Grade/ Theme 1st Quarter 2nd Quarter 3rd Quarter Museum 101 Focus on collecting All About Me Family and friends Focus on Portraiture Me: Baby, Now, Adult Graphing traits Our Community Proud to Be An American Community helpers American symbols Leaders and rulers Our Country, It’s a at home and school Great Place Five senses American animals Counting and sorting How animals grow and change Needs and wants Scientific tools 1 Museum 101 Focus on display and conservation Everything Changes Living and nonliving things Observation Life Cycles Then and now Planting Seeds to Grow Good Citizens Adaptations Gardening Plant Needs Interdependence Reproduction 2 Museum 101 Focus on design and production Living in Colonial America Weather Colonial celebrations Grid systems What is a colony? How weather affects your life Common characteristics of Compare and present and past contrast communities Weather tools and Cultural how to measure characteristics of the weather colonial era Forces of nature K 4th Quarter Around the World Seven wonders of the world Continents Traveling tales Monuments Cultures Work Your Body! Human Body Body Systems Sensory exploration and observation Functional writing 3 Museum 101 Focus on content 4 Museum 101 Focus on interpretation and communication 5 Museum 101 Focus on audience Art, Science, and Culture of Ancient Egypt Archeologists Egyptian fairy tales and myths Text organization Art and culture in ancient Egypt La Florida Industry and agriculture Time lines Coastal and farming people in early Florida Resources and mapping of Native American areas Force and motion Timucua Seminole Natural Resources Out of This World How does light travel? Graphing and charting Summarizing Fact/Opinion Coming to America Immigration Ellis Island Primary and secondary sources Florida Exploration Florida explorers on the hunt for resources How early Florida Explorers shaped the story of our state Understand the influence of geography on the history of Florida Explorers faced many challenges Maps, charts, globes and other geographic tools Space Race in Florida Economic Growth in Florida African Americans Persuasive Writing Space program in Florida NASA May the Force of Energy Be With You Forms of energy Transfer of energy Force and motion Birth of a Nation Great Americans Establishing America Role of citizenry in American democracy Taxes How do great Revolutionary War American’s Heroes Patriots and Tories character and contributions influence our lives today? Research process Great Americans have influenced our society through their beliefs, values, and innovations