English language arts
How the Writer Built It: Text Structure in a Passage About Honeybees
Students read an original informational passage about honeybee communication and identify the structure and purpose of each paragraph.
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Health & physical ed.
How Your Body Moves: Muscles and Joints
Students learn the main muscles and joint types behind everyday movements and connect each action to the muscle that does the work.
English language arts
Informative Paragraph: From Fact Cards to Finished Writing
Students sort eight fact cards about honeybee colonies into useful and off-topic, then turn the useful facts into a well-organized informative paragraph.
Science
Inside the Atom: Protons, Neutrons and the Periodic Table
Students use a short reading and provided data to fill in proton, neutron and electron counts for six elements and learn how the periodic table is organized.
Career & technical ed.
Is That Professional? Workplace Etiquette Case Files
Students judge short workplace scenarios about being on time, honesty, phones, and teamwork, and explain what a better choice looks like.
Science
Lab Report Practice: How Does Drop Height Affect Bounce?
Students analyze provided ball-drop data: identify variables, write a hypothesis, calculate means, sketch a line graph and write a claim-evidence-reasoning conclusion.
Social studies
Latitude and Longitude: Finding Cities by Coordinates
Students use a table of city coordinates to name hemispheres, identify mystery cities, and calculate degree differences.
Career & technical ed.
Laundry Labels and Sorting Loads
Students decode six care-label phrases, sort ten clothing items into laundry loads using given rules, and calculate laundromat costs.
Arts
Logo Concepts: Six Types and a Page of Thumbnails
Students learn six logo types and what makes a good logo, then sketch six thumbnail ideas for a fictional tutoring business.
Arts
Logo Lab: Design a Mark for an Imaginary Business
Students learn six logo types and design principles, brainstorm for an imaginary business, sketch thumbnails, finish one logo and critique it with a rubric.
Social studies
Map Scale and Legend: Reading the Pinecrest County Map
Students read a map legend, find features by grid square, and use a scale to convert map distances to real distances.
Social studies
Mapping Marlow Island: Directions, Grid Squares, and Scale
Students use a made-up island map to practice grid coordinates, compass directions, and map scale.