Marking Period Two Unifying Questions, Content Area Information and Technology Tuesday Websites
Unifying Questions
Week 1 How do I select and test possible choices to make decisions?
Week 2 How can explaining my thinking help me learn?
Week 3 What strategies can I use to check how I am doing?
Week 4 How do I use new information when it conflicts with my thinking?
Week 5 How can explaining my thinking help me learn?
Week 6 Which criteria should we use to justify a choice or solution?
Week 7 What can I learn through self-monitoring?
Week 8 How do I select and test possible choices to make decisions?
Week 9 Which criteria should we use to justify a choice or solution?
Marking Period 2 Focus Skills Evaluation (critical thinking skill) Weighing evidence, examining claims, and questioning facts to make judgments based upon criteria.
Metacognition (academic success skill) Knowing and being aware of one's own thinking and having the ability to monitor and evaluate one's own thinking.
Content Area Objectives
MATH -Flexible methods of computation involve grouping, composing, and decomposing numbers in a variety of ways.
-Multiplication and division are inverse operations.
-Number patterns and relationships can be represented in multiple ways.
READING -Applying phonics and Word Analysis skills to support reading fluency and comprehension
-Using strategies and structure of literary and informational text to facilitate comprehension.
*****We will be reading informational text and poetry
WRITING We will be writing for the following purposes:
-Writing to tell a story (Narrative)
-Writing to inform
-Writing to tell an opinion
We will be focusing on:
-Use of language, conventions, verb tenses, complex sentences
SOCIAL STUDIES -Health education (Safety)
-Geographic characteristics
-Places and regions
-People adapting the the environment
SCIENCE -Changes to physical properties
-Conservation of matter
-Temperature effects on physical properties Marking Period 2 Technology Tuesday
WEEK 4: “Math Quiz” Click on the “X” to practice multiplication facts. There are 10 questions. Take at least 2 multiplication quizzes (Total of 20 questions). http://www.abcya.com/math_quiz.htm