Curriculum Connection
K-5 Science and/or Social Studies -December 2022
Kindergarten Social Studies
In this unit students will be describing examples of scarcity and opportunity costs within their family and their community. Students will be able to decipher between a need and a want as well as describing examples of each.
In this unit, students will be looking at their culture and comparing their families from the past to the present. Students will be able to share stories, traditions, and bring in artifacts that describe their family's history.
1st Grade Science
In this unit, students will use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance.
Explore 1: Activity: Sound Stations
Students rotate through four different sound stations.
Explore 2: Inquiry Investigation: Sound System
Students discover how different materials affect the type of sound that is made.
1st Grade Social Studies
In this unit, students will describe the cultural, human, and physical characteristics of their community. They will use artifacts to explain how culture is shared.
2nd Grade Science
In this scope, students will use information from several sources to provide evidence that Earth events can occur quickly or slowly. This topic focuses on events that occur slowly, over a time period much longer than one can observe.
Explore 1: Scientific Investigation: Slow Change
Students explore how wind and water change rocks and soil.
Explore 2: Engineering Solution: Rain on the Rooftop
Students draw and design a model that will protect a flower bed and prevent seeds from washing away.
In this scope, students learn wind and water can change the shape of the land.
Explore 1: Scientific Investigation- Stop the Erosion!
Students will conduct an investigation comparing different ways to prevent wind and water erosion.
Explore 2: Engineering Solution- Save the Beach House
Students will use the scientific knowledge they gained as well as the 21st Century Skill of collaboration to design and construct a structure that protects a beach house from wind and water erosion of the land it sits on.
3rd Grade Science: Unit 1: Life Science Part 2
Unit 1: Social and Group Behavior
Students will look at how animals interact with one another using pasta noodles to simulate gathering food. They will then do an activity called Strength in Numbers.
Unit 1: Inheritance and Variation of Traits
If they all have the same parents, why don’t the puppies in a litter look exactly alike?
Students will look at their physical features and compare traits. They will compare this to plants traits. Last, they will look at how dogs bred together have a combination of traits.
STEMScopes 3D: Mission Performance Task from the Action Plan
The student’s mission is to research an animal and its environment in order to create a diorama showing the plant and animal life cycles and the benefits of the animal living in a group.
4th Grade Social Studies
Unit 2: Migration
Overview of Unit: In this unit students will be able to describe the migrations of Native Americans prior to 1800. Students will also be able to describe the roles of Native Americans, immigrants, African Americans, and women during this time period and their effect on the country at large.
Enduring Understandings:
● I can describe the migrations of Native Americans and the discovery, exploration and early settlements of America by Europeans prior to 1800.
● I can examine the cultural interactions and conflicts among Native Americans, immigrants, enslaved and free African Americans prior to 1800.
● I can construct and interpret historical and current maps.
● I can analyze how people are affected by, depend on, adapt to, and change their physical environments.
● I can use geography to interpret the past and predict future consequences of humans actions.
● I can compare cultural characteristics such as language, celebrations, customs, holidays, artistic expression, food, dress and traditions across historical time periods in US history prior to 1800.
5th Grade Social Studies
Unit 2: Impact of Wars on the United States
Enduring Understandings:
● Describing the political, economic, and social causes and consequences of the Civil War, World War I, World War II, and the Cold War.
● Describing the role of the government impacted the wars in the United States.
Engaging Scenario:
Students are to create an essay replicating the format of the I Survived series books. Students will select one war to describe how they “survived” the war. Students are to give background of the war and outcomes of the war. Finishing the essay with details about the lasting impacts of the war in our country. The students could use Book Creator, Story Bird, a physical book, etc.
Jennifer Wiley- Curriculum Specialist K-2
Email: wileyj@parkhill.k12.mo.us
Website: www.parkhill.k12.mo.us
Location: 7703 Northwest Barry Road, Kansas City, MO, USA
Phone: 816-359-6253
Twitter: @icjenwiley
Kim Fette- Curriculum Specialist 3-5
Email: fettek@parkhill.k12.mo.us
Website: www.parkhill.k12.mo.us
Location: 7703 Northwest Barry Road, Kansas City, MO, USA
Phone: 816-359-5750
Twitter: @kimElemCoach