary terms when asking and answering questions, generating hypothesis, and writing/recording data

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Big Idea:
Conflict

Enduring Understanding:
War and the reasoning for entering a war can have a significant and long-lasting
impact on a country.

Essential Question:
What should America's role be in world affairs?
When should America go to war?
How can war lead to social change?

Know:
Key figures around the war
Vocabulary for military strategies
Protest strategies

Understand:
Long term societal impacts of war
Communism vs. Democracy
What a government chooses not to share with the people

Do:
Write two essays, one justifying and one going against the war in Vietnam

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Meghan & Alyssa               Big Idea: Comprehension 

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Meghan & Alyssa               Big Idea: Comprehension 

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Enduring Understanding: A study of story Elements.

EQ: How do I retell a story with as many details as possible?

Know: parts of a story

Understand: setting, characters, problem, solutions and events

Do: Describe and retell all the parts of the story.

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Big Idea: Relationships

Enduring Understanding:  Good readers compare, infer, synthesize and make connections in order to make text personally relevant and useful. (text-to-text, text-to-self, text-to-world).

EQ:  How does making connections to the text make you a more active reader?

Know: definitions of text to text, text to self, and text to world

Understand: how to use reading strategies to make text connections

Do:

Give examples of connections to the text, one text to another text, and one text to the world.

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Big Idea:
Independence, Financials, Decision Making

Enduring Understanding:
Through careful planning and execution, students will be financially responsible and independent.

EQ:
How do your financial decisions now, impact your financial health in the future?

Know:
Define principal.
Define interest.
List available resources to acquire capital.

Understanding:
How do the terms of a loan affect the cost associated with borrowing?
What are the dangers of using credit?
How does understanding your personal level of risk affect your savings plan? Can this plan change over time, why?

Do:

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Big Idea: Choices

Enduring Understanding: Choices impact our lives as life-long readers and writers.

Essential Questions:
-What is the purpose of choosing a "Just Right" book?
-How does your environment impact your learning?
-How can I evaluate when I need a new path for my learning?
-How can I choose a specific style of writing for a particular audience?

Know:

Understanding:

Do: ~

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Big Idea: Responsibility, Ethics- Nick and Sarah 

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Big Idea: Responsibility, Ethics- Nick and Sarah 

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Enduring Understanding: Understand how and why the study of the Holocaust is relevant today. Analyze how events in the past have helped to shape our modern world.

EQ: Why do genocides take place? Why is the study of the Holocaust relevant in modern society? Why is it that some people are able to resist authority while others are inclined to obey?

Know:
- What was the Holocaust?
- Why did it occur?
- Who was involved?
- Where and when did it take place?
- How did it occur?

Understand:
- Many factors lead to genocide including racism, economics, and war.
- Governments utilize a variety of methods to carry out genocide including propaganda, scapegoating, extreme nationalism, indoctrination, militarism, and terror.
- It is important to study the Holocaust because genocide awareness is the first step in the prevention of future genocides.

Do:
- Compare the Holocaust to other instances of genocide or potential genocide.
- Analyze the actions of Nazi's that led to the Holocaust.
- Use primary and secondary sources to do something.

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Melissa and Meghan (1)                         Big Idea: Communication

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Melissa and Meghan (1)                         Big Idea: Communication

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Enduring Understanding: Light and sound are wavelike phenomena.

EQ: What is light?
What is sound?
How is sound made?
Why can we see light clearly at certain parts of the day and not others?

Know:
The sun makes natural light.
Sound can make matter vibrate and vibrating matter can make sound.
Light and sound travel through waves.

Understand:
Light waves pass through some types of matter and partially pass through some types of matter.
Light waves reflect off of some types.
Sound can make matter vibrate and the vibrating matter makes sound.

Do:
Define light and sound.
Explain what a shadow is and how it is made bigger and smaller.
Identify natural and artificial light.
Define ways of communicating over a distance using light and sound.

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Big Idea: Cause & Effect Nicole & Tatiana

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Big Idea: Cause & Effect Nicole & Tatiana

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Enduring Understanding: Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation.

EQ: How can evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation be observed or measured?

Know: Cause and effect relationships are used to explain change.

Understand: Weathering and erosion is caused by water, ice, wind, or vegetation.

Do: Collecting and analyzing data in order to determine cause and effect relationships.

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Big Idea: Multiculturalism

Enduring Understanding: Students will understand multiculturalism in America, and its values and threats to our society.

EQ: To what extent does a culture, society, and subculture shape an individual's perspective?

Know: Students will know the perspective of specific poets and writers from the Harlem Renaissance.

Understand: A person's culture and identity can have both negative and positive impacts on their perspective.

Do: Write a piece from your own perspective about the importance of multiculturalism in America.

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Big Idea: Relationships, Existence

Enduring Understanding: Students will be able to engage collaboratively in a scientific inquiry to explain various celestial phenomenon.

EQ: What is Earth's place in the Universe?

Know: Gravity plays a role in the motion within galaxies and the solar system.

Understand: Earth and it's solar system are part of the Milky Way galaxy, which is one of the many galaxies in the Universe.

Do: Develop and use a model to describe the role of gravity in the motions within galaxies and the solar system.

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Big Idea: Wellness
Enduring Understanding: Students will make connections between individual body systems and how they work together to help the body function.
EQ: How can my personal health practices impact my wellness?
Why are good personal health practices so important?
Know: Elements and functions of each body system.
Understand: How their personal health choices impact individual body systems and their function.
Do: Describe each body system's purpose and label a diagram of parts within each system.

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Enduring Understanding: Design will impact performance.
Questions:  How does the design affect the performance of the car?
Know: Proper and safe use of tools.
Material characteristics
Understand: Effective drag.
Effects of the different designs.
Do: Design different aspects of a car for optimal performance.

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Enduring Understanding: Parts of a whole and congruency

EQ:

How do you show that two triangles are congruent?

Know:

CPCTC – Corresponding Parts of Congruent Triangles are Congruent.

Understand:

Two triangles can be proven congruent without having to show that all corresponding parts are congruent.

Do:

Proving triangles congruent by SSS, SAS, ASA, AAS, and HL, without and with formal proofs.

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Big Idea: Violence, Power, and the Human Condition

Enduring Understanding: Students will understand the influence of violence and power on an individual

EQ: How can power affect people? What conditions cause people to become violent?

Know: Elements of fiction & . nonfiction; definition of allegory, symbolism, & internal and external conflict

Understand: People become violent in times of fear or chaos; people are products of their environment

Do:  Citing textual evidence from literature to validate claims, comprehending the use of symbolism in literature to convey meaning

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Big Idea: Exploration, Government, and Economics

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Big Idea: Exploration, Government, and Economics

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Enduring Understanding: The governments  of both Spain and England explored the New World for economic reasons.

EQ: How might exploration of new places affect change? (Space, Towns, Parks, Rivers)

Know:

Understand:

Do: