Fisher/Sky Ranch SEARCH Syllabus
Grade 3-Life is a Highway
2014-2015
1st Quarter
Week 1
 Procedures/Procedures Game
 Decorate Name
 Getting to Know You Activity-Car Game
 Drills/Lockdown
 Tour School
Week 2
 Create classroom rules
 Multiple Intelligence Power Point
 MI Assessment
 Discuss Unit of Study
Week 3
 Research the Plains & Woodland Indians & their relocation to OK
 What is technology & engineering
 Tools and technology of the Native Americans
 Choose a story for storytelling
Week 4
 Story Map story
 Create a buffalo hide story
 Practice story with a partner
Week 5
 Practice story with a partner
 Make costume pieces & props
 Practice presentations in front of the class
 Give wishes and stars
Week 6
 Practice Story and Present to Class
2nd Quarter
Week 1
 Research cowboys & time period songs
 Research cowboys & time period songs
Week 2
 Practice Play and Storytelling
Week 3
 Practice Play and Storytelling
 Build a Solar Box
Week 4
 Western Heritage Festival
 Cowboy and Pioneer from the OK History Center
Week 5
 OK Land Run Song Analysis
Week 6 OERB Lessons
 Cruisin’ with Energy-Potential and Kinetic Energy
 Digging Deep-Formation of Oil
 Visit OERBHOMEROOM.com for a link to “biology4kids.com” and “Lab Time with
Leo: Muddy Microbes.”
Week 7
 Let’s Get Physical with Oil-Properties of Oil
 Write an I am poem about oil
 Seeping Stones-Porosity of Rocks
Week 8
 Weighty Problems-Construction of a Derrick
Week 7
 Design a Rocket From Every Day Materials
3rd Quarter
Week 1
 Well Site Safety
 OERB Poster Contest
 Research places on Route 66
Week 2
Week 2
 Give It a Lift-Oil Extraction
 Tower of Power-Refining of Crude Oil
Week 3
 OERB Petro Specialist or OK History Center Oil Man
Week 4
 Oklahomans in Space-Trunk for OK History Center
Week 5
 Design a Hover Craft
 Research Planets
Week 6
 Build a Straw Rocket
Week 8
 The History of Cars/Route 66
 How Cars Use Oil
4th Quarter
Week 1
 Research places on Route 66
Week 3
 Type research on Microsoft Office Word
Week 4
 Create a parade float
Week 5
 Present research and parade floats
Week 6
 Field Trip to OK History Museum and Pops
Literature/Language Arts
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Native American Research and Stories
Story Mapping Elements of Story
Oral Speaking Skills/Storytelling
Myths/Creation Stories
Journal writing
Oklahoma Academic Standards
Lang. Arts
 Reading Standards for Informational Text (all)
 Writing Standards (1-3)
 Speaking and Listening (all)
Math
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Math
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developing understanding of multiplication and division and
strategies for multiplication and division within 100;
developing understanding of the structure of rectangular
arrays and of area; and
describing and analyzing two-dimensional shapes.
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History
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PALS
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Content Standards 2, 3 & 4
Science
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Process Standards 1-4
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Physical Science Standard 1
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Earth and Space 1-3
Technology
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Science
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Using the Internet for Research
Typing on Microsoft Word
Graphing on Excel
Animoto
Rocket Design
Oklahoma Native Americans and Cowboys
The Land Run
Route 66
Rockets
Mapping
Fossils to Fuel I
-Potential & Kinetic Energy -Formation of Oil
-Properties of Oil
-Construction of a derrick
-Sound Waves
-Oil Refineries
Parade Float Design
Rockets
OAC-Movement
Life is a Highway
History
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Addition and subtraction
Graphing
Place value
Averaging
Measurement
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Resources
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OERB
The Oklahoma History Center-OK Cowboy and
Cowboy Trunk
The Oklahoma History Center Field Trip
Art/Music/Movement
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Art-buffalo hide story, Native American costume
design, poster design,
Music-The Land Run Song, cowboy songs, “Get Your
Kicks on Route 66”
Movement-Clapping rhythms, Storytelling movement