Central Idea

How The World

Understanding the proper/es of materials

Works allows people to design and create.

Transdisciplinary Learning Lines of Inquiry

Mathema)cs
1.  Proper/es of materials and how they behave (FORM
Measurement: Time, Length

and FUNCTION)

2.  How we can manipulate and combine materials
Language Arts
(CHANGE)
Reading: Determining Importance
3.  How we use our understanding of materials to design
Wri/ng: How-to books
and create (CHANGE)
Viewing and Crea/ng: Viewing and following how-to

texts

Listening and Speaking: Communica/ng research

and new learning, listening to informa/on, asking
Disciplinary Learning

ques/ons Mathema)cs Language Arts
Knowledge: Word Study:
• Describe • Transparent Place Value Students con/nue
• Inves/gate • Opaque Basic Facts to learn word
Unit Vocabulary

• Predict • Glass Order and paYerns to

• Apply • Wood Sequence develop their
• Suggest • Plas/c PaYerns spelling skills.
(Examples)

• Reflect • Wool Strategy: Addi/onally, they

• Iden/fy • Shiny Addi/on and will con/nue to
• Es/mate • Rough Subtrac/on grow their bank of
• Explain • Smooth Mul/plica/on high frequency
• Thick and Division words (SNAP
• Float • Thin words).
• Sink • Etc.

Important Dates
April 6: No classes for students
April 7-16: School closed for Songkran
April 17: Classes resume

Essential Elements
Knowledge Scientific Skills Action Learner Profile,
Elements Communica)on: Attitudes, and
Students will increase Expressing opinions and sta/ng
their knowledge of Students will have an Mindset
Use scien/fic facts, sharing research, opportunity to use
materials and their *Inquirer
vocabulary to explain recording informa/on and
proper/es. Students the design cycle. *Knowledgeable
their observa/ons and observa/ons, interpre/ng and
will develop an
experiences analyzing experiments, Ac/on will come from *Thinker
understanding of how the students. *Curiosity
construc/ng texts
humans manipulate *Crea/vity
Make and test
materials for various Research: *Commitment
predic/ons
uses. Asking ques/ons that can be *Wonder

Interpret and evaluate researched, using senses to *Persistence
data gathered in order no/ce relevant details, gathering *Flexibility
to draw conclusions data, describing and recording *Independence
observa/ons, sor/ng and *Commitment
categorizing informa/on, *Resilience
drawing conclusions