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Welcome to the home page for room 213... This year the 5th graders are learning their curriculum using integrated instruction. Units and lessons taught all connect to a year long theme, "The Mystery of Its Making", which has four components.

Theme: The Mystery of Its Making

Component: All the Right Stuff A

You Can’t Always Get What You Want (Soc. Studies - Economics)

It Matter’s (Science - Chemistry)

Helping Each Other Out (Social Skills)

Weighing Your Options (Health - Great Body Shop, Bike Safety)

Telling About Yourself (Writing - Narrative)

A Whole in One (Math - Fractions/Decimals)

Component: Above and Beyond B

What in the World?! (Soc. Studies - Geography)

What’s Up? (Science - Astronomy)

Helping Each Other Out (Social Skills)

Your Changing Body (Health - Human Growth/Development - Great Body Shop)

Tell me what you know... and prove it! (Writing - Expository)

Do you measure up? (Math - Measurement)

Component: Wouldn’t You Like to Know? C

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness (Soc. Studies - Amer. Revolution)

It Works! (Science - Energy)

Helping Each Other Out (Social Skills)

Get Into Character (Writing - Imaginative)

It’s kind of like a mystery. (Math - Algebraic Relations)

The Shape of Things (Math - Geometry)

Component: How Lucky Do You Feel? D

What are your Rights? (Soc. Studies - U.S. Constitution)

May the Force move you. (Science - Force & Motion)

Helping Each Other Out (Social Skills)

Be safe, not sorry. (Health - Comm. Disease/DARE)

Convince me. (Writing - Persuasive)

Say what? (Math - All strand review)

What are the odds? (Math - Statistics & Probability)