Description
***This course is not available for the Track C July/August learning period.***
In Infinity and Beyond, students will think critically about the cause and effect relationships that exist among our planet’s spheres. Students will also examine human activities in agriculture, industry, and everyday life and the major effects on the land, vegetation, streams, ocean, air, and even outer space. Students will learn the distribution of freshwater and saltwater on the Earth, and will also examine individual community efforts expended to help protect the Earth’s resources, the environment, and community and personal conservation efforts. Students will also use the skills and knowledge acquired in this unit to learn that patterns can be found in Earth’s movement around the sun in order to explain the phenomenon of sunrise and sunset, length of shadows at different times of the day, the change in seasons based upon geographical location, and the seasonal appearance of constellations. Students will read a wide range of texts. Students will identify and explain the evidence that an author uses to support particular points in a text. Students will analyze texts on the same topic to determine the ways in which an author’s perspective/purpose influences the central message of a text. Students will write opinion pieces using evidence drawn from literary or informational text to support their argument in order to persuade an audience. Students will use the writing process to ensure that their opinion pieces introduce the topic, state the opinion, logically groups ideas that are supported by facts and details and provide a concluding statement or section related to the opinion.
Recommended for Grade 5.
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