Scope and Sequences
Elementary Scope & Sequences
- Demonstrate knowledge of the basic concepts of print
- Demonstrate phonological awareness
- Decode grade-appropriate words using knowledge of phonics and word analysis skills: consonant sounds, long and short vowel sounds, CVC words, vowel teams
- Recognize and read grade-level high frequency words with automaticity
- Describe the main characters, setting, and important events in a story
- Explain the roles of author and illustrator of a story
- Identify rhyme in a poem
- Use titles, headings, and illustrations to confirm the topic of texts
- Identify the topic of and multiple details in a text
- Explain the difference between opinions and facts on a topic
- Identify and explain descriptive words in a text
- Retell a text orally to enhance comprehension
- Use topic and details to tell about informational texts
- Compare and contrast characters experiences in a stories
- Identify and sort common words into basic categories
- Recognize and appropriately use grade-level vocabulary in speaking and writing
- Print all upper- and lowercase letters
- Using a combination of drawing and writing, create narratives with the events in chronological order
- Using a combination of drawing and writing, express opinions about a topic or text with at least one supporting reason
- Using a combination of drawing and writing, provide factual information about a topic
- Write various forms of poetry
- Write friendly letters
- Utilize the writing process
- Present information orally
- Follow the rules of English grammar: proper nouns, simple verb tenses, complete sentences, possessives, plurals, plural nouns, contractions, pronouns, commas, interjections, plural possessives
- Utilize multimedia in writing
- Count the number of objects in a group and represent the number of objects in written form
- Identify positions of objects within a sequence using ordinal numbers
- Compare the number of objects in two groups
- Count forward within 100
- Count backward within 20
- Represent whole numbers with numbers, objects, drawings, and equations
- Locate, order, and compare numbers using the number line
- Add two whole numbers and related subtraction facts
- Find the number that makes ten when added to the given number
- Solve addition and subtraction real-world problems using objects, drawings, or equations to represent the problem
- Explain why addition and subtraction problems are true
- Identify the attributes of a single object that can be measured
- Express the length of an object using non-standard units of measurement
- Compare two objects based on measured attributes
- Identify two- and three- dimensional figures
- Compare two- and three- dimensional figures based on their similarities and differences
- Find real-world objects that can be modeled by a two- or three- dimensional figure
- Combine two-dimensional figures to form a given composite figure
- Compare and sort objects into categories and compare the categories
- Explore concepts of time to the hour
- Explore the value of coins and bills
- Recognize the five senses and related body parts
- Observe characteristics of of plants and animals
- Observe that things that make sound vibrate
- Investigate how things move in different ways
- Observe how objects can be pushed or pulled
- Sort objects by observable properties
- Recognize that the shape of materials can be changed
- Explore the Law of Gravity
- Recognize the repeating pattern of day and night
- Recognize the function of the sun
- Recognize the function of the moon
- Make observations of the nature world
- Keep records of investigations conducted
- Recognize God created the earth and all within it
- Create a timeline
- Develop an awareness of primary sources
- Compare families and children of today with those in the past
- Recognize the importance of celebrations and national holidays
- Compare our nation’s holidays with holidays of other cultures
- Listen to and tell stories about people in the past who show character ideals and principles including honesty, courage, and responsibility
- Recognize the importance of U.S. symbols
- Explain that calendars represent days of the week and months of the year
- Explain the function of maps
- Identify cardinal directions
- Differentiate between land and water on simple maps
- Locate and describe places in the school and community
- Know one’s own phone number, street address, city or town
- Know that Florida is the state in which the student lives
- Identify basic landforms
- Identify basic bodies of water
- Describe and give examples of seasonal weather changes
- Describe different jobs people do
- Recognize United States currency
- Identify the difference between basic needs and wants
- Define and give examples of rules and laws and why they are important
- Demonstrate the characteristics of being a good citizen
- Demonstrate how to resolve conflict among friends
- Describe fair ways for groups to make decisions
- Bible Survey
- Creation and Fall
- Noah
- Abraham
- Joseph
- Moses
- Joshua
- Ruth
- David
- Elijah
- Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection
- Holiness
- Self-Control
- Obedience
- Trust
- Peace
- Forgiveness
- Dependability
- Confidence
- Loyalty
- Friendliness
- Reverence
- Joy
- Kindness
- Compassion
- Locate the title, table of contents, names of author(s) and illustrator(s), and glossary of books
- Demonstrate phonological awareness
- Decode grade-appropriate words using knowledge of phonics and word analysis skills: consonant digraphs, trigraphs, & blends; r-controlled vowels; one-syllable words; inflectional endings; final -e; vowel teams
- Read grade level texts with accuracy, automaticity, and appropriate expression
- Identify and describe main story elements
- Identify and explain the moral of the story
- Explain who is telling the story using context clues
- Identify stanzas and line breaks in poems
- Use text features to demonstrate understanding of texts
- Identify the topic and relevant details
- Explain similarities and differences between information provided in visuals and words in an informational text
- Identify an author’s opinion about the topic
- Identify and explain descriptive words and phrases in texts
- Retell a text in oral or written form to enhance comprehension
- Compare and contrast two texts on the same topic
- Identify and use base words and inflections
- Determine the meaning of multiple meaning and unknown words using grade-appropriate strategies
- Print all upper- and lowercase letters
- Write narratives that retell two or more sequenced events
- Write opinions about a topic
- Write expository texts about a topic
- Write book reports
- Write various forms of poetry
- Write how-to articles
- Write friendly and business letters
- Write book recommendations
- Utilize the writing process
- Develop and give oral presentations
- Follow the rules of English grammar: proper nouns, simple verb tenses, complete sentences, possessives, plurals, plural nouns, contractions, pronouns, commas, interjections, plural possessives
- Conduct and present research
- Utilize digital writing tools
- Read and write numbers to 100 using standard form, word form, and expanded form
- Count forward and backwards with 120 by ones
- Develop an understanding of ordinal numbers
- Skip count by 2’s and 5’s to 100
- Compose and decompose two-digit numbers in multiple ways
- Plot, order, and compare whole numbers to 100
- Recall addition facts with sums to 10 and related subtraction facts with automaticity
- Add two whole numbers with sums up to 20 and subtract using related facts
- Identify the number that is one more, one less, ten more, and ten less than a given two-digit number
- Add a two-digit number and a one-digit number with sums to 100
- Subtract a one-digit number from a two-digit number
- Develop an understanding of the relationship between addition and subtraction
- Find the sum of three or more numbers
- Solve real-world addition and subtraction problems
- Determine whether addition and subtraction equations are true or false
- Determine the unknown number in an addition or subtraction equation
- Estimate and measure the length of objects
- Compare and order the measurements of up to three different objects
- Solve one-step and two-step real-world measurement problems
- Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks
- Identify coins and their values
- Find the value of a combination of coins up to a dollar
- Find the value of a combination of bills up to one hundred dollars
- Identify, compare, and sort two-and three- dimensional figures based on attributes
- Sketch two-dimensional figures
- Compose and decompose two- and three- dimensional figures
- Identify lines of symmetry for a two-dimensional figure
- Find the perimeter of a polygon
- Collect, represent, and interpret data
- Partition shapes into two and four equal-sized parts
- Raise questions and conduct investigations about the natural world
- Using the five senses make observations of living things
- Keep records of investigations
- Identify and describe the basic functions of the parts of the body
- Identify the major parts of plants
- Differentiate between living and nonliving things
- Recognize the basic needs of all living things
- Demonstrate and describe how various objects move
- Demonstrate and describe how objects can be pushed or pulled
- Sort objects by observable properties
- Identify the states of matter
- Explore the Law of Gravity
- Identify the properties of the sun
- Observe and discuss stars
- Recognize the need for water
- Recognize the basic natural resources
- Understand water safety
- Recognize the features of the four seasons
- Identify the basic functions of weather
- Develop an understanding of primary sources
- Utilize informational sources to locate information about a historical topic
- Understand history tells a story
- Compare life now with the past
- Identify celebrations and national holidays
- Identify people of the past who have demonstrated honesty, courage, and responsibility
- Distinguish between historical fact and fiction
- Order events that have occurred in school, home, or community
- Create a timeline based on the student’s life
- Utilize a political and cultural map to locate places in Florida
- Identify key elements of maps and globes
- Construct a basic map and corresponding key
- Identify physical features on a map
- Locate on a map a student’s local community, Florida, Atlantic Ocean, and Gulf of Mexico
- Describe how weather, location, and environment affect a community
- Recognize the function and purpose of money
- Distinguish between examples of goods and services
- Recognize the importance of saving money
- Explain the importance of rules and laws
- Give examples of community members who have power and authority in the community
- Explain the rights and responsibilities of students in the community
- Define and apply the characteristics of responsible citizenship
- Recognize symbols and individuals that represent the United States
- Genesis
- Creation
- Noah
- Abraham
- Isaac
- Jacob
- Joseph
- Obedience
- Reverence
- Loyalty
- Compassion
- Gratitude
- Decode grade-appropriate words using knowledge of phonics and word analysis skills: vowel teams, vowel diphthongs, two-syllable words with long and short vowels, open and closed syllables, consonant -le, common prefixes and suffixes, silent letter combinations
- Read grade level texts with accuracy, automaticity, and appropriate expression
- Identify plot structure
- Describe story elements in a literary text
- Identify and explain a theme in a literary text
- Identify different characters perspectives in a literary text
- Identify rhyme schemes in poems
- Explain how text features contribute to meaning of a text
- Identify the central idea and relevant details in a text
- Explain how relevant details support the central idea in a text
- Explain the author’s purpose in an informational text
- Explain an author’s opinion and supporting evidence
- Identify and explain similes, idioms, and alliteration in text
- Retell a text to enhance comprehension
- Compare and contrast important details presented by two texts on the same topic
- Identify and use base words and affixes to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words
- Determine the meaning of multiple meaning and unknown words using grade-appropriate strategies
- Demonstrate legible printing skills
- Write personal and fictional narratives
- Write opinions about a topic
- Write expository texts about a topic
- Write book reports
- Write how-to articles
- Write news stories
- Write friendly and business letters
- Write biographical essay
- Utilize the writing process
- Develop and give oral presentations
- Follow the rules of English grammar: plurals, contractions, pronouns, commas, plural possessive, interjections, verb tenses, complete sentences, compound sentences, plural pronouns
- Conduct and present research
- Utilize digital writing tools
- Read and write numbers to 1,000 using standard form, word form, and expanded form
- Compose and decompose three-digit numbers in multiple ways
- Plot, order, and compare whole numbers to 1,000
- Round whole numbers 0 to 100
- Recall addition facts with sums to 20 and related subtraction facts with automaticity
- Identify the number that is ten more, ten less, one hundred more, and one hundred less than a three-digit number
- Add two whole numbers with sums up to 1,000.
- Subtract two whole numbers each no larger than 1,000
- Solve one- and two- step real-world addition and subtraction problems
- Determine whether addition and subtraction equations are true or false
- Determine the unknown number in an addition or subtraction equation
- Develop a basic understanding of multiplication and division
- Estimate and measure objects utilizing various units of measurement
- Compare the measurements of two different objects
- Solve one-step and two-step real-world measurement problems
- Tell and write time to the nearest five minutes using analog and digital clocks
- Solve one-step and two-step real-world addition and subtraction problems involving money
- Identify and draw two-dimensional figures based on attributes
- Categorize two-dimensional figures based on attributes
- Identify lines of symmetry for a two-dimensional figure
- Find the perimeter of a polygon
- Collect, categorize, represent, and interpret data
- Partition shapes into two, three or four equal-sized parts
- Raise questions and conduct investigations about the natural world
- Recognize and explore the role of scientists
- Distinguish human body parts and their functions
- Observe and describe the major stages in the life cycles of plant and animals
- Compare and contrast the basic needs of all living things
- Recognize and explain habitats of living things
- Investigate and describe the structures and functions of plants
- Discuss the use of different forms of energy in daily life
- Investigate the effect of pushing or pulling an object
- Explore the concept of gravity
- Demonstrate the impact of magnets to move objects
- Demonstrate the principles of motion
- Observe and measure objects in terms of their properties
- Recognize the three states of matter
- Identify materials and objects as solid, liquid, or gas
- Observe and describe water in its three states
- Measure and compare the volume of liquids
- Measure and compare temperature in a room
- Recognize the earth is made up of rocks
- Explain the origin and process of soil formation
- Classify soil types
- Compare and describe patterns in nature that repeat themselves
- Investigate the water cycle
- Investigate that air is all around us
- State the importance of preparing for severe weather conditions
- Examine primary and secondary sources
- Utilize informational sources to locate information about a historical topic
- Compare the cultures of Native American tribes from the United States
- Describe the impact of immigrants on Native Americans
- Discuss why immigration occurred in the past and continues today
- Explore daily life of people during the colonial period
- Discuss the important of Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty to early immigration in America
- Explain the contributions of immigrants in the past and today
- Identify terms and designation of time sequence
- Use different types of maps
- Label a map with continents, oceans, Equator, Prime Meridian, North Pole, and South Pole
- Use a map to locate specific locations
- Recognize how people supply goods and services
- Recognize how the United States exchanges goods and services with other countries
- Explain the benefits and costs of saving and spending
- Explain why governments are formed
- Explain the importance of rules and laws
- Identify what it means to be a citizen of the United States
- Define and apply the characteristics of responsible citizenship
- Explain the rights and responsibilities of being a citizen of the United States
- Evaluate the contributions of various African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, veterans, and women
- Identify the purpose of the Constitution
- Recognize symbols, individuals, events, and documents that represent the United States
- Exodus
- Egyptian captivity
- Moses and the exodus
- Wilderness wandering
- Joshua
- Judges
- Joy
- Trust
- Humility
- Compassion
- Decode grade-appropriate words using knowledge of phonics and word analysis skills
- Read grade level texts with accuracy, automaticity, and appropriate expression
- Explain how characters develop throughout the plot of a literary text
- Explain a theme and its development
- Explain characters perspectives in a literary text
- Identify types of poems: free verse, rhymed verse, haiku, and limerick
- Explain how text features contribute to meaning of a text
- Identify the text structures of chronology, comparison, and cause/effect
- Identify the central idea
- Explain how relevant details support the central idea in a text
- Explain the development of author’s purpose in an informational text
- Identify an author’s claim and how the author uses evidence to support the claim
- Identify and explain metaphors, personification, and hyperbole in text
- Summarize a text to enhance comprehension
- Compare and contrast how two authors present information on the same topic
- Compare and contrast how two authors present the same theme
- Learn and apply knowledge of common Greek and Latin roots and affixes
- Determine the meaning of multiple meaning and unknown words using grade-appropriate strategies
- Demonstrate cursive writing
- Write personal and fictional narratives
- Write opinions about a topic
- Write expository texts
- Utilize the writing process
- Develop and give oral presentations
- Follow the rules of English grammar: verb tenses, irregular plural nouns, irregular verbs, modifiers, prepositions, prepositional phrases, compound sentences, quotation marks, commas, clauses, conjunctions, appositives, principal modals
- Conduct and present research
- Utilize digital writing tools
- Read and write numbers to 10,000 using standard form, word form, and expanded form
- Compose and decompose four-digit numbers in multiple ways
- Plot, order, and compare whole numbers to 10,000
- Round whole numbers 0 to 10,000
- Add and subtract multi-digit whole numbers
- Explore multiplication of two whole numbers and related division facts
- Multiply a one-digit whole number by a multiple of 10 or a multiple of 100 with procedural reliability
- Multiply two whole numbers and divide using related facts with procedural reliability
- Apply distributive property and properties of multiplication to solve problems
- Solve one- and two- step real-world problems
- Utilize understanding of multiplication and division to identify unknown numbers
- Identify equations as true or false based on the relationship between multiplication and division
- Determine if numbers 1 to 1,000 are even or odd
- Determine whether a whole number is a multiple of a given one-digit number
- Identify, create, and extend numerical patterns
- Represent and interpret fractions
- Read and write fractions
- Plot, order, and compare fractional numbers
- Identify equivalent fractions
- Collect, represent, and interpret numerical and categorical data
- Measure utilizing various units of measurement
- Solve real-word problems involving units of measurement
- Tell and write time to the nearest minute using analog and digital clocks
- Solve real-world problems involving elapsed time
- Describe and draw various types of lines
- Identify line types in two-dimensional figures
- Identify and draw quadrilaterals
- Draw lines of symmetry in two-dimensional figures
- Find area of rectangles
- Solve real-world problems involving perimeter and area
- Calculate real-world problems involving money
- Raise questions and conduct investigations about the natural world
- Recognize and explore the role of scientists
- Investigate and describe functions, behaviors, and structures of plants
- Classify animals into major groups
- Classify plants into major groups
- Describe how plants and animals respond to changing seasons
- Recognize how plants and animals use energy for survival
- Explore ecosystems and habitats
- Identify the basic forms of energy
- Investigate, observe and explain concepts of light and heat
- Measure and compare attributes of solids and liquids
- Describe the changes water undergoes when it changes states of matter
- Investigate the properties and functions of stars
- Recognize the features and identity of the sun
- Explore the Law of Gravity
- Explore systems in the human body
- Analyze primary and secondary sources
- Utilize maps, tables, charts, graphs, and photos to analyze geographic information
- Review map elements
- Label continents and oceans on world map
- Identify the purpose of maps
- Explore concepts, functions, and features of maps
- Label countries and commonwealths in North America
- Identify the five regions of the United States
- Label the states in each of the five regions of the United States
- Describe the physical features of North America
- Identify the landmarks in North America
- Describe the natural resources and climate of North America
- Investigate how people perceive places and regions differently from each other
- Identify and explore explorations of various populations and their cultures in North America
- List the characteristics of money
- Identify the currencies use in North America
- Recognize the concept of buying and selling goods and services
- Explain the purpose and need for government
- Explain the establishment of a government
- Identify the roles and responsibilities of citizens
- Identify the levels of government
- Describe the organization of local governments
- Recognize the purpose of the United States and state Constitution
- 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings
- Samuel
- King Saul
- King David
- King Solomon
- Holiness
- Confidence
- Self-Control
- Peace
- Word analysis skills to decode grade-appropriate words
- Read grade level texts with accuracy, automaticity, and appropriate expression
- Analyze how setting, events, conflicts, and characters contribute to the plot of a literary text
- Explain a stated or implied theme in a literary text
- Identify the narrator’s point of view in a literary text
- Explain how rhyme and structure create meaning in poetry
- Explain how text features contribute to meaning of a text
- Explain how relevant details support the central idea of a text
- Explain author’s perspective toward a topic of an informational text
- Explain author’s claim and evidence to support the claim
- Explain how figurative language contributes to meaning of a text
- Summarize a text to enhance comprehension
- Compare and contrast the same events using primary and secondary sources
- Learn and apply knowledge of Greek and Latin roots and affixes
- Determine the meaning of multiple meaning and unknown words
- Demonstrate cursive writing
- Write personal and fictional narratives
- Writing to make a claim
- Write expository texts
- Utilize the writing process
- Develop and give oral presentations
- Follow the rules of English grammar: subject-verb agreement, complete sentences, conjunctions, principal modals, appositives, clauses, verb tense, verbals, pronouns
- Conduct and present research
- Utilize digital writing tools
- Recall multiplication and division factors up to 12
- Add and subtract multi-digit numbers with decimals to the hundredths
- Multiply and divide multi-digit whole numbers
- Read and write numbers to 1,000,000 using standard form, word form, and expanded form
- Plot, order, and compare multi-digit numbers up to 1,000,000
- Plot, order, and compare decimals to the hundredths
- Round multi-digit numbers from 0 to 10,000
- Solve multi-step real world problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and fractions
- Demonstrate understanding of equality and operations with whole numbers
- Determine factor pairs for a whole number
- Recognize numerical patterns
- Measure attributes of objects
- Convert measurement units
- Solve two-step word problems involving money and time
- Draw, classify, and measure angles
- Calculate perimeter and area of rectangles
- Collect and represent numerical data
- Calculate the mode, median, or range of a data set
- Model and express fractions
- Identify and generate equivalent fractions
- Plot, order, and compare fractions
- Use decimals to represent fractions
- Decompose fractions
- Add, subtract, and multiply fractions
- Identify and draw perpendicular and parallel lines
- Explain symmetry and identify symmetric patterns
- Explain and identify characteristics and behaviors of plants and animals
- Research flowers in Florida
- Compare and contrast the major stages in life cycles
- Trace the flow of energy in the food chain
- Investigate basic forms of energy
- Investigate and explain sources of energy
- Investigate and explain speed and motion
- Identify the properties of the states of matter
- Investigate and describe magnets
- Recognize rotation and revolution of the earth
- Observe patterns of the moon and stars
- Investigate space research and impact on Florida economy and culture
- Identify the three categories of rocks
- Describe chemical and physical weathering processes
- Identify resources available in Florida
- Describe the physical properties of minerals
- Conduct and explore scientific investigations
- Develop timelines of Florida’s history
- Utilize primary and secondary sources related to Florida history
- Compare Native American tribes in Florida
- Investigate the exploration of Florida
- Investigate the development and early settlements of Florida
- Investigate the cause and effect of the Seminole War
- Describe pioneer life in Florida
- Investigate the growth, challenges, and economic development of Florida through the periods of American history
- Describe the contributions of immigrants and significant individuals on Florida's history
- Explore the contributions to Florida’s economy
- Explain florida’s impact on the national and international economy
- Investigate weather patterns and their impact in Florida
- Explore Biblical evaluations of events in Florida history
- Locate and identify physical and cultural features of Florida on a map
- Interpret physical and political maps
- Define and explain the Florida Constitution
- Explore the issues and responsibilities of being a Florida citizen
- Identify the three branches of Florida’s government
- Distinguish between state and local governments
- Identify the responsibilities of being a Christian citizen in society
- Explore careers and ways to earn income
- Explain the impact of buying goods and services
- Identify ways people save
- Explain and identify ways people use credit
- Explain financial investments and the risks associated with investments
- Major and Minor Prophets to the Northern and Southern Kingdoms
- Elijah
- Elisha
- Isaiah
- Jeremiah
- Friendliness
- Honesty
- Kindness
- Forgiveness
- Word analysis skills to decode grade-appropriate words
- Read grade level texts with accuracy, automaticity, and appropriate expression
- Analyze how setting, events, conflicts, and characters contribute to the plot of a literary text
- Understand the themes within a literary text
- Describe the development of characters in a literary work
- Identify the purpose of poetic elements in poetry
- Explain how text structures contribute to meaning of a text
- Explain how details support the main idea of a text
- Analyze author’s purpose of informational text
- Track the development of an argument in informational text
- Analyze how figurative language contributes to meaning of a text
- Summarize a text to enhance comprehension
- Compare and contrast informational text
- Learn and apply knowledge of Greek and Latin roots and affixes
- Determine the meaning of multiple meaning and unknown words
- Demonstrate cursive writing
- Write personal and fictional narratives
- Writing to make a claim
- Write expository texts
- Utilize the writing process
- Develop and give oral presentations
- Follow the rules of English grammar: verb tense, appositives, main & subordinate clauses, conjunctions, verbals, comparative and superlative adjectives, pronouns, varied sentence structures
- Conduct and present research
- Utilize digital writing tools
- Add and subtract multi-digit numbers with decimals to the thousandths
- Multiply and divide multi-digit whole numbers
- Read and write numbers to the thousandths using standard form, word form, and expanded form
- Compose and decompose multi-digit numbers with decimals to the thousandths
- Plot, order, and compare multi-digit numbers with decimals to the thousandths
- Round multi-digit numbers with decimals to the thousandths
- Multiply and divide fractions and decimals
- Add and subtract fractions and decimals
- Solve multi-step real world problems
- Understand equality, order of operations, and equivalent numerical expressions
- Analyze patterns and relationships between inputs and outputs
- Convert measurement unit to solve multi-step word problems
- Solve multi-step word problems involving money
- Identify and classify two-dimensional and three-dimensional figures
- Calculate perimeter and area of rectangles
- Calculate volume of right rectangular prisms
- Understand coordinate planes and plotting pairs
- Calculate the mean, mode, median, or range of a data set
- Identify organs in the human body
- Compare and contrast organs and structures of plants and animals
- Describe adaptations and survival methods of animals and plants
- Investigate basic forms of energy
- Investigate and explain electrical energy
- Investigate and explain force and motion
- Compare and contrast the properties of matter
- Explore the scientific theory of atoms
- Investigate chemical changes
- Recognize the features of a galaxy, planets, and the objects in our solar system
- Explain the water cycle and the factors contributing to weather patterns
- Conduct and explore scientific investigations
- Utilize timelines to discuss history
- Identify cultural aspects of ancient American civilizations and Native American tribes
- Investigate European explorers and their adventures
- Investigate colonial life in America
- Investigate the events associated with and the significance of the American Revolution
- Investigate the exploration of America and the Westward Expansion
- Explore Biblical evaluations of events in American history
- Locate and identify states, capitals, and territories of the United States
- Interpret historical and current maps
- Describe and identify the economic growth in America
- Define and explain the Constitution and its structure
- Describe the development, structure, and function of the U.S. government
- Identify the responsibilities of being a Christian citizen in society
- Study the Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John
- Jesus’ early life and ministry
- Jesus calls disciples
- Jesus’ teaching
- Jesus’ death and resurrection
- Orderliness
- Dependability
- Perseverance
- Initiative
- Analyze how the interaction between characters contributes to the development of the plot in a literary text
- Analyze the development of stated or implied themes throughout a literary text
- Explain the influence of multiple narrators and shifts of point of view in a literary work
- Describe the impact of various poetic forms on meaning and style
- Explain how text sections and features convey meaning in a text
- Analyze author's purpose in multiple accounts of the same topic or event
- Track the development of an argument and types of reasoning used
- Explain how figurative language contributes to tone and meaning in texts
- Paraphrase content from grade-level texts
- Compare and contrast how authors present information on the same topic
- Identify rhetorical appeals in a text
- Apply knowledge of Greek and Latin roots and affixes to determine meaning of grade-level words
- Determine the connotative and denotative meaning of grade-appropriate words
- Write personal and fictional narratives
- Writing and support a claim
- Write expository texts
- Utilize the writing process
- Give oral presentations
- Follow the rules of English grammar: verbals, comparative and superlative adjectives, pronouns, colons, dangling modifiers, ellipses, hyphens, and varied sentence structures
- Conduct and present research
- Utilize digital writing tools
- Define rational numbers
- Plot, order, and compare rational numbers
- Compare rational numbers on a number line
- Find the absolute value of rational numbers
- Solve mathematical and real-world problems involving absolute value
- Multiply and divide positive multi-digit numbers with decimals to the thousandths
- Compute product and quotients of positive fractions by positive fractions
- Solve multi-step real world problems involving any of the four operations with positive multi-digit decimals or fractions
- Find the greatest common factor and least common multiple of two whole numbers
- Evaluate positive rational numbers with natural number exponents
- Express composite whole numbers as a product of prime factors with natural number exponents
- Rewrite positive rational numbers in different but equivalent forms
- Add and subtract integers with procedural fluency
- Multiply and divide integers with procedural fluency
- Translate written descriptions into algebraic expressions and translate algebraic expressions into written descriptions
- Translate a real-world written description into algebraic inequality
- Evaluate algebraic expressions
- Generate equivalent algebraic expressions with integer coefficients
- Determine the values that make an equation or inequality true or false
- Write and solve one-step equations in one variable using addition and subtraction, where all terms and solutions are integers
- Write and solve one-step equations in one variable using multiplication and division, where all terms and solutions are integers
- Determine the unknown decimal or fraction in an equation
- Write and interpret ratios to show the relative sizes of two quantities using appropriate notation
- Determine a rate for a ratio of quantities with different units
- Generate and complete a two- or three- column table to display equivalent part-to-part ratios and part-to-part-to-whole ratios
- Apply ratio relationships to solve mathematical and real-world problems involving percentages
- Solve mathematical and real-world problems involving rates, ratios, and unit rates
- Plot rational number ordered pairs in all four quadrants and on both axes
- Find distances between ordered pairs
- Solve mathematical and real-world problems by plotting points on a coordinate plane
- Apply a formula to find the area of a triangle
- Solve mathematical and real-world problems involving the area of quadrilaterals and composite figures
- Solve mathematical and real-world problems involving the volume of right rectangular prisms
- Find the surface area of right rectangular prisms and pyramids
- Recognize and formulate a statistical question that would generate numerical data
- Find and interpret mean, median, mode, and range
- Given a box plot, determine the minimum, the lowest quartile, the median, the upper quartile, and the maximum
- Given a histogram or line plot, qualitatively describe and interpret the spread and distribution of data
- Create box plots and histograms to represent sets of numerical data
- Determine and describe how changes in data values impact measure of center and variation
- Describe and identify patterns in the hierarchical organization of organisms
- Investigate and explain the components of the scientific theory of cells
- Recognize and explore how cells of all organisms undergo similar processes to maintain homeostasis
- Compare and contrast the structure and function of major organelles of plant and animal cells
- Identify and investigate the general functions of the major systems of the human body and describe ways these systems interact with each other to maintain homeostasis
- Compare and contrast types of infectious agents that may infect the human body
- Analyze and describe how and why organisms are classified according to shared characteristics
- Explore the Law of Conservation of Energy by differentiating between potential and kinetic energy
- Measure and graph the distance versus time for an object moving at a constant speed
- Investigate and explore types of forces
- Explore the Law of Gravity
- Investigate and describe that an unbalanced force acting on an object changes its speed, or direction of motion, or both
- Describe and give examples of ways in which Earth's surface is built up and torn down by physical and chemical weathering, erosion, and deposition.
- Recognize that there are a variety of different landforms on Earth's surface and relate these landforms as they apply to Florida
- Differentiate among the three mechanisms by which heat is transferred through Earth's system
- Investigate and apply how the cycling of water between the atmosphere and hydrosphere has an effect on weather patterns and climate
- Describe how global patterns such as the jet stream and ocean currents influence local weather in measurable terms
- Differentiate and show interactions among the geosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere
- Explain how energy provided by the sun influences global patterns of atmospheric movement and the temperature differences between air, water, and land
- Differentiate between weather and climate
- Investigate how natural disasters affect human life
- Describe ways humans protect themselves from hazardous weather and sun exposure
- Describe how the composition and structure of the atmosphere protects life and insulates the planet
- Differentiate between experiments and scientific investigations
- Recognize and explain scientific theories
- Recognize and explain scientific laws
- Conduct scientific investigations and report results
- Identify scientists who have made contributions to scientific knowledge
- Identify democratic concepts developed in ancient Greece that served as a foundation for American constitutional democracy
- Identify how the government of the Roman Republic contributed to the development of democratic principles
- Identify principles from ancient Greek and Roman civilizations which are reflected in the American political process today, and discuss their effect on the American political process
- Identify the factors that increase economic growth
- Describe and identify traditional and command economies as they appear in different civilizations
- Describe the following economic concepts as they relate to early civilization: scarcity, opportunity cost, supply and demand, barter, trade, productive resources
- Evaluate how civilizations through clans, leaders, and family groups make economic decisions for that civilization providing a framework for future city-state or nation development
- Identify examples of mediums of exchange (currencies) used for trade (barter) for each civilization, and explain why international trade requires a system for a medium of exchange between trading both inside and among various regions
- Categorize products that were traded among civilizations, and give examples of barriers to trade of those products
- Describe traditional economies (Egypt, Greece, Rome, Kush) and elements of those economies that led to the rise of a merchant class and trading partners
- Describe the relationship among civilizations that engage in trade, including the benefits and drawbacks of voluntary trade.
- Use latitude and longitude coordinates to understand the relationship between people and places on the Earth
- Analyze the purposes of map projections (political, physical, special purpose) and explain the applications of various types of maps
- Identify natural wonders of the ancient world
- Utilize tools geographers use to study the world
- Use scale, cardinal, and intermediate directions, and estimation of distances between places on current and ancient maps of the world
- Use a map to identify major bodies of water of the world, and explain ways they have impacted the development of civilizations
- Use maps to identify characteristics and boundaries of ancient civilizations that have shaped the world today
- Explain how major physical characteristics, natural resources, climate, and absolute and relative locations have influenced settlement, interactions, and the economies of ancient civilizations of the world
- Differentiate between continents, regions, countries, and cities in order to understand the complexities of regions created by civilizations
- Analyze the relationship of physical geography to the development of ancient river valley civilizations
- Explain how the geographical location of ancient civilizations contributed to the culture and politics of those societies
- Interpret how geographic boundaries invite or limit interaction with other regions and cultures
- Explain the concept of cultural diffusion, and identify the influences of different ancient cultures on one another
- Interpret choropleths or dot-density maps to explain the distribution of population in the ancient world
- Explain how the physical landscape has affected the development of agriculture and industry in the ancient world
- Analyze the impact of human populations on the ancient world's ecosystems
- Explain how family and ethnic relationships influenced ancient cultures
- Use maps to trace significant migrations, and analyze their results
- Locate sites in Africa and Asia where archaeologists have found evidence of early human societies, and trace their migration patterns to other parts of the world
- Identify the methods used to compensate for the scarcity of resources in the ancient world
- Use geographic terms and tools to explain why ancient civilizations developed networks of highways, waterways, and other transportation linkages
- Use geographic tools and terms to analyze how famine, drought, and natural disasters plagued many ancient civilizations
- Describe the Six Essential Elements of Geography as the organizing framework for understanding the world and its people
- Compare maps of the world in ancient times with current political maps
- Identify terms (decade, century, epoch, era, millennium, BC/BCE, AD/CE) and designations of time periods
- Describe the roles of historians and recognize varying historical interpretations
- Describe how history transmits culture and heritage and provides models of human character
- Interpret and utilize primary and secondary sources
- Use timelines to identify chronological order of historical events
- Compare the lifestyles of hunter-gatherers with those of settlers of early agricultural communities
- Describe how the developments of agriculture and metallurgy related to settlement, population growth, and the emergence of civilization
- Identify the characteristics of civilization
- Compare the economic, political, social, and religious institutions of ancient river civilizations
- Summarize important achievements of Egyptian civilization
- Determine the contributions of key figures from ancient Egypt
- Summarize the important achievements of Mesopotamian civilization
- Determine the impact of key figures from ancient Mesopotamian civilizations
- Identify key figures and basic beliefs of the Israelites and determine how these beliefs compared with those of others in the geographic area
- Compare the emergence of advanced civilizations in Meso and South America with the four early river valley civilizations
- Analyze the cultural impact the ancient Phoenicians had on the Mediterranean world with regard to colonization (Carthage), exploration, maritime commerce (purple dye, tin), and written communication (alphabet)
- Compare life in Athens and Sparta
- Explain the causes and effects of the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars
- Summarize the important achievements and contributions of ancient Greek civilization
- Determine the impact of key figures from ancient Greece
- Summarize the key achievements, contributions, and figures associated with The Hellenistic Period
- Determine the impact of significant figures associated with ancient Rome
- Explain the impact of the Punic Wars on the development of the Roman Empire
- Explain the transition from Roman Republic to empire and Imperial Rome, and compare Roman life and culture under each one
- Explain the causes for the growth and longevity of the Roman Empire
- Identify key figures and the basic beliefs of early Christianity and how these beliefs impacted the Roman Empire
- Describe the key achievements and contributions of Roman civilization
- Explain the reasons for the gradual decline of the Western Roman Empire after the Pax Romana
- Compare life in the Roman Republic for patricians, plebeians, women, children, and slaves
- Explain the spread and influence of the Latin language on Western Civilization
- Describe the rise and fall of the ancient east African kingdoms of Kush and Axum and Christianity's development in Ethiopia
- Discuss the significance of Aryan and other tribal migrations on Indian civilization
- Recognize the political and cultural achievements of the Mauryan and Gupta empires
- Summarize the important achievements and contributions of ancient Indian civilization
- Describe the contributions of classical and post classical China
- Identify key figures from classical and post classical China
- Explain the significance of the silk roads and maritime routes across the Indian Ocean to the movement of goods and ideas among Asia, East Africa, and the Mediterranean Basin
- Explain the rise and expansion of the Mongol empire and its effects on peoples of Asia and Europe including the achievements of Ghengis and Kublai Khan
- Identify the causes and effects of Chinese isolation and the decision to limit foreign trade in the 15th century
- Study the Book of Acts
- Explore “Big Questions” about…
- God
- The universe
- Human beings
- Truth
- Morality
