Grade-Level Units

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Plants, animals, and kids all need different things, and we help each other grow.

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Students will construct a community with their classmates.

Students will demonstrate how the sun gives us heat by designing a sun shelter.

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Patterns and sequence (order) are found all around us.

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Sequence an event to create a how to book

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History, Technology, and stories help us understand how things change over time.

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Students will explore an artifact museum and connect items from different eras in the past

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Compare/Contrast

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There are similarities and differences all around the world.

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Students will create a Venn diagram comparing themselves with another child from a different place in the world.

Students will choose building materials, clothing food and transportation needed to thrive in specific areas of the world.

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Cause and effect relationships are discovered through investigation.

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Students will work in groups to demonstrate change of design with balls and ramps. 

Students will create/show a drawing or book of something they do well that happens in order.

Students will create a news broadcast. News will include weather forecasting. News will also include a featured focus on how to book and authors. 

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Traits and structures are necessary for survival.

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Students will use their understanding of the unit when exploring real life animals.

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Leaders, jobs, and teamwork all play important roles in helping communities grow, work together, and stay strong. 

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Student will demonstrate their understanding with a leader wax museum.

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Stories allow us to learn about other people and their culture.

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Students will create a suitcase capturing their understanding of culture, traditions, and points of view.

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We use maps, tools, and ideas to learn about our world and solve problems, even when we make mistakes.

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Students will use their engineering skills to make a robot.

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Symbols play an important role in our world. 

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Students will create a timeline of symbols

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Through observation and investigation, patterns can be predicted.

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Students will use their investigation and observations at the observatory.

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In our community goods and services help us take care of each other.

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Students will tour our town.

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Light and sound energy move and change things. 

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Students will go to the Discovery Museum. 

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Systems help living things -- including people -- survive, grow, and thrive.

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Students will build an ideal habitat for an animal real or imaginary.

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Responsibility is shown by facing challenges, making choices, and helping others in communities.

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Students will create a map with natural features and human made structures

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Solving problems involves considering different viewpoints, using technology, and understanding how things work together to create solutions.

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Students will create a solution with different mixtures

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Learning from stories and the past helps us understand the present and make better choices for the future.

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Students will create a time capsule.

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Natural and man-made changes impact people and the environment.

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Students will create landforms to show changes in nature

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Nature is full of systems and structures that work together and change over time and shape the world around us. 

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Explore and observe adaptations of animals with real life and virtual experiences.

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Stories teach us life lessons. 

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Point of view impacts how a story is told

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Inventions and Technology are created to solve problems.

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Invention Convention! Create an invention to solve a problem.

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Decisions have a short term and long term implications.

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Patterns of change can be used to make predictions.

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Students will create a travel guide.

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For every action, there is a reaction.

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Students will create a design to participate in a design challenge like: an egg drop challenge or bridge building challenge.

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Colorado regions can be identified and compared based on geographical features.

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Students will create a slideshow demonstrating knowledge on regions throughout Colorado.

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Weathering and erosion shape the Earth and we learn by observing how nature changes over time.

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Students will use a stream table to demonstrate effects of erosion.

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Economics are developed around positive and negative components.

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Students will define choice, opportunity and cost.

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The roles of the different levels of government have impact.

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Different perspectives help us understand major historical events and the changes that occur.

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We use technology to solve challenges by studying animal structures and systems for smart design ideas.

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Economic thinkers make strategic decisions to benefit others, address complex problems, and create a meaningful impact.

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Students will each have a role to "run a town for the day" at Young AmeriTowne

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A system is a collection of interacting parts working together to make a whole or produce an action.

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Students will create an ecosystem model and present the model. 

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Interpreting patterns deepens our understanding of the world, perspectives, and technology.

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Students will design their own planet.

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When faces with change, people organize themselves to survive.

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Students will prepare and participate in class debate. 

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Inventions and Technology are created to solve problems.

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Invention Convention! Create an invention to solve a problem.

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Decisions have a short term and long term implications.

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The causes and consequences of movement are shaped by the scarcity or resources.

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Students will create water filters.