Library Curriculum Connections At-A-Glance OC/ OI: Physical Science
Grade 5 Unit 3 Theme: Using Your Wits Essential Question: How can you use your intelligence to outwit others? Unit 3 Theme Related Library Resources
Literary Elements/
Study Skills / Writing
Write Source / Essential Questions / 3rd OI:
Physical Science
Units begin on Oct 20 /
The Catch of the Day: A Trickster Play
by Angela S. Medearis
Illustr. by Wendy Hollander
WK THEME
Tricksters
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Main Selection
Literary Text/ Drama
Paired Selection
Literary Text/Fable / McGraw-Hill Texas Treasures TE p. 381 I, J
TERMS
Email, attachment
Toolbar, virus
ELA LTs - I can discuss the theme of a story… identify the morals or lessons of a fable.. identify & understand metaphors in a reading selection
MEDIA LITERACY
Distinguish between news (informative)and advertisement (persuasive)
ELA LT I can find similarities and differences in two reading selections
Identify features of a newspaper headlines, bylines, captions, international / local, front page, sections,
Six-?s: who what where when why how
ELA LT I can… summarize a reading selection… compare and contrast how things are alike and different in a reading selection
IC LESSON Energy Launch Lesson—this is scheduled to be shown in the classroom, but the video The Most Outrageous Way to Share a Coke (in Planner) is a must-see for librarians-- Your students may be talking about it.
While this Lesson may not take place in your library, perhaps you might display examples from the
IC LESSON Energy and Force Wrap-up
Building a Better Mouse Trap --Classroom Transfer Task-Student groups are asked to design (may make a model) of a Rube Goldberg machine (example videos on Planner) to demonstrate their knowledge of force and energy
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Strategy
Analyze Story Structure
Skill
Theme
Character and Setting
Genre
Fable, Drama / Analogies: Antonyms/ Synonyms / Metaphor and Moral /
Writing/Grammar-Mechanics: (Write Source)
Expository Writing/Responding to Texts: Writing a Book Review (Prewriting, Drafting)
Skills
Indefinite pronouns, Sentence variety, colons, subject-verb agreement /
Essential Questions for each IC Unit are found in Unit Plans on the Planner
/ For Unit Plans listed below and critical K-5 Science Vocabulary, SEE the Planner
SCIENCE
Investigation and Reasoning Skills
Unit 1 Introduction to Science
Unit Plan 10 days hypothesis, variable, direct observation, indirect observation, validity, review: claim , evidence, reliability, data
Notebooking, Scientific tools: safety goggles, pan balances, spring scales, meter rulers and sticks, graduated cylinders, hand lenses, Celsius thermometers
Testing and Communication: Discovery Techbook Board Builder, PowerPt, Prezi, etc.
Unit 2 Matter Unit Plan 15 days
relative density, (sink or float) solubility, dissolve, Celsius scale, triple beam balance, boiling point, freezing/melting point, Review: solid, liquid, gas, matter physical properties, mixture, solution, mass, capacity, volume, magnetism, insulate, conduct
Unit 3 Forms of Energy Unit Plan
15 days
classification based upon ability to conduct or insulate thermal or electrical energy
class example 7 Physical Properties of Matter Graphic Organizer
(mass, magnetism, physical state,
relative density (sinking/floating)
solubility, conductivity – electrical energy, conductivity -thermal energy
3 states of matter (solid, liquid, gas)
Types of Energy: Energy systems,
mechanical (simple machines,
potential and kinetic energy)
light (reflection, refraction, concave,
convex)
electrical
sound
thermal, heat
Forces—friction, gravity, buoyancy, magnetism
CALENDAR
5th Grade SAR Poster Contest
Nov 3 – Dec 2
Posters due to Lisa Wellborn Dec 5
Campus History Fair
Nov 10-21
Geography Awareness Week
Nov 16-22
Veterans Day
Nov 11
Campus Science Fairs
Dec 1-Jan 16
The Golden Mare, the Firebird, and the Magic Ring
by
Ruth Sanderson
WK THEME
Thinking It Through / Main Selection
Literary Text/ Fairy Tale
Paired Selection
Informational Text/ Expository / Strategy
Summarize
Skill
Theme
Genre
Fairy Tale
ELA LT I can read, discuss, and understand the order of evens that is common to most fairy tales /
Homophones /
Venn Diagram /
Writing/Grammar-Mechanics: (Write Source)
Expository Writing/Responding to Texts: Writing a Book Review (Revising, Editing)
Skills Sentence Combining and variety, conjunctions, commas, irregular verbs, colons
Tricky Tales
Time For Kids
Informational
WK THEME
Tales /
Main Selection
Informational Text/ Expository / Strategy
Summarize
Skill Compare and Contrast
Genre Poetry
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Homographs /
Study Strategies
*Two Bad Ants
(Van Allsburg) Point of View Writing Experience— SEE ELA Planner /
Writing/Grammar-Mechanics: (Write Source)
Expository Writing: Expository Paragraph Expository Essay (Prewriting, Drafting)
Skills Complete sentences, transition words, indefinite pronouns
Blancaflor
by
Alma Flor Ada
Illustrated by Valerie Sokolova
WK THEME
Challenges
/ Main Selection
Literary Text/ Folktale
Paired Selection
Informational Text/ Expository / Strategy
Visualize
Skill Theme
Compare and Contrast
Genre Folktale, Expository / Context Clues: Figurative Language / Tables /
Writing/Grammar-Mechanics: (Write Source)
Expository Essay (Revising, Editing)
Skills Transition words, indefinite pronouns, sentence variety, effective sentences
The Unbreakable Code
by
Sara H. Hunter
Ilustrated by
Julia Miner
WK THEME
Talking in Codes /
Main Selection
Literary Text/ Historical Fiction
Paired Selection
Literary Text/Poetry / Strategy
Visualize
Skill Theme
Author’s
Perspective
Genre Expository, Historical Fic Poetry / Context Clues / Consonance and Symbolism
ELA LT I can read and understand how literary elements contribute to the meaning of a poem (consonance, symbolism) / Writing/Grammar-Mechanics: (Write Source)
Expository Writing: Expository Writing Across Curriculum; Writing for the Texas Assessment (Expository)
Skills Collective nouns, adjectives, adverbs
Show What You Know
Theme
Sequence
Compare & Contrast
Context Clues
Metaphor
Time Line
WK THEME
Review and Assess / Review /Assess
Persuasive
Drama / Show What You Know
Test practice
Literacy Activity: Comprehension, Word Study, Drama
Genre Study
ELA LTs -I can identify sequence in a fictional story…story elements in a fictional story…the theme in a fictional story / Review/Assess
Analogies
Homophones
Homographs
Context Clues
/Figurative
Language
Context Clues /
Review/Assess
Metaphor &
Moral
Venn Diagrams
Study
Strategies
Tables
Consonance &
Symbolism /
Writing: (Write Source)
Expository Writing: Responding to a Nonfiction Article (Prewriting, Drafting, Revising, Editing)
Skills
Quotations, Letter Writing Conventions, Review Unit Skills
MEDIA LITERACY
In the News
COMPUTER LITERACY
email attachments
computer viruses
McGraw–Hill TexasTreasures, TE Grade 5; Plano ISD Elementary ELA Planner, IC Planner, Write Source