Team 6A Curriculum

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  • Pull out for band, chorus, and orchestra
  • Cooperative work
  • Refinement of skills
  • Team building activities
  • Responsive Design
  • Conflict resolution
  • Goal setting
  • Problem-solving activities
  • Games
  • Community Service
  • Bullying prevention
  • Healthy coping strategies
  • Empathy and communication
  • Taking responsibility
  • Organization

Mindset

  • Math and Reading skills
  • Current events
  • Read aloud
  • Thought-provoking activities

Reading/Oral & Written Communication Content

Students will gain skills in:

  • vocabulary building through a variety of text (fiction and nonfiction)
  • identifying context clues, synonyms, antonyms, compound words, and contractions
  • previewing and predicting
  • summarizing and making inferences
  • skimming and scanning various text
  • identifying main events, details, and sequence of events
  • comparing and contrasting
  • identifying cause and effect
  • using and recognizing metaphors, similes and analogies
  • identifying literary elements
  • making and supporting judgments and interpretations with evidence from text
  • contributing meaningfully to discussions in large and small groups
  • researching a topic to effectively communicate ideas
  • using notes, outlines, visual aids and technology to enhance oral reports and presentations
  • formulating questions to gather  information, conduct investigations, and solve problems
  • taking notes, selecting, and synthesizing relevant information
  • utilizing the Writing Process
  • writing essays, formal letters, poetry, research, etc.
  • learning positive oral presentation skill

Math Content

Students will compute, calculate, and explore:

  • computations of fractions
  • improper fractions and mixed numbers
  • solving and interpreting data area and perimeter of regular & irregular shapes
  • area and perimeter of regular & irregular shapes
  • computations of decimals and percents
  • estimating and rounding
  • percent value
  • identifying patterns of change
  • creating and analyzing tables and graphs
  • order of operations
  • interpreting data and data collection
  • geometric figures negative numbers
  • negative numbers
  • translations, rotations, & reflections
  • addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of rational and irrational numbers

Social Studies Content

Students will study and be introduced to:

  • 5 themes of geography – movement, region, human-environment interaction, location, and place
  • Systems – social, political, and economic
  • Ancient Civilizations – Mesopotamia, Egypt Greece, Rome, Aztec/Incan/Mayan, India, and China/Japan

Science Content

Students will experiment with and investigate:

  • Matter and the scientific method
  • Ecology, ecosystems, and biomes
  • Environmental problems
  • Weather systems and the atmosphere