Unit-I: Addition and Subtraction
- writing and representing addition and subtraction number sentences
- addition and subtraction strategies
- modeling/number line/ counting up/ breaking apart numbers-decomposing
- Adding and subtracting up to three and four digit numbers with and without regrouping
- Identifying polygons
- How can algorithms be used to add numbers within 1,000?
- How can addition be used to solve subtraction?
- How can subtraction be used to answer an addition problem?
- How can shapes with the same perimeter cover different areas?
- How is time used in everyday life?
UNIT-II: Multiplication and Division Concepts
- multiplication as combining equal groups.
- relationship among skip counting, repeated addition and multiplication
- properties of multiplication
- using arrays to model multiplication and division
- multiplication facts from 0 to 10 up to 12 as a factor
- division as the sharing or separating numbers into equal groups
- single digit division facts
- two digit divided by one digit facts
- Using inverse operations to solve division/multiplication
Unit-II Essential Questions:
- What is multiplication and division, and how are they related?
- How are skip counting, repeated addition and multiplication related?
- How can arrays be used to model and solve multiplication and division?
- How can multiplication be used to solve division?
- How can I write and solve division problems?
Unit-III. multiplying and dividing fluently
- Multiply and divide within 100. Fluently multiply and divide within 100, using strategies such as the relationship between multiplication and division
- Solve problems involving the four operations, and identify and explain patterns in arithmetic. Solve two-step word problems using the four operations and equations with variables
Essential Questions:
How can I identify multiplication combinations that I do not yet know fluently?
How can I use known multiplication combinations to determine the products of more difficult combinations?
Can I fluently multiply and divide within 100?
How can I identify multiplication combinations that I do not yet know fluently?
How can I use known multiplication combinations to determine the products of more difficult combinations?
Can I fluently multiply and divide within 100?
Unit-IV: Fractions
- Find equal parts of a whole and name them with fractions.
- Divide an area into equal parts.
- Order unit fractions.
- Demonstrate that different-shaped pieces that are the same fraction of the same area have equal parts.
- Name fractional parts with fractions that have numerators greater than 1.
- Use representations to combine fractions that sum to 1.
- Express whole numbers as fractions, and recognize fractions that are equivalent to whole numbers.
- Read and write decimals from tenths to hundredths
- How can I find equal parts of a whole and name them with fractions?
- How can I divide an area into equal parts?
- How can I name fractional parts with unit fractions?
- How can I order unit fractions?
- How can I demonstrate that different-shaped pieces that are the same fractions of the same
- area have equal area?
- How can I name fractional parts with fractions that have numerators greater than 1?
Unit-V: Area and perimeter of polygons
- Find the area of partially covered rectangles.
- Find the area of an irregular shape
- Find the perimeter of an irregular shape.
- Design a shape for a given area.
- Find the area by counting or calculating whole and partial square units.
Science:
UNIT-1: The Nature of Science:
- What is the scientific method?
- Why is it important for scientist to follow the scientific method?
- How is a hypothesis unlike a guess?
- Why do scientists need to communicate?
- How do scientist make observations?
Essential question:
- Why and how is communication important in science?
UNIT-2: Animal and Plant Adaptations (chapter 2 and 4 in textbook)
- How do animals live in groups?
- What behaviors do animals have?
- How do plants and animals adapt to survive?
- How are animals adapted to their environment?
- How do seeds and fruits develop?
- How are predators and prey related?
- How do changes in the environment affect living things?
Essential questions:
- How do animals and plants continue to survive?
- How do animals and plants adapt to their environment?
UNIT-3: Energy (textbook chapters 5,6,,8)
- What is matter?
- What makes up matter?
- how does heat energy affect matter?
- What makes things move?
- How are work and energy related?
- how do machines use energy?
- How does light and sound travel?
- How are light and sound similar and different?
- How is sound created?
- Why is sound energy?
Essential question:
- What are the forms of energy?
- What changes occur when objects interact with different forms of energy?
- How can one form of energy be transformed into another form of energy?
