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    Topic
    Content
    Skills
    Performance Objective
    Assessment
     
    2 weeks     		Physical Science
    Science Skill
    Advanced Measuring     		 
    Customary Measurement     		 
    Estimating and Measuring length to the nearest inch and fraction of an inch
     
    Estimating and measuring capacity
     
    Estimating and measuring weight
     
    Measuring temperature
     
    Changing units to compare measurements     		 
    4.3.1c
    4.3.1d
    4.3.1e
     
          		 
    Tests and Quizzes

     
    Timetable
    Topic
    Content
    Skills
    Performance Objective
    Assessment
     
           		 Physical Science Metric Measurement Estimating and Measuring length in metric units
     
    Estimating and measuring capacity
     
    Estimating and measuring weight
     
    Measuring temperature
     
    Changing units to compare measurements     		4.3.1c
    4.3.2d
    4.3.1e
     
          		Test and Quizzes

     
     
    Timetable
    Topic
    Content
    Skills
    Performance Objective
    Assessment
    3 weeks Living Environment
    Plants     		Parts of a Plant
     
     
    Leaves
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Stems     		Identify the leaves, stem and roots
     
    Distinguish between a monocot and dicot plant
     
     
     
     
     
    Distinguish between woody and green stems
     
    Identify nodes     		4.1.1
    4.1.2
    4.2.1
    4.2.2
    4.3.1
    4.3.2
    4.4.1
    4.4.2
    4.5.1
    4.5.2
    4.6.1
    4.6.2
     
          		Chapter Test

     
     
     
     
     
    Timetable
    Topic
    Content
    Skills
    Performance Objective
    Assessment
     
           		 Living Environment
    Plants     		Roots
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Plant Functions     		Distinguish between taproot and fibrous roots
     
    Identify root hairs and root tips
     
    Identify
    Photosynthesis, xylem and phloem (leaves and stem functions)
          		4.1.1
    4.1.2
    4.2.1
    4.2.2
    4.3.1
    4.3.2
    4.4.1
    4.4.2
    4.5.1
    4.5.2
    4.6.1
    4.6.2
     
          		Chapter Test

     
     
     
     
     
    Timetable
    Topic
    Content
    Skills
    Performance Objective
    Assessment
     
           		 Living Environment
    Plants     		Plant
    Reproduction     		Identifying the reproductive organs
     
    Understanding the methods of pollination
     
    Identifying the parts of the seed
          		4.1.1
    4.1.2
    4.2.1
    4.2.2
    4.3.1
    4.3.2
    4.4.1
    4.4.2
    4.5.1
    4.5.2
    4.6.1
    4.6.2
     
          		Chapter Test

     
     
    Timetable
    Topic
    Content
    Skills
    Performance Objective
    Assessment
     
    3 weeks     		Living Environment
    Ecosystems     		Getting Food Identifying Producers and Consumers
     
    Identifying Predators and Prey (herbivores, carnivores, decomposers, omnivores, scavengers)     		4.1.1
    4.1.2
    4.2.1
    4.3.1
    4.3.2
    4.6.1
    4.6.2
    4.7.1
          		Chapter Test

     
     
     
    Timetable
    Topic
    Content
    Skills
    Performance Objective
    Assessment
     
           		 Living Environment
    Ecosystems
    (cont.)
     
     
     
     
     
     
          		Food Webs
     
     
     
     
     
     
    The
    Environment
          		Understanding food chains and food webs
     
    Observing environmental changes in the food web
     
    Identifying habitat, population, communities, ecosystems, and succession
     
    Understanding the effects of environment on living things
     
    Explaining how materials are recycled in an ecosystem     		4.1.1
    4.1.2
    4.2.1
    4.3.1
    4.3.2
    4.6.1
    4.6.2
    4.7.1
          		Chapter Test

     
    Timetable
    Topic
    Content
    Skills
    Performance Objective
    Assessment
    2 weeks
          		Living Environment
    Animal
    Adaptations     		Protective
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Finding Food
     
     
          		Identify adaptations that help animals protect themselves (mimicry, hibernation, migration)
     
    Identify response/
    stimulus
     
     
     
    Identify ways animals get food
          		4.3.1—Describe how the structures of animals complement their environment.
     
    4.3.2—Observe that differences within a species may give individuals an advantage in surviving & reproducing.
     
     
    4.5.1—Describe basic life functions of common living specimens.      		  

     
     
     
    Timetable
    Topic
    Content
    Skills
    Performance Objective
    Assessment
    4-5 Weeks Physical Science
    Solar
    System
     
     
     
    Interdisciplinary Problem Solving     		Earth Understand Day/Night
    (rotation)
     
     
     
    Understand seasonal changes
    (revolution)     		4.1.1—Describe patterns of daily, monthly, & seasonal changes in their environment.
     
    7.1—The knowledge & skills of math, sci., & tech. are used together to make informed decisions & solve problems.
     
     
     
          		Unit Test, Writing Activities, Observations, Experiments, Lab Performances
    Timetable
    Topic
    Content
    Skills
    Performance Objective
    Assessment
      Interdisciplinary Problem Solving Moon
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Sun
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Planets     		Explain an eclipse
     
    Identify & Understand the Moon’s phases
     
    Describe the moon
     
    Understand the sun is stationary
     
    Classify the sun as a star
     
     
    Identify in order from the sun
     
    Interpret fact about each planet     		7.2—Solving interdisciplinary problems involves a variety of skills & strategies (ex. realizing ideas, making connections among common themes, etc.)    

     
     
     
     
    Timetable
    Topic
    Content
    Skills
    Performance Objective
    Assessment
    5 Weeks
          		Physical Science
    Electricity     		Static
    Electricity
     
     
     
     
     
    Circuits     		Show how matter becomes charged
     
     
     
    Design Simple Circuit
     
    Create &
    Identify a model of a series circuit & a parallel circuit     		4.3.2-Describe chem. & phys. changes inc. changes in state of matter
     
    4.4.1-Describe a variety of forms of energy (heat, chem., light) & the changes that occur in objects when they interact w/those energies     		Unit test, Lab performances, Written Activities

     
    Timetable
    Topic
    Content
    Skills
    Performance Objective
    Assessment
     
           		 Interdisciplinary Problem Solving
     
     
     
     
     
     
          		Resistance
     
     
     
    Bulb Parts
          		Identify
    Resistance
     
     
    Identify parts of a light bulb
     
     
          		7.2—Solving interdisciplin-ary problems involves a variety of skills & strategies (gathering info., effective work habits, etc.)    

     
     
     
     
     
    Timetable
    Topic
    Content
    Skills
    Performance Objective
    Assessment
     
           		 Physical Science
     
     
     
     
     
     
          		Polarity Predict +--+
    Or +-+-
     
    Create a model     		4.4.2-Observe the way 1 form of energy can be transformed into another form present in common situations (ex. chem to heat)    

     
     
     
     
     
    Timetable
    Topic
    Content
    Skills
    Performance Objective
    Assessment
     
           		 Physical Science
     
     
     
     
     
     
          		Polarity Predict +--+
    Or +-+-
     
    Create a model     		4.4.2-Observe the way 1 form of energy can be transformed into another form present in common situations (ex. chem to heat)    

     
     
     
     

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