Grade 3-5 Challenge Syllabus

3RD QUARTER

4TH QUARTER

2ND QUARTER

Grade 3

Expressions

Grade 4�Explorations

Grade 5

Extensions

Express Yourself!

Explore Your World!

Extend Your Thinking!

Self Reflection Through Portraiture�(Individual Project: Self Portrait Choice)

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Introduction to Multiplication Concepts

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Responsibility Through Digital Citizenship (Research Topic: Theater)

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Figure It Out: Problem Solving Activities

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Introduction to Multiplication Concepts

Collaboration Through Drama�(Collaborative Project: Script Design)

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Hands on Equations: Introducing X, Evaluating Expressions, Solving for X

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Supplemental: Creativity Through Writing�(Individual Project: Portfolio)

Exploration Through Digital Citizenship (Research Topic: Architecture)��Creative and Engineering Design Process

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Hands on Equations: Review, Evaluating Expressions, Expressions & Equations

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History of Bridges��Hands on Equations: Solve for * & X, Convenient Zero, Setting Up Balanced Equations, Solving Equations without Manipulatives

The Creative Process and Rube Goldberg�(Collaborative Project: Rube Goldberg Design)

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Hands on Equations Fractions: Lessons TBD

Design in Action: Bridge Design and Construction�(Collaborative Project: Bridge Design)

�Hands on Equations Fractions: Lessons TBD

Viewpoints: Iconic America, Statue of Liberty, Choice: Gateway Arch or Frederic Remington

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Hands on Equations: Review, Opposite Numbers, Solving Equations with Positive & Negative Numbers, Adding & Subtracting Positive & Negative Whole Numbers

Viewpoints: Grant Wood, Harlem Renaissance & Langston Hughes, Choice: Hoover Dam or Mount Rushmore�

Hands on Equations: Solving Equations with Multiple Steps, Parenthetical Expressions, Solving Equations Without Manipulatives

Viewpoints - Architectural Footprints & Skyscrapers, Modern Art, Modern Architecture

Hands on Equations Fractions: Lessons TBD

Viewpoints - Modern Inventions (TBD) �(Collaborative Project: Invention Design)�

Hands on Equations Fractions: Lessons TBD

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Supplemental: National Parks

Grade 3-5 Texts

Grade 3

Grade 4

Grade 5

Express Yourself!

Explore Your World!

Extend Your Thinking!

• Gifted and Talented: It’s Great To Be You!
• Gifted or Goof Off: Fact or Fiction of the Famous
• Ellie Rae Discovers Eight Ways to Be SMART
• SMARTS! Everybody's Got Them
• The Best of Me
• I Am Frida Kahlo
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Frida Kahlo She painted her world in self-portraits Read Aloud
• The Smart Cookie
• Dorothea Lange
• Dorothea’s Eyes
• The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes
• I’m a Thoughtful Digital Citizen Are You?
• The Six Minute Podcast

• Architecture: A Visual History
• Iggy Peck, Architect
• Look At That Building!
• 20 Fun Facts About the Leaning Tower of Pisa
• Building Big
• How Emily Saved the Bridge
• 21 Elephants and Still Standing
• Rosie Revere Engineer
• The Brick Who Found Herself
• The Six Minute Podcast

• You Wouldn’t Want to be an American Pioneer
• Her Right Foot
• You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Worker on the Statue of Liberty
• What is the Statue of Liberty?
• The Little House
• American Gothic: The Life of Grant Wood
• You Wouldn’t Want to Work on the Hoover Dam
• Sky Boys : How They Built the Empire State Building
• Building Big
• Skyscrapers: How America Grew Up
• One Last Word
• Emma’s Poem: the Voice of the Statue of Liberty
• Building the Gateway Arch
• Uncle Andy
• Sandy's Circus : a Story about Alexander Calder
• The Boo-Boos That Changed the World
• What Does It Mean to Be an Entrepreneur?
• The Most Famous Entrepreneurs of All Time
• Kid Innovators
• The Six Minute Podcast