Normal Park Museum Magnet Curriculum Map, 2017-2018
A Day in the Life / Moving Along / Worlds of Wonder / Take a Walk on the Wild SidePreK / All About Me
- Favorite things
- Emotions
- Family structure
- Friends & sharing
- Manners
- Sight
- Sound
- Taste
- Hearing
- Touch
- Impaired senses
- Animal senses
- Healthy habits (food & body)
- Personal safety
- Pollution- (affecting habitats & animals)
- Reduce, reuse, recycle
- Weather
- Soil
- Plants
- Bees
- Farm
- Land Animals
- Fresh water
- Salt water
Kinder-garten / My Place in this World
(focus on rules, citizenship, jobs & money)
*HOME
*SCHOOL
*COMMUNITY / We are the World
- Tennessee
- United States
- Canada
- Kenya
- Italy
- Classification
- Animal life cycles
- Habitats: Delta swamp, American Prairie, Southwest American desert, American woodland Arctic
- Character-istics
- Basic Needs
- Seasons
- Day and Night
- Weather
- Water Cycle
- Plants
1st grade / Grossology
- Body organs/ systems
- Healthy choices
- Individuality
- Development, Culture, and Physical Properties of Tennessee
- Map Skills
- Local Government
- Timelines
- National Holidays
- Tennessee leaders
- Community
- Citizenship
- Products, Goods, and Services
- Economics
- Advertising
- Constitution
- Laws and Rules
- Voting Process
- Adaptations
- Geography
- Conservation
- Extinction
- Habitats
- Water cycle
- Food web
2nd grade / Normal Park School of Rock
-Pangaea/Plate Tectonics
-Layers of the Earth
-Magnets
-Soil
-Properties of Rocks
-Types of Rocks and Rock Cycle
-Fossils
-Carnivores and Herbivores
-Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources / Mapping Our World (Native Americans)
-Geography
-Map Skills
-Landforms
-Native Americans
-Human environment interaction
-Native American Folklore & Culture
-Edible Plants/Using Resources
-Man Made Tools
-Moon Cycles/Culture
-Shelter Building
-Native American/US Regions and environment / We the Kids-Government
- Local, State and National Government
- Voting
- Branches of Government
- Rights and Responsibilities of citizens
- Purpose of a budgets
- Goods and services
- Supply and demand
- Imports and exports
- Process of making laws and consequences of breaking laws
- Biographies of great Americans
- World geography
- Animal classification
- Conservation
- Adaptation
- Habitats
- Life cycles
- Food chain
- Environment & Human Impact
3rd grade / Creativity Unleashed
*Focus on inventions
- Space
- Magnets
- Force & motion
- Weather
- Sound
- US history from Columbus to Constitution
- North American Government
- landforms of N. and S. America
- natural resources to man made products (focus on North America and Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Argentina, and Chile in South America)
- Europe - study of European explorersand artists
- Asia - inventions that changed the world
- Africa - peace keepers who changed the world
- Australia - Aboriginal culture
- Antarctica – McMurdo Station and Penguin/Seal Adaptations
- Threatened/thriving /endangered
- Ecosystems:
- Adaptations
- Food Chain
4th grade / National Treasures: Becoming America
- Tennessee’s Prehistoric People/Groups
- Exploration & Explorers
- Human impact on Native Americans/ Settlements
- Slave trade
- Colonization
- Geographical landforms
- Events leading to Revolutionary War
- Revolutionary War
- Founding Fathers
- Battles of the Revolution
·Force & Motion/Newton’s Laws
·Friction, Speed & Gravity
·Moon phases/gravitational pool
·Properties of light
·Electricity
·Magnets & electromagnets
·States of Matter
·Scientific Method
·Types of Energy
·Variables
·Geographical advancements (incline, railroad, generators) / Going West/Founding Tennessee
·Tennessee’s Native American
·Creating & Establishing a new government
·TN statehood/history
·Frontier Life
·Westward expansion
·Louisiana Purchase/Lewis & Clark
·Manifest Destiny
·War of 1812
·Andrew Jackson Era/Trail of Tears
·Industrial Revolution
·Transcontinental railroad
·Risk vs. Reward
·Reform movement
·Geographical Landforms / The Lorax Project: Going Green in Chattanooga
·Cell Structure/plant & animal
·Incomplete/complete metamorphosis
·Water cycle
·Weather vs climate
·Food chains, webs, & energy pyramids
·Behavioral & physical adaptations
·Scientific tools
·Human impact/Environmental history of Chatt.
·Carbon footprint
·Green living
·Alternate forms of energy
·LEED
5th grade / A Nation Divided/ A Nation Rebuilding
·Civil War
·Reconstruction
·Immigration/Industrialization/Westward Expansion
·Spanish/American War / Rediscovering Earth
·Space/Universe/Forces
·Gravity
·Earth Science/climate/plates
·States of Matter
·Energy / Becoming U.S.
·Gilded Age
·Union
·Immigration
·WWI
·Propaganda
·Roaring 20s
·Great Depression/Economics/New Deal
·WWII
·Civil Rights / Extreme Explorers
·Plant & Animal cells
·Energy Pyramid
·Food Webs
·Animal classification
·Symbiotic relationships
·Adaptations
·Ecology
6th grade
Science / Ecology
·Food webs
·Energy flow
·Roles
·Systems
·Biomes
·Abiotic & biotic
·Water quality ponds & streams / Atmosphere/Weather
- Convections
- Currents
- Wind
- Sun’s energy
- Absorption
- Temperature
- Ocean currents
- Ocean temperatures & weather
- Weather instruments
- Meteorological data
·Relative distance
·Calendars/clocks
·Moon/tides
·Earth, sun, moon-seasons
·Eclipse / Electricity/Energy
·Potential v. kinetic
·Types of energy
transformations
·Law of conservation
·of energy
·simple circuits/energy transfer
·comparing conductors & insulators
·matter & energy
6th Grade Social Studies- Ancient Civilizations / The First Human Societies & Civilizations
·Early human groups
·Mesopotamia
·Egypt / Early Eastern Civilizations
·India
·China / Ancient Greece
·Geography
·Government
·Influences on the modern day / Ancient Rome
·Geography
·Achievements
·Engineering & construction
·Fall of Rome
6th Grade
Language Arts / Narrative Writing/Fiction
·Story elements
·Literary devices
·Personal narratives
·Character analysis / Nonfiction/Research
·Nonfiction
·Research projects / Persuasive Writing
·Nonfiction
·Advertising / Social Entrepreneurships
- Social Issues
- Speeches
- Community Advocacy
6th Grade
Math / Ratios, Rates & Percents
·Decimal operations
·Ratios
·Rates
·Unit rates
·Percent of numbers / Numbers & Operations
·Fraction division
·GCF, LCM
·Exponents
·Integers
·Coordinate plane / Expressions, Equations & Inequalities
·Numeric & algebraic expressions
·Solving equations & inequalities / Geometry & Statistics
·Area, surface, volume & circumference
·Probability & statistics
7th gradeScience / The Earth
·Physical properties of minerals
·Rock cycle
·Earth’s layers
·Plate movement / Physical Science
- Simple machines
- Motion
- Waves
·Cell material, movement, diffusion & osmosis
·Levels of organization of the body / Genetics & Heredity
·Asexual & sexual reproduction
·Photosynthesis
·Cellular respiration
·Genes
7th Social Studies-World Geography / East Asia & West Africa
·Ancient Empires
·Beliefs, Culture, Contributions
·Islam / Rome
·Rome’s Fall
·Dark Ages/Middle Ages
·Survival, Daily Life & social / Renaissance & Reformation
·Innovations
·Religion
·Societal changes / Scientific Revolution, The Enlightenment & Exploration
·Innovations & inventions
·Religious beliefs
·Major explorers/cultural exchanges/lands discovered
7th Language Arts / Fiction: Plot and Character Development
·Plot Elements
·Character development
·Historical fiction
·Theme / Nonfiction: Research
·Organizational Strategies/text features
·Expository Article
·Non-fiction text structures
·Narrative NF / Nonfiction: Research Based Argument
·Research both sides of an argument
·understand both perspectives
·Recognize bias
·Argument writing / Poetry
·Literary devices
·Analyzing poetry
·Types of poems
·Writing poetry using literary devices
Two last weeks: fantasy short stories
7th Grade Math / ·Extending Patterns
·Operations with negative numbers
·Operations with rational numbers / ·Compute unit rates
·Complex fractions
·Recognize and represent proportional relationships
·Scale
·Equivalent Expressions / ·Written expressions
·Two step equations
·Two step inequalities
·Linear expressions / ·Angles and triangles
·Areas of composed figures
·Volume and surface area
·Making statistical inferences
·Probability Models
8th gradeScience / Biodiversity/Change
·Scientific Method
· classification with dichotomous key
·Biodiversity
·Adaptations/
·variations
·Fossils and relative dating / Matter
* Chemical & Physical Properties
* States of Matter
* Atomic Theory and Structure
* Periodic Table
* Chemical Bonding
* Elements and Compounds * Mixtures and Atmospheric makeup / Inquiry
* Physical and Chemical Changes
* Chemical Reactions
* Acids and Bases
* Gravitational Attraction – effect of mass and distance
* Gravity / Forces in Nature
·Electricity
·Magnetic fields
·Electromagnetism
·Engineering
·Technology
8th Grade Social Studies –U.S. History / Colonial America (1600-1763)
·European settlement
·Developing 13 colonies
·Colonial culture, religion, government, economy & daily life
·Native American, French, & African influences
·French & Indian War / Revolution and the New Nation
1763-1800
·American Revolution
·Tennessee & the early nation
·US Constitution
·Early Republic / Expansion and Reform
1801-1861
·Jefferson Era
·Lewis and Clark
·War of 1812
·Western Movement
·Jacksonian Era
·Slavery
·Industrialization War
·Reform movements / Civil War and Reconstruction
·Civil War
·Reconstruction & the South
·Tennessee and the Civil War & Reconstruction
·The American West
8th Grade Language Arts / Dystopian Fiction Unit
- Grammar
- Literature circles
- Character study
- Archetypes
Research
Persuasive Techniques Grammar / Complex Text and Literary Essay
Stylistic elements
Author Studies
Grammar / Poetry Study
Critique writing
Perfecting our writing Poetry Study
8th Grade Math & Algebra 1 / *real number system
*expressions
*equations
*inequalities
*absolute value
*functions
*slope & rate of change
- arithmetic sequences
*best-fit line
*correlation
*piece-wise functions
*inequalities in two variables
*systems of linear equations & inequalities / *exponent rules
*radicals
*geometric sequences
*exponential functions
*polynomials
*quadratics / *solving quadratics
*statistics
*transformations of shapes
*angle relationships of triangles
*Pythagorean theorem
*volume of shapes