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Age 10-12 - Concept 1: Environment and Cycles
Unit 1: Weather and Climate [S]
- Lesson 1: Air Temperature and Pressure
- Lesson 2: Wind
- Lesson 3: Invisible Water in the Air: Humidity
- Lesson 4: Clouds and the Water Cycle
- Lesson 5: Fog, Dew, and Precipitation
- Lesson 6: Storms: Thunder, Lightning, and Tornadoes
- Lesson 7: Wild Weather
- Lesson 8: Geography and Climate
- Lesson 9: Mapping Weather and Fronts (2 Days)
- Lesson 10: Global Patterns of Weather
- Final Project: Weather Guide (3 Days)
Unit 1: The Wanderer [LA]
- Lesson 1: Charting the Course
- Lesson 2: Preparations
- Lesson 3: Juggling
- Lesson 4: Grand Manan
- Lesson 5: Under Way
- Lesson 6: Marine Life
- Lesson 7: The Storm
- Lesson 8: Changes
- Lesson 9: Land Ho!
- Lesson 10: Narrative Essay Writing and Voice (2 Days)
- Final Project: Character Lapbook and Test (2 Days)
Unit 2: Geography and Landforms [SS]
- Lesson 1: What is Geography?
- Lesson 2: Maps of All Kinds
- Lesson 3: Landforms (2 Days)
- Lesson 4: Representing Landforms on Maps
- Lesson 5: Human Geography
- Lesson 6: Interacting with the Land
- Lesson 7: Water Everywhere (2 Days)
- Lesson 8: The Geography of South America
- Lesson 9: The Geography of North America
- Final Project: Local Geography Book (2 Days)
Unit 2: The People of Sparks [LA]
- Lesson 1: The City of Ember
- Lesson 2: Sparks
- Lesson 3: Discovery
- Lesson 4: The Disaster
- Lesson 5: Roamers
- Lesson 6: Flags
- Lesson 7: Tomatoes
- Lesson 8: Unfairness
- Lesson 9: Conflict
- Lesson 10: The Decision (2 Days)
- Final Project: Wars and Plagues or A New Environment (3 Days)
Unit 3: Our Changing Earth [S]
- Lesson 1: The Rock Cycle
- Lesson 2: Inside the Earth
- Lesson 3: Igneous Rocks and Volcanoes (2 Days)
- Lesson 4: Earthquakes and Moving Plates
- Lesson 5: Metamorphic and Sedimentary Rocks (2 Days)
- Lesson 6: Weathering (2 Days)
- Lesson 7: Erosion
- Final Project: Presenting the Rock Cycle (2 Days)
Unit 3: Short Stories [LA]
- Lesson 1: The Good Deed
- Lesson 2: Short Story Genre (2 Days)
- Lesson 3: The Dog of Pompeii (2 Days)
- Lesson 4: Rip Van Winkle (2 Days)
- Lesson 5: Zlateh the Goat
- Lesson 6: Women in Short Stories (2 Days)
- Lesson 7: Your Choice
- Final Project: Writing a Short Story (2 Days)