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Insights: Grades 4-5 Reading The Environment Teacher's Guide
Change is all around us. In this module, students explore changes in the environment. Starting with their immediate surroundings, they ask three questions: "What was it like before?", "What changes have happened?", and "What changes will occur in the future?" They then look more closely at the processes of weathering and erosion and at rocks and fossils.
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Insights: Grades K-1 The Senses Teacher's Guide
Children are provided with a variety of experiences that encourage them to use all their senses to more closely observe and describe objects and phenomena around them.
They compare, sort, and classify objects by various properties. They compare their senses one to the other, raising questions of what it would be like to be unable to hear, see, taste, touch, and smell.
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Insights: Grade 6 Structures Teacher's Guide
In this module, students begin to develop an understanding of some of the basic principles that answer the question, "Why do structures stand up?" They look at structures in the school neighborhood, observing the variety in size, shape, material, and function. They build their own structures, using straws, index cards, and other materials.
As they build, students explore some of the basic concepts of standing structures. These include live load, dead load, tension and com
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MINDS ON PHYSICS: COMPLEX SYSTEMS, ACTIVITIES & READER
Not a traditional textbook - the Minds On Physics Student Activities Book is comprised of two parts: Activities and the Reader. The Activities form an integrated set of thoughtful engagements for students, and the Reader organizes and summarizes the ideas of the physics content and is meant to be read after students have engaged in associated activities.<
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Insights: Grades 4-5 Circuits And Pathways Student Science NotebookInsights: Grades 4-5 Circuits and Pathways Student Science Notebook
Students develop a basis for understanding electricity by exploring its properties in simple circuits. They start by sharing what they already know and what they would like to know about electricity. They are given an opportunity to use batteries, wire, bulbs, and motors to explore the concept of a complete circuit.
Writing is an integral part of learning science in the Insights curriculum, and a critical skill used by scientists. One of the most important tools of the sc
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Insights: Grade 6 Human Body Systems Student Science Notebook
In this module, students look at how three different body systems work together to help their bodies function. They begin by looking at the needs their bodies have in order to perform a variety of physical tasks.
As the module continues, the students engage in a variety of activities that demonstrate how the digestive, circulatory, and respiratory systems work interdependently to provide the cells in the body with the nutrients and energy they need.
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Ancient Egypt: Gift Of The Nile Teacher Guide
Ancient Egypt: Gift of the Nile
Grades 2-3
This unit is designed around the idea that human civilizations develop and sustain themselves as a collection of interdependent systems. The civilization of ancient Egypt forms the central content of the unit, with exploration of systems of agriculture, economics, language, and leadership in this ancient culture. Students broad
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Ancient China: The Middle Kingdom Teacher Guide
The civilization of ancient China forms the central content of the unit, with exploration of systems of language, leadership, economics, and architecture in this ancient culture. Students broaden their understanding by comparing the ancient Chinese civilization with aspects of their own lives and communities.
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Building A New System: Colonial America 1607-1763 Teacher Guide
Building a New System: Colonial America 1607-1763
Grades 4-5
This unit begins with an in-depth study of the interrelationships within the Chesapeake Bay System between the Native Americans and the early English colonists in Virginia. The unit then turns to an exploration of the economic, social, and political systems of early America across the colonies, comparing and contrasting the
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The World Turned Upside Down: The American Revolution
The World Turned Upside Down: The American Revolution
Grades 4-5
Intensive document analysis and exploration of the concept of cause and effect form the foundation of this unit exploring the Revolutionary period in American history. The World Turned Upside Down explores the chronology and major events leading up to and during the Revolutionary War and uses primary sources to demonstrate the social and political context.