The students will identify how computing technologies have changed the world and how they are influenced by cultures by group activities, critical activities, problem solving skills and researching.
A student’s exposure to sentence formation occurs, most often, at a very young age. Over time this exposure helps build their sentence building foundation and ability to create solid sentences of their own. Using the mentor text, “The Important book” by, Maragret Wise Brown, students will use the author’s craft (mode of writing) to create sentences of their own modeling the written patterns noted in the book. Through this unplugged activity, students will combine their knowledge of looping in computer science to their grammatical skills to formulate strong complete sentences. These sentences will model that of the author’s craft of writing to complete their own “important idea” statements. Upon completion of their sentences students will combine their writings to create an algorithm of ideas that loop to follow that of the original mentor text. Combining the areas of language arts and computer science together in this lesson, allows the students to work on two common and necessary learning components.
Students will identify problems rEnglishted to inappropriate use of computing devices and networks and how to avoid them.
A quick guide to note pages for self-monitoring reading, and a list of journal prompts to reflect on daily independent reading.
A list of journal prompts for daily independent reading
A list of journal prompts for daily independent reading
There are currently three million Indigenous people, from more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations, living in the United States. Since 1492 and the arrival of the first European explorers, Indigenous people's land has been violently seized, leading to a devastating decline in population and the striping away of key aspects of Indigenous culture. It is impossible to synthesize the diverse history and culture of Indigenous people into one unit, but it is important for students to understand that Indigenous people have been, and still are, an important part of our country's history and future. Therefore, this unit has a few focuses. The first focus is on providing students with an overarching understanding of Indigenous people and their history, using the book The People Shall Continue as a guide. After reading the text, students will participate in a guided research project to learn more about an Indigenous nation near where they live. The second part of the unit focuses on different Indigenous people who have worked hard and overcome hardships to create equal opportunities and experiences for Indigenous people today. After reading a few biographies as a class, students will research additional Indigenous heroes to learn more about their achievements, sacrifices, and passions. The goal of the second part of the unit is to shine a light on key Indigenous figures and emphasize the idea that Indigenous people have been and always will be an important part of our country.
This lesson focuses on inference and prediction, which are valuable reading skills. It also exposes students to another important skill in CS, tracing code. Students are introduced to the lesson by predicting the outcome of a simple code projected on the board. Then they transfer that knowledge and skill into English by predicting the outcome of a story by examining the clues in the text.
In this lesson, students will be identifying different sources of information in regards to books, pictures, and people. They will learn what kind of information we can get from each source and how to use that information to help solve problems or answer questions. They will also become a source of information and tell about what they know.
In this unit, second graders learn about insects and the impact insects have on the natural world. Building on what students learned in Unit 1 about habitats, they will explore how different insects rely on the environment, or habitat in which they live, for survival. Through this exploration, students will learn the unique characteristics of insects, how insects can be both beneficial and destructive, and the stages of an insect's life cycle. By the end of the unit, students will have a deeper understanding of and appreciation for the beauty of the insect world.
This unit is comprised of predominantly shared reading experiences to help students practice different reading strategies and skills. Building on unit one, students will continue to be inquisitive, active consumers of texts by asking and answering questions, and they will continue to deepen their understanding of the role text features and illustrations play in helping a reader better understand the content of a text. Students will also begin to explore the connections between scientific ideas and concepts using cause-and-effect language and will continue to strengthen their habits of discussion as they debate and analyze key ideas of the unit.
Students will demonstrate oral communication and literacy skills by telling and retelling stories with creative dramatics. Students will apply a creative process for music, and improvise with movement and music to enhance a short story or poem.
We can look at art to analyze and interpret the ideas at play; we can also use art as a prompt for creativity; but these two things don’t have to be mutually exclusive. Use this simple creative writing exercise to help students collaboratively use creative thinking in tandem with critical thinking as they make meaning from an abstract artwork.
Spending time with a work of art can be an opportunity for thoughtful inquiry and ideation. For students, documenting their ideas as they work to interpret an artwork offers the chance to exercise metacognition. With this interactive exercise featuring an artwork by Congolese artist Sammy Baloji, students are can gain insight into how they process information and formulate ideas.
Spending time with a work of art can be an opportunity for thoughtful inquiry and ideation. For students, documenting their ideas as they work to interpret an artwork offers the chance to exercise metacognition. With this interactive exercise featuring an artwork from the Mughal Empire, students can gain insight into how they process information and formulate ideas. This activity is good practice for formulating research questions and synthesizing ideas.
Students will play an interactive game while learning how to be internet smart. Students will learn the fundamentals of digital literacy: sharing, kindness, security, determining what's real and what's fake, and reporting. This game comes with a full curriculum guide: https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-interland.appspot.com/en-us/hub/pdfs/Google_BeInternetAwesome_DigitalCitizenshipSafety_2019Curriculum.pdf
Intro to paper writing- paragraphs to papers. (Multi paragraph writing)
English Instructional Plan – Introducing Opinion Writing: Grades 1 and 2
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