Summary of Skills

Unit 1: Environments Change [SS]

Science

• Ask and answer questions about an organism.
• Cite ways that living organisms depend on one another in their environments.
• Communicate findings about simple investigations.
• Describe properties of rocks.
• Explain a problem and identify a task and solution related to the problem.
• Identify characteristics of living organisms.
• Identify that heat causes change, such as ice melting or the sun warming the air, and compare objects according to temperature
• Identify, predict, replicate, and create patterns using charts, graphs, and numbers.
• Observe and describe properties of rocks, soil, and water.
• Observe and record changes.
• Observe and record functions of animal parts.
• Observe, describe, and record changes in size, mass, color, position, quantity, time, temperature, sound, and movement.
• Observe, measure, and record changes in weather, the night sky, and seasons.
• Plan and conduct simple descriptive investigations.
• Recognize what animals need to live and grow.

Social Studies

• Analyze environmental issues, past and present, and determine their impact on different cultures.
• Analyze the effects of change in communities and predict future changes.
• Compare information from different sources about places and regions.
• Describe how weather patterns, natural resources, seasonal patterns, and natural hazards affect activities and settlement patterns.
• Describe human movement in the settlement patterns of rural, urban, and suburban areas.
• Identify and describe the people, vegetation, and animal life specific to certain regions and describe their interdependence.

Unit 1: Morning Girl [LA]

Language Arts

• Analyze characters, including their traits, relationships, and changes.
• Answer relevant questions about text in writing and discussion.
• Connect and compare information within and across selections (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama) to experience and gain knowledge.
• Connect experiences and ideas with those of others through speaking and listening
• Develop drafts.
• Discuss similarities and differences in events, characters, and concepts within and across texts.
• Discuss the effect of an author's choices for nouns, verbs, modifiers, and specific vocabulary that help the reader comprehend a narrative or expository text.
• Distinguish between fact and fiction.
• Draw and discuss visual images based on text descriptions.
• Edit for appropriate grammar, spelling, punctuation, and features of polished writing.
• Edit writing toward standard grammar and usage, including subject-verb agreement, pronoun agreement, and appropriate verb tenses.
• Generate ideas for writing by using prewriting techniques such as drawing and listing key thoughts.
• Identify the importance of the setting to a story's meaning.
• Locate and discuss author's specific word choice.
• Make inferences and draw conclusions.
• Participate in rhymes and songs.
• Present dramatic interpretations of experiences, stories, poems, or plays.
• Read and comprehend text by recognizing its structure.
• Read expository materials for answers to specific questions.
• Read orally with fluency.
• Respond to stories and poems in ways that reflect understanding and interpretation through writing, movement, music, art, poetry, and drama.
• Retell a spoken message by summarizing or clarifying.
• Revise selected drafts to achieve a sense of audience, precise word choices, and vivid images.
• Use text for a variety of functions.
• Write structured, informative presentations and narratives when given help with organization.
• Write to record ideas and reflections.

Social Studies

• Analyze environmental issues, past and present, and determine their impact on different cultures.
• Analyze the effects of change in communities and predict future changes.
• Compare similarities and differences among cultures in various communities.
• Compare similarities and differences between self and others.
• Define geography.
• Describe similarities and differences among families in different communities.
• Use geographic terms to describe landforms, bodies of water, weather, and climate.

Unit 2: Communities Change Over Time [SS]

Science

• Identify uses of natural resources.

Social Studies

• Analyze cultural artifacts.
• Analyze environmental issues, past and present, and determine their impact on different cultures.
• Analyze important events, past and present, and determine their impact on different cultures.
• Analyze the effects of change in communities and predict future changes.
• Compare similarities and differences among cultures in various communities.
• Compare similarities and differences between self and others.
• Describe how science and technology have changed communication, transportation, and recreation.
• Describe similarities and differences among families in different communities.
• Describe similarities and differences among people in different communities.
• Describe similarities and differences between people from different cultures.
• Explain how local people and events have influenced local community history.
• Explain how science and technology have changed the way people meet their basic needs.
• Identify events associated with various cultural traditions.
• Identify historical figures and events associated with different cultures.
• Identify individuals of diverse cultures and describe their contributions to society.
• Identify multiple roles performed by individuals in their families and communities.
• Look at how technology changes communities and cultures.
• Use vocabulary related to chronology, including past, present, and future.

Unit 2: Communities and Culture [LA]

Language Arts

• Compose first drafts using an appropriate writing process by planning and drafting, reading for meaning, and revising to clarify and refine writing.
• Connect and compare information within and across selections (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama) to experience and knowledge.
• Discuss an author's structural decisions and word choice.
• Identify and describe characters in a text.
• Interpret information from diagrams, charts, and maps.
• Locate examples of author's use of capitalization.
• Locate information in text for specific purposes.
• Make predictions about a text.
• Plan and make judgments about what to include in written products (e.g., narratives of personal experiences, creative stories, skits based on familiar stories and/or experiences).
• Read and comprehend text by making inferences and drawing conclusions.
• Read and comprehend text by recognizing text structure.
• Read expository materials for answers to specific questions.
• Read text to locate information and answer specific questions.
• Recall the main idea, facts, and details from a text.
• Relate personal experiences to those found in text.
• Use capitalization correctly when writing.
• Use editing to check and confirm the correct use of conventions such as complete sentences and correct word order in sentences.
• Use media and technology to enhance the presentation of information to an audience for a specific purpose.
• Use new vocabulary in speaking and writing.
• Use text for a variety of functions, including literary, informational, and practical.
• Write structured, informative presentations and narratives when given help with organization.

Math

• Create a model and solve a problem.
• Create a model.
• Use area or region models.

Social Studies

• Analyze the effects of change in communities.
• Cite ways people modify the physical environment to meet their needs, and explain the consequences.
• Compare similarities and differences among cultures in various communities.
• Compare similarities and differences between self and others.
• Define geography and use geographic terms to describe landforms, bodies of water, weather, and climate.
• Describe similarities and differences among families in different communities.
• Identify multiple roles performed by individuals in their families and communities.
• Identify the absolute and relative location of communities.
• Recognize and demonstrate examples of the elective process.

Unit 3: People Change the World [SS]

Science

• Describe how science and technology have changed communication, transportation, and recreation.
• Explain how science and technology have changed how people live.

Social Studies

• Analyze and evaluate the effects of responsible citizenship in the school, community, and other social environments.
• Analyze important events, past and present, and determine their impact on different cultures.
• Analyze the effects of change in communities and predict future changes.
• Demonstrate responsible citizenship in the school, community, and other social environments.
• Identify and describe attributes of responsible citizenship.
• Identify examples of responsible citizen participation in society and social environments.
• Identify responsible courses of action in situations and assess the consequences of irresponsible behavior.
• Identify responsible courses of action in situations and assess the outcome of making the right decision.

Unit 3: American Heroes [LA]

Language Arts

• Compose first drafts using an appropriate writing process.
• Discuss appropriate use of punctuation.
• Discuss similarities and differences in events, characters, and concepts within and across texts.
• Edit to check for mistakes in writing.
• Identify and use adjectives in writing.
• Identify and use contractions in writing.
• Identify parts of a book.
• Read and comprehend text by locating information for specific purposes.
• Read expository materials for answers to specific questions.
• Recall main idea, facts, and details from a text.
• Record knowledge on an idea or topic by drawing pictures, making a list, or showing connections among ideas.
• Use media and technology to enhance the presentation of information.
• Use personal experiences and knowledge to interpret written and oral messages.
• Use published pieces as models for writing.
• Use text for a variety of functions, including literary, informational, and practical.
• Write in different forms for different purposes such as lists to record, letters to invite or thank, and stories or poems to entertain.
• Write structured, informative presentations and narratives when given help with organization.
• Write to communicate with a variety of audiences.
• Write to discover, develop, and refine ideas.
• Write to record ideas and reflections.

Social Studies

• Analyze and evaluate the effects of responsible citizenship in the school, community, and other social environments.
• Analyze the effects of change in communities and predict future changes.
• Analyze, evaluate the effects of, and demonstrate responsible citizenship in the school, community, and other social environments.
• Create and interpret timelines.
• Describe how science and technology have changed communication, transportation, and recreation
• Explain how science and technology have changed the ways in which people meet basic needs.
• Identify and describe attributes of responsible citizenship.
• Identify contributions of historical figures who influenced their communities and the nation.
• Identify historical figures who have exemplified good citizenship.
• Identify individuals of diverse cultures and describe their contributions to society.
• Identify patriotic symbols and songs.