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Monday
Spiral Review (10 min)
Text Study (20 minutes)
Independent/Collaborative
Activity (30 minutes)
Students answer three SCI/SS questions a day from present and previous units; test on Friday
SS: 4-3.1 Explain the major political and economic factors leading to the
American Revolution, including the French and Indian War, the Stamp Act, the Tea Act, and the Intolerable Acts as well as American resistance to these acts through boycotts, petitions, and congresses.
Read the first half of lesson one to whole-class (up to the Tea
Act) Begin completing a cause-effect chart.
SCI: 4-5.1: Summarize the basic properties of light (including brightness and colors).
Read the text together, whole-class. Write the meaning of the underlined words in the margins of the text.
Tuesday
Spiral Review (10 min)
Text Study (20 minutes)
Independent/Collaborative
Activity (30 minutes)
Students answer three SCI/SS questions a day from present and previous units; test on Friday
SCI: 4-5.1: Summarize the basic properties of light (including brightness and colors).
Read Lesson 1 – use available resources (SMART Board activities, video clips, powerpoints) and refer back to text as much as possible.
SS: 4-3.1 Explain the major political and economic factors leading to the
American Revolution, including the French and Indian War, the Stamp Act, the Tea Act, and the Intolerable Acts as well as American resistance to these acts through boycotts, petitions, and congresses.
Go over yesterday’s cause/effect chart; use video or powerpoint support as available.
Wednesday
Spiral Review (10 min)
Text Study (20 minutes)
Independent/Collaborative
Activity (30 minutes)
Students answer three SCI/SS questions a day from present and previous units; test on Friday
SS: 4-3.1 Explain the major political and economic factors leading to the
American Revolution, including the French and Indian War, the Stamp Act, the Tea Act, and the Intolerable Acts as well as American resistance to these acts through boycotts, petitions, and congresses.
Read the second half of the text; finish cause/effect chart.
SCI: 4-5.1: Summarize the basic properties of light (including brightness and colors).
4-5.2 Illustrate the fact that light, as a form of energy, is made up of many different colors.
4-5.3 Summarize how light travels and explain what happens when it strikes an object (including reflection, refraction, and absorption).
Read Lesson Two (Colors of Light) and Lesson Three
(Reflection, Refraction, Absorption) texts together, whole class. Take notes in the margins of the text and highlight important parts.
Thursday
Spiral Review (10 min)
Text Study (20 minutes)
Students answer three SCI/SS questions a day from present and previous units; test on Friday
SCI: 4-5.1: Summarize the basic properties of light (including brightness and colors).
4-5.2 Illustrate the fact that light, as a form of energy, is made up of many

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Independent/Collaborative
Activity (30 minutes)
different colors.
4-5.3 Summarize how light travels and explain what happens when it strikes an object (including reflection, refraction, and absorption).
TSW generalize major points about the way light travels and to construct a cause-and-effect model of what happens when light strikes various objects. Interpret diagrams of light traveling and of light striking different objects; compare light striking different objects as to the behaviors of reflection, refraction, and absorption.
(Use Light powerpoint, Refracted Light video segment)
SS: 4-3.1 Explain the major political and economic factors leading to the
American Revolution, including the French and Indian War, the Stamp Act, the Tea Act, and the Intolerable Acts as well as American resistance to these acts through boycotts, petitions, and congresses.
Assign partners one of the words from the chart at the bottom of Lesson One – give them five minutes to re-read about it in notes and prepare to teach the class what they learned about that topic.
Friday
Spiral Review (10 min)
Text Study (20 minutes)
Independent/Collaborative
Activity (30 minutes)
SPIRAL REVIEW QUIZ
SS: 4-3.2: Explain the significance of major ideas and philosophies of government reflected in the Declaration of Independence.
Read the text together, whole-class.
SCI: 4-5.1: Summarize the basic properties of light (including brightness and colors).
4-5.2 Illustrate the fact that light, as a form of energy, is made up of many different colors.
4-5.3 Summarize how light travels and explain what happens when it strikes an object (including reflection, refraction, and absorption).
TSW generalize major points about the way light travels and to construct a cause-and-effect model of what happens when light strikes various objects. Interpret diagrams of light traveling and of light striking different objects; compare light striking different objects as to the behaviors of reflection, refraction, and absorption.
(Use Light powerpoint, Refracted Light video segment)