Through the study of literature, art, music, and other classroom activities, students learn about the search through the ages for utopia and the struggles to grasp and maintain it on both personal and societal levels, while examining why ideas about utopia undergo change.
The Student Literature Workbook includes student activity pages that support lessons and each unit’s short stories and
The Teacher Resource Package includes the Hint & Think Beyond Cards and Word Wall Cards.
Hint and Think Beyond Cards – Designed to challenge students who demonstrate mastery of each unit’s concepts and objectives, these cards encourage students to expand their knowledge by using more complex reasoning.
In this unit, students are encouraged to study patterns and determine how they change, how they can be extended or repeated and/or how they grow. They then move beyond this to organize the information systematically and analyze it to develop generalizations about the mathematical relationships in the patterns. There is a strong focus on mathematical discourse revolving around how to verbalize a generalization.
The Teacher Guide is designed to provide background information on the mathematics being taught in this unit, the learning environment, mathematical communication and
OpenSciEd Middle School science program addresses all middle school NGSS standards. This comprehensive science curriculum empowers students to question, design, investigate, and solve the world around them.