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SEMESTER 1
Second Unit Six Third Unit Six Fourth Unit Six
Weeks
Weeks
Weeks
Observing with
Day and Night
Rocks and Soils
My Senses
Sky
SKP1
SKE2
SKE1
SEMESTER 2
Fifth Unit Six
Weeks
How Things
Move
Living/Nonliving
Animal Babies
SKP2
SKP3
SKL1
SKL2
SKL1
SKL2
Constructing a
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Zoo Cage
Second Semester
PBL Question: What is the most efficient and
economical packaging material for a fragile item?
ED Brief: Students will formulate the most efficient
and economical packing device with materials to
carry a bird's egg.
Connections: How Things Move; Living and
Nonliving; Transportation of Objects
Roller Coaster
Build
Lego We Do Kits
Endangered Bees in
Savannah
Coding and
Math sorting
UPS- 1-800-Flowers
SEMESTER 2
Third Unit
Three Weeks
Fourth Unit
Three Weeks
Light
Sound
Magnets
S1E1
S1E2
S1P1
S1P1
S1P2
Seventh Unit
Six Weeks
Animals and
Animal Needs
S1L1
S1L1
STEM
Light
Challenge:
Sources/ Do
Why do Clouds Wind
Rain Powered Puff Mobile Design Musical
ChallengeSTEM Magent Race
STEM
Challenge
Plant BarrierZoo
Design
STEM
Challenge
Design Challenges
We Need
Sounds and
Light to See?
Pitch
3D printer cars
SEMESTER 2
Third Unit
Three Weeks
Fourth Unit
Three Weeks
Matter
Energy
Motion
Changes in
Surroundings
S2P1
S2P2
S2P3
S2E2, S2E1
S2E3
S2L1
Solar Energy
Cooking STEM
Bartholomew and the Ooblek STEM
Marble
challenge
Track STEM
LunarDesign
Landing
Challenge
STEM
Beat the
Design
Flood
Challenge
EIE Hand Pollinator
Design
Challenge
Second Semester
PBL Question: How do we prevent flooding of
structural objects in low lying areas?
ED Brief: Students will create a model colony that
will prevent flooding and re-route waters to areas in
need of this resource.
Connections: Creek and Cherokee Indians, Changes
in Surroundings, Real-World, Global connection to
flooding in India and need for water in remote areas.
Students build a
Create a hand
topographical map pollinator that can
to replicate the
be transported with
parking lot that
2 plants
floods.
Partner with
kindergarten
S3P1(ad)
SEMESTER 2
Habitats
S3L2
S3L2(a, b)
S3L1
S3L1 (a-d)
Fourth Unit
Four Weeks
Fossils
Magnets
S3E1
S4E1
(a-c)
S3P2
S3P2(a,b)
Second Semester
PBL Question: How can erosion be prevented in
order to decrease flooding, damage to
freshwater, and marine habitats?
ED Brief: Students will create design model to
prevent erosion.
Connections: rocks, soil, plants, habitats, and clean
water
Tellus Museum to
Use consumable EIE
see models of fossils kits
Create fossils with
the 3D printer
SEMESTER 2
S4L1
S4E3
S4L1 (a-d)
S4E4
S4L2
S4E4 (a-d)
S4L2(a, b)
S4E1
(a-d)
S4E1 S4P2
S4P2
S4P3
S4E2
(a, b)
S4P1
S4P3 (a-d)
S4E2 (a-d)
S4P1 (a-c)
SS4CS (1-8)
Tornado-Proof Building
Cleaning and OilNASA's
Spill / A
Lunar
SlickExploration
Simple
SolutionMusical
Missions
Create
Instruments
& Improve a Catapult
Second Semester
PBL Question: How can we preserve our natural
resources by creating everyday objects made of
plastic?
ED Brief: Design a musical instrument using a 3-D
printer.
Connections: Simple Musical Instruments, Light and
Sound
STEM PACING
2015-16
Classification
Cells and
Microorganisms
S5L1a
S5L1b
3D Plant
Protype
Diagrams **
S5L3 (a-c)
(a, b)
S5L4
SEMESTER 2
Third Unit Six Fourth Unit Six
Weeks
Weeks
Genetics and
Heredity
S5L2a
S5L2b
Physical &
Chemical
Changes
S5P1 (a-c)
S5P3 (a, b)
Second Semester
**Students will complete 3D plant prototypes to include
the four plant parts and labels in technology lab using 3D
printerand then build the 3D model using a design
challenge brief created byteacher based on listing
challenge, criteria, and materials.
STEM PACING
CDC handsanitizer
The Forest of
France
Living on the
Cliff- CNN
2015-16
Hidden Alarm
Parachute multiple
Design Squad Nation structures into
remote areas.
Storm Cellars- mock
for homes
Tent on cliffs- work
with textile dept at
Ga Tech to develop
dome tents