CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK FOR AN INQUIRY-BASED, INTERDISCIPLINARY UNIT OF STUDY
GRADE 2 - CONCEPTUAL TOPIC: WEATHER MATTERSEssential Question for the Unit of Study
How are the different properties and states of matter evident in weather systems?
Science Content Focus Standards
Next Generation National Standards (NGSS)
· Construct and argument that some changes caused by heating or cooling can be reversed and some cannot.
Next Generation Sunshine State Standards (NGSSS)
· Weather and Matter
· SC.2.E.7.1, SC.2.E.7.2, SC.2.E.7.3, SC.2.E.7.4, SC.2.E.7.5, SC.2.P.8.1, SC.2.P.8.2, SC2.P.8.3, SC.2.P.8.4, SC.2.P.8.5, SC.2.P.8.6, SC.2.P.9.1 / Social Studies Content Focus Standards
Next Generation Sunshine State Standards (NGSSS)
· Map Skills reviewed
· SS.2.G.1.1, SS.2.G.1.2, SS.2.G.1.3, SS.2.G.1.4
Literacy and Content Area (Science, Social Studies, Mathematics) Integration
Big Idea Performance Task
Students will create a poster that is modeled after the Eye Wonder series of informational texts best described as a two page spread that is awash with a plethora of information (both textual and visual display) related to a particular topic - in this case, the study of matter and weather and their connectedness.
Print or Digital Resource / Mini Lesson/Activity
PRINT RESOURCES:
Come On, Rain! by Karen Hesse, Literary Text, Scholastic Press:1999
A Drop of Water, by Walter Wicke, Informational Text, Scholastic Press: 1997
Sun Up, Sun Down, by Gail Gibbons, Literary Informational Text, Harcourt Publishing:1983
Super Storms, by Seymour Simon, Informational Text, Houghton Mifflin Publishing
What is the World Made Of? by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld, Informational Text, Harper Collins Publishers: 1998
Jack Frost, by Gabriel Setoun, Public Domain, 1896
Who Are We as Americans?, McGraw Hill Education, 2013
Florida Science Fusion, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012
DIGITAL RESOURCES - WEBSITES:
ReadWrtieThink.org - Bio-Poem
www.readwritethink.og/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson398/biopoem.pdf
USDA: Drought Information – Disaster Assistance
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?navid=DISASTER_ASSISTANCE
ReadWriteThink.org: Graphic organizer for plot diagram
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/plot-diagram/
Kidsgeo: precipitation
http://www.kidsgeo.com/geography-for-kids/0114-precipitation-types.php
Alex. State: Readers Theater script for Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
http://alex.state.al.us/lesson_view.php?id=16941
Weatherwizkids: wind
http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-wind.htm
Teachertech: hurricanes
http://teachertech.rice.edu/Participants/louviere/hurricanes/parts.html
Enchanted Learnin.com: hurricane graphics, globe and water cycle printables
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/weather/hurricane/anatomy.shtml
Kidsgetaplan: interactive- Build an Emergency Supply Kit
http://kidsgetaplan.com/activities/supply.html
The American Museum of Natural: “What’s the Big Idea About Water”-slideshow
http://www.amnh.org/explore/ology/water#
Nat Geo: Ten Freaky Forces of Nature – article
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/stories/spacescience/freaky-forces-of-nature/
Enchanted Learning: Reader’s Theater- Watercycle
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/rt/weather/watercycle.shtml
“Matter is Everywhere”: Book – Power Point
http://tarheelreader.org/2008/11/09/matter-is-everywhere/43/
Downloadable read aloud book suggested for fluency use with ELL)
http://tarheelreader.org/2011/07/10/forms-of-water/
Weatherwizkids: Experiment to make it rain
http://www.weatherwizkids.com/experiments-make-rain.htm
CPALMS: Explore the States of Matter – Power Point
DIGITAL RESOURCES – VIDEOS:
BEEP, Discovery Education: “Earth Science: Weather and Climate – Rain”
BEEP, Discovery Education: “Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain” Read Aloud
Destiny Learning, Tumblebooks - video: “Hurricanes 101”
BEEP, Discovery Education: “Earth Science: Weather and Climate – Violent Weather”
BEEP, Discovery Education: “Evaporation and Condensation”
Destiny Learning, Tumblebooks – book: “Who Likes the Sun?” by Etna Kaner
BEEP, Discovery Education: “A First Look: Solids, Liquids and Gases”
DIGITAL RESOURCES – DIGITAL TEXT:
Slideshare: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Literary Text, by Judi Barrett, Literary Text, Macmillan Publishing: 1978
http://www.slideshare.net/Vararat120/read-the-story-cloudy-with-a-chance-of-meatballs
Scholastic: Teaching Plan for Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna Aardema
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/bringing-rain-kapiti-plain-teaching-plan
Science Fusion Leveled Readers Units 3, 4, and 5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012 (available through BEEP online textbooks)
ADDITIONAL SCHOOL BASED RESOURCES THAT CONNECT TO THIS UNIT:
Forces That Make Things Move, Kim Brubaker Bradley, Harper Collins,1998
Odd Boy Out Young Albert Einstein, Don Brown, Houghton Mifflin, 2004
What’s the Matter in Mr. Whisker’s Room? Michael Elsohn Ross, Candlewick Press, 2007
STORMS, Leslie Dickstein, Time for Kids
Snow, Uri Shulevitz, Paw Prints, 2008
I Can Hear the Sun, Patricia Polacco, Picture Puffins,1999
Can It Rain Cats and Dogs? Melvin Berger, Scholastic Inc.,1999
Do Tornadoes Really Twist? Melvin Berger, Scholastic Inc.,1999
The Snowy Day, Ezra Jack Keats, Penguin Books, 1962
Close Analytical Reading of Complex Texts (Paired Genres)
Text #1: Come On, Rain! by Karen Hesse; Fiction
Text #2: Super Storms by Seymour Simon; Informational Text
Extended-Hour Correlations
Quarter 1, Weeks 5-6: Properties of Matter
Quarter 2, Weeks 17-18: Weather
Quarter 4, Weeks 31-32: Maps and Globes
GRADE 2 - CONCEPTUAL TOPIC: BASIC NEEDS AND WANTS
Essential Question for the Unit of Study
Overarching questions for the unit of study.
Science Content Focus Standards
Next Generation National Standards (NGSS)
· How does the place affect the number of living things living there?
· What do plants need to grow? Understand that plants depend on animals for seed dispersion and pollination.
Next Generation Sunshine State Standards (NGSSS)
· Basic Needs, People Use Energy
· SC.2.L.14.1 The human body structure and function
· SC.2.L.17.1, SC.2.L.17.2, SC.2.P.10.1 / Social Studies Content Focus Standards
Next Generation Sunshine State Standards (NGSSS)
· Choice, Goods & Services, Saving & Spending
· SS.2.E.1.1, SS.2.E.1.2, SS.2.E.1.4
Literacy and Content Area (Science, Social Studies, Mathematics) Integration
Big Idea Performance Task
Identify the big idea performance task.
Print or Digital Resource / Mini Lesson/Activity
Social Studies: Just Saving My Money
Writing Fundamentals: Nature’s Green Umbrella
Buzz About It: You’re Tall in the Morning But Shorter at Night And Other Amazing Facts About the Human Body
Discovery Education: Goods and Services
http://app.discoveryeducation.com/search?Ntt=goods+and+services#selItemsPerPage=20&intCurrentPage=0&No=0&N=18340&Ne=18339&Ntt=goods%2Band%2Bservices&Ns=&Nr=&browseFilter=&indexVersion=&Ntk=All&Ntx=mode%252Bmatchallpartial
Discovery Education: Economy in and between Communities
http://app.discoveryeducation.com/search?Ntt=goods+and+services#selItemsPerPage=20&intCurrentPage=0&No=0&N=18340&Ne=18339&Ntt=goods%2Band%2Bservices&Ns=&Nr=&browseFilter=&indexVersion=&Ntk=All&Ntx=mode%252Bmatchallpartial
Discovery Education: Production Workers: And the Goods They Make
http://app.discoveryeducation.com/search?Ntt=goods+and+services#selItemsPerPage=20&intCurrentPage=0&No=0&N=18340&Ne=18339&Ntt=goods%2Band%2Bservices&Ns=&Nr=&browseFilter=&indexVersion=&Ntk=All&Ntx=mode%252Bmatchallpartial
Discovery Education: Service Workers: And the Services They Provide
http://app.discoveryeducation.com/search?Ntt=goods+and+services#selItemsPerPage=20&intCurrentPage=0&No=0&N=18340&Ne=18339&Ntt=goods%2Band%2Bservices&Ns=&Nr=&browseFilter=&indexVersion=&Ntk=All&Ntx=mode%252Bmatchallpartial
Discovery Education: The Meaning of Money
http://app.discoveryeducation.com/search?Ntt=goods+and+services#selItemsPerPage=20&intCurrentPage=0&No=0&N=18340&Ne=18339&Ntt=goods%2Band%2Bservices&Ns=&Nr=&browseFilter=&indexVersion=&Ntk=All&Ntx=mode%252Bmatchallpartial
Discovery Education: Smart Choices
http://app.discoveryeducation.com/search?Ntt=goods+and+services#selItemsPerPage=20&intCurrentPage=0&No=0&N=18340&Ne=18339&Ntt=goods%2Band%2Bservices&Ns=&Nr=&browseFilter=&indexVersion=&Ntk=All&Ntx=mode%252Bmatchallpartial
Discovery Education: The Language of Science: Life Science K-2: The Human Body
http://app.discoveryeducation.com/search?Ntt=human+body&N=18340
Discovery Education: Brain, Bones, and Muscle: The Structure and Function of the Human Body
http://app.discoveryeducation.com/search?Ntt=human+body&N=18340
BEEP Social Studies Related Activities:
· Am I a Service or Good Provider?
· Benefits and Costs of Saving
· Benefits and Costs of Spending
· Consumers and Consumer Demands
· Economics Vocabulary Wrap Up
· From the Farm Leveled Readers Activity
· Goods and Services
· Goods and Services Sort
· How is a Crayons Made?
· Is it a Good or a Service?
· Limited Resources
· Needs and Wants
· Primary Source Newspapers
· Project Based Learning Activity- Goods or Services?
· Saving and Spending Your Money Part 1
· Saving and Spending Your Money Part 2
· Trading
· Trading Goods and Services
· Wants and Needs Sort
· What are Goods and Services?
· What Do You Want or What Do You Need?
· What is a Consumer?
· What to do About Limited Resources?
· Why Do We Need Money?
Close Analytical Reading of Complex Texts (Paired Genres)
Text #1: Title and Author of Text; Genre of Text
Text #2: Title and Author of Text; Genre of Text
Extended-Hour Correlations
Quarter 3, Weeks 21-22: Human Body
Quarters 3 and 4, Weeks 29-30: Plants
Quarter 4, Weeks 33-34: Habitats
GRADE 2 - CONCEPTUAL TOPIC: EARTH'S STRUCTURES
Essential Question for the Unit of Study
Overarching questions for the unit of study.
Science Content Focus Standards
Next Generation National Standards (NGSS)
· How does land change and what are some things that cause it to change?
· What are different kinds of land and bodies of water?
· How are materials similar and different from one another, and how do properties of the materials relate to their use?
Next Generation Sunshine State Standards (NGSSS)
· Earth’s Surface
· SC.2.E.6.1, SC.2.E.6.2, SC.2.E.6.3 / Social Studies Content Focus Standards
Next Generation Sunshine State Standards (NGSSS)
· Geography
· SS.2.G.1.1, SS.2.G.1.2, SS.2.G.1.3, SS.2.G.1.4
Literacy and Content Area (Science, Social Studies, Mathematics) Integration
Big Idea Performance Task
Identify the big idea performance task.
Print or Digital Resource / Mini Lesson/Activity
Social Studies: There’s A Map On My Lap!
Science Online Readers BL: Exploring Earth’s Surface
Science Online Readers OL: This Changing Earth
Science Online Readers AL: Shake It Up
Buzz About It: Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest
Writing Fundamentals: Planet Earth/Inside Out
Discovery Education: Beneath the Surface: Earth’s Inner Structure
http://app.discoveryeducation.com/search?Ntt=Earth%27s+Surface&N=18340
Discovery Education: Land: Earth’s Important Resource
http://app.discoveryeducation.com/search?Ntt=Earth%27s+Surface&N=18340
Discovery Education: Water: Earth’s Important Resource
http://app.discoveryeducation.com/search?Ntt=Earth%27s+Surface&N=18340
Discovery Education: Let’s Talk Geography: Different Places on Earth
http://app.discoveryeducation.com/search?Ntt=geography&N=18340
Discovery Education: Maps and Globes
http://app.discoveryeducation.com/search?Ntt=maps&N=18340
BEEP Social Studies Related Activities:
· Creating a Thematic Map
· Globes
· Globes and More
· Map Elements
· Me on the Map
· North, South, East and West
· Oceans
· Physical Maps
· Political Maps
· Primary Source Maps
· PBL – Thematic Map of Your Bedroom
· The Prime Meridian and Equator
· The Seven Continents
· Using a Compass Rose in my Classroom
· What is a Compass Rose?
· What is a Globe?
Close Analytical Reading of Complex Texts (Paired Genres)
Text #1: Title and Author of Text; Genre of Text
Text #2: Title and Author of Text; Genre of Text
Extended-Hour Correlations
Quarter 1, Weeks 1-2: Classifying Objects
Quarter 2, Weeks 13-14: Rocks
Quarter 4, Weeks 37-38: Preserving Our Environment
GRADE 2 - CONCEPTUAL TOPIC: NATIVE AMERICANS AND COLONIAL AMERICA
Essential Question for the Unit of Study
Overarching questions for the unit of study.
Science Content Focus Standards
Next Generation National Standards (NGSS)
· What do plants need to grow? Understand that plants depend on animals for seed dispersion and pollination.
Next Generation Sunshine State Standards (NGSSS)
· Life Cycles (beans & butterflies)
· SC.2.L.16.1 / Social Studies Content Focus Standards
Next Generation Sunshine State Standards (NGSSS)
· Native Americans
· Colonial America
· SS.2.A.2.4, SS.2.C.1.1, SS.2.A.2.1, SS.2.A.2.2, SS.2.A.2.3
Literacy and Content Area (Science, Social Studies, Mathematics) Integration
Big Idea Performance Task
Identify the big idea performance task.
Print or Digital Resource / Mini Lesson/Activity
Social Studies: Nations of the Southeast
Social Studies: Nations of the Northeast Coast
Delta Science Readers: Food Chains and Webs
Buzz About It: If You Lived 100 Years Ago
Discovery Education: Animal Life Cycles
http://app.discoveryeducation.com/search?Ntt=life+cycles&N=18340
Discovery Education: Plant Life Cycles
http://app.discoveryeducation.com/search?Ntt=life+cycles&N=18340
Discovery Education: Insect Life Cycles: Metamorphosis
http://app.discoveryeducation.com/search?Ntt=life+cycles&N=18340
Discovery Education: Native Americans
http://app.discoveryeducation.com/search?Ntt=native+americans&N=18340
BEEP Social Studies Related Activities:
· Main Idea and Details- The Story of the Cherokee Leveled Readers Activity
· Comparing and Contrasting- Powhatan Leveled Readers Activity
· Primary Source Artifacts
· Native Americans of the Southeast Woodlands
· Native Americans of the Southeast Woodlands Flipbook
· Native Americans of the Northeast Woodlands
· Native Americans of the Northeast Woodlands Flipbook
· Native Americans of the Plains
· Native Americans of the Plains Flipbook
· Native Americans of the Southwest
· Native Americans of the Southwest Flipbook
· Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest
· Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest Flipbook
· New Arrivals
· Changes in Native Americans
· Project Based Learning Activity- Models of Native American Regions
· Primary Source Photographs
· The First Colonists
· Daily Life for the Early Colonists
· What Was Life Like in the Early 1900's?
· Comparing and Contrasting Children of Today and Children of 100 Years Ago
· Comparing and Contrasting Colonial Kitchens to Our Kitchens Today
· Project Based Learning Activity- Invention for Colonial America
· Colonial America Assessment
Close Analytical Reading of Complex Texts (Paired Genres)
Text #1: Title and Author of Text; Genre of Text
Text #2: Title and Author of Text; Genre of Text
Extended-Hour Correlations
Quarter 2, Weeks 11-12: Native Americans: Nations of the Southeast and Nations of the Plains
Quarter 3, Weeks 25-26: Life Cycles
Quarter 3, Weeks 27-28: Women’s Contributions
GRADE 2 - CONCEPTUAL TOPIC: TRAVEL, IMMIGRATION, AND OUR COUNTRY
Essential Question for the Unit of Study
Overarching questions for the unit of study.
Science Content Focus Standards
Next Generation National Standards (NGSS)
· How are materials similar and different from one another, and how do properties of the materials relate to their use?
Next Generation Sunshine State Standards (NGSSS)
· Push & Pull, Magnets (transportation)
· SC.2.P.8.1 (magnets portion, sinking and floating), SC.2.P.10.1, SC.2.P.13.1, SC.2.P.13.2, SC.2.P.13.3, SC.2.P.13.4 / Social Studies Content Focus Standards
Next Generation Sunshine State Standards (NGSSS)
· Immigration, Citizenship, Our Government
· SS.2.A.2.5, SS.2.A.2.6, SS.2.A.2.7, SS.2.A.2.8, SS.2.C.2.1, SS.2.C.2.2, SS.C.2.2, SS.2.C.2.3, SS.2.C.2.4, SS.2.C.2.5, SS.2.C.3.1, SS.2.C.3.2, SS.2.E.1.4
Literacy and Content Area (Science, Social Studies, Mathematics) Integration
Big Idea Performance Task
Identify the big idea performance task.
Print or Digital Resource / Mini Lesson/Activity
Social Studies: Ellis Island
Social Studies: March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed The World
Science Online Readers BL: Motion
Science Online Readers OL: On the Move!
Science Online Readers AL: Easy Does It
Buzz About It: A Drop of Water – A Book of Science and Wonder
CCSS Institute: The 4th of July Story
CCSS Institute: Duck for President
CCSS Institute: I Could Do That
CCSS Institute: Red, White, Blue, and Uncle Who
CCSS Institute: What President’s Are Made Of
Discovery Education: Magnets Push and Pull
http://app.discoveryeducation.com/search?Ntt=push+and+pull&N=18340
Discovery Education: How Things Move
http://app.discoveryeducation.com/search?Ntt=push+and+pull&N=18340
Discovery Education: Citizenship in the Community
http://app.discoveryeducation.com/search?Ntt=citizenship&N=18340
Discovery Education: Moving to America: Then and Now
http://app.discoveryeducation.com/search?Ntt=immigration&N=18340
Discovery Education: Government
http://app.discoveryeducation.com/search?Ntt=government&N=18340
BEEP Social Studies Related Activities:
· Abraham Lincoln’s Hat
· American Symbols of our Freedom
· American Symbols of our Government
· Comparing and Contrasting the First American Flag to the American Flag of Today
· Comparing and Contrasting Your House to the White House
· Facts About Abraham Lincoln
· George Washington and the General’s Dog
· George Washington Facts
· Cesar Chavez and His Contributions
· George Washington Carver and His Contributions
· Harriet Tubman
· If I Were Betsy Ross
· Martin Luther King Jr.
· PBL: Famous American Women and Their Contributions
· Rosa Parks
· Ruby Bridges
· Veterans
· Coming to America
· Arriving in the United States
· The Ellis Island Experience
· Immigration Today
· Learning New Customs
· Vocabulary Wrap Up
· Comparing and Contrasting- Annie Moore Ellis Island's First Immigrant Leveled Readers Activity Leveled Readers Activity
· Cause and Effect- Cuba and the United States Leveled Readers Activity
· Coming to America- The Story of Immigration
· Ellis Island Chapter 1
· Ellis Island Chapter 3 and 4
Project Based Learning Activity- Family Immigration Project
Close Analytical Reading of Complex Texts (Paired Genres)
Text #1: Title and Author of Text; Genre of Text
Text #2: Title and Author of Text; Genre of Text
Extended-Hour Correlations
Quarter 1, Weeks 3-4: Constitution Day, Why I Love America, Understanding the Preamble
Quarter 1, Weeks 7-8: The Election Process
Quarter 2, Weeks 15-16: The Constitution
Quarter 2, Weeks 19-20: African American History
Quarter 3, Weeks 23-24: American Presidents
Quarter 4, Weeks 35-36: Citizenship
*** Use primary sources throughout all unit of studies SS.2.A.1.2