Unit Plans
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Changes I Can See!
This Earth and Space Sciences unit explores how and why observable changes occur in the sky and landscape, and develops students' ability to describe these changes in their local environment.
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Push and Pull Unit Plan
This Force, Motion, & Energy science unit investigates contact and non-contact forces. Demonstrations and experimental procedures are explored with particular attention given to the scientific method.
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Facts of the Matter
This Properties of Matter unit explores the concept that solids, liquids, and gases have different observable properties and behave in different ways.
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Material World Unit Plan
This Chemical Sciences unit investigates natural and processed materials. Demonstrations and experimental procedures are explored with particular attention given to the scientific method.
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Properties of Materials Unit Plan
This Matter and Energy unit investigates the observable properties of materials. Descriptive vocabulary is explored as well as the suitability of materials for different purposes.
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Exploring Types of Verbs Unit Plan
This English Language Arts unit explores several types of verbs including action, helping, linking, irregular, simple tense, and perfect tense verbs. This unit is intended for upper-elementary students that have some prior knowledge of action verbs.
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Exploring Procedural Texts Unit Plan
This English Language Arts unit has been designed to introduce procedural texts to younger students. It addresses the purpose, structure and language features of instructions and recipes.
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Our Place in Space - Unit Plan
This Earth and Space Sciences unit explores the concept that Earth is part of a system of planets orbiting around a star (the sun).
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Developing Procedural Writing Skills Unit Plan - Year 3 and Year 4
This English unit addresses the purpose, structure and language features of the procedure text type.
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Learning Time! Unit Plan
This Mathematics unit addresses the concept of time for young learners. It focuses on the days of the week, connecting familiar events to particular days, and sequencing events in time order.
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Light Fantastic Unit Plan
This Physical Sciences unit addresses the properties of light. It explores the phenomena of reflection, refraction, shadow and more.
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The Heat is On Unit Plan
This science unit addresses the concept of heat energy, including heat sources, heat transfer, thermal conductors, and thermal insulators.
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Growth and Change Unit Plan
This Biological Sciences unit explores how living things grow and change. Animal offspring (including humans) are compared with their parents and plants are grown from seed in order to observe change over a period of weeks.
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Living Things and Their External Features Unit Plan
This Biological Sciences unit covers a range of concepts relating to living things, such as their external features and the places in which their needs are met.
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Light and Sound Unit Plan
This Physical Sciences unit addresses the concepts of light and sound and how they are sensed.
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Measuring Capacity with Informal Units
This mathematics unit addresses the concept of measuring, comparing, and ordering capacity using informal units.
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Measuring Volume with Informal Units Unit Plan
This Mathematics unit addresses the concept of measuring, comparing and ordering volume using informal units.
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Measuring Area with Informal Units - Unit Plan
This mathematics unit addresses the concept of measuring, comparing, and ordering area using informal units.
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Measuring Mass with Informal Units Unit Plan
This mathematics unit addresses the concept of measuring, comparing, and ordering mass using informal units.
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Measuring Length with Informal Units - Unit Plan
This Mathematics unit addresses the concept of measuring, comparing and ordering length using informal units.
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Applying Reading Comprehension Strategies Unit Plan
This reading unit is designed to explicitly teach the reading comprehension strategies of activating prior knowledge, making connections, questioning, monitoring, predicting, inferring, visualizing, and summarizing to elementary students, with a focus on literary texts.
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Exploring Poetry - Year 3 and Year 4 Unit Plan
This English unit addresses common poetic devices such as sound play, word play and imagery and explores how these may be applied to narrative poetry.
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Understanding Time - Unit Plan
This Mathematics unit addresses telling time to the minute, the relationship between units of time, converting between units of time, and using 'am' and 'pm' notation to solve simple time problems.
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Let's Build a Sentence Unit Plan
This English unit has been designed to introduce the key components of simple and compound sentences to younger students; specifically, capital letters and punctuation; verbs, nouns, adjectives, and conjunctions.
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The Importance of Environments Unit Plan
This Science unit addresses the importance of ecosystems to plants and animals and the ways in which they can be protected.
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Bullying and Resilience
This Personal, Social and Community Health unit introduces five resilience strategies to help students deal positively and effectively with bullying.
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Introduction to Historical Recounts Unit Plan
This English unit has been designed to introduce the historical recount text type to older students; specifically, the purpose, structure and language features of factual historical recounts.
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Introduction to Personal Recounts Unit Plan
This writing unit has been designed to introduce the recount text type to younger students; specifically, the purpose, structure, and language features of personal recounts.
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People Live in Places Unit Plan
This Geography unit covers a range of concepts relating to the places students live in and belong to.
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Exploring 3-Digit Place Value Unit Plan
This mathematics unit addresses a range of 3-digit place value number concepts involving identifying, sequencing, and representing numbers.