Barren County Schools Second Grade 2012 Update
Barren County Schools
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2 Grade Curriculum
2012 Update
Shari Alexander
District Curriculum Resource Teacher
Barren County Schools Second Grade Curriculum 2012 Update
Barren County Schools
Language Arts Curriculum
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READING STANDARDS FOR LITERATURE
Key Ideas and Details
1. Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
2. Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
3. Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
Craft and Structure
4. Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
5. Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
6. Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
7. Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
8. (Not applicable to literature)
9. Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g., Cinderella stories) by different authors or from different cultures.
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories and poetry, in the grades 2–3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed
at the high end of the range.
READING STANDARDS FOR INFORMATIONAL TEXT
Key Ideas and Details
1. Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
2. Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
3. Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text.
Craft and Structure
4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 2 topic or subject area.
5. Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text
efficiently.
6. Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
7. Explain how specific images (e.g., a diagram showing how a machine works) contribute to and clarify a text.
8. Describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text.
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9. Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic.
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
10. By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 2–3 text complexity band
proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
READING STANDARDS: FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS
Phonics and Word Recognition
3. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
a. Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words.
b. Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams.
c. Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long vowels.
d. Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes.
e. Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.
f. Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
Fluency
4. Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
a. Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
b. Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
c. Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.
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WRITING STANDARD
Text Types and Purposes
1. Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply reasons that support the opinion, use linking words (e.g.,
because, and, also) to connect opinion and reasons, and provide a concluding statement or section.
2. Write informative/explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section.
3. Write narratives in which they recount a well elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal
words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.
Production and Distribution of Writing
4. (Begins in grade 3)
5. With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing.
6. With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.
Research to Build and Present Knowledge
7. Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., read a number of books on a single topic to produce a report; record science observations).
8. Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
9. (Begins in grade 4)
Range of Writing
10. (Begins in grade 3)
SPEAKING AND LISTENING
Comprehension and Collaboration
1. Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
a. Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., gaining the floor in respectful ways, listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts
under discussion).
b. Build on others’ talk in conversations by linking their comments to the remarks of others.
c. Ask for clarification and further explanation as needed about the topics and texts under discussion.
2. Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
3. Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to clarify comprehension, gather additional information, or deepen understanding of a topic or issue.
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Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
4. Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences.
5. Create audio recordings of stories or poems; add drawings or other visual displays to stories or recounts of experiences when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts,
and feelings.
6. Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification. (See grade 2 Language standards 1 and 3 on
pages 26 and 27 for specific expectations.)
LANGUAGE
Conventions of Standard English
1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
a. Use collective nouns (e.g., group).
b. Form and use frequently occurring irregular plural nouns (e.g., feet, children, teeth, mice, fish).
c. Use reflexive pronouns (e.g., myself, ourselves).
d. Form and use the past tense of frequently occurring irregular verbs (e.g., sat, hid, told).
e. Use adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.
f. Produce, expand, and rearrange complete simple and compound sentences (e.g., The boy watched the movie; The little boy watched the movie; The action movie
was watched by the little boy).
2. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
a. Capitalize holidays, product names, and geographic names.
b. Use commas in greetings and closings of letters.
c. Use an apostrophe to form contractions and frequently occurring possessives.
d. Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).
e. Consult reference materials, including beginning dictionaries, as needed to check and correct spellings.
Knowledge of Language
3. Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
a. Compare formal and informal uses of English.
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
4. Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 2 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of
strategies.
a. Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
b. Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known prefix is added to a known word (e.g., happy/unhappy, tell/retell).
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c. Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root (e.g., addition, additional).
d. Use knowledge of the meaning of individual words to predict the meaning of compound words (e.g., birdhouse, lighthouse, housefly; bookshelf, notebook,
bookmark).
e. Use glossaries and beginning dictionaries, both print and digital, to determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases.
5. Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
a. Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., describe foods that are spicy or juicy).
b. Distinguish shades of meaning among closely related verbs (e.g., toss, throw, hurl) and closely related adjectives (e.g., thin, slender, skinny, scrawny).
6. Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using adjectives and adverbs to describe
(e.g., When other kids are happy that makes me happy).
*Penmanship/Handwriting
Print legibly, and space letters, words, and sentences so that another person can read writing easily.
*Legible penmanship, although not KCAS, is an expectation throughout elementary school.
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Mathematics Curriculum
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Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.
2.OA.1: Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one- and two-step word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart,
and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem. (Note:
See Glossary, Table 1.)
Add and subtract within 20.
2.OA.2: Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies. (Note: See standard 1.OA.6 for a list of mental strategies). By end of Grade 2, know from
memory all sums of two one-digit numbers.
Work with equal groups of objects to gain foundations for multiplication.
2.OA.3: Determine whether a group of objects (up to 20) has an odd or even number of members, e.g., by pairing objects or counting them by 2s; write an equation to
express an even number as a sum of two equal addends.
2.OA.4: Use addition to find the total number of objects arranged in rectangular arrays with up to 5 rows and up to 5 columns; write an equation to express the total as a
sum of equal addends.
Number and Operations in Base Ten
Understand place value.
2.NBT.1:
Understand that the three digits of a three-digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones; e.g., 706 equals 7 hundreds, 0 tens, and 6
ones. Understand the following as special cases:
a. 100 can be thought of as a bundle of ten tens — called a “hundred.”
b. The numbers 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900 refer to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine hundreds (and 0 tens and 0 ones).
2.NBT.2:
Count within 1000; skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s.
2.NBT.3:
Read and write numbers to 1000 using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form.
2.NBT.4:
Compare two three-digit numbers based on meanings of the hundreds, tens, and ones digits, using >, =, and < symbols to record the results of
comparisons.
Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract.
2.NBT.5:
Fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and
subtraction.
2.NBT.6:
Add up to four two-digit numbers using strategies based on place value and properties of operations.
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2.NBT.7:
Add and subtract within 1000, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the
relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method. Understand that in adding or subtracting three-digit numbers, one adds
or subtracts hundreds and hundreds, tens and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose or decompose tens or hundreds.
2.NBT.8:
Mentally add 10 or 100 to a given number 100–900, and mentally subtract 10 or 100 from a given number 100–900.
2.NBT.9:
Explain why addition and subtraction strategies work, using place value and the properties of operations. (Note: Explanations may be supported by
drawings or objects.)
Measurement and Data
Measure and estimate lengths in standard units.
2.MD.1: Measure the length of an object by selecting and using appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks, and measuring tapes.
2.MD.2: Measure the length of an object twice, using length units of different lengths for the two measurements; describe how the two measurements relate to the size
of the unit chosen.
2.MD.3: Estimate lengths using units of inches, feet, centimeters, and meters.
2.MD.4: Measure to determine how much longer one object is than another, expressing the length difference in terms of a standard length unit.
Relate addition and subtraction to length.
2.MD.5: Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve word problems involving lengths that are given in the same units, e.g., by using drawings (such as drawings of
rulers) and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
2.MD.6: Represent whole numbers as lengths from 0 on a number line diagram with equally spaced points corresponding to the numbers 0, 1, 2, ..., and represent
whole-number sums and differences within 100 on a number line diagram.
Work with time and money.
2.MD.7: Tell and write time from analog and digital clocks to the nearest five minutes, using a.m. and p.m.
2.MD.8: Solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, using $ and ¢ symbols appropriately. Example: If you have 2 dimes and 3
pennies, how many cents do you have?
Represent and interpret data.
2.MD.9: Generate measurement data by measuring lengths of several objects to the nearest whole unit, or by making repeated measurements of the same object.
Show the measurements by making a line plot, where the horizontal scale is marked off in whole-number units.
2.MD.10:
Draw a picture graph and a bar graph (with single-unit scale) to represent a data set with up to four categories. Solve simple put together, take-apart,
and compare problems using information presented in a bar graph. (Note: See Glossary, Table 1.)
Geometry
Reason with shapes and their attributes.
2.G.1: Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given number of equal faces. (Note: Sizes are compared
directly or visually, not compared by measuring.) Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.
2.G.2: Partition a rectangle into rows and columns of same-size squares and count to find the total number of them.
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2.G.3:
Partition circles and rectangles into two, three, or four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, thirds, half of, a third of, etc., and describe the
whole as two halves, three thirds, four fourths. Recognize that equal shares of identical wholes need not have the same shape.
Barren County Schools
Science Curriculum
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Science
Physical Science
Earth/Space Science
Life Science
Unifying Ideas
Tested at Grade 4
25%
25%
30%
25%
Life Science
Concept Objectives:
 Students will appreciate the unique cycles that characterize plant and animal life.
 Students will understand changing states of living and non-living systems.
 Students will understand that there are many types of cycles, and that cyclical changes are common to living systems.
 Students will recognize characteristics that are common to all individuals within a species.
 Students will understand the characteristics and structure of living things, the processes and cycles of life.
Life Cycles
1. The life cycles: birth, growth, reproduction, death
2. Reproduction in plants and animals
a. From seed to seed with a plant
b. From egg to egg with a chicken
c. From frog to frog
d. From butterfly to butterfly: metamorphosis (see below: Insects)
3. Interdependency of plants and animals
a. Food chains interact to form food webs
Insects
1. Insects can be helpful and harmful to people.
a. Helpful: pollination; products like honey, beeswax, and silk; eat
harmful insects
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b. Harmful: destroy crops, trees, wooden buildings, clothes; carry
disease; bite or sting
2. Distinguishing characteristics
a. Exoskeleton, chitin
b. Six legs and three body parts: head, thorax and abdomen
c. Most but not all insects have wings.
3. Life cycles: metamorphosis
a. Some insects look like miniature adults when born from eggs, they
molt to grow (examples: grasshopper, cricket).
b. Some insects go through distinct stages of egg, larva, pupa, adult
(examples: butterflies, ants).
c. Social insects
1) Most insects live solitary lives, but some are social (such as ants, honeybees, termites,
wasps)
2) Ants: colonies
3) Honeybees: workers, drones, queen
Introduction to Classification of Animals
1. Children should become familiar with examples of animals in each class and some basic
characteristics of each class, such as:
2. Fish: aquatic animals, breathe through gills, cold-blooded, most have scales, most develop from
eggs that the female lays outside her body
3. Amphibians: live part of their lives in water and part on land, have gills when young, later
develop lungs, cold-blooded, usually have moist skin
4. Reptiles: hatch from eggs, cold-blooded, have dry, thick, scaly skin
5. Birds: warm-blooded, most can fly, have feathers and wings, most build nests, hatch from their
own (though some, like baby chickens and quail, can search for food a few hours after hatching)
6. Mammals: warm-blooded, have hair on their bodies, parents care for their young, females
produce milk for their babies, breathe through lungs, most are terrestrial (live on land) though
some are aquatic
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Introduction to Classification of Plants
7. Plant structures to help plants meet their needs
8. Plant growth
9. Variation and crowding of plants
10. Plant survival in habitats
11. Defense structures of plants
Physical Science
Concept Objectives:
 Students will recognize that objects can be classified by physical properties.
 Students will recognize that there are forces in the world created by natural phenomenon that we can’t see but which nonetheless have a
real effect on objects that we can see.
 Students will understand that information can be gathered through observation and experimentation.
 Students will develop and understanding of qualities associated with energy, movement and change.
Magnetism
1. Magnetism demonstrates that there are forces we cannot see that act
upon objects.
2. Most magnets contain iron.
3. Lodestones: naturally occurring magnets
4. Magnetic poles: north-seeking and south-seeking poles
5. Law of magnetic attraction: unlike poles attract, like poles repel
6. The earth behaves as if it were a huge magnet: north and south magnetic poles (near, but not the same as,
geographic North Pole and South Pole)
7. Orienteering: use of a magnetized needle in a compass, which will always point to the north
Simple Machines
1. Simple machines
a. Lever
b. Pulley
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c. wheel-and-axle
1) Gears: wheels with teeth and notches
2) How gears work, and familiar uses (for example, in
bicycles)
d. inclined plane
e. wedge
f. screw
2. Friction and ways to reduce friction (lubricants, rollers, etc.)
Electricity
1. Simple circuit
2. Conductors and insulators
3. Open and closed circuits
Sound
1. Vibrations create sound waves
2. Volume and pitch
Light and Heat
1. Characteristics of light
2. Explain how shadows are made and determine why changes occur
3. Be able to explain how light travels
4. Movement of heat
Earth Science
Concept Objectives:
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Students will understand changing states of living and non-living systems.
Students will understand that there are many types of cycles, and that cyclical changes are common to living systems.
Cycles in Nature
1. The four seasons and earth’s surface is covered by water.
2. Seasons and life processes
a. Spring: sprouting, sap flow plants, mating and hatching
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b. Summer: growth
c. Fall: ripening, migration
d. Winter: plant, dormancy, animal hibernation
Planet Earth
1. Most of the earth’s surface is covered by water.
2. The water cycle
a. Evaporation and condensation
b. Water vapor in the air, humidity
c. Clouds: cirrus, cumulus, stratus
d. Precipitation, groundwater
3. Use and conservation of resources
4. Review properties of rocks and minerals
a. Changes in rocks
b. Soil formation
c. Weathering and erosion
d. Fossils
Astronomy: Introduction to the Solar System
1. Sun: source of energy, light, heat
2. Moon: phases of the moon (full, half, crescent, new)
3. The nine planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus,
Neptune, Pluto)
4. Stars
a. Constellations, Big Dipper
b. The sun is a star.
5. Earth and its place in the solar system
a. The earth moves around the sun; the sun does not move.
b. The earth evolves (spins); one revolution takes one day (24 hours).
c. Sunrise and sunset
d. When it is day where you are, it is night for people on the opposite
side of the earth
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Scientific Inquiry
Experimentation
1. Conduct experiments that differentiate between the three states
of matter and show effects of temperature change on states of
matter including how heat moves.
2. Construct simple machines
3. Conduct experiments to show how friction reduces rate of speed
4. Create and explain a simple circuit
5. Classify objects as insulators or conductors
6. Construct open and closed circuits
7. Conduct experiments using thermometer, rain gauge, and barometer.
Biographies
Concept Objectives:
 Students will understand that people of varied backgrounds have made contributions to science throughout history.
 Students will understand the relationship between science and human activity and how it can change the world.
 Students will understand major discoveries in science, some of their social and economic effects and the primary scientists and
inventors responsible for them.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Elijah McCoy
Florence Nightingale
Daniel Hale Williams
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Social Studies Curriculum
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Social Studies
Sub-domain
Government and Civics
Cultures and Societies
Economics
Geography
Historical Perspective
Grade 5
20%
10%
15%
20%
35%
Geography
Geography: Spatial Sense (working with maps, globes and other geographic tools)
Concept Objectives:
 Students will understand how to use and construct maps and geographic tools to locate and derive information
about people, places, and environment.
 Students will understand the various types of maps and their uses.
 Students will gain an understanding of how geographic tools and terms give people a sense of location in their
community and their world.
 Name your continent, country, state and community
 Understand that maps have keys or legends with symbols and their
uses
 Find directions on a map: east, west, north, south
 Identify major oceans: Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Indian
 Review the 7 continents
 Locate: Canada, United States, Mexico, Central America
 Locate: North and South Poles, Equator, Northern and Southern
Hemispheres
 Terms to know: peninsula, harbor, bay, island and coast, valley, prairie, desert, oasis
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Geography of America
Concept Objectives:
 Students will develop an awareness of place.
 Students will gain an appreciation for the physical differences that exist among the seven continents.
 Students will understand the political organization within the continents.
 Students will understand the characteristics and uses of maps, globes, and other geographic tools.
 North America, Canada, United States, Mexico
 Locate Frankfort, Lexington, Louisville, Bowling Green
 KY Regions: The Knobs and the Bluegrass Regions
 The United States
Fifty states: 48 contiguous states, plus Alaska and Hawaii
Territories
Mississippi River
Appalachian and Rocky Mountains
Great Lakes
 Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, West
Indies
 Central America
Historical Perspective and Culture and Society
Early Exploration and Settlement
The Voyage of Columbus in 1492
1.
2.
3.
4.
Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain
The Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria
Columbus’s mistaken identification of “Indies” and “Indians”
The idea of what was, for Europeans, a “New World”
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The Pilgrims
1.
2.
3.
The Mayflower
Plymouth Rock
Thanksgiving Day celebration
The War of 1812
Concept Objectives:
 Students will develop an awareness of chronology and understand how major events relate to one another.
 Students will gain an appreciation for people who have influenced our country’s history.
 Students will begin to gain an understanding of the causes and effect of the War of 1812.
Supporting Content:
 President James Madison and Dolly Madison
Westward Expansion
Concept Objectives:
 Students will develop an awareness of ways in which people depend on their physical environment, including natural
resources, to meet basic needs.
 Students will begin to understand the impact of transportation on the westward movement and how it changed American
lives.
 Students will begin to understand the U.S. territorial expansion and how it affected relations with Native Americans and
with external powers.
 Students will understand the changes in the West during the time of the Westward Expansion.
Supporting Content:
1600’s to War of 1812
 Review early exploration of the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains (Daniel Boone and the Wilderness Road, Louisiana
Purchase and its exploration by Lewis and Clark and Sacagawea from 1st grade) to show how the United States continued
to move westward in the 1800’s.
1800’s
 Pioneers Head West
 Robert Fulton, invention of Steamboat
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Erie Canal
The Transcontinental Railroad
Routes West: The Oregon Trail
The Pony Express
Native Americans
Concept Objectives:
 Students will develop a sense of empathy and see through the eyes of people in the past
Supporting Content:
 Sequoyah and the Cherokee alphabet
 Forced removal to reservations “Trail of Tears”
 Some displaced from their homes and ways of life by railroads (“the Iron Horse”)
 Effects of near extermination of buffalo on the Plains Indians
Civil War
Concept Objectives:
 Students will begin to understand how the values of European economic life took root in the colonies and how slavery
reshaped European and African life in the Americas.
 Students will begin to understand the causes and effects of the Civil War.
 Students will begin to understand how democratic values and American political ideals came to be and how they have been
exemplified by people.
 Students will begin to understand the course and character of the Civil War, its major figures and its effects on the
American people.
Supporting Content:
 Controversy over slavery
 Harriet Tubman and the “Underground Railroad”
 Northern v. Southern States: Yankees and Rebels
 Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield and founder of American Red Cross
 President Abraham Lincoln held the Union together
 Emancipation Proclamation and the end of Slavery
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Government and Civics
Concept Objectives:
 Students will begin to understand how democratic values and American political ideals came to be and how they are
exemplified by people, events, and symbols.
 Student will begin to understand ideas about civic life, politics, and government.
 Students will begin to understand political institutions and theories that have developed and changed over time as
well as basic tenets of the U.S. Constitution.
 Students will begin to understand the central ideas of the American constitutional government and how this form of
government shaped the character of American society.
 Students will begin to understand the concept of a constitution, including the balance of powers, the definition of
rights and responsibilities, and the use of the constitution as the basis of law.
 Students will begin to understand the impact of the American Revolution of politics, economics, and society.
American Government: The Constitution
A. American government is based on the Constitution, the highest law of the land
B. British impressments of American sailors
C. Old Ironsides
D. British burn the White House
E. Fort McHenry, Francis Scott Key, and “The Star-Spangled Banner”
F. Battle of New Orleans, Andrew Jackson’
(4) Effect of near extermination of buffalo on Plains Indians
Immigration and Citizenship
Concept Objectives:
 Students will develop a sense of empathy and see through the eyes of immigrants who came to America.
 Students will begin to understand the massive immigration of the late 1800s and early 1900s, and how new social patterns, conflicts and
ideas of national unity developed amid growing cultural diversity.
 Students will understand the folklore and other cultural contributions of various populations in the United States and how they helped to
form a national heritage.
 Students will understand the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
 Students will understand the ides of the “American Dream” and the “U.S. as a melting pot”.
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Supporting Content:
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
G.
F.
G.
H.
America perceived as the “land of the opportunity”
The American Dream and The Great Melting Pot
The meaning of “e pluribus Unum” (a national motto you can see on the back of coins)
Ellis Island and the significance of the Statue of Liberty
Many immigrants came to Kentucky from other countries
Millions of newcomers to America
a. Large populations of immigrants settle in major cities (such as New York, Chicago,
b. Philadelphia, Detroit, Cleveland, Boston, San Francisco)
The idea of citizenship
What it means to be a citizen of a nation
American citizens have certain rights and responsibilities (for example, voting, eligible to hold office, paying taxes)
Becoming an American citizen (by birth, naturalization)
Civil Rights
Concept Objectives:
 Students will begin to understand how a variety of individuals worked to improve life and promote equality and justice in the United States.
 Students will begin to understand the struggle for racial and gender equality and for the extension of civil liberties.
 Students will understand that the ideas that people profess affect their behavior and understand the connection between ideas and actions,
between ideology and policy, and between policy and practice.
 Students will understand the long struggle by women, African-Americans and other minorities for inclusion in society.
 Students will understand the application of the principle from the Declaration of Independence: All men are created equal.
Supporting Content:
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Susan B. Anthony and the right to vote
Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights and human rights
Mary McLeod Bethune and educational opportunity
Kentucky Whitney Moore Young, Jr.
Jackie Robinson and the integration of major league baseball
Rosa Parks and the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the dream of equal rights for all.
Cesar Chavez and the rights of migrant workers
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Symbols and Figures
A. Recognize and become familiar with the significance of
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U.S. flag: current and earlier versions
Statue of Liberty
Lincoln Memorial
James and Dolly Madison
Andrew Jackson
State song: My Old Kentucky Home
Daniel Boone (review)
Lewis and Clark (review)
Sacagawea (review)
Early Civilizations: China, and Greece
Concept Objectives:
 Students will develop a respect for a variety of cultures
 Students will begin to understand how geography affected early civilizations
 Students will begin to understand the major contributions of these early civilizations
 Students will begin to understand the cultural and religious influences of Ancient China, India and Greece.
 Students will begin to understand the major characteristics of Chinese Civilization.
 Students will begin to understand the political, social, cultural, religious, and economic influences on Ancient China,
India and Greece.
 Students will begin to understand the complex nature of a given culture: its history, government, economy,
geography, literature, religion and art and compare it to our modern day American culture.
Geography of Asia
(1) The largest continent, with the most populous countries in the world
(2) Locate: China, India, Japan
China
(1) Yellow (Huang He) and Yangtze (Chang Jiang) Rivers
(2) Teaching of Confucius (for example, honor your ancestors
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Great Wall of China
Invention of paper
Importance of silk
Chinese New Year
Ancient Greece
A. Geography: Mediterranean Sea and Aegean Sea, Crete
B. Sparta
C. Athens as a city-state: the beginnings of democracy
D. Persian Wars: Marathon and Thermopylae
E. Olympic games
F. Worship of gods and goddesses
G. Great thinkers: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
H. Alexander the Great
Modern Civilization and Culture: Japan
 The location of Japan relative to continental Asia (Pacific Ocean and Sea of Japan)
 Japan: “land of the rising sun”
 Japan as an island nation; four major islands; Mount Fuji, Tokyo and the Japanese flag
 Modern cities as sites of industry and business
 Example of a traditional craft: origami
 Example of traditional clothing: the kimono
 Modern Japan is a major industrial country that is firmly rooted in tradition.
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Economics
(Suggested materials to use: Econ and Me)
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Review economics terms from K and 1.
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Explain the differences between: wants and needs as well as goods and services.
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Master that scarcity requires people to make choices about using goods and services.
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Master that consumers use goods and services to satisfy economic wants and needs.
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Introduce resources (all things and effort used in the production of goods and services) and master what natural
resources are, decision-making (making a choice), wages (the price you are paid for working), opportunity cost (what
you give up to get something else), income (payment for any resource), and profit (the money that is left after all
expenses are paid).
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Introduce that we have limited resources to satisfy wants.
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Know that markets exist when buyers and sellers exchange goods and services.
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Recognize the different roles of workers in economic systems.
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Practical Living Curriculum
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Practical Living Curriculum
Practical Living Sub Domain
Health/PE
Assessed at Grade 4
75%
Consumerism/Vocational
25%
HEALTH
Substance Abuse
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Distinguish between beneficial and harmful drugs
Explain the physical and behavioral effects of commonly used drugs
Recognize the importance of making wise choices about drugs
Describe the effects of chemical dependency on the family
Nutrition Education
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Explain that the 6 basic food groups make up the food pyramid
Reconstruct the food pyramid
Physical Health and Wellness
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List health habits that prevent disease
Introduce cells
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o All living things are made up of cells
o Cells make up tissues
o Tissues make up organs
o Organs work in systems
Explore what happens to the food we eat by studying body parts and functions involved in taking in food and getting rid of waste. Become
familiar with the following:
o Salivary glands, taste buds
o Teeth: incisors, bicuspids, molars
o Esophagus, stomach, liver, small intestine, large intestine
o Kidneys, urine, bladder, urethra, anus, appendix
Introduce the food pyramid
Introduce vitamins and minerals
Personal Health and Safety
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Demonstrate the appropriate procedures for following school rules
Demonstrate appropriate school safety procedures during tornado, earthquake, and fire drills
Demonstrate the appropriate use of safety equipment
Demonstrate appropriate procedures in dealing with strangers
Demonstrate various emergency procedures
Demonstrate techniques for dealing with anger control
Demonstrate various techniques/strategies for dealing with stressful situations
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There are fundamental motor skills for enhancing physical development
o Identify and perform all 7 basic locomotor skills
o Distinguish between locomotor and non-locomotor skills
o Perform simple movement sequence containing locomotor and non-locomotor skills by adding directions, levels and pathways
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
AH-(CREATING A DANCE)
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Students create movement patterns using locomotor and non-locomotor movements
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There are fundamental manipulative skills
o Refinement of striking
o Refinement of throwing
o Refinement of catching
o Refinement of kicking
o Refinement of dribbling
o Refinement of volleying
o Refinement of shooting
o Identifies major teaching cues associated with manipulative skills
o Self-assessment of student’s abilities to perform each skill
There are fundamental movement concepts
o Exploration of body awareness
o Exploration of space awareness including self and general space
o Exploration of time such as how slow or fast the body is moving
o Combines body awareness, space awareness, and time to movement through the activity area
Physical and social benefits result from regular and appropriate participation in physical activities throughout one’s lifetime
o Introduction to the benefits of regular exercise
o Demonstrate ability to check heart rate on signal
o Introduction to the concepts of frequency, intensity, time and type
o Introduction to the circulatory system and how exercise affects it
Frequent practice contributes to improved performance
o Introduction to benefits of appropriate practice
Basic rules for participating in simple games and activities are needed to make games fair
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Students demonstrate the ability to follow simple rules while participating in
game play
o Students design rules for creative games
Rules of behavior and sportsmanship for spectators and participants during games and/or activities make them safe and enjoyable
o Students demonstrate good sportsmanship during various physical activities
o Students provide examples of good and bad sportsmanship
AH-E- (PERFORMING A DANCE)
Students will begin to dance with a partner and will begin to work on square dancing skills
AH-E- (RESPONDING TO DANCE)
Students will begin to talk about the element of space (shape, level, and
direction) in dance.
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Students will begin to notice the similarities of dance movements to everyday movements (e.g., brushing hair, tying shoes, walking)
Students will learn the ceremonial purposes of dance (celebration and hunting)
CONSUMERISM
Most of this will be in the social studies section under the sub domain of economics. Please refer to that as you teach this sub domain.
 Recognize that in families, people’s basic needs are met
VOCATIONAL STUDIES
Individual and Family Relationships
 Understand and begin to apply the concepts of rights/responsibilities, cooperation, sources of authority, values, choices, decision
making and cooperation/conflict resolution
 Explain the role of a citizen
 Compare rules and laws
 Recognize that in families, people’s basic needs are met
 Discuss positive ways to express feelings
 Discuss examples of negative and positive peer pressure
Choosing and Preparing for a Career
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Discuss why people need to work
Know that male and female roles are changing in many occupations
Know that there are different job opportunities in the home, school and community
Choosing and Preparing for a Career
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Introduce that a person may hold several different jobs before deciding on a career
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Introduce that knowing what you like to do and have the ability to do is helpful when choosing a career
Community Resources and Services
 Identify community agencies/resources and determine their services
 Recognize that certain community agencies provide health and safety services
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Arts and Humanities
Curriculum
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Coming Soon…Drama, Dance and Art until then
use POS
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Music
I.
Elements of Music – Through participation in creating and performing activities, become familiar with basic music elements
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Rhythm – Recognize strong and weak beats, duple meter and corresponding meter signatures
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Melody – Identify home/resting tone
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Melody – Perform melodies using the pentatonic scale
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Harmony – Distinguish between the melody and the accompaniment
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Tempo – Distinguish between gradual changes in tempo, getting faster/getting slower
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Dynamics – Use the symbols and Italian terms for loud (forte - f) and soft (piano - p)
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Form – Recognize verse/chorus or verse/refrain form
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Music Notation – Understand that music is written down in a special way and through participation, begin to read music using
the following:
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Rhythm – Recognize and perform half notes, half rests, and tied notes
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Melody – Recognize the treble clef, line, and space
Listening and Understanding
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Timbre
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Recognize members of the brass family by sight and by sound
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Recognize the piano and organ as keyboard instruments and listen to a variety of piano and organ music
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Distinguish between adult male and female voices
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Composer – Explore the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven
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Style – Listen to and understand the role of patriotic music
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