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CONTENTS Introduction About Higher-Order Tinking (HO) Skills

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en ips for ackl ackling ing ough asks

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What’s Inside?

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How to Use Tis Book

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Behaviorall Verb Definiti Behaviora Definitions ons

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Activities Week 1

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Week 16

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Week 2

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Week 17

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Week 3

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Week 18

95

Week 4

25

Week 19

100

Week 5

30

Week 20

105

Week 6

35

Week 21

110

Week 7

40

Week 22

115

Week 8

45

Week 23

120

Week 9

50

Week 24

125

Week 10

55

Week 25

130

Week 11

60

Week 26

135

Week 12

65

Week 27

140

Week 13

70

Week 28

145

Week 14

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Week 29

150

Week 15

80

Week 30

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Answer Key

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About Higher-Order Thinking Skills Educators report that their curricula are lacking in materials that help students learn to think t hink critically. his book provides practice applying higher-order thinking skills in language arts, math, science, and social studies contexts.

What are higher-order thinking skills? hey are not the skills�such as alphabetizing or calculating a perimeter�used in specific academic subjects. Rather, they are skills used across all curriculum areas and in non-academic situations, the skills for making use of information. In this book, higher-order higher-order thinking think ing skills skil ls are represented by by behavioral verbs. Each page focuses on one behavioral verb, which is defi ned at the top of the page. Each behavioral verb is emphasized in the directions di rections so students become aware of when and how they are using the thinking skill.

Why is it important to practice higher-order thinking skills? Educators may debate which is the most important curriculum area or skill in school, but some some things thi ngs are widely accepted by educators and brain-based researchers alike: • Students need well-devel well-developed oped thin thinking king skil skills ls to be successful in the t he classroom, on assessments, assessments, and in i n the real rea l world. world. • Students can learn to thin think k better if they’r they’ree taught how to do so. • Critical thin thinking king skil skills ls are more important than ever in today’ today’ss competitive, rapidly changing, technolo technology-based gy-based environment. Young children naturally natural ly use thinking thin king skills. sk ills. hey  hey learn autonomy autonomy through exploration, exploration, observe their environment using logic and reasoning, try new things, t hings, and think t hink creatively c reatively.. As children grow and enter an academic setting, some of their natural curiosity and problem-so prob lem-solving lving instincts inst incts are not engaged engaged as often of ten as they could be. While all thinking skills are important, students generally get ample practice with recall, recognition, identification, and comprehension. comprehension. herefore, herefore, this book focuses on think th inking ing skills that are more challenging to incorporate. hese include analyzing, predicting, modeling, composing, organizing, evaluating options, designing, critiquing, and problem-solving. People with strong critical thinking skills can accomplish a great deal, whether or not they have background knowledge in a topic. Critical thinkers t hinkers know k now how how to acquire new knowledge and how to approach problem-solving. hey also know how to persevere and use productive struggle to find an answer.

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Ten Tips for Tackling Tough Tasks Student: Choose the tip that will help you the most for each activity. hese activities are not supposed to be things you’ve already learned how to do in class. hese activities let you exercise your brain in new ways. Most of the activities don’t have just one right answer, so don’t worry. Just answer in a way that makes sense to you. 1

Unpack the task: Read the activity once to see what it’s about. hen reread it very carefully. Ask yourself: What am I being asked to do? Solve a problem? Complete a puzzle? Write a story? Explain my thinking? Describe something? hen look at the information given.

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Put yourself in the situation: Spend a few minutes imagining that you are in the situation described. How does it feel? Why is it important? Is this situation like one you have been in before?

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Look for details: If an activity has a picture or a map, look at it closely. Look at everything, figure out what people are doing, and read any words. hink about which details might be the most important for what you have to do.

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Think about what you already know: You already know a lot! If you’re not sure how to begin, think about the topic or the objects you see on the page. hink about when you’ve seen or used something. hink about when you learned or talked about something.

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Think about what the activity is like: Sometimes when you learn to do one thing, you can do the same thing in a similar situation. Ask yourself: Have I done something like this before?

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Share ideas: If you can work with a partner or a group, talk about your ideas or where you are getting stuck. Sometimes different people have different parts of the answer. When you tell what you know, you can all succeed.

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Use trial and error: If you can’t get started, write down anything. hen compare it to what the activity asks for. Does it make sense or follow the activity’s directions? If not, why not? hen start to change your answer, little by little, so it does follow the directions.

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Work backward: Sometimes it makes sense to start at the end. Figure out where you want to end up. hen think about what your problem looks like just before that. What needs to happen to get from there to the end?

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Check your answers as you go: After you write or draw your answer, reread the question you are answering or the directions you are following. Does your response answer the question? Does it make sense? Does it follow the rules given? Does it solve the problem? If not, figure out what part could be better and fix it.

10 Keep trying: Sometimes it takes a while for a new idea to come. Don’t give up if you can’t do

an activity right away. When you figure it out, you’ll feel great!

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What’s Inside? e e 1

30 Weeks of Challenges!

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Curriculum-Area Contexts Each full-page activity gives students an opportunity to practice a higher-order thinking skill in the context of a different curriculum area. he curriculum area changes each day, rotating between language arts, math, science, and social studies, and sometimes combining them with art or logic. Engaging formats include:

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dodo b ird, years ago e x t inc t 500

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• creative writing • picture comparisons

I deserv ed a bet ter gr ade in social st udies. It isn’t fair !

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W hat if , inst ead of point ing out w hy t he g r ade w as f a ir , Linda had used t ions she mig ht hav he Socr at ic M et h e ask ed. od?

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• “what if” questions A behavioral verb representing a higher-order thinking skill is defined at the top of the page and highlighted in the directions. opic information is often provided on the page so that the student can go past recall and comprehension to focus on using the given higher-order thinking skill.

Of cour se it ’s f a ir. Y ou didn’t study , and y our pr o ject w as late.

Week 30

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• wordplay

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Socr ates, a philo soph for dev eloping a met er and t eacher of ancient Gr eece, is hod of t eaching giv en cr edit the Socr at ic Meth thr ough ask ing qu od. Her e ar e just estions, oft en called a few examples Socrates might of t he k inds of quest hav e ask ed: ions • How can y ou pr ov e or dispr ov e that st atement? • Can y ou giv e me an ex ample? • W hat is anot her w ay t o look at it ? • How does t hat r elate t o w hat w e alr eady k now ? T he Socrat ic Met hod Suppose Danilo and can be a helpful tool w hen people d Linda w er e hav isagree. ing an ar gument .

• logic and visual puzzles • spatial brainteasers

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Behavioral Verb Definitions he chart on pages 8 and 9 lists the definition of each behavioral verb in the book. You may wish to reproduce these pages and distribute them to your students.

Answer Key he answer key provides a sample response for each day’s activities. You are likely to see other valid answers, as most of the items have multiple solutions or are open-ended. Evaluate students’ responses based on your own expectations and on what content your students have encountered. Accept any reasonable response. he answer key begins on page 160.

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How to Use This Book 1. Reproduce and distribute the en ips for ackling ough asks on page 5. You may wish to introduce the tips all at once or as needed, depending on your students’ needs and age. When you introduce each activity page, point out any tip(s) that you think might be particularly useful for your students on that particular task. 2. Reproduce the activities for each f ive-day week or distribute a student book to

each student. he activities are organized to become more challenging as the school year progresses. 3. Introduce the daily activity to the whole class, reading the definition provided

and relating it to any recent work done in class. 4. Review the directions and any information given to ensure students know what

to do. Students may work with a partner or in a small group, but the activities do not require collaboration. 5. Many activities have multiple solutions or are open-ended. Allow sufficient time

for sharing responses and discussing problem-solving approaches. Modeling a variety of ideas and strategies offers valuable learning benefits and encourages peer respect and cooperation.

Teaching Tips • Preview the page yourself before assigning it to the class. Most pages do not rely on specific prior academic knowledge, but you may wish to connect the activity to a prior classroom experience or lesson. • Remind students that there are usually several ways to complete the activities, so they should not worry about finding “the right answer.” • Students may take some time to figure out how to start; productive struggle is often part of the higher-order thinking process. If they are getting frustrated and the en ips aren’t helping, peek at the answer key for an example of a solution and guide students with leading questions. • ake the opportunity to call to students’ attention any behavioral verbs used in other academic lessons to reinforce students’ understanding and awareness of when they are using these skills.


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Behavioral Verb Definitions

analyze: to look at closely for patterns and relationships

conjecture: to make a guess using incomplete information

describe: to tell the features of something or someone

apply: to use what you know in a new way

connect: to relate ideas to your life and to each other

design: to plan how something will look

assess: to figure out whether something is correct associate: to think of similar things as being related brainstorm: to think of ways to solve a problem or gather ideas categorize: to name a group compare: to find and describe similarities or differences complete: to make something whole compose: to write creatively conclude: to decide using facts, data, and inferences

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construct: to build by putting parts together

determine: to figure out using facts or what you observe

convert: to change the form of something

devise: to create a method to do something

create: to make something new

diagram: to show information in a drawing

critique: to tell what is good and bad about something

dramatize: to act out

decide: to choose after thinking

elaborate: to tell more about something evaluate: to judge carefully

deduce: to use facts and reason to figure something out

examine: to look at closely

defend: to support an opinion

exemplify: to be a good example of something

derive: to obtain by reasoning

experiment: to try doing things to see their effect


Behavioral Verb Definitions

explain: to give good reasons for your thoughts

interpret: to decide what something means

express: to write thoughts or feelings in a particular way

invent: to create for the first time

extend: to make longer extrapolate: to use data to estimate beyond the range of the data figure out: to find an answer formulate: to produce by thinking carefully

illustrate: to represent in a picture imagine: to see an idea or picture in your mind infer: to figure out using observation and experience

solve: to find a solution to a problem

model: to represent something that is happening

sort: to put things into groups by characteristics

order: to list things in a certain way

strategize: to make a plan to achieve a goal

organize: to arrange and order information to make it useful

suggest: to tell an idea

paraphrase: to restate in your own words

generate: to produce hypothesize: to make a good guess based on reasons

represent: to show in a drawing or a graph or with a symbol

plan: to find a good way to do something

theorize: to have an idea why or how something happens visualize: to imagine how something will look

predict: to tell what will probably happen prioritize: to figure out what is most important propose: to suggest an idea or a solution rank: to put in order by value


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Hidden Places

Week 1 DAY 1


The name of a place is hidden in each of the following sentences. Examine each sentence. Look for a type of place. Underline it and write it on the line. The first one has been done for you as an example. 1. Martin’s arms and legs will be aching after swimming all day.

beach

2. Now there is far more land for growing things. 3. You can buy the best oregano for your pizza here. 4. A snake the color of topaz oozed through the grass. 5. Before stopping for the night, we found a place to camp. 6. All of a sudden, a huge alligator swam past us. 7. A big cypress tree toppled over and landed in the road.

Now create six hidden places of your own. Circle the hidden places. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.

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Language Arts


May I Take Your Order? determine: to figure out using facts or what you observe

Week 1 DAY 2

Read the text. Markus started working at a fast food restaurant. He earned $1.00 for every order he filled. However, if he got any orders wrong, $0.45 was taken out of his earnings for each order he filled incorrectly. For example, if he filled five orders and one was incorrect, he would get paid $4.55 instead of $5.00. . .

Answer the questions to determine how well Markus did. 1. Markus filled 11 orders in his first hour. He earned $9.65. How many orders did he fill correctly and incorrectly?

correctly

incorrectly

2. Markus filled 15 orders in his second hour. He earned at least $13.00. What is the fewest amount of orders he would have had to have filled correctly to earn that much?

orders 3. Markus was happy with his first day at work. He filled 120 orders, and he made between $110.00 and $115.00. What is the maximum amount of money he could have made?


Math

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A Little Bit Softer Now

Week 1 DAY 3

rank: to put in order by value

Read the definitions of two characteristics of sound. pitch: how high or low a sound is volume: how loud or quiet a sound is

Think about the sound each animal below makes. Rank the animals’ sounds in order from highest pitch (1) to lowest pitch (7). Then rank the animals in order from loudest volume (1) to quietest (7). pitch

volume

1. lamb 2. dog 3. gorilla 4. lion 5. mouse 6. frog 7. elephant 8. Name a different animal whose pitch is higher than a dog’s. 9. Name a different animal whose volume is quieter than a mouse’s. 10. Which characteristic of sound seems to relate more to the animal’s size?

Describe the relationship.

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Science


Odd One Out categorize: to name a group

Week 1 DAY 4

Each of these groups of things has one item that does not quite fit. Categorize three of the items in each set. Cross out the one that doesn’t belong and explain why. 1. river, stream, ocean, pond

2. president, monarch, emperor, king

3. T-shirt, toga, toboggan, tiara

4. wood, apple, paper, silk

5. equator, prime meridian, Tropic of Capricorn, Arctic Circle

6. Africa, Morocco, Austria, India

7. canal, peak, trench, valley

8. loan, interest, investment, budget

9. flag, map, law, totem pole


Social Studies

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Crash! Boom! Bang!

Week 1 DAY 5

illustrate: to represent in a picture

Crash! Boom! Bang! are examples of onomatopoeia , words that imitate sounds. There are many such words in the English language. Some represent sounds made by animals, such as moo or meow. Others, like the words in the title of this page, represent sounds made by people or things. Illustrate each onomatopoeia word below with an action that would make the sound represented by the word. 1.

2.

roar 3.

splash 4.

rat-a-tat

f lap f lap

Look at these pictures and imagine what sounds you might hear. Write an onomatopoeia word for each. 5.

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Language Arts/Art


In Other Words. . .

Week 2 DAY 1


Read each familiar saying, or proverb, and mark with an X the sentence that is closest to the same meaning. 1. A stitch in time saves nine. Sewing your own clothing can help you save time and money. Taking care of small problems promptly helps prevent larger problems. Something that is fun to do once may be less fun if you do it nine times. 2. Don’t count your chickens before they hatch. Don’t make plans based on what you think is going to happen. Don’t count on other people to do things for you that you can do yourself. Don’t be careless with things that break easily.

Paraphrase this proverb. Then answer the item. 3. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

4. Is the proverb in item 3 above more similar in meaning to item 1 or 2? Explain.


Language Arts

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Mirrored Sums

Week 2 DAY 2


Ekaterina wrote two interesting addition problems. Read the problems. Then complete the items. 1. Examine Problems A and B below. Which one do you think has the greater sum? Explain.

2. Check your guess. Solve the problems and compare the sums.

Problem A

Problem B

987,654,321

123,456,789

087,654,321

123,456,780

007,654,321

123,456,700

000,654,321

123,456,000

000,054,321

123,450,000

000,004,321

123,400,000

000,000,321

123,000,000

000,000,021

120,000,000

+ 000,000,001

+ 100,000,000

What did you find out? 3. Examine the numbers again. Why do you think you got the results you did?

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Math


Caught in a Food Web diagram: to show information in a drawing

Week 2 DAY 3

Read the text. Diagram a food web using the bold words. Write the name of the plant or animal. Then draw an arrow from the living thing that is eaten to the thing or things that eat it. In an African ecosystem, grass is food for three animals: the ant, the impala, and the zebra. The zebra is also food for three animals: the hyena, lion, and cheetah. The aardvark eats ants, and the aardvark is eaten only by the hyena. The lion and the hyena both eat the impala.


Science

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The Five W’s

Week 2


DAY 4

The Five W’s are five basic questions we ask to get information: Who? What? When? Where? Why? Read and analyze the facts about Hannibal, a warrior who lived more than 2,200 years ago, to decide which basic “W” questions each statement answers. Write Who, What, When, Where, or Why after each statement. Each statement answers at least two of these questions. Facts About Hannibal 1. Hannibal was born in Carthage in North Africa in 247 BCE.

2. In 219 BCE, Hannibal led the Carthaginian army in an attack on the city of Saguntum.

3. Saguntum was an ally of Rome, so the attack led to war between Rome and Carthage.

4. The following year, Hannibal led a huge army of soldiers and 37 elephants across the high Alps mountain range into Italy.

5. Elephants could scare, charge, and trample the enemy, which made them powerful weapons of war.

6. The Romans won the Battle of Zama in 202 BCE by blowing trumpets to scare Hannibal’s elephants into trampling his own troops.

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Social Studies


Putting Down Roots

Week 2 DAY 5

associate: to think of similar things as being related

Read the information and associate the clues with words you know. Add letters to complete each word or words. Many words in English have roots from Latin and other ancient languages. The root “soc” comes from Latin. The Latin word socius means “companion,” and socialis means “living with others.”

1. a subject you study in school

soc

2. to get together with friends

soc

3. unfriendly

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4. an organization 5. Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat

s z soc soc

soc

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6. Think of three more words or phrases with the same “soc” root. Write a paragraph that uses all three words or phrases.

7. What do all these words have in common?


Social Studies/Language Arts

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When Sparky Barked

Week 3 DAY 1


The sentences below describe an event, but they are not in the correct sequence. Order the sentences correctly by numbering them from 1 to 12 so that the story makes sense. Then write a f inal sentence to complete the story. They were paying no attention at all to Sparky. “I don’t know,” I said, “but I’ll find out.” It started out as a quiet evening. I quickly saw what was upsetting our dog. “Oh, wow!” my sister said. “Chickens!” Suddenly, our dog Sparky began to bark furiously. I hurried outside and headed for the noise. After I stopped laughing, I called my family to come out and see. Our neighbor finally heard the commotion and came to take her chickens back home. There was a huge flock of chickens strutting about on our lawn! “What’s wrong with Sparky?” my sister asked. Sparky, however, bounced one step backward with every “woof”!

final sentence:

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Language Arts


Dots and Drops

Week 3 DAY 2


Deidre loves to paint. But all of her works feature only dots and drops. Not only that, but every picture Deidre paints has a 2:3 ratio of dots to drops. Apply Deidre’s ratio to make two more paintings that Deidre might make with dots and drops. Show a different number of shapes in each one. The shapes do not have to be the same size, but there should be a 2:3 ratio of dots to drops in each picture.

1. number of dots

number of dots

number of drops

number of drops

2. One of Deidre’s paintings has 60 shapes in all. How many shapes are dots? How many are drops? Use pictures or words to show how you know. dots

drops


Math

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As the World Turns

Week 3 DAY 3

assess: to figure out whether something is correct

Sergei drew a model of Earth’s path around the sun and the seasons that result. Examine the model and assess it. Circle any parts that are incorrect and describe what is wrong below. winter in the north, summer in the south

summer in the north, winter in the south

fall in the north, spring in the south

spring in the north, fall in the south

Describe any parts that are incorrect and explain how they should look or what they should say.

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Science


Chain of Events organize: to arrange and order information to make it useful

Week 3 DAY 4

A cause is a reason that something happens. The effect is what happens as a result. However, that effect may then cause something else to happen, and so on, creating a chain of causes and effects. Read the list of events and organize them into a paragraph that describes a chain of causes and effects. You may use the sentences as they are or add transition words or phrases such as because, so, or as a result if you wish. • Crops grew abundantly. • Trade developed and grew. • Not everyone had to farm. • The river flooded every spring. • There was more than enough food for all. • The civilization flourished. • The floods deposited rich soil. • Some people became craftsmen and merchants.


Social Studies

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Your Medallion

Week 3 DAY 5


Read the text. The medallion is an ancient art form, going back to the time of the Romans. Originally, they were round pieces of metal onto which the face of a ruler or other honored person was hand-cast. Now they can represent a concept with symbols or just be a nice piece of art. A drawing like this might be a design for a medallion representing the topic HISTORY.

HISTORY

Design your own medallion to illustrate a topic that is important to you. Choose any topic you like and write the topic in the circle below. Then add symbols that represent that topic for you.

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Social Studies/Art


Alliteration All Around generate: to produce

Week 4 DAY 1

Read the text. Then generate your own phrases using alliteration. Writing phrases and sentences using words that begin with the same letter is called alliteration. Here is an example: “a magical moon in the mist.” Writers may use alliteration in poems, songs, or descriptive writing because the repetition of sounds is pleasing to the ear. Alliteration can also be used for humor, as in tongue twisters, or to make slogans more memorable. As you generate your own phrases, try to use at least three words in each phrase that begin with the same letter. 1. Write a phrase that might be part of a poem or descriptive paragraph.

2. Write an advertising slogan that would be easy to remember.

3. Write a phrase or sentence that could be part of a silly song.

4. Write a tongue twister.

5. Write a whole sentence of four or more words in which every word begins with the same letter.


Language Arts

25

Homework Helper

Week 4 DAY 2

propose: to suggest an idea or a solution

Imagine that you volunteer at an after-school homework club. Some students need help comparing fractions. Read their problems and propose a strategy that will let the students find the solutions as easily as possible. 1. Compare

2 9

and

7 8

5 12

and

7 18 .

. Which is greater?

strategy:

solution: 2. Compare

Which is greater?

strategy:

solution: 3. Did you use the same strategy to solve both problems? Explain why or why not.

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Math


Bumper Plates

Week 4 DAY 3

predict: to tell what will probably happen

Read the text and look at the globes. We may feel like we are on solid ground most of the time, but the land we live on rests on tectonic plates on Earth’s crust. These plates move extremely slowly. Geologists theorize that every 500 million years or so, all of the land masses come together in one giant supercontinent called Pangaea. After roughly 50 million years, it starts to break up again into separate continents. Geologists predict that, 50 million years from now, Africa will move north, the Mediterranean Sea will continue to close up, North and South America will move away from Africa and Europe, and the Atlantic will widen.

Predict how Earth will look in 50 million years and draw it below. Pangaea, 500 million years ago

Earth today

Earth in 50 million years


Science

27

Rock the Cradle

Week 4 DAY 4


Read the text. Then interpret the phrase to answer the questions. The area of Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in the Middle East, is sometimes described with the metaphor “the cradle of civilization.” Until about 6,000 years ago, the region included what are now Syria, Turkey, Iraq, and Egypt. Other geographical areas have also been given the label “the cradle of civilization.” They include China, Mexico, and Peru.

a newborn baby’s cradle

1. What two things does the phrase “cradle of civilization” compare?

2. What is a baby’s cradle used for?

3. How does “cradle of civilization” suggest what happened in Mesopotamia, China, Mexico, and Peru? Describe what you think happened in these places.

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Social Studies


Picture This

Week 4 DAY 5


Design a fun way to write math terms so that the words act like pictures that show the meaning of the words. Come up with your own math words, or use the ideas below: perpendicular lines

right angle

exponent

intersecting lines

acute angle

fraction

equilateral triangle

obtuse angle

decimal

isosceles triangle

perimeter

percent

scalene triangle

area

equation

quadrilateral

volume

coordinates

L E L A L R P A S E N I L

Design at least six terms. Have fun!


Math/Art

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An Odd Little House

Week 5 DAY 1

illustrate: to represent in a picture

Read the paragraph. Then make a sketch or drawing to illustrate the text. It was an odd little house, set all by itself in a clearing deep in the forest. The roof came to a point and sloped down on both sides almost all the way to the ground. A large flower that looked like a daisy or a sunflower was painted on the front door. The top of the door was rounded. Directly above it, and below the peak of the roof, was a single small round window. A row of four tall, narrow windows flanked the door, two on each side. “I wonder who lives here,” Charlotte whispered. “Do you suppose it’s some kind of wizard? Or maybe a troll or a gnome?” “Probably not,” I replied, even though there did seem to be something rather magical about the place.

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Language Arts


Wild Bunch

Week 5

determine: to figure out using facts or what you observe

DAY 2

Some giraffes, elephants, zebras, and lions live in a wildlife sanctuary. Read the clues and determine how many animals of each type there are.

Clues: • One-half of the animals are giraffes. • One-fourth of the animals are elephants. • One-eighth of the animals are zebras. • The rest of the animals are lions. • There are 6 lions.

1.

total number of animals giraffes

elephants

zebras

lions

2. Suppose the sanctuary received 6 more giraffes and 6 more zebras. What would the total number of animals be?

What fractions would describe the number of animals in the wildlife sanctuary then?


Math

31

Inside a Cell

Week 5 DAY 3


Read the text. The blanks are words that are scrambled in the word box. Using the text as clues, unscramble the words, write them on the lines, then use them to diagram a plant cell. Plant cells are a lot like human cells, but there are some differences that prevent us from being green and leafy! Plant cells are surrounded by a which is a nonliving layer. Inside the cell, there is a stores water. There are also

, , which

, which contain a substance

that combines with carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight to allow plants to make their own food. This substance is energy in the

. The food is turned into usable . In the center of the nucleus, the production of

proteins is overseen by the

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Science

, which acts like a factory foreman.

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achllooprsst

acdhiimnoort

cellnosuu

acelouv

chhllloopry


The Hanging Gardens visualize: to imagine how something will look

Week 5 DAY 4

Read the text and visualize the place it describes. Then draw a picture or a diagram to represent the scene that you have visualized. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were built between the 8th and 6th centuries BCE. Today, nothing remains of them except descriptions that have been handed down through the centuries. The gardens were an artificial mountain with arched terraces of different levels supported by columns. Plants grew over the edges of the terraces, making the gardens appear to hang in mid-air. In the first century BCE, the Greek geographer and historian Strabo wrote this description: “It consists of vaulted terraces raised one above another, and resting upon cube-shaped pillars. These are hollow and filled with earth to allow trees of the largest size to be planted.”

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon


Social Studies

33

’Round and ’Round

Week 5 DAY 5

deduce: to use facts and reason to figure something out

Use the clues to help you deduce the names of the children riding the Ferris wheel. Write each child’s name on the correct line. 1. 2. 5 3. 6

4 4. 5. 6.

3

7

7. 8. 8

2 1

Clues: • The wheel turns counter-clockwise. • Micah is on the bottom. • When Ethan is at the bottom, Carlos will be on top. • James got on right after Leila did. • Tuva got on right after Carlos did. • When Sofia is at the bottom, Naomi will be on top. • Sofia is between James and Carlos.

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Math/Logic


Caught Where?

Week 6 DAY 1


Think about what the expression “caught between a rock and a hard place” means. Analyze it by completing the items below. 1. What does the saying compare?

2. How are these things the same?

3. What does the saying mean?

4. Give an example of being “caught between a rock and a hard place.” Describe what happened.

5. What would be the opposite of being “caught between a rock and a hard place”?

6. Create your own saying that conveys the opposite meaning of being “caught between a rock and a hard place.”


Language Arts

35

Factor Search

Week 6 DAY 2


6

Read the text. Reshma is investigating factors. She wants to see if she can find numbers that have exactly one factor, two factors, three factors, and so on. For example, she knows that the number 6 has four factors: 1, 2, 3, and 6.

2 3

Help Reshma identify numbers less than 100 that exemplify the descriptions below. Write the numbers on the lines. 1. one number that has exactly 1 factor two numbers that have exactly 2 factors three numbers that have exactly 3 factors four numbers that have exactly 4 factors two numbers that have exactly 5 factors six numbers that have exactly 6 factors

2. What do you notice about the numbers that have exactly 2 factors?


4. What is the greatest number of factors a two-digit number can have? Find a number that exemplifies that description. Write its factors:

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Math


Materials at Work compare: to find and describe similarities or differences

Week 6 DAY 3

Read the text and complete the items. a good conductor: a material whose electrons flow freely, carrying electrical current to other materials

examples: copper, aluminum, gold, silver, sodium a good insulator: a material whose electrons are not free to interact easily with other materials

examples: glass, air, plastic, rubber, wood

1. Compare the examples of conductors. What do the good conductors have in common?

2. Compare the examples of insulators. What do the good insulators have in common?

3. Analyze and compare these objects. Circle the object that is probably the best conductor.

Explain your choice. 4. If you were camping and found a frog and wanted to keep it warm, which of these could you put it in? Why?


Science

37

Words in Disguise

Week 6


DAY 4

Anagrams are words that are made by arranging the letters of another word. For example, stream is an anagram of master . Experiment with the letters in the words below to find anagrams that name landforms and bodies of water. 1. rested 2. canoe 3. same 4. softer 5. dealt 6. harms 7. horse 8. lies 9. tacos 10. artist

Now think of five more landform or water anagram pairs of your own and write them on the lines below. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

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Social Studies


Zeus at Olympia

Week 6

brainstorm: to think of ways to solve a problem or gather ideas

DAY 5

Read the text and brainstorm ideas for a story. The Statue of Zeus in the Temple of Zeus at Olympia was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. It was sculpted about 2,500 years ago and was destroyed in an earthquake over 1,500 years ago. The statue was 40 feet tall. How tall are you? Imagine how huge that statue was! One critic said the proportions were wrong. The statue shows Zeus seated, with his head almost touching the ceiling of the huge temple. If Zeus were to stand up, he would lift the roof right off the temple! 1. Pretend you are going to write a piece of fiction about the statue of Zeus at Olympia. You can choose any genre: historical fiction, action adventure, comedy, mystery, or science fiction. Which genre would you choose?

2. My story will be about . 3. The setting is

.

4. Describe the main character.

5. What is the main conflict?



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What I Like About You

Week 7 DAY 1

evaluate: to judge carefully

List the four people you admire the most. They may be family members, other people you know, or famous people. Evaluate their qualities by completing the item.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. What quality do all or most of the people you admire the most have?

Now write some qualities that make each of the people you admire unique. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Which qualities above do you wish you had. Why?

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Language Arts


Catch That Thief! explain: to give good reasons for your thoughts

Week 7 DAY 2

Oh, no! Quick Nick the Number Thief stole some number cards from three first-grade classrooms. All of the cards were taken from hundred charts. Help find Nick and the stolen goods by figuring out how many number cards were taken from each room. Read the clues and answer the questions. Room A Nick took all the numbers that were multiples of 5. 1. How many cards did he take? Room B Nick took all the numbers that were multiples of 3. 2. How many cards did he take? Room C Nick took all the numbers that were multiples of 3 and all the numbers that were multiples of 5. 3. How many cards did he take? 4. The school was impressed with your work and wants to know how you figured out the answers. Use numbers or words to explain how you found each solution.


Math

41

Shake, Rattle, and Roll

Week 7


DAY 3

Look at the map. It shows earthquakes in California in a single day. Interpret the map, key, and data to complete the items. Map Key Magnitude:

1234 Age (within the past ...) :

hour day week The most recent earthquakes:

4.1

24 km E of San Jose 1:53 p.m.

2.8 2 km E of The Geysers 12:26 p.m. 1.8 27 km SSW of Rio Dell 10:46 a.m. 2.0 12 km ESE of Boonville 11:03 a.m. 3.6 8 km NW of Julian 6:39 a.m.

1. Which city was the largest earthquake closest to? 2. What was its magnitude? 3. What time did it happen? 4. Circle the region that received the fewest earthquakes this week. northern

central

southern

5. How many earthquakes happened on this day? 6. How many magnitude 3 earthquakes happened this week?

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Science


Words of Wisdom paraphrase: to restate in your own words

Week 7 DAY 4

Read the text and quotation from a historical figure. Then paraphrase the quotation.

Confucius was a Chinese philosopher, sage, and teacher who lived 2,500 years ago. He was considered so wise that people still remember and repeat his sayings. Here is one of them:

“Study the past if you would define the future.” 1. Paraphrase the quotation.

George Santayana was born in Spain in 1863 and moved to the United States as a young boy. He became a famous philosopher, poet, and novelist. This famous statement of his is often quoted:

“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” 2. Paraphrase the quotation.

3. How are these two quotations alike?


Social Studies

43

Off the Scale

Week 7


DAY 5

Read the text. Then complete the items. Magda wants to make a scale model of the solar system. This means that the model would represent the relative distances of each planet from the sun and from each other. She found the distances listed in astronomical units, or AU. One AU is the distance from Earth to the sun (150,000,000 kilometers).

Average Distance of Planets from the Sun in AU: Mercury: 0.4

Jupiter: 5.2

Venus: 0.7

Saturn: 9.5

Earth: 1

Uranus: 19

Mars: 1.5

Neptune: 30

1. If Magda uses 1 cm to represent 1 AU, her model would have to be at least 2. Using the same scale, Magda would put Jupiter

away from Earth.

3. Using the same scale, Magda would put Uranus

away from Saturn.

4. Neptune is

wide.

times farther away from the sun than Mars is.

5. How far away from the sun is Venus in kilometers? 6. Why do you think astronomers use AU to talk about distances in the solar system?

7. Mercury is 4,880 km across. Jupiter is 139,822 km across. The sun is 1,391,016 km across. Is it possible for Magda to represent the scale of the planet and sun sizes on her 30 cm model? Explain your answer.

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Science/Math


Words Are Birds analyze: to look at closely for patterns and relationships

Week 8 DAY 1

Read the text. Then analyze each metaphor, answer the questions, and think of a different metaphor that makes a similar comparison. A metaphor compares two things by saying that one thing is the other. The things being compared are different from each other but do have something in common. For example, if you call someone an early bird, you are comparing two different things, a person and a bird. What they have in common is being up and about early in the morning. 1. The hot desert wind was a blowtorch, searing our skin. What two things are being compared? How are they alike? The hot desert wind was

.

2. The small pond is a diamond shining in the sunlight. What two things are being compared? How are they alike? The small pond is

.

3. I get ready for school quickly, but my brother is a snail. What two things are being compared? How are they alike? I get ready for school quickly, but my brother is


.

Language Arts

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Number Grids

Week 8 DAY 2


Fill in the number grids. In each box, write a number that exemplifies the headings in both the box’s row and column. For example, 7 is an odd number that is less than 10. You may use a number more than once in a grid. Parts of the first grid have been filled in to help get you started. For the last grid, write your own headings and fill in the boxes.

1.

less multiple than 10 of 3 odd number

7

greater than 5

8

factor of 60

2.

odd number

factor of 81

prime number

9

two-digit number

factor of 24

3.

greater than 12

factor of 36

greater than 8

multiple of 4

factor of 100

4.

even number multiple of 5 less than 20

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Math


Exquisite Equines

Week 8

compare: to find and describe similarities or differences

DAY 3

Read the description of zebras and horses and look at the pictures. Then fill in the Venn diagram to compare each animal’s traits. Horses are tall, majestic creatures standing on four hooved feet with long, flowing manes. They are tame, swift, and agile but delicate. Zebras, on the other hand, are shorter and stockier hooved animals with bold black and white stripes and spiked manes. They are sturdy but not easy to tame.

Venn diagram both


Science

47

Early Explorers

Week 8 DAY 4


Read the text and evaluate Py theas’s accomplishments as you complete the items. What do you suppose it was like to be an explorer in ancient times, without the modern equipment we have now and without the knowledge that we’ve gained over the centuries? Pytheas was a famous Greek geographer and explorer. About 2,300 years ago, he set sail on the Mediterranean Sea from the south coast of what is now France. He sailed into the Atlantic Ocean, north through the Irish Sea, and into the North Sea. He came to a land he called Thule, which is believed to be the country that we call Norway today. When Pytheas arrived home, he reported that he had been told that there was a land even farther north than Thule where the sea was solid and the sun never set in the summer. People thought it was a tall tale and made fun of Pytheas for believing it. 1. Name three personal traits or qualities that you think Pytheas and other ancient explorers must have had.

2. Why did you choose these three traits?

3. Do you think Pytheas’s report about the land north of Thule was a tall tale? Why or why not?

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Social Studies


A Dog’s Home

Week 8 DAY 5

visualize: to imagine how something will look

Read the paragraph from The Call of the Wild, published in 1903. It is about a dog named Buck. As you read, visualize Buck’s surroundings. Then draw the two views of the place where he lived. Buck lived at a big house in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley. Judge Miller’s place, it was called. It stood back from the road, half hidden among the trees, through which glimpses could be caught of the wide cool veranda that ran around its four sides. The house was approached by gravelled driveways which wound about through wide-spreading lawns and under the interlacing boughs of tall poplars. At the rear things were on even a more spacious scale than at the front. There were great stables, where a dozen grooms and boys held forth, rows of vine-clad servants’ cottages, an endless and orderly array of outhouses . . .

front

back


Language Arts/Art

49

On the Bus

Week 9 DAY 1


Your class is going on a field trip. You will be riding on a bus for two hours each way. You can choose one of four magazines to read on the bus ride. Read the descriptions below, make a choice, and explain why you chose that magazine.

Gym, Field & Court T o m o r r o w ’ s

Magazine descriptions Pop Culture magazine contains articles about bands, music artists, movies, actors, and television shows.

Gym, Field & Court magazine contains articles about current developments in a variety of sports and includes features about sports teams and athletes.

Hither and Yon magazine contains articles about places to visit around the world. Some have majestic mountains, glaciers, waterfalls, ancient wonders, beaches, lakes, volcanoes, and bustling cities.

Tomorrow’s Science magazine contains articles about new scientific discoveries and inventions in technology, space, health, and the environment.

1. I would choose

magazine.

2. I chose this magazine because

3. Write two topics that you would hope to find in the magazine you chose.

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Language Arts


Decimal Duo

Week 9 DAY 2

infer: to figure out using observation and experience

Kwan and Emi are thinking of two different decimals. They wrote all but the last digit of their number on a sheet of paper. Neither of the decimals has 0 as the last digit. Look at the numbers carefully. Then infer to answer each question. 1. What are three things you know are true about Kwan’s decimal?

0.0

2. What are three things you know are true about Emi’s decimal?

0.00

3. Without knowing the last digit, can you tell which decimal is greater? Explain.


Math

51

Get Energized

Week 9 DAY 3

complete: to make something whole

Unscramble the following word jumbles about different types of energy. Then use some of the answers to complete the paragraph. 1. ceiiknt

7. aaccehilmn

2. aeeghlmort

8. alors

3. aeht

9. accehilm

4. dinw

10. ccdeehilorrty

5. befilou

11. aeilnoptt

6. adilt

12. acelnru

Do you think that the

energy generated by the turbines

in the picture below starts with moving air? Actually, the sun’s warms the air, causing it to rise. That air movement turns the blades. This energy can be converted to to run a machine.

and

power energy work

in a similar way, with water as the original source. Alternatively, uses

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Science

energy to power vehicles.


Timeline of Great Thinkers

Week 9 DAY 4


Read the list of events from ancient Greek history. Fill in the years from some of the events. Then order all of the events by drawing a line from each event to its location on the timeline.

500 BCE • Aristotle began tutoring Alexander when Alexander was 13 years old. • Plato was Socrates’ student until Socrates’ death in 399 BCE. • As a young man, Alexander set out to establish a vast empire. • Socrates, considered by many the father of western philosophy, was born in Greece in 470 BCE. • The conquests of Alexander the Great introduced Greek philosophy to many lands. • In his youth, Socrates studied music, gymnastics, and grammar. • Plato died nine years after Alexander was born. • Plato became Aristotle’s teacher about 367 BCE. • Alexander III, later known as Alexander the Great, was born in Macedonia in 356 BCE. 1 BCE 1 AD © Evan-Moor Corp. • EMC 3276 • Daily Higher-Order Thinking

• Plato wrote The Republic around 360 BCE.

Social Studies

53

Finding Your Way

Week 9 DAY 5


Imagine you are visiting a cousin and there is road construction going on. Your cousin gives you directions to walk to the mall while he is at school.

N NW

h ig hw a y 6 0

NE

W

E SW

SE

S

1. Read the directions below. Visualize and draw your route on the map. Leave our house, which is just off the map north of the police station. Walk southeast in front of the police station, curve east at the school, and cut in front of the school. Use the crosswalk to get to the park. Then cut through the park and in between the gas station and the fire station onto the street that is east of the mall. Then go southwest to get to the mall’s front entrance.

park

bike path

2. Mark on the map where the construction is probably taking place. 3. Describe how to get home a different way, still avoiding the construction zone.

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Language Arts/Social Studies


How About Homework? express: to write thoughts or feelings in a particular way

Week 10 DAY 1

Different people have different ideas about the value and importance of homework. Many are completely in favor of it. Some are strongly against it. Sti ll others have mixed feelings. On the lines below, first complete two brief statements about homework. Then draw an emoji and complete the third statement to express your own opinion. Be sure to include details to support your opinion.

1. one good thing about homework:

2. one bad thing about homework:

3. my opinion about homework:


Language Arts

55

What’s Missing?

Week 10 DAY 2


Some fractions are missing. They belong in the circles below. Use the following clue to help you figure out which fract ions you need.

Clue:

1 3

2 3

When you add any two fractions that are in the circles, their sum should equal the number written between them.

1

1 3

2 3

1

Deduce which fractions are missing from the circles. Write them in. 1.

2.

3 4

3 4

3.

3 5

4.

5 7

6.

5 9

6 7

2 3

5 8

7 8

Math

9 10

2 5

8.

3 4

7 10

7 9

7.

5 8

1 4

5.

3 7

5 8

1

1 2

56

4 5

9.

5 6

2 3

1 2

1 2

3 4

5 12


All Things Human

Week 10 DAY 3

categorize: to name a group

Read each set of four anagrams. Unscramble them and write the words on the lines. All four unscrambled words have something in common. Categorize the set of words. Some clues have been provided. 1. hot tar

throat

mad bone

category:

in slots island crop

spinal cord

amber men

membrane

body parts

2. sun clue costly map

moose rib

category:

3. theme tremor comic ropes

laces teeth scoops

category:

4. circular toy edge visit

uncover antlers sorry pirate

category:

5. the wig rather eat

eighth ropes boulders

category:


Science

57

Map the Site

Week 10 DAY 4


You have been invited to help on an archaeological dig. Your first assignment is to sketch a quick map of the dig site. The archaeologist in charge has given you her notes. Draw a map to represent the site as described in the notes. You can use symbols and a map key, labels, or whatever you wish.

Notes on Site 39583 • Ruins to be excavated in NW corner of the site. • Circle of stones to the east and a bit south of the ruins. • Our campsite is in the SW corner of the site. • Bits of pottery and animal bones found in the NE corner of the area. • A small brook runs through the site from the east side of the campsite in a northeasterly direction on the east side of the circle of stones and west of the area where pottery and bones were found. • The southeast corner of the site is heavily wooded.

N

W

E

S

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Social Studies


Future Building Frontiers

Week 10 DAY 5


Imagine a future time when Earth’s surface is overpopulated and running out of space. We will need to find a new place into which we’ll expand. Evaluate the three options below. For each one, describe the challenges that would have to be solved to make a new settlement. Explain why humans should consider settling there.

high in Earth’s atmosphere

below Earth’s crust


on a spaceship looking for an Earth-like planet

Science/Social Studies

59

In a Few Words

Week 11

prioritize: to figure out what is most important

DAY 1

Imagine that we are allowed to use only 14 words to communicate. Think about the most important things you will want to say. Prioritize your list and complete the items below. 1. What is another way to convey meaning to others without words?

2. What are some specific ideas that can be conveyed without using words? Write four.

3. Think about what parts of speech you will need. What are they?

4. Write your list of 14 words below.

5. Write three sentences using words from your list. Your sentences do not have to be complete—you just have to be understood. Explain in parentheses how you will convey other words or ideas.

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Language Arts


Sequence Show-Offs

Week 11 DAY 2


Wizard A and Wizard B love creating number sequences. A sequence sequence is a list of numbers that is produced in a certain cert ain way. Today Today the wizards w izards are having a sequen sequence-making ce-making contest. They have displayed the rules r ules for their t heir sequences below. below. Write Wri te the first f irst five numbers in each sequence. Then compare them. 1. A: Start with 8. Then keep adding 5. B: Start with the first five multiples of 5. Subtract 2 from each number.

Wizard A

Wizard B

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

How are the sequences alike?

How are the sequences different? dif ferent? 2. A: Start with 19 19.. Add 4 each time. B: Start with the first five multiples of 4. Add 3 to each number. How are the sequences alike?

How are the sequences different? dif ferent? 3. What do the results tell you about Wizard A’s rules and Wizard B’s rules?

© Evan-Moor Evan-Moor Corp. • EMC 3276 • Daily Higher-Order Thinking

Math

61

To Renew or Not to Renew

Week 11 DAY 3


Read the list of resources used to manufacture goods. goods . Decide which resources are renewable and which are nonren nonrenewable. ewable.

Resources clay

granite

grass

iron

leather

sand

wood

wool

1. renewable: What do these materials have in common?

2. nonrenewable: What do these materials have in common?

Write an item that exemplifies the resource. 3. clay

7. leather

4. granite

8. sand 8.

5. grass

9. wood 9.

6. iron

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10. wool 10.


The Lost Island

Week 11 DAY 4


Read the text and complete complete the items. The Greek philosopher Plato wrote in great detail about an advanced civilization on an island called Atlantis. According to Plato, the island existed about 11,000 years ago and sank suddenly into the sea on a night of earthquakes and fire. Most researchers and historians believe Atlantis never existed, except in Plato’s imagination, for these reasons: • Authors Authors often often make make up places places that that do not exist. exist. • No No other historical records mention Atlantis Atlantis.. • No physical evidence has ever been found to indicate that Atlantis existed. existed. Some do think Atlantis may have existed, for these reasons: • Other historical records that that mentioned mentioned Atlantis Atlantis may may not not have have survived. survived. • Ancient cities cities such as as Troy Troy disappeared disappeared in earthquakes earthquakes,, fires, or volcanic volcanic eruptions. When Homer wrote about Troy in The Iliad almost 3,000 years ago, it was believed to be mythical until found in the 1870s. • A computer computer expert expert used Plato’ Plato’s s clues about the location of Atlantis to determine that it might have been near Morocco. Then he went to Morocco and found black and red striped stone like that in Plato’s description of Atlantis. 1. Decide which Decide which statement you agree with. Mark it with an X. I absolutely believe that Atlantis existed. I believe it’s likely but not certain that Atlantis existed. I believe it’s unlikely but not impossible that Atlantis existed. I absolutely believe that Atlantis never existed. 2. What new reason or finding could change your mind?


Social Studies

63

Back to Life

Week 11 DAY 5

compose: to write creatively

Look at the three extinct animals below. Choose one and compose a short story about a day in its life. Give your animal a name. Include details about what it looked like, its environment, and what it ate.

dodo bird, extinct 500 years ago

64

Science/Language Arts

saber-toothed tiger extinct 10,000 years ago

woolly mammoth extinct 10,000 years ago


Pun Fun

Week 12 DAY 1


A pun is a special kind of joke. The humor in puns may come from words or phrases that have more than one meaning or from words that sound alike. Read the riddle and find the best answer to complete the pun. Write the letter of the answer on the line. Then explain why the riddle is a pun.

Answers a. He didn’t want anyone to think he was chicken. b. a pouch potato c. with tomato paste

1. Why did the chicken cross the playground?

d. to get to the other slide e. to look up web sites f. bison g. a commentator

2. What do you call a chicken that is crossing a road?

h. poultry in motion

3. Why did the turkey cross the road?

4. How do you put a smashed tomato back together?

5. What do you call a kangaroo that watches TV all day?

6. What do you call an ordinary potato?

7. How does a buffalo say goodbye to his son?

8. Why did the spider need a computer?


Language Arts

65

Exercise Debate defend: to support an opinion

Week 12 DAY 3

Read the two statements from students about their exercise habits.

I get plenty of exercise running from one class to the next and walking my dog. I don’t really like sports. I like to relax at home. I eat healthy food. I’m strong enough to do the things I need to do.

I like to skate and play volleyball at the beach. I hope to compete on the track team next year. I sometimes get antsy sitting in my classes. I spring out of bed every morning and can’t wait to start my day.

A school is debating whether or not to require students to exercise every day. What do you think? Defend your opinion.


Science

67

The Olympic Games

Week 12


DAY 4

Read the text. Then compare the ancient and modern Olympic Games in a Venn diagram. Imagine passing through the gateway to the ancient Olympic Stadium on your way to take part in the very first Olympic Games in 776 BCE. You could compete if you were a free male of Greek origin. Women weren’t even allowed to watch! The Games were held in the same place every four years until 343 AD, when they ended. Events were limited to foot races, long jump, shot put, javelin throw, boxing, wrestling, and chariot races. The Olympic Games were revived in 1896. In the modern Games, men and women from many countries compete in a much wider variety of events, including winter sports that require ice or snow. Countries take turns hosting the competitions in their own countries, and they are broadcast all around the world.

ancient Olympic Games

Venn diagram

modern Olympic Games

both

68

Social Studies


Bold Design convert: to change the form of something

Week 12 DAY 5

Look at the design Asher made in art class. Asher’s art teacher is also his math teacher. She wants the students to use a fraction, a decimal, and a percent to describe how much of their design is made of the different shades. Describe the steps Asher should take to convert the amounts. Then write the fractions, decimals, and percents for each shade. 1. What should Asher do to figure out fractions for the shades?

2. What should Asher do to convert the fractions to decimals?

3. What should Asher do to convert the decimals to percents?


Math/Art

69

Choices, Choices!

Week 13 DAY 1


scenic Read these pairs of choices and prioritize them. Circle the one you would choose. Then explain your choice.

fast

1. Take the long route between the coast and the forest. OR Take the shortest route through flat, empty land. Why?

2. Be a snowman. OR Be the sun that melts the snowman. Why?

3. Live without your best friend. OR Live without your favorite food. Why?

4. Cure cancer. OR Bring world peace. Why?

70

Language Arts


Angles in Words

Week 13 DAY 2


Look at the angles of the letters in “CAT”:

The letters C and T each have two right angles. The letter A has three acute angles and two obtuse angles. If each angle gets points according to the chart, CAT is worth 16 points.

right angle exactly 90°

1 point

acute angle less than 90°

2 points

obtuse angle greater than 90°

3 points

Write four 3-letter words. Tally the different angles and calculate the points. When you choose your words, strategize to beat the score for CAT. 1.

2.

number

points

number

right angles

right angles

acute angles

acute angles

obtuse angles

obtuse angles total

points

total

3.

4.

number

points

number

right angles

right angles

acute angles

acute angles

obtuse angles

obtuse angles total


points

total Math

71

Speaking Hypothetically

Week 13 DAY 3

critique: to tell what is good and bad about something

Read about what makes a good hypothesis. Then critique the hypotheses below. If the hypothesis is good, explain why. If it is not good, explain why not. A good hypothesis • states what scientists believe will happen • can be tested using the scientific method • includes specific variables, or qualities that you can control, change, or measure

1. What happens to fish when there is less oxygen in the water?

good

not good

2. It is better to eat more small meals than fewer big ones.

good

not good

3. Walking 30 minutes every day will make it easier to fall asleep.

good

not good

4. A light bulb will last longer if it is kept free of dust.

good

not good

5. I think that country music is the best kind.

good

not good

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Science


All the King’s Trees defend: to support an opinion

Week 13 DAY 4

Read the sign and answer the questions. Then defend your opinions.

Every tree in this kingdom belongs to the king. Anyone who cuts down a tree will be severely punished.

1. A man cuts down a tree for firewood to keep his family warm. Do you think the man should be punished? Why or why not?

2. Suppose the man finds a tree that has fallen over in a storm. If the man chops up the tree for firewood, do you think he should be punished? Why or why not?

3. Would your answers be the same if the man lived in a democracy, in which people vote, instead of in a kingdom, in which the king has all the power? Why or why not?


Social Studies

73

Mirror, r o r r i M

Week 13 DAY 5


Carina wrote a secret note to her friend Aisha. She wrote the message using mirror writing, or backward writing, to make it hard for others to read. Visualize how the letters would look written forwards. Then decode her message.

1.

e t i r w write

t x e n y l b m e s s a e h t t u o b a g n i k l a t l a p i c n i r p d n a r e h c a e t r u o d r a e h r e v o t s u j I ! e n o g n i t t e g s i o h w s s e u G . s d r a w a t n e m e v e i h c a t u o g n i v i g e b l l i w y e h T . k e e w ! n e k a t e r u t c i p r u o y e v a h o t y d a e r e r a u o y e r u s e k a M

2. Pretend you are Aisha and write a response to Carina using mirror writing.

74

Language Arts/Math


Making Analogies

Week 14


DAY 1

Look at the first pair of italic words in each analogy and analyze their relationship. Circle the word or words that best complete the analogy. Then explain how both sets of words are related. See the example below. Example

Wool is to sheep as paper is to trees. explanation: It’s a thing and where it comes from.

1. Game is to entertain as newspaper is to inform

research

embellish

hear

share

halt

squabble

is to

.

polite is to rude

spotless is to clean

masterpiece is to remarkable

impossible is to easy

explanation: 4. Spines are to cactus as

.

explanation: 3. Obscene is to inappropriate as

persuade

explanation: 2. Fire is to extinguish as rumor is to

.

are to

.

spots are to giraffe

apples are to tree

quills are to porcupine

roses are to vase

explanation:


Language Arts

75

How Tall?

Week 14 DAY 2


Read the text. Then complete the items. Three friends were trying to figure out how tall they were. Markus said, “I know I’m taller than 55 inches but shorter than 65 inches.” Utni said, “I’m definitely 5

1 2

inches taller than Markus.”

Ana said, “If I stand next to Utni, you’ll see that I’m 2 inches shorter than he is.”

1 2

1. How tall are the friends? Suggest one possibility. Show how you determined the heights.

Markus

Utni

Ana

2. Are there other possibilities for the friends’ heights?

3. Could any of the friends be 6 feet tall?

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Math

Explain.

Explain.


Crocodile Rock

Week 14 DAY 3


Read the text. Then complete the items. Crocodiles are one of the oldest animals on the planet. Modern crocs first appeared about 84 million years ago, and they have changed very little since then. They have survived two mass extinctions, including the one that killed off the dinosaurs. Crocodiles have adaptations that allow them to live through harsh conditions and adjust to changing environments. They are semiaquatic, which means they can live both on land and in water. In fact, they can live in a variety of habitats, from salt water to deserts. And they aren’t picky eaters: crocodiles will eat anything that crosses their path, from insects to wildebeests. 1. Do the crocodile’s adaptations have more to do with the ability to compete for food or avoid predators? Explain.

2. How do you predict crocodiles will respond to Earth’s increasing temperature?

3. Predict a situation in which you think crocodiles might have trouble surviving. Describe the situation and how you think it came about.


Science

77

The Phoenician Alphabet

Week 14 DAY 4


Read the text and apply it to read and write words using the Phoenician alphabet. Many modern alphabets, including English, are based on an alphabet developed by the ancient Phoenicians. Below are a few of the 22 letters in the Phoenician alphabet.

gimmel g

daleth d

mem m

teth t

nun n

samekh s

Words written in the Phoenician alphabet are difficult to read because the alphabet has no vowels. The Phoenicians used an ’aleph mark, like an apostrophe in English, to show where the vowel sounds were.

’aleph

Another challenge is that words in the Phoenician alphabet are spelled from right to left. Here is an example. The letter on the right stands for the first sound in the word, so this word could be tag or tug. 1. Apply the alphabet to figure out what the word might be. Write the possible answers on the line.

2. In the space below, apply the Phoenician alphabet to write a word. Then write your word in English.

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Social Studies


Packing It In

Week 14 DAY 5


Density describes how tightly packed something is with the things that fill it. Imagine that two brothers are packing their suitcases with clothes for a vacation.

Anand

1. If the suitcases are the same size,

Ajay

’s suitcase will be more dense because

2. Determine which picture shows a forest that is more dense and circle it.


Science/Math

79

Wing Bone Flute

Week 15 DAY 1


Read the text. In 2008, the earliest musical instrument discovered so far was found in a cave in Germany. The instrument, a flute, was originally believed to be about 35,000 years old. More recent carbon-dating shows that it likely was carved as long as 40,000 to 43,000 years ago. Pieces of other ancient flutes were also found in the cave. The most intact flute is about nine inches long. It was carved from the wing bone of a very large bird called a griffon vulture. The flute has five finger holes that researchers think may have been made using stone tools. The flute was probably played by blowing through the V-shaped opening carved in the top. An archaeologist used a griffon vulture bone to make a copy of the ancient flute and has been learning to play it.

Now compose an acrostic poem about this flute. Each letter of the word flute begins a phrase about the flute. The poem does not have to rhyme. Example of an acrostic poem for the word

art :

Audio and visual Reaching the heart Trying to speak without words

F L U T E

80

Language Arts


Abracadabra!

Week 15 DAY 2


Try this amazing trick. Then analyze your results to complete the items. 1. Multiply the three-digit numbers in the box by 11. Then multiply the product by 91. 215 x 11 215 2,150 2,365

342 x 11

215 469 x 11

342 469

2,365 x 91

2. What do all the products have in common?

3. Why do you think you got the results you did? Test your idea by multiplying another three-digit number by 11 and 91.


Math

81

Tomorrow’s Bears

Week 15


DAY 3

Read the text. Then complete the item. Polar bears currently hunt their main source of food, seals, on the polar ice cap. However, the ice cap is melting. Now they must swim farther and farther out to sea to reach the ice, and many are drowning. Fast forward 200 years: imagine that warmer global temperatures have stabilized and the polar bears survived. Imagine you are traveling through their habitat. Conjecture how the polar bears might have adapted in order to survive and write a journal entry about how they look, what they are doing, and what their habitat is like.

82

Science


Time Travel

Week 15 DAY 4


Look at the timeline. Then read the questions and decide on your answers.

3,000 BCE

2,000 BCE

1,000 BCE

1 BCE –1 AD

1,000 AD

2,000 AD

1. If you could travel back in time to visit any place or era, what time and place would you choose?

2. Why would you choose that time and place?

3. If you could bring just one item from the present day with you on your visit to the past, what would you bring, and why?


Social Studies

83

Wacky Weather

Week 15 DAY 5


The planet Kerplop has strange weather. It can be hot and sunny one day and snowy the next! The inhabitants of Kerplop always have to be prepared for any kind of weather. The chart below shows the weather for last month. (Every month on Kerplop has 25 days.) Use the chart to complete the items.

Weather

Number of Days

sun

11

rain

4

clouds

6

snow

3

hail

1

1. What percent of the days had each type of weather? sun

rain

2. Make a circle graph showing the weather data. Label each section.

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Math/Science

clouds

snow

hail

3. Evaluate the chart and the circle graph. Which do you think is more helpful in describing last month’s weather? Explain.


Cartoon Video

Week 16 DAY 1


Imagine that you are making a cartoon video about the four characters pictured below. First, write each character’s name below his or her picture. Think about a situation to put your characters in and dramatize the situation with dialogue. Write it like a script for a play.


Language Arts

85

Target Practice

Week 16 DAY 2


Here’s an unusual target. It has three rings. Each ring is divided into thirds to make a total of nine small sections. The numbers 1 and 4 have been filled in for you. Read the clues and strategize how the remaining sections should be numbered. Write the numbers on the target.

Clues: • Each number from 1 to 9 appears on the target only once. • The three numbers in each third add up to the same sum. • The three numbers in each ring have the same sum as each third.

4

1

86

Math


Building Up

Week 16 DAY 3


Imagine you have 5 acres to create a skyscraper. The company that will use the building has given you several requirements. Read the requirements. Then design a sturdy structure that meets the requirements. • The rectangular land is bordered by four streets. • The building needs space for a lobby, business and creative offices, a warehouse, and a company cafeteria and gym. • The building should reflect the fact that the company develops sport racing bikes. • It should be 29 stories tall in addition to the lobby and warehouse space.

• Include as much natural lighting as possible. • The building is in a west-coast city that sometimes experiences flooding in winter and occasional strong earthquakes. • Power should be provided by a renewable resource (solar or geothermal). • There needs to be parking for 1,000 cars on the land, either in a lot or a multilevel structure.

Use the space below to design an idea for the skyscraper. You can use a sketch, words, or a combination.


Science

87

Terni Lapilli

Week 16

devise: to create a method to do something

DAY 4

Read about a game called terni lapilli and complete the items. Tick-tack-toe is sometimes called a “pencil and paper” game, although you may have played it in other ways without using either a pencil or paper. People in ancient Rome played a game that looked a lot like the modern game of tick-tack-toe. It was called terni lapilli , which means “three pebbles.” Many grids for terni lapilli have been found chalked or scratched on floors of ancient Roman ruins. No X’s or O’s have been found on the grids, though, so scholars believe the game was indeed played with pebbles. Each player had three pebbles, perhaps black ones and white ones to tell them apart. Players would take turns placing them on the board, but play continued as the players took turns moving their pebbles. This game would have involved more strategy and probably not have ended in a draw, as so many games of modern tick-tack-toe do.

How else might people in ancient times have played terni lapilli, besides drawing the grid on a stone surface and using pebbles as markers? Devise two other ways this game might be played using all natural, not human-made, materials. 1.

2.

3. Why didn’t terni lapilli probably end in a draw as often as tick-tack-toe does?

88

Social Studies


It’s All in the Ad

Week 16 DAY 5


A lot goes into making an ad. Examine the ad and use it as inspiration to create an ad about a brand of cereal or an energy bar. Answer the questions to plan your ad. Q u e n c h

1. Who is your audience?

2. What is the name of your product?

3. What do you most want to show about the product?

You can’t lose with a bottle of Quench. 4. Draw your ad here. Include a tagline that sums up the product.



89

The Whole Story

Week 17 DAY 1

elaborate: to tell more about something

The story is complete but very bland. Elaborate on the story by adding details to make it more interesting and vivid. Rewrite it below. The scouts hiked to their campground. It got dark and started to rain. They were all soaked. They set up their tents. The wind blew them down. They put them up again when the storm passed. They changed clothes, gathered wood, and made a campfire. Then they made dinner, roasted marshmallows, and told stories. Then they slept.

90

Language Arts


Quad’s Pattern

Week 17

extrapolate: to use data to estimate beyond the range of the data

DAY 2

Quad the Robot builds patterns with squares. Today he is using gray and white squares.

Figure 1

Figure 2

Figure 3

Figure 4

Extrapolate what you see in Quad’s pattern to answer the questions. 1. How many gray squares and white squares will Quad use in Figure 5? How do you know?

2. How many gray squares and white squares will Quad use in Figure 10? Explain how you can solve this without having to draw Figures 5 to 10.


Math

91

Report: Volcano Erupting! generate: to produce

Week 17 DAY 3

Pretend you are a weather reporter for a local news station. Use the data below to figure out how a recent nearby volcano eruption is impacting your local community. Then generate a report for a broadcast, describing in detail the effects of the eruption and warnings.

Volcano Data average wind speed: 13 miles per hour

wind direction: east

ash cloud height: 9,700 meters

high risk zone: 800 meters

92

Science


The Ends of Earth conjecture: to make a guess using incomplete information

Look at the cartoon and read what the people are saying. Think about what you know and how you know it, and conjecture about ancient times as you complete the items.

Week 17 DAY 4

Anyone can see that Earth is flat! If you sail too far, you’ll fall off the edge.

Earth is round! It’s a sphere.

1. How do you know Earth is a sphere?

2. Suppose you had lived long ago when much less scientific knowledge was available. Conjecture whether you think you would have believed that Earth was round or that it was flat. Explain why.

An ancient Greek astronomer named Eratosthenes questioned where Earth ended enough to start exploring the idea. Write two questions he may have wondered about. 3.

4.


Social Studies

93

Go the Distance

Week 17 DAY 5


Read the text. Apply scientific notation to the distances below. Exponents can be used to write very large numbers. Use an exponent to write a power of 10. The exponent shows how many times 10 is multiplied by itself. For example: 100 = 102 = 10 × 10 100,000 = 105 = 10 × 10 × 10 × 10 × 10 Scientific notation uses exponents. To write a large number using scientific notation, write it as a number less than 10 multiplied by a power of 10. For example: 58,000 = 5.8 × 104

1. Mars is 228,000,000 kilometers from the sun. Write this number in scientific notation.

2. Saturn is 1,427,000,000 kilometers from the sun. Write this number in scientific notation.

3. How many kilometers are between Saturn and Mars? Write this number in scientific notation.

4. Explain how you found your answer.

94

Science/Math


State Your Case

Week 18 DAY 1

defend: to support an opinion

Imagine that your teacher has a budget of $500 for a class field trip. The class members can vote for which trip they want, but they have to explain why. Look at the trips and their cost, circle the one you choose, and then defend your choice. A Local Farm

Natural History Museum

You’ll get to talk to the farmers about both agriculture and livestock to learn their methods and what their daily lives are like.

You’ll get to explore dinosaur exhibits, ancient civilizations, specimens of all kinds of animals, geology, and the stars in the planetarium.

You’ll get to go to dinner in the city and then see a modern-day interpretation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in a historic theater.

cost: $220

cost: $250

cost: $490


Hamlet in the City

Language Arts

95

A Lucky Day

Week 18 DAY 2


Minh and Romi found some money when they went out. What a lucky day! Read their clues. Deduce how much money they had before they found the extra cash.

I found a five-dollar bill on the sidewalk! 5

5 5

When I put it in my wallet, I had twice as much money as what I would have had if I had lost five dollars.

1. How much money did Minh have before he found the five-dollar bill?

I found a ten-dollar bill outside a sandwich shop! I had already spent $4.00 on a sandwich. When I put the ten dollars in my purse, I had twice as much money as I did before I had bought my sandwich.

0 1

0 1

0 1

2. How much money did Romi have before she found the ten-dollar bill?

96

Math


Sitting on Water

Week 18

conclude: to decide using facts, data, and inferences

DAY 3

A liter of water weighs 1,000 grams. Its density is 1 g/cm�. Examine these items that float in water. candle

weight: 105 g

density: 0.93 g/cm3

log

weight: 841 g

density: 0.85 g/cm�

blueberry

weight: 0.5 g


pencil

weight: 2 g


penny

weight: 2 g


eraser

weight: 18 g


cheese

weight: 10 g


key

weight: 16 g


Examine these items that sink in water.

1. What do you notice about all of the items that float?

2. What do you notice about all of the items that sink?

3. What can you conclude about what causes items to float or sink?


Science

97

The Mayan Calendar

Week 18


DAY 4

Read the text and use it to complete the items. Between 1800 BCE and 250 AD, the Mayan civilization flourished in areas of what is now Mexico and Central America. The Maya used three different calendars. The sacred calendar, or Tzolk’in, had 260 days and was used for scheduling religious ceremonies. The Haab’ calendar had 365 days like the current calendar, but it did not have a leap year, so it varied over time. The Long Count calendar covered long periods of time lasting thousands of years. Its dates were written as five numbers with periods between them. For example, the date “January 1, 2020” appeared as “13.0.7.2.7” on the Mayan Long Count. It stands for 13 b’ak’tun, 0 k’atun, 7 tun, 2 uinal, and 7 k’in. Each term is a length of time: a b’ak’tun is about 400 years, a k’atun is a generation, a tun is about a year, a uinal is about a month, and a k’in is a day. So the date is actually a count of how much time has passed since a starting point in 3144 BCE. 1. Compare how we write dates today with Mayan Long Count dates. How are they similar and different?

2. Use the Mayan Long Count system to write today’s date using your birthdate as a starting point. Just use the years, months, and days.

My birthdate (month, day, year): Today’s date (month, day, year): Today’s date in Mayan (tun, uinal, k’in):

98

Social Studies


Bouncing Ball

Week 18 DAY 5


Read the text and use it to complete the items. Nadine was doing a science experiment. She stood on the balcony of her apartment building and dropped a rubber ball. Each time the ball hit the ground, it bounced back up to half of the height of the previous bounce. 1. If the ball rose to a height of 8 feet after its first bounce, how high did it rise after its fourth bounce? Draw a diagram to help you solve the problem.

It rose

.

Fill in the blanks to show other information you can derive from your drawing. 2. The ball bounced to a height of

feet after its third bounce.

3. I know that Nadine’s balcony must be

feet high because

4. After how many bounces will it rise less than 1 inch? 5. Imagine how a recording of the ball bouncing would sound from the first bounce to the last. How do you think the bouncing sound would change as it goes along?


Science/Math

99

Anagram Game

Week 19 DAY 1

construct: to build by putting parts together

An anagram is a word that is formed when you rearrange the letters from another word. For example, all the words below are anagrams of the word meat : team

tame

m

e

a

t

t

e

a

m

mate

Rearrange the letters in each of the words below to construct three anagrams. 1. snap

2. cares

3. pears

4. stale

5. shear

6. smile

7. skate

8. rites

9. gander

100

Language Arts


Area Challenge

Week 19 DAY 2

generate: to produce

You can use formulas to find the areas of rectangles, parallelograms, and triangles. rectangle area = bh parallelogram area = bh triangle area =

1 2

bh

h h

h b

Figure A

b

b

Figure B

Figure C

Figure A’s area:

Figure B’s area:

Figure C’s area:

2 × 3 = 6 square units


1 2

× 5 × 4 = 10 square units

Generate two sets of shapes below. Each set should have a rectangle, parallelogram, and triangle with the same area. Use the formulas to show that the areas of the three shapes match. 1. area = square units rectangle’s area:

parallelogram’s area:

triangle’s area:

2. area = square units rectangle’s area:

parallelogram’s area:

triangle’s area:


Math

101

The Life of a Loggerhead

Week 19 DAY 3


Read the text. Loggerhead turtles live in oceans and along the coasts, near coral reefs and sea grass beds. They survive on fish, clams, sea urchins, and mollusks, whose hard shells they crush with the powerful jaws that have developed over time.

Read each statement about a variable that could affect the loggerhead turtle and its habitat. Predict what the impact would be. 1. The turtles are accidentally caught in fishermen’s nets and other gear.

2. Turtle egg nests and baby turtles on beaches are disturbed by tourism and artificial lighting from street lamps and lighted signs.

3. People build houses and hotels on beaches, causing debris and pollution.

102

Science


Pass the Salt

Week 19 DAY 4


Read the text about salt and study the cartoon. Then apply the information from the text to complete the empty speech balloon. Salt was highly valued by many cultures in ancient times. When Marco Polo was in China at the end of the 13th century, he reported that cakes of salt stamped with images of the emperor were used in trade, just as coins or bills are used today. The expression “not worth his salt” arose in ancient Greece, where enslaved laborers were traded for salt. The word salary is from the Latin root sal , because Roman soldiers were paid with salt. Moorish merchants in Africa would trade an ounce of gold for an ounce of salt. 1.

Please pass the salt.

2. Why do you think salt was so valuable in ancient times?


Social Studies

103

A Picture Tells

Week 19


DAY 5

You probably know the saying “A picture tells a thousand words.” Examine the picture and look at what it is telling you. Write down as much as you can infer about what you see. Look at the environment and think about what is happening and why.

104



In the Deep Blue imagine: to see an idea or picture in your mind

Week 20 DAY 1

Imagine that you are going on a deep sea expedition in a submarine for one month. What would your life be like? Who and what would you take with you? What would you do? What would you see? Write a few paragraphs about your time in a submarine.


Language Arts

105

Two Saturdays

Week 20


DAY 2

Think about what you usually do on Saturday. Write how many hours you spend on the activities shown below. Then make a circle graph of your day. Choose a color for each activity and color the graph to match. Activity

Hours

Color

eating chores/homework playing watching TV computer use

Now imagine what the perfect Saturday would look like for you. List the activities you would do and the hours you would spend doing them. Make a g raph of your day. Activity

Hours

Color

Compare the graphs. How are they similar? How are they different?

106

Math


A Fine Forecast

Week 20 DAY 3


Examine the forecast and the graph in the morning newspaper. Use them to answer the questions.

Weather Forecast TODAY: Sunny, warm temperatures should continue today, following the mini heat wave last week. THIS WEEK: Get ready for a temperature dip later this week, with occasional showers and cloudy conditions. These low temperatures should return to the historical average range by the end of the week.

KEY

Temperature Readings and Predictions for April 6–26 80 78 76 ) t i e e 74 r h

Daily high temperature Historical average high and low temperatures

u n e t r 72 a r h a F e 70 p s e e m r 68 e g e T d (

66 64 62 60

April

6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19

20 21 22 23 24 25 26

Previous Two Weeks

Forecast

1. What date is most likely “today’s” forecast?

How do you know?

2. Which data in this forecast would be the most important in helping you decide what to wear on a specific day? Why?


Science

107

Cueva de las Manos

Week 20

describe: to tell the features of something or someone

DAY 4

Look at the picture and read the information. Cueva de las Manos (Cave of the Hands) is found in Argentina. The walls of the cave are covered with the outlines of human hands. The earliest outlines date back more than 9,000 years. Many of the prints are of left hands about the size of the hand of a 13-year-old boy. This observation has led some people to believe the prints may have been part of some kind of ceremony initiating boys into adulthood.

Imagine that you are attending a ceremony in the Cueva de las Manos thousands of years ago. Describe what you see and hear.

108

Social Studies


Popcorn Profit

Week 20 DAY 5


Read the text and analyze the graph. Use them to complete the items. At Pensri’s Popcorn, Pensri is experimenting with different prices to find the one that makes the most money. The graph below shows the prices she has tried so far and how many bags of popcorn she sold at each price. 45

d l o 40 s s g 35 a b f 30 o r e 25 b m u 20 N

15

$0.50

$1.00

$1.50

$2.00 Price per bag

$2.50

$3.00

$3.50

Total $ earned at each price

1. If Pensri changed the price by $0.50 each time instead of $1.00, how many bags would she probably have sold at $1.00, $2.00, and $3.00? Add dots on the graph to show your answers. 2. Calculate how much money she took in at each selling price on the graph. Write the amounts on the lines at the bottom of the graph. 3. At which selling price was the most money made? 4. At which selling price were the most bags sold? 5. At which price should Pensri continue to sell a bag of popcorn? 6. Why didn’t Pensri make more money when she sold more bags?


Social Studies/Math

109

Untangling Sentences

Week 21


DAY 1

When you hear several people around you speaking at the same time, all their words can sound tangled together. To understand any of the sentences, you must keep track of the words that seem to belong together. Here is an example of how two sentences tangled together might sound: I hope did you they hear about have the new something good skating in rink that the cafeteria just opened? today.

Here are the two sentences untangled: Did you hear about the new skating rink that just opened? I hope they have something good in the cafeteria today.

Read these tangled sentences and sort the words into two separate sentences. 1. There we have was to take a fire on our our cat to the street vet on last Friday. weekend.

2. That where was the did your most exciting grandparents game I’ve live? ever seen!

3. The your stars garden were really looks bright so colorful last and night. healthy.

4. The I’m thinking library will be of closed running for on Saturday. student council.

110

Language Arts


Which Column?

Week 21 DAY 2


Suppose the numbers 1 to 100 are arranged in columns A, B, C, D, E, and F as shown.

A 1 7 13

B 2 8 14

C 3 9 15

D 4 10 16

E 5 11 17

F 6 12 18

Determine under which letter the

following numbers would appear. Try to solve the problems without listing all the numbers. 1. 24

5. 51

9. 73

2. 31

6. 80

10. 58

3. 40

7. 61

11. 87

4. 47

8. 90

12. 100

13. What do you notice about the numbers in column F?

14. How did you find the solution to problem 2?

15. How did you find the solution to problem 3?

16. Explain how you would find under which column any number would be.


Math

111

Cause and Effect Dominoes order: to list things in a certain way

Week 21 DAY 3

Climate change can have an effect on our food supply, both plant and animal. Read the results related to temperature. Then order them on the cause-and-effect graphic below so that each effect is the cause of the next effect. Results Grazing land is reduced

Plants bloom earlier

Land dries out

Soil nutrients are used up

Growing season is lengthened

Evaporation increases

Crops are less nutritious

Less livestock is raised

Temperatures increase

112

Science


Roman Roads evaluate: to judge carefully

Week 21 DAY 4

Read the text and answer the questions to evaluate the importance of roads. The ancient Romans are known for many great accomplishments, one of which was an amazing system of roads. The Romans needed good roads for several reasons: • They made money from trade, so they needed roads to move goods from place to place. • They had created a vast empire and needed to move troops quickly to wage war. • Good roads were also important for efficient communication across the long distances between the parts of the empire. The Roman road system consisted of approximately 250,000 miles (more than 400,000 km) of good, straight roads. Some Roman roads are still in existence even though they were built almost 2,000 years ago. 1. Which of the Romans’ reasons for needing good roads do you think is the most important to people today? Why?

2. Which of the Romans’ reasons do you believe is the second most important one today? Why?


Social Studies

113

Culture Map

Week 21 DAY 5


The world’s cultures have unique “flavors.” We can get a taste of a culture by experiencing its music, clothing, language, holiday customs, and food. Think about how these aspects of culture are expressed around the world. 1. Choose one of these aspects of culture and circle it. Then draw on each continent on the map a drawing that represents an example of that cultural aspect. music

clothing

language

holiday customs

food

2. What are other ways we can learn about other cultures besides at school?

114

Social Studies/Art


Poetic Pictures

Week 22 DAY 1


Read the poems. Analyze the number of lines, the number of syllables or rhythm in each line, and whether or not there is rhyme. Look for patterns in each.

Haiku

Limerick

Water drips and drips

I once had a cat named Fred

From the tub in my bathroom

Who would never sleep in my bed.

The cat gets a drink

Then one day I coaxed him my way And he decided to sleep on my head!

1. Haiku analysis:

2. Now use your analysis to compose your own haiku.

3. Limerick analysis:

4. Now use your analysis to compose your own limerick.


Language Arts

115

Shapes Puzzler

Week 22


DAY 2

Experiment to see where you can place the shapes on the grid according to the rules.

Rules: • Each row of the grid should have one circle, one square, one triangle, and one diamond. • No shape may appear more than once in any horizontal or vertical row. • No shape may appear more than once in either of the diagonal rows that go from corner to corner.

1. Fill in the grid. Make sure you have followed all the rules.

2. Do you think it makes a difference which shape you start with? Why or why not?

116

Math


Inherited or Acquired?

Week 22 DAY 3


Traits are characteristics that living things have. Some traits are passed down from parent to offspring through genes. Other traits are acquired, either by learning or by something happening to the living thing during its life. Read the trait and sort it as inherited or acquired . Then answer the question. inherited

acquired

1. a girl with pierced ears 2. a dog with blue eyes 3. a girl who speaks Spanish 4. a tree with broad leaves 5. a boy who can knit a sweater 6. an elephant with a scar 7. a sheep with thick wool 8. a mouse with a long tail 9. a dog that fetches a ball 10. a spider that can spin a web 11. a cat with six toes 12. a hamster that can escape from its cage 13. Is an inherited trait always physical? Explain your answer.


Science

117

Marco! Polo!

Week 22 DAY 4

invent: to create for the first time

Read about a familiar game. You may have played the game where one player, either blindfolded or with eyes closed, repeatedly calls out, “Marco!” Each time, the other players must answer, “Polo!” The blindfolded player tries to tag another player by following the sounds of the voices. The player who is tagged then becomes “it,” and the game continues. Did you know that Marco Polo was a real person? In the year 1271 AD, when he was only 17 years old, he set out on a long journey with his father and uncle. For three or four years, they traveled by horse from Italy across the continent of Asia, over deserts and mountains, all the way to China. Young Marco Polo was among the first Europeans to explore China.

Think of another real person in history. Invent an outdoor game that uses that person’s name in some way. Your game should be for two or more players and should involve physical activity. 1. The name of my game is

.

2. Describe the game.

118

Social Studies


Every Graph Tells a Story

Week 22 DAY 5


Look at the line graph, which tells a story. It shows what happened to Fernando when he went to work one day. Fernando left home and got up to speed quickly. Fifteen minutes from home, there was an accident. Fernando had to slow down to 10 miles an hour. He crawled for 5 minutes until the traffic cleared and speeds returned to normal. It took Fernando 10 more minutes to get to work after that.

) r u o h 50 r e p 40 s e 30 l i m20 ( d 10 e e p S 0

5 10 15 20 25 30 35 Time (minutes)

Now interpret the graph below. Write a story about Meghan’s trip. Think about what it means when the line is going up, is flat, or is coming down. ) r u o h r e p s e l i m ( d e e p S

60 50 40 30 20 10 0

5

10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 Time (minutes)


Math

119

Braille Code

Week 23 DAY 1

analyze: to look at closely for patterns and relationships Braille Code

Read the text.

In the 1800s, there were schools for blind students, but there was no good way to A B C D E F G H publish books for them. Charles Barbier was a French army captain who had developed a writing system called sonography that K L M N O P Q R allowed soldiers to communicate silently at night without light. The system used raised dots in combinations to represent letters. It was very complex and was based on language sounds, U V W X Y Z not spelling. A blind teenager named Louis Braille learned about the system and spent four years adapting it for use by blind people. Braille’s system uses a different combination of 6 raised dots to represent each letter.

I

J

S

T

Analyze each row of the code and answer the questions. 1. What do the letters in the top row have in common?

2. What do the letters in the second row have in common?

3. What do the letters in the third row have in common?

4. Decode the start of this message. Then complete the message in both Braille and English.

120

Language Arts


Cooking Schedule extrapolate: to use data to estimate beyond the range of the data

Week 23 DAY 2

The four members of Nikki’s family take turns cooking dinner, so Nikki cooks every fourth day. Nikki wants to make a schedule for herself based on this pattern. Extrapolate the pattern to complete the items below. 1. Today is Wednesday. It’s Nikki’s turn to cook. Write the next three days of the week when she will need to cook again.

2. If Nikki is cooking on Wednesday, July 26, on what date after that will she next be cooking on a Wednesday?

3. What day of the week will it be 100 days from today (Wednesday)?

4. Will Nikki have to cook dinner on that day? How do you know?


Math

121

Hello, BrainPal

Week 23


DAY 3

The world is using artif ar tificial icial intelligence more and more. We have self-driving cars and personal assistants that can unlock our fron f rontt door and order cereal while whi le we’re we’re halfway half way around the worl world. d. Conjecture how much more more they will w ill be able to do decades from now. now. Write Write a dialogue d ialogue between bet ween a human and an automated aide that could take place 20 years from now. Give your automated aide a name.

122

Science


BioRunner

Week 23 DAY 4


Read the situation. Then predict how supply, demand, and prices of goods will be affected. 1. A car manufacturer has just produced a car called the BioRunner that is powered by household waste. Will the supply of BioRunners be high or low?

high

low

Will the demand for BioRunners be high or low?

high

low

Explain your answer.

2. An article comparing the BioRunner to traditional gasoline-powered gasoline-powered cars praised the new technology. Will the supply of gasoline-powered cars go up or down?

up

down

Will gasoline-powere gasoline-powered d car prices go up or down down? ?

up

down


3. The car uses a converter to make the waste usable. Many families with the BioRunner are canceling their garbage-collection service. ser vice. Will the demand for garbage collection go up or down down? ?

up

down

Will garbage collection prices go up or down?

up

down



Social Studies

123

How Dense Is It?

Week 23 DAY 5


Read the text. Mass and volume are two different ways of describing size. Mass is related to weight— how heavy something is. Volume is how much space something takes up. Bigger isn’t always alway s heavier; it depends how closely packed the particles are that make up the object or substance. The more matter you can squish into a given size, the more mass it has and the denser it is. You You can find an object’s object ’s density using division: division: mass ÷ volume = density For example, if some solid silver coins have a mass of 42 grams and their volume is 4 milliliters, their density is 10.5 grams/milliliter, or 10.5 g/mL.

this formula to find the densities of these objects to the nearest tenth of Apply this a gram/milliliter. 1. object A: mass = 24 g, volume = 11 mL, density = 2. object B: mass = 88 g, volume = 11 11 mL, density = 3. object C: mass = 96.5 g, volume of 5 mL, density = 4. Which of the three objects (A, B, or C) is the most dense? 5. Which of the three objects (A, B, or C) is the least dense?

The pictures show three different objects, each weighing 6 grams. Write A, B, and C below each to match it to its density. 6. steel paperclips

object

124

Science/Math

salt

object

gold ring

object


Critic’s Corner critique: to tell what is good and bad about something

Week 24 DAY 1

Imagine you have a blog called “Critic’s Corner.” You review music, movies, video games, and other blogs. Read this sample critique. I recently visited Priya Baxter’s science blog. It was pretty interesting. Each week, she includes an at-home science project. Most of them are really neat. For example, her explanation of how to make a thermometer out of a plastic bottle was excellent. I tried it, and it worked really well. However, the project she outlined for how to power a clock with two potato batteries was missing a couple of details. The pictures were great, but I got a little confused and had to go to another website to get mine to work. Another great feature of her blog is the “Did You Know?” section. It contains interesting, uncommon facts about animals. For example, I learned that it would take a snail about 220 hours to crawl one mile! I like this blog and plan to visit it again!

Now critique a song, movie, video game, or blog.


Language Arts

125

Planes and Trains

Week 24 DAY 2

plan: to find a good way to do something

Read the text. Joy is a toymaker who made planes and trains to sell at a craft fair. The ratio of planes to trains for sale was 3:4. Within the first hour, Joy sold 6 planes and 5 trains. Then the ratio of planes to trains that she had left became 2:3. How many planes and trains did she make in all? How many planes and trains were left after the first hour?

Plan how you will solve the problem. Show your work in the “My Work” section, and then write your solution below.

My Plan

My Work

My Solution Joy made There were 126

Math

planes and planes and

trains in all. trains left after the first hour. Daily Higher-Order Thinking • EMC 3276 • © Evan-Moor Corp.

A Camel’s Kingdom

Week 24 DAY 3


Read the text. Bactrian camels are their own species, but they have some traits in common with other living things. They can be grouped with other animals who share characteristics. This leveled grouping system is called taxonomy.

Analyze the living beings in each row. Figure out which label from the word box best categorizes that group and write it on the line in that row.

camels

tough foot pads

animals

mammals

has a nervous system

species: Bactrian camel

genus:

family:

order: even number of toes on each foot

class:

phylum:

kingdom:


Science

127

The Socratic Method

Week 24 DAY 4

formulate: to produce by thinking carefully

Read the information and formulate questions. Socrates, a philosopher and teacher of ancient Greece, is given credit for developing a method of teaching through asking questions, often called the Socratic Method. Here are just a few examples of the kinds of questions Socrates might have asked: • How can you prove or disprove that statement? • Can you give me an example? • What is another way to look at it? • How does that relate to what we already know? The Socratic Method can be a helpful tool when people disagree. Suppose Danilo and Linda were having an argument.

I deserved a better grade in social studies. It isn’t fair!

Of course it’s fair. You didn’t study, and your project was late.

What if, instead of pointing out why the grade was fair, Linda had used the Socratic Method? Formulate three questions she might have asked. 1.

2.

3.

128

Social Studies


My Perfect Home

Week 24 DAY 5


Think about the f loor plan of your home. Imagine you are looking down from the top as if the roof has been pulled off. Draw the floor plan of your current home.

bedroom 1

Now design your ideal home. Draw and label the floor plan below. You may include outdoor features, such as a garden or pool, as well.

living room

bathroom

bedroom 2

kitchen

patio

My current home


My ideal home

Language Arts/Art

129

Word Riddles

Week 25 DAY 1

solve: to find a solution to a problem

All of the riddles on this page are about words. Solve each riddle. Then write a new riddle of your own that is also about words. 1. What is at the end of the rainbow? 2. Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran. How many R’s are there in that? Tell me if you can.

?

3. What is always the center of attention? 4. What starts with P and ends with E and has thousands of letters in it? 5. What occurs once in a second, twice in a week, and never in a month? 6. What word starts with the letter “t,” is filled with “t,” and ends with “t”? 7. What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters? 8. Seven is an odd number. How can you make it even?

9. What word contains all 26 letters? 10. What word can be written forward, backward, and upside down and still be read from left to right? 11. What can you add to one to make it less? 12. What is a heavy weight forward but not backward? 13. your riddle:

answer:

130

Language Arts


Mardia’s Mosaics assess: to figure out whether something is correct

Week 25 DAY 2

Mardia loves making mosaics with colored paper squares. She glues the squares onto a large square cardboard background to make interesting designs. Two of her mosaics are shown below. Examine them to solve the problems. 1. This mosaic has 36 small squares glued onto a 1-foot square cardboard background. Mardia wants to make a second mosaic. The small squares will be the same size, but the background will be a 2-foot square instead of a 1-foot square. Mardia says that since the sides of the second square are twice as long as the original’s, she will need twice as many colored paper squares. Assess whether Mardia is correct. Explain using words or pictures.

2. This mosaic is Mardia’s favorite. She showed it to her friend Lori. Lori said, “Nice mosaic, Mardia! I see that the shaded square on top is 14 of the large square and that 13 of the bottom square is shaded. That 7 7 means you shaded 12 of the large square since 14 + 13 = 12 .” Assess whether Lori is correct. Explain using words or pictures.


Math

131

A Science State of Mind

Week 25


DAY 3

Think about the properties of solids, liquids, and gases as you compare the materials to complete the items. 1. List five solids that can change into a liquid.

2. What do the solids you listed have in common as solids?

How are the solids different from each other?

3. What do the solids you listed have in common when they become liquids?

How are the liquids different from each other?

4. What causes the solids to become liquid? 5. List five solids that do not become liquid when using your answer to #4.

6. What happens to them instead? What state of matter are they in?

132

Science


Alphabet History

Week 25 DAY 4

connect: to relate ideas to your life and to each other

Read the list of causes and the list of effects. Connect each cause with the effect that makes the most sense. Write the letter of the most logical effect after the cause.

Causes 1. The ancient Phoenicians traded with many countries. 2. People in different countries spoke different languages. 3. The Greeks added vowels to the Phoenician alphabet. 4. The English alphabet is related to the Phoenician alphabet. 5. The Phoenician civilization was destroyed by enemies.

Effects a. Readers were able to recognize words more easily. b. Other countries adopted the Phoenician alphabet. c. No literature from Phoenicia has survived. d. Some letters of the Phoenician alphabet look familiar to English speakers. e. The Phoenician alphabet was changed and adapted.

6. What strategy did you use to connect the causes and effects?


Social Studies

133

Potluck Puzzler

Week 25 DAY 5


The Greek goddesses Hera, Artemis, and Athena, and the Greek gods Zeus, Apollo, Ares, and Poseidon decided to have a potluck picnic on Mt. Olympus. Use the clues and the grid to narrow down the possibilities and determine who brought what. Write a on the grid to show which god or goddess brought which dish to the picnic.

Clues: • Poseidon brought something that begins with the same letter as his name. • Athena brought a salad, but someone else whose name begins with the letter A brought the tossed salad. • The pickles were brought by one of the four gods. • Zeus brought something made with bread. • Hera baked her dish in the oven. • Ares did not bring a salad. • The potato salad was not brought by a goddess. • Apollo brought dessert.

Zeus

Hera

Artemis

Athena

Poseidon

Ares

Apollo

potato salad baked beans tossed salad pickles sandwiches fruit salad cupcakes

134

Social Studies/Logic


What’s the Silver Lining? exemplify: to be a good example of something

Week 26 DAY 1

Have you heard the saying “Every cloud has a silver lining”? What exactly does the saying mean? Write a story to exemplify the meaning.

Every cloud has a silver lining


Language Arts

135

Cool Sculptures

Week 26


DAY 2

Jakob I. Sberg is known for his interesting ice sculptures. Below are two that he created from blocks of ice. Each block is a 1-foot cube. Visualize what each sculpture would look like if you viewed it from the front, back, top, and bottom. Then answer the questions. 1. Jakob used a special technique to hang this sculpture in the air. What is the surface area of the entire sculpture, including the bottom? How do you know?

2. Jakob reproduced the first sculpture. Then he attached an identical piece of sculpture below it, upside down. What is the surface area of this sculpture? Will it be twice as much as the surface area of the first sculpture? Explain.

136

Math


What’s Your HyPOPthesis? hypothesize: to make a good guess based on reasons

Week 26 DAY 3

Scientists conducted an experiment to test the impact of various physical changes to popcorn kernels. They wanted to see which would result in the fewest unpopped kernels. Read the experiment’s results. Then complete the items. Procedure: • They divided the kernels into three equal-sized groups and prepared each one differently: Group 1 was warmed in a conventional oven for two hours and then set aside. Group 2 was soaked in water for two hours and then set aside. Group 3’s kernels were scratched with a knife. • They popped each bag of popcorn separately the same way for the same amount of time. • They counted the number of popped pieces in each group.

Results: • The soaked group had the most popped corn and fewest unpopped kernels. • The heated and scratched groups had less popped corn and more unpopped kernels than the soaked group.

Why do you think the results of the experiment turned out as they did? Hypothesize two possible reasons. 1. 2. 3. Describe an experiment that tests one of your hypotheses. How will you know if your hypothesis may be correct?


Science

137

South Pole Clocks

Week 26 DAY 4

theorize: to have an idea why or how something happens

On the continent of Antarctica, there is no native population, only research scientists. Research bases often use the time zone of the country that owns the base. Look at the map and theorize answers to the questions.

8:00 p.m.

2:00 p.m.

The world is divided into 24 time zones that meet at the South Pole.

9:00 p.m.

6:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m.

11:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. 1:00 a.m. 6:00 a.m. 12:00 a.m. 12:00 a.m. 2:00 a.m. 6:00 a.m.

A map of Antarctica, prominent research stations, and the time zone each station uses 4:00 a.m.

1. Why do you think this system was adopted for this continent?

2. Why is it less important to have the time reflect the amount of light outside in this part of the world?

138

Social Studies


Baking Time

Week 26


DAY 5

Read the text. Jiri needs to bake 30 muffins for his class. The recipe he is using makes 12 muffins. Look at the recipe. Extrapolate to figure out how much of each ingredient he needs. 1. Recipe for 12 1 3

Recipe for 30

cup milk

cup milk

1 egg

eggs

2 cups flour

cups flour

1 2

cups sugar

cup sugar

2 tsp baking powder

tsp baking powder

1 2

cups blueberries

cup blueberries

2. The directions say to bake the batter in a 9" x 13" pan for 35 minutes, an 8" x 8" pan for 32 minutes, or two 9" x 4" loaf pans for 30 minutes. What pattern do you notice?

3. Extrapolate these baking times to estimate how long Jiri should bake the batter in cupcake tins. Explain your reasoning.

4. Why do you think the baking times vary?


Math/Science

139

Very Complete Sentences construct: to build by putting parts together

Week 27 DAY 1

Read the text. Then complete the items. A pangram is a sentence that uses all 26 letters of the alphabet. You may have seen this example of a pangram before, which is often used in exercises to practice handwriting or typing: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Construct three pangrams of your own. Each must contain all 26 letters but can repeat letters as needed. See how short you can make them! The sentences can be silly but must be grammatically correct. A complete alphabet is provided so you can keep track of which letters you have used as you go.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

1.

2.

3.

4. Describe the strategy you used to construct your pangrams.

140

Language Arts


Sky-High Averages strategize: to make a plan to achieve a goal

Week 27 DAY 2

Strategize to find a set of different whole numbers that have the average described. Write the numbers in the clouds. 1. The average of three numbers is 18. What could the numbers be?

2. The average of six numbers is 63. What could the numbers be?

3. The average of four numbers is 107.5. What could the numbers be?

4. The average of five numbers is 21.2. What could the numbers be?

5. What strategy did you use to solve the problems?


Math

141

A World of Bumper Cars

Week 27

model: to represent something that is happening

DAY 3

Earth’s continents and oceans sit on crusts that ride on tectonic plates that glide on the soft asthenosphere layer of Earth’s mantle. Like a crowded bunch of slow-motion bumper cars, the plates diverge away from each other, scrape past each other, or converge right into each other. Describe or draw how you would use these materials to model the movement of Earth’s tectonic plates and what happens when plates that sit on top or continents that overlap the plates interact in various ways. • a flat baking sheet

• graham crackers

• a can of frosting

• fruit roll cut into squares

1. What will each material represent in your model? a flat baking sheet a can of frosting graham crackers fruit roll squares How will you set them up to represent Earth?

2. Describe how to show plates converging and colliding.

3. Describe how to show two plates scraping past each other with a continent that overlaps both plates.

142

Science


Social Studies Crossword

Week 27 DAY 4

extend: to make longer

Read the clues and write the words to complete the crossword puzzle. Then extend the puzzle. Add four more words that are related in some way to social studies and that will connect with other letters on the page. Add boxes for letters as needed, give the f irst box for each word a new number, and write a clue for each word you add.

Clues: Across

Down

1. what happened in the past

2. Once upon a

5. solid ground

3. queens and emperors

6. happenings

4. conflicts

1

h i

s

2

3

t o r y

4

5

6


Social Studies

143

Yesterday’s China

Week 27 DAY 5

figure out: to find an answer

The timeline shows beginning and end dates of some of China’s dynasties, as well as the birth and death dates of some of its important philosophers. Use the timeline to figure out the time spans. 1. How long was the Tang Dynasty? 1556 BCE

Shang Dynasty begins. 2. How long did Mencius live?

1046 BCE

Shang Dynasty ends.

551 BCE 544 BCE

Confucius is born. Sun Tzu is born.

496 BCE 479 BCE 371 BCE

Sun Tzu dies. Confucius dies. Mencius is born.

289 BCE

Mencius dies.

206 BCE

Han Dynasty begins.

220 AD

Han Dynasty ends.

3. How long did Confucius live?

4. How long was it between the end of the Shang Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty?

5. How old was Confucius when Sun Tzu was born?

6. How long after Confucius died was Mencius born?

7. How long was the Han Dynasty?

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618 AD

Tang Dynasty begins.

907 AD

Tang Dynasty ends.

Social Studies/Math

8. How long after Mencius died did the Han Dynasty end?


Tricky Little Words

Week 28 DAY 1


In each of the following lists of words, there is one word that is different in some way from the others. Analyze the characteristics of the words to find the word that is different. For example, in the group big, out, nap, dot, three of the words have a vowel between two consonants. The word out does not follow this pattern, so it is the one that is different. Read and analyze each set of words. Circle the word in each set that is different from the others and explain how it is different. 1. yellow

purple

2. bunny

funny

3. pat

4. ache

5. gelatin

pit

brown

sunny

pot

best

silver

runny

put

dirt

elating

floor

tagline

tangled

6. Now make up a set of four words in which one is different from the others. Circle the one that is different.

Tell how that word is different.


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Balance the Toys

Week 28


DAY 2

Look at the toys on scales A and B. The weight on one side balances the weight on the other. Analyze the scales and deduce to complete the items. 1. Draw the toys that are needed to balance the right side of scale C. A.

B.

C.

2. Use drawings or words to explain how you deduced the solution.

3. Draw another arrangement of the toys to balance the scale.

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Math


Moving Sound apply: to use what you know in a new way

Week 28 DAY 3

Read the text. Have you ever noticed that the pitch of a sound changes as it moves toward you or away from you? Think of the sound of a speeding car, the sound of a “zoom.” That change in pitch is called the Doppler effect. The pitch of the car is higher the closer it gets to you. The pitch goes lower as it moves away from you. It doesn’t matter if the sound source or the listener is doing the moving; either way, the pitch will change.

Read the situations. Apply what you know about the Doppler effect and state how the pitch would change or if it would stay the same. 1. a motorcycle approaching and passing you 2. playing in a marching band during a parade 3. walking toward a hornets’ nest 4. running away from a barking dog on a leash 5. riding a train 6. a lawn mower backing up toward you 7. walking away from a building where an alarm is sounding 8. Describe a situation in which the pitch would start lower and then get higher.

9. Imagine a blind woman using a cane at an intersection. She hears the pitch of nearby cars getting lower. Is it probably safe for her to cross the street? Why or why not?


Science

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Riddle of the Sphinx

Week 28 DAY 4


Read the text. When people think of the sphinx, they usually picture the amazing Great Sphinx at Giza in Egypt. However, sphinxes played a part in the myths and beliefs of ancient peoples in many lands. One famous sphinx was said to have guarded the gate to the Greek city of Thebes. A tale tells how the Greek hero Oedipus saved himself from death at the hands of the sphinx by solving this riddle: Question: “What creature goes on four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening?” Answer: Man, who crawls on all fours as a baby, walks on two legs in the middle part of life, and walks with a cane in old age.

Now solve these ancient riddles. 1. One enters this building blind and comes out seeing. What is it? 2. At night, they come out without being called. By day, they are lost without being stolen. What are they? 3. Thirty white horses on a red hill: first they champ, then they stamp, then they stand still. What are they? 4. The beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the beginning of every end, and the end of every place: what is it? 5. There are 50 horses and 50 kings riding on a road. They come to a peach tree with 50 peaches. Each takes one, yet 49 peaches are left on the tree. How can this be?

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I, Too

Week 28 DAY 5


Read the poem below by Langston Hughes, one of the key figures who moved African-American arts and culture forward during the 1920s and 30s. As you read, keep in mind that the poem was written in 1926—a time when racism and prejudice were much more apparent than today. Now interpret the poem by answering the questions. 1. What does the first line “I, too, sing America” mean?

I, Too I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I’ll be at the table When company comes. Nobody’ll dare Say to me, “Eat in the kitchen,” Then. Besides, They’ll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed—

2. What is the second stanza beginning with “I am the darker brother” talking about? What period in American history does it remind you of?

I, too, am America.

3. What does Hughes envision in the third stanza beginning with “Tomorrow”?

4. How do you think Hughes felt about his country when he wrote this? Why?



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Jabberwocky

Week 29


DAY 1

The poem “Jabberwocky” was published by Lewis Carroll in 1871 in the novel Through the Looking-Glass. Some of the words he used are nonsense words that the author made up. Read the first two stanzas of the poem. Then write what part of speech each underlined word probably is. Finally, use context to infer the meaning of the underlined made-up words. They are not real words, so don’t worry about being correct. ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;

The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!

All mimsy were the borogoves,

Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun

And the mome raths outgrabe.

The frumious Bandersnatch!”

Part of speech

What I think it means

1. brillig 2. slithy 3. toves 4. gyre 5. gimble 6. wabe 7. mimsy 8. borogoves 9. mome 10. raths 11. outgrabe 12. frumious

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Language Arts


A Good Catch order: to list things in a certain way

Week 29 DAY 2

Some friends went fishing and caught 7 fish! The fish were different sizes. Read the clues to help you figure out their lengths. Order the fish lengths from the shortest to the longest. Write them in the boxes.

Clues: • The median length was 12 inches. • The mode of the lengths was 12 inches. • Three of the lengths are consecutive odd numbers. (Consecutive numbers follow one after the other in order.) • The smallest fish was 5 inches shorter than the median length. • The range of the lengths was 10 inches.

1. Fish lengths in inches:

2. What was the length of the shortest fish? 3. What was the length of the longest fish?


Math

151

On the Move

Week 29 DAY 3


Imagine it is the 22nd century. What is the modern way of getting around now? Complete the items to plan an ad campaign that aims to persuade people to buy a new transportation product. 1. Describe your target audience, the types of people who would be most likely to want to buy this product.

2. What benefits does this product have over older transportation options?

3. Design and illustrate an ad that makes your target audience aware of the product.

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Science


The Queen’s Decree

Week 29 DAY 4


The queen has issued a decree! Read the decree and deduce the queen’s reason for allowing some things and forbidding others. Then add five more. Hint: Look

closely at the words.

Royal Decree I Allow

I Forbid

pepper

salt

gloves

mittens

pliers

hammers

valleys

hills

highways

streets

donkeys

horses

eight

seven

peanuts

almonds

magazines

books

volleyball

tennis

She carries a scepter but not an orb.

1. What do all of the allowed items have in common?

2. Write five more examples of what the queen will allow and forbid. She allows

but forbids

.

She allows

but forbids

.

She allows

but forbids

.

She allows

but forbids

.

She allows

but forbids

.


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The Weight of Gravity

Week 29


A person’s weight depends on the person’s mass and the pull of gravity. Every planet’s gravity is a different strength. That is why the same person would weigh a different amount on a different planet. The chart shows how much a 150-pound person would weigh on each planet in our solar system.

DAY 5

Mercury

150

120

57 pounds

Venus

137 pounds

Earth

150 pounds

Mars

57 pounds

Jupiter

381 pounds

Saturn

140 pounds

Uranus

120 pounds

Neptune

180 pounds

Extrapolate data from the chart to answer the questions. Earth Uranus 1. Would a person who weighs 100 pounds on Earth weigh more or less on Venus?

2. About how much would that person weigh on Venus? 3. About how much would a child who weighs 65 pounds on Earth weigh on Mercury?

4. How much would that child weigh on Neptune? 5. On which of all the planets would that child weigh the most? 6. Weights vary from planet to planet because each planet’s gravity’s strength varies. Do you think Earth’s gravity is stronger or weaker than Saturn’s? Explain your answer.

7. Which two planets probably have the least amount of gravity?

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Science/Math


Mythmaking

Week 30 DAY 1


Most cultures have folktales or myths that explain something about the world. These stories are often fantasies. Read this myth from Ghana about a common character, Anansi. It explains the moon’s presence in the night sky. Anansi the spider had six sons. Each was named for his special ability: See Trouble, Road Builder, River Drinker, Animal Skinner, Stone Thrower, and Cushion. One day, Anansi fell into the river and a fish swallowed him up! At that moment, See Trouble saw that his dad was in danger and gathered his brothers. Road Builder paved the way for his brothers to reach the river. River Drinker drank all the water, leaving the fish that swallowed Anansi flopping. Animal Skinner then used his jaws to open the fish and free Anansi. Just then, a falcon swooped Anansi into the sky! Stone Thrower threw a stone and hit the falcon, who quickly let go of Anansi. Then Cushion put himself under his father to soften his fall. That evening, as they all headed home, Anansi spotted a great globe of light in the forest. He decided to give it to his rescuer, but he couldn’t decide which one. The great god Nyame offered to hold the globe until Anansi decided who most deserved his prize.

Now compose a myth of your own. It can explain any part of the natural world.


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Block Views

Week 30 DAY 2


If you fold this pattern on the lines 90 degrees, it will make a box. The box is shown below from four dif ferent angles, but each one shows a missing face. Visualize which face is missing and how it would be turned. Draw the missing face at the correct angle.

F

A K W I E

1.

2.

3.

4.

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Math


What Can You Tell?

Week 30


DAY 3

Read the text and look at the graphic. Then read the statements. Determine whether each is true or false or whether there is not enough information to decide. Then explain your answer. What You Need:

Directions:

• clear glass tray

1. Fill the tray with lukewarm water.

• lukewarm water

2. Set the tray on top of the two cups, with the hot cup under one end and the cold cup under the other.

• large cup with 200 mL of very hot water • large cup with 200 mL of ice water • red and blue liquid food coloring

3. Add four drops of red food coloring to the water above the hot cup and four drops of blue food coloring to the water above the cold cup. Add both colors at the same time.

Results: Color Water blue

red

Observations

cold

sinks and stays together; moves slowly toward hot side in a band of color; spreads out over the hot cup

hot

spreads quickly across the top; covers whole top in 1–2 minutes, then starts to sink

1. The blue food coloring spreads out quickly.

2. The red and blue food colorings acted differently because they are different colors.

3. Food coloring is denser than water.

4. If all the water were cold, the colors would never spread out.


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Roller Coaster Prices

Week 30 DAY 4


Read the situation. Then predict how the price of goods will change and explain why. 1. A store is stocking its shelves with items for the fall holidays. The store has a lot of sunscreen left over after a mild, rainy summer. The price of sunscreen will probably

.


2. A huge power outage in a big city has left its residents without power for days. People are using battery-operated devices in the meantime. The price of batteries will probably

.


3. A large wildfire in the state of Georgia burned a major crop of peanuts.

The price of peanut butter will probably

.


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Social Studies


Game Time!

Week 30 DAY 5


Two boys and two girls were playing a video game. They formed two teams—Team A and Team B. Each player earned points in the game. Read the clues to help you deduce the names of the players on each team as well as each player’s score.

Clues: • The teams tied, each having a total score of 164. • A boy and a girl were on Team A. A boy and a girl were on Team B.

Teresa

Paco

Afshin

Leon

• Team A’s players had a difference of 4 points between them. • Teresa didn’t have the lowest score, but it was lower than the average score of the four players. • Paco had 6 more points than Leon did. • Afshin had 6 more points than Teresa did. • The average score of the two girls was 2 points greater than the average score of the two boys.

Write the names of the players and their points. Team A

Team B

player

points

player

points

player

points

player

points


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Hidden Places create:

Week 1

1.

Martin’s arms and legs will be aching after swimming all day.

2.

Now there is far more land for growing things.

3.

You can buy the best oregano for your pizza here.

4.

A snake the color of topaz oozed through the grass.

5.

Before stopping for the night, we found a place to camp.

6.

All of a sudden, a huge alligator swam past us. A big cypress tree toppled over and landed in the road.

determine:

9. 10. 11. 12. 13.

A Little Bit Softer Now

Week 1 DAY 2

to figure out using facts or what you observe

pitch: how high or low a sound is volume: how loud or quiet a sound is

Think about the sound each animal below makes. Rank the animals’ sounds in order from highest pitch (1) to lowest pitch (7). Then rank the animals in order from loudest volume (1) to quietest (7).

Answer the questions to determine how well Markus did. 1.

Markus filled 11 orders in his first hour. He earned $9.65. How many orders did he fill correctly and incorrectly?

pitch

8

correctly

This is Mei’s fourth illustration this week. Penguins are not Antarctic amphibians. Please buy me a loaf or t wo of bread. Did they cast Leon as the lead actor ? I ate a taco as the festival continued. I have a weird itch on my elbow.

incorrectly

2. dog

3

3. gorilla

Markus filled 15 orders in his second hour. He earned at least $13.00. What is the fewest amount of orders he would have had to have filled correctly to earn that much?

4. lion 5. mouse 6. frog 7. elephant

11 3.

volume

2 3 5 7 1 6 4

1. lamb

2.

DAY 3

Read the definitions of two characteristics of sound.

Markus started working at a fast food restaurant. He earned $1.00 for every order he filled. However, if he got any orders wrong, $0.45 was taken out of his earnings for each order he filled incorrectly. For example, if he filled five orders and one was incorrect, he would get paid $4.55 instead of $5.00. . .

beach farm store zoo forest swamp street

Week 1

rank: to put in order by value

Read the text.

Now create six hidden places of your own. Circle the hidden places. 8.

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May I Take Your Order?

DAY 1

to make something new

The name of a place is hidden in each of the following sentences. Examine each sentence. Look for a t ype of place. Underline it and write it on the line. The first one has been done for you as an example.

7.

Many tasks are open-ended, with many possible responses. Accept any reasonable response.

5 4 3 2 7 6 1

a cat a bee 10. Which characteristic of sound seems to relate more to the animal’s size? volume Describe the relationship.The larger the animal, the louder its volume. 8. Name a different animal whose pitch is higher than a dog’s.

orders

9. Name a different animal whose volume is quieter than a mouse’s.

Markus was happy with his first day at work. He filled 120 orders, and he made between $110.00 and $115.00. What is the maximum amount of money he could have made?

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Odd One Out

DAY 4

illustrate:

Each of these groups of things has one item that does not quite fit. Categorize three of the items in each set. Cross out the one that doesn’t belong and explain why. 1. river, stream, ocean,, pond

Week 1

salt water.

drawing of a lion with its mouth open

1.

A president is the only one

2. president, monarch, emperor, king

that is elected. A toboggan is the only thing that you can’t wear. 4. wood, apple, paper, silk Silk is the only product you don’t get from trees. 5. equator, prime meridian, , Tropic of Capricorn, Arctic Circle The prime meridian is the only one that runs north–south. 6. Africa, Morocco, Austria, India Africa is the only one that is a continent. 7. canal, peak,, trench, valley A peak is the only one that is raised. A budget is the only thing you 8. loan, interest, investment, budget can’t get at a bank. 9. flag, map, law,, totem pole A law is the only thing that doesn’t use symbols.

2.

3. T-shirt, toga, toboggan,, tiara

Social Studies

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Ekaterina wrote two interesting addition problems. Read t he problems. Then complete the items. 1. Examine Problems A and B

below. Which one do you think has the greater sum? Explain.

I think Problem A will have the greater sum because it starts with a much bigger number. Check your guess. Solve the problems and compare the sums. Problem A

123,456,789

087,654,321

123,456,780

007,654,321

123,456,700

000,654,321

123,456,000

000,054,321

123,450,000

000,004,321

123,400,000

000,000,321

123,000,000

000,000,021

120,000,000

+ 000,000,001

+ 100,000,000

What did you find out?

1,083,676,269 They’re both the same.

3. Examine the numbers again. Why do you

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4.


DAY 1

1. A stitch in time saves nine.

Sewing your own clothing can help you save time and money.

X

drawing of a boy jumping into water in a cannonball position splash

Taking care of small problems promptly helps prevent larger problems. Something that is fun to do once may be less fun if you do it nine times.

2. Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.

X

Don’t make plans based on what you think is going to happen. Don’t count on other people to do things for you that you can do yourself.

drawing of a large bird using its wings

Don’t be careless with things that break easily.

Paraphrase this proverb. Then answer the item.

rat-a-tat

3. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

f lap f lap

It is much better to prevent something bad from happening than to tr y to fix it after it happens.

Look at these pictures and imagine what sounds you might hear. Write an onomatopoeia word for each. 5.

thwack 14

4. Is the proverb in item 3 above more similar in meaning to item 1 or 2? Explain.

6.

It’s more similar to item 1 because it’s also about preventing a problem. kerplunk

Language Arts/Art


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Caught in a Food Web

The Five W’s

Week 2 DAY 3


Week 2


Read the text.

DAY 4

The Five W’s are five basic questions we ask to get information: Who? What? When? Where? Why? Read and analyze the facts about Hannibal, a warrior who lived more than 2,200 years ago, to decide which basic “W” questions each statement answers. Write Who, What, When, Where, or Why after each statement. Each statement answers at least two of t hese questions.

Diagram a food web using the bold words. Write the name of the plant or animal. Then draw an arrow from the living thing that is eaten to the thing or things that eat it.

In an African ecosystem, grass is food for three animals: the ant, the impala, and the zebra. The zebra is also food for three animals: the hyena, lion, and cheetah. The aardvark eats ants, and the aardvark is eaten only by the hyena. The lion and the hyena both eat the impala.

Facts About Hannibal

1. Hannibal was born in Carthage in North Africa in 247BCE.

hyena

lion

who, what, where, when

cheetah

2. In 219 BCE, Hannibal led the Carthaginian army in an attack on the city of Saguntum.

when, who, what, where 3. Saguntum was an ally of Rome, so the attack led to war between Rome and Carthage.

aardvark

what, why 4. The following year, Hannibal led a huge army of soldiers and 37 elephants across the high Alps mountain range into Italy.

ant

impala

when, who, what, where

zebra

5. Elephants could scare, charge, and trample the enemy, which made them powerful weapons of war.

think you got the results you did?

Each column in A has the same sum as the matching column in B. For example, the 1st column in A has one 9. The 1st column in B has nine 1s. The 2nd column in A has two 8s. The 2nd column in B has eight 2s. 16

drawing of a girl playing a drum

Week 2

Read each familiar saying, or proverb, and mark with an X the sentence that is closest to the same meaning.

Problem B

987,654,321

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Mirrored Sums

1,083,676,269

13

roar 3.

Science

In Other Words. . .

DAY 5

to represent in a picture

Crash! Boom! Bang! are examples of onomatopoeia, words that imitate sounds. There are many such words in the English language. Some represent sounds made by animals, such as moo or meow. Others, like the words in the title of this page, represent sounds made by people or things. Illustrate each onomatopoeia word below with an action that would make the sound represented by the word.

The ocean is the only one that has


12

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Crash! Boom! Bang!

Week 1

categorize:to name a group

2.

11

what, why

grass

6. The Romans won the Battle of Zama in 202 BCE by blowing trumpets to scare Hannibal’s elephants into trampling his own troops.

who, what, when


Science

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18

Social Studies



Many tasks are open-e nded, with many possible responses. Accept any reasonable response.

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Putting Down Roots

Week 2

associate: to think of similar things as

When Sparky Barked

DAY 5

being related

order:

Read the i nformation and associate the clues with words you know. Add letters to complete each word or words.

8 4 1 6 11 2 5 10

i a l s t u d i e s i z e s oc i a l a n t i s o c i a l a s s o c i a t i o n s oc i a l m e d i a

1.

a subject you study in school

2.

to get together with friends

3.

unfriendly

4.

an organization

5.

Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat

6.

Think of three more words or phrases with the same “soc” root. Write a paragraph that uses all three words or phrases.

s oc

12

Belonging to a society is very important to human beings. Even loners who don’t really like other people need to associate with others from time to time. Sociologists say that having a strong social network helps us work out life’s problems.

7 3 9

19

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Apply Deidre’s ratio to make t wo more paintings that Deidre might make with dots and drops. Show a different number of shapes in each one. The shapes do not have to be the same size, but there should be a 2:3 ratio of dots to drops in each picture.

“I don’t know,” I said, “but I’ll find out.” It started out as a quiet evening. I quickly saw what was upsetting our dog. “Oh, wow!” my sister said. “Chickens!” Suddenly, our dog Sparky began to bark furiously. I hurried outside and headed for the noise. After I stopped laughing, I called my family to come out and see. Our neighbor finally heard the commotion and came to take her chickens back home. There was a huge flock of chickens strutting about on our lawn! “What’s wrong with Sparky?” my sister asked. Sparky, however, bounced one step backward with every “woof”!

1. number of dots

20

Language Arts

24


DAY 3

21

Week 3 DAY 5

Read the text. The medallion is an ancient art form, going back to the time of the Romans. Originally, they were round pieces of metal onto which the face of a ruler or other honored person was hand-cast. Now they can represent a concept with symbols or just be a nice piece of art. A drawing like this might be a design for a medallion representing the topic HISTORY.

Design your own medallion to i llustrate a topic that

• Crops grew abundantly.

is important to you. Choose any topic you li ke and write the topic in t he circle below. Then add symbols that represent that topic for you.

• Trade developed and grew. fall in the north, spring in the south

Math


Read the list of events and organize them into a paragraph that describes a chain of causes and effects. You may use the sentences as they are or add transition words or phrases such as because, so, or as a result if you wish.

summer in the north, winter in the south

6 9

36 drops dots 60 ÷ 5 = 12, 12 x 2 = 24, 12 x 3 = 36

Your Medallion

DAY 4

A cause is a reason that something happens. The effect is what happens as a result. However, that effect may then cause something else to happen, and so on, creating a chain of causes and effects.

winter in the north, summer in the south

number of drops

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Week 3

organize: to arrange and order information to make it useful

Sergei drew a model of Earth’s path around the sun and the seasons that result. Examine the model and assess it. Circle any parts that are incorrect and describe what is wrong below.

number of dots

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Chain of Events

Week 3

to figure out whether something is correct

4 6

2. One of Deidre’s paintings has 60 shapes in all. How many shapes are dots? How many are drops? Use pictures or words to show how you know.

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As the World Turns assess:

They were paying no attention at all to Sparky.

Then we all had a good laugh about our unexpected visitors.


DAY 2

Deidre loves to paint. But all of her works feature only dots and drops. Not only that, but every picture Deidre paints has a 2:3 ratio of dots to drops.

finalsentence:

They refer to relationships between people or groups.

Week 3


number of drops

What do all these words have in common?


Dots and Drops

DAY 1

to list things in a certain way

The sentences below describe an event, but they are not in the correct sequence. Order the sentences correctly by numbering them from 1 to 12 so that the story makes sense. Then write a final sentence to complete the story.

Many words in English have roots from Latin and other ancient languages. The root “soc” comes from Latin. The Latin word socius means “companion,” and socialis means “living with others.”

7.

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• Not everyone had to farm. • The river flooded every spring. • There was more than enough food for all. • The civilization flourished. • The floods deposited rich soil. • Some people became craftsmen and merchants.

The river f looded every spring. The f loods deposited rich soil, so crops grew abundantly. There was more than enough food for all. As a result, not everyone had to farm. Some people became craftsmen and merchants. Trade developed and grew. The civilization f lourished.

spring in the north, fall in the south

Describe any parts that are incorrect and explain how they should look or what they should say.

The tilt is wrong on the top, bottom, and right globes. They should all be tilted like the globe on the left. The arrow on the bottom is wrong. The arrows should continue going around clockwise. The labels for the seasons are wrong. The top and right labels should be switched. 22

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Alliteration All Around

Week 4

Week 4 DAY 2

propose: to suggest an idea or a solution

Read the text. Then generate your own phrases using alliteration.

Imagine that you volunteer at an after-school homework club. Some students need help comparing fractions. Read their problems and propose a strategy that will let the students find the solutions as easily as possible.

Writing phrases and sentences using words that begin with the same letter is called alliteration. Here is an example: “a magical moon in the mist.” Writers may use alliteration in poems, songs, or descriptive writing because the repetition of sounds is pleasing to the ear. Alliteration can also be used for humor, as in tongue twisters, or to make slogans more memorable. As you generate your own phrases, try to use at least three words in each phrase that begin with the same letter.

1. Compare

2 9

and

7 8

23

24

Social Studies/Art

. Which is greater? 2

7

1

2

Bumper Plates

1

1. Write a phrase that might be part of a poem or descriptive paragraph.

Geologists predict that, 50 million years from now, Africa will move north, the Mediterranean Sea will continue to close up, North and South America will move away from Africa and Europe, and the Atlantic will widen.

Predict how Earth will

Earth today

8

5 2. Compare 12 and

You’ll yearn for Yummy Yogo Yogurt!

look in 50 million years and draw it below.

Pangaea, 500 million years ago

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2. Write an advertising slogan that would be easy to remember.

DAY 3

We may feel like we are on solid ground most of the time, but the land we live on rests on tectonic plates on Earth’s crust. These plates move extremely slowly. Geologists theorize that every 500 million years or so, all of the land masses come together in one giant supercontinent called Pangaea. After roughly 50 million years, it starts to break up again into separate continents.

Compare 9 and 8 to 2 . 9 is less than 2 . 1 is close to 1, so it is greater than 2 .

solution:

Week 4


Read the text and look at the globes.

strategy: 7 8

dozens of dancing dandelions


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DAY 1


SPORTS

7 18 .

Which is greater? 5 7

Change 12 and 18 so that they have the 15 same denominator. 125 equals 36 and 187 equals 14 36 . strategy:

3. Write a phrase or sentence that could be part of a silly song.

zillions of zebras zigzagging at the zoo

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solution: 4. Write a tongue twister.

Brenda baked batches of banana bread to bring by the blushing bride’s buffet.

I compared 9 and 8 to 2 because it was easy to see that 92 is less and 87 is greater. 125 and 7 1 18 are both less than but close to 2 . It was easier to use common denominators to compare them.

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Earth in 50 million years

3. Did you use the same strategy to solve both problems? Explain why or why not. 2 7 1

5. Write a whole sentence of four or more words in which every word begins with the same letter.


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Rock the Cradle

DAY 4

to decide what something means interpret:to interpret:

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Picture This

Week 4

Read the text. Then interpret the phrase to answer t he questions.

DAY 5

illustrate:

a newborn baby’s cradle

perpendicular lines

right angle

intersecting lines

acute angle

L L L E R A P A S E L I N

exponent fraction

equilateral triangle

obtuse angle

decimal

isosceles triangle

perimeter

percent

scalene triangle

area

equation

quadrilateral

volume

coordinates

“I wonder who lives here,” Charlotte whispered. “Do you suppose it’s some kind of wizard? Or maybe a troll or a gnome?” “Probably not,” I replied, even though there here did seem to be something hing rather magical about the place.

Design at least six terms. Have fun!

drawing of a simple house with a large sloped roof, a door with a f lower on it, a round window above the door, and two tall, thin windows on each side of the door

2. What is a baby’s cradle used for?

A cradle isis a place where where a baby is cared cared for when its life fe begins. begins. It could be where new civilizations began. It’s where there were a lot of people working together to make a culture. They probably developed art, music, religion, buildings, written language, language, and and money. money. They probably probably started farming in one place and set up businesses. Maybe they invented school and built ships to go exploring. Social Studies

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frac tion

3. How does “cradle of civilization” suggest what happened in Mesopotamia, China, Mexico, and Peru? Describe what you think happened in these places.

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Wild Bunch determine: to figure out using facts or

DAY 3

visualize:

• One-fourth of the animals are elephants.

cell wall vacuole , which

from being green and leafy! Plant cells are surrounded by a

• One-eighth of the animals are zebras.

which is a nonliving layer. Inside the cell, there is a

• The rest of the animals are lions. • There are 6 lions.

stores water. There are also

chloroplasts

Week 5 DAY 4

to imagine how something will look

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were built between the 8th and 6th centuriesBCE. Today, nothing remains of them except descriptions that have been handed down through the centuries. The gardens were an artificial mountain with arched terraces of different levels supported by columns. Plants grew over the edges of the terraces, making the gardens appear to hang in mid-air. In the first centuryBCE, the Greek geographer and historian Strabo wrote this description: “It consists of vaulted terraces raised one above another, and resting upon cube-shaped pillars. These are hollow and filled with earth to allow trees of the largest size to be planted.”

Plant cells are a lot like human cells, but there are some differences that prevent us

• One-half of the he animals are giraffes.


Read the text and visualize the place it describes. Then draw a picture or a diagram to represent the scene that you have visualized.

Read the text. The blanks are words that are scrambled in the word box. Using the text as clues, unscramble the words, write them on the lines, then use them to diagram a plant cell.

Clues:

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The Hanging Gardens

Week 5


Some giraffes, elephants, zebras, and lions live in a wildlife sanctuary. Read the clues and determine how many animals of each type there are.

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Inside a Cell

DAY 2

what you observe

DAY 1

It was an odd little house,set all by itself in a clearing deep in the forest. The roof came to a point and sloped down on both sides almost all the way to the ground. A large flower that looked like a daisy or a sunflower was painted on the front door. The top of the door was rounded. Directly above it, and below the peak of the roof, was a single small round window. A row of four tall, narrow windows flanked the door, two on each side.

1. What two things does the phrase “cradle of civilization” compare?

It compares a geographical area to a baby’s cradle.

Week 5

to represent in a picture

Read the paragraph. Then make a sketch or drawing to illustrate the text.

Design a fun way to w rite math terms so that the words act like

pictures that show the meaning of the words. Come up with your own math words, or use t he ideas below:

The area of Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in the Middle East, is sometimes described with the metaphor “the cradle of civilization.” Until about 6,000 years ago, the region included what are now Syria, Turkey, Iraq, and Egypt. Other geographical areas have also been given the label “the cradle of civilization.” They include China, Mexico, and Peru.

An Odd Little House

Week 4


,

, which contain a substance

that combines with carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight to allow plants to make their The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

chlorophyll . The food is turned into usable energy in the mitochondria . In the center of the nucleus, the production of nucleolus , which acts like a factory foreman. proteins is overseen by the own food. This substance is

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drawing of an elaborate garden with terraces and columns and lots of plants, including trees

lions

Suppose the sanctuary received 6 more giraffes and 6 more zebras. What would the total number of animals be?

mitochondria

cell wall

vacuole

nucleolus

chloroplasts

chlorophyll

60 What fractions would describe the number of animals in the wildlife sanctuary then? 1 2 1 5 1 5 1 10

are giraffes. are elephants. are zebras. are lions.

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to use facts and reason to figure something out

Use the clues to help you deduce the names of the children riding the Ferris wheel. Write each child’s name on the correct line.

Micah Naomi Ethan Leila James Sofia Carlos Tuva

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

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Caught Where?

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Clues: • The wheel turns ns counter-clockwise.

Reshma is investigating factors. She wants to see if she can find numbers that have exactly one factor, two factors, three factors, and so on. For example, she knows that the number 6 has four factors: 1, 2, 3, and 6.

They are both hard and not comfortable. They don’t move and can’t be bent. You have have a problem without without 3. What does the saying mean? an easy solution. You have to make a difficult decision between two options, neither of which is a good one.

1.

one number that has exactly 1 factor

2, 3 4, 9, 25 four numbers that have exactly 4 factors15, 21, 22, 35 two numbers that have exactly 5 factors16, 81 six numbers that have exactly 6 factors12, 18, 20, 28, 32, 75 three numbers that have exactly 3 factors

4. Give an example of being “caught between a rock and a hard place.” Describe what happened.

I promised my friend I would help him study for a big test, but it was the same night as an important track meet. If I skipped competing at the track meet, I’d be kicked off the team. If I didn’t help my friend, he would be mad at me.


They are prime numbers.

• When Ethan is at the bottom, Carlos will be on top.

They are squares.

5. What would be the opposite of being “caught between a rock and a hard place”?

• Tuva got on right after Carlos did. • When Sofia is at the bottom, Naomi will be on top. • Sofia is between James and Carlos.

12 96 Write its factors: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 48, 96

smooth sailing, having an easy decision

4. What is the greatest number of factors a two-digit number can have?

Find a number that exemplifies that description.

6. Create your own saying that conveys the opposite meaning of being “caught between a rock and a hard place.”

being caught between ice cream and cake

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two numbers that have exactly 2 factors


• James got on right after Leila did.

Math/Logic

2 3

Help Reshma identify numbers less than 100 that exemplify the descriptions below. Write the numbers on the lines.

• Micah is on the bottom. om.

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Read the text.

2. How are these things the same?

3

DAY 2

to be a good example of something exemplify:to exemplify:

a rock and a hard place

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Factor Search

DAY 1


1. What does the saying compare?

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Think about what the expression “caught between a rock and a hard place” means. Analyze it by completing the items below.

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’Round and ’Round deduce:

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Materials at Work

DAY 3


examples: copper, aluminum, gold, silver, sodium

2. canoe 3. same

examples: glass, air, plastic, rubber, wood

4. softer 1. Compare the examples of conductors. What do the good conductors have in common?

They are all metal elements.

5. dealt 6. harms

2. Compare the examples of insulators. What do the good insulators have in common?

They are not metal.

7. horse 8. lies

3. Analyze and compare these objects. Circle the object that is probably the best conductor.

9. tacos 10. artist

The coins are made of metal.

15.

kale reset brush speak nailed

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11. 12. 13. 14.

The fabric and rubber soles would help insulate the frog. Science


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One critic said the proportions were wrong. The statue shows Zeus seated, with his head almost touching the ceiling of the huge temple. If Zeus were to stand up, he would lift the roof right off the temple!

DAY 1

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DAY 2

5.

3. How many cards did he take?

What quality do all or most of the people you admire the most have?

Most of them are great leaders. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Which qualities above do you wish you had. Why?

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...): Age (within the past ...):

hour day week The most recent earthquakes:

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4.1 24 km Eof San Jose 1:53 p.m. 2.8 2 km Eof The Geysers 12:26 p.m.

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1.8 27 km SSWof Rio Dell 10:46 a.m. 2.0 12 km ESE of Boonville 11:03 a.m.

Math

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3.6 8 km NWof Julian 6:39 a.m.

San Jose

1. Which city was the largest earthquake closest to? 2. What was its magnitude? 3. What time did it happen?

4.1 4.1 1:53 p.m.

4. Circle the region that received the fewest earthquakes this week.

northern

central

southern

5. How many earthquakes happened on this day?

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Week 7


DAY 5

Read the text. Then complete the items. Magda wants to make a scale model of the solar system. This means that the model would represent the relative distances of each planet from the sun and from each other. She found the distances listed in astronomical units, or AU. One AU is the distance from Earth to the sun (150,000,000 kilometers).

Confucius was a Chinese philosopher, sage, and teacher who lived 2,500 years ago. He was considered so wise that people still remember and repeat his sayings. Here is one of them:

Average Distance of Planets from the Sun in AU:

“Study the past if you would define the future.” 1. Paraphrase the quotation.

People need to learn about what happened in the past if they want to guide what will happen in the future.

Mercury: 0.4

Jupiter: 5.2

Venus: 0.7

Saturn: 9.5

Earth: 1

Uranus: 19

Mars: 1.5

Neptune: 30

“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

It’s easier to work with smaller numbers.

If people don’t learn from what happened in the past, they will just keep making the same mistakes over again.

7. Mercury is 4,880 km across. Jupiter is 139,822 km across. The sun is 1,391,016 km across. Is it possible for Magda to represent the scale of the planet and sun sizes on her 30 cm model? Explain your answer.

No. The sun is about 285 times as big as Mercury. If Mercury was 1 mm on the model, the sun would nearly nearly take up the the whole rest rest of the 30 cm. cm. There would be no room for the distances.

3. How are these two quotations alike?

Both are about the importance of understanding history in order to make the future better. Social Studies

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Words Are Birds

Week 8

to look at closely for patterns and relationships analyze:to analyze:

DAY 1

Read the text. Then analyze analyze each each metaphor, answer the questions, and think of a different metaphor that makes a similar comparison. A metaphor compares two things by saying that one thing is the other. The things being compared are different from each other but do have something in common. For example, if you call someone an early bird, you are comparing two different things, a person and a bird. What they have in common is being up and about early in the morning.

wind and a blowtorch Both are hot and can burn you. a scorching flame

What two things hings are being compared?

6. Why do you think astronomers use AU to talk about distances in the solar system? 2. Paraphrase the quotation.

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1. The hot desert wind was a blowtorch, searing our skin.

1. If Magda uses 1 cm to represent 1 AU, her model would have to be at least 30 cm wide. 2. Using the same scale, Magda would put Jupiter 4.2 cm away from Earth. 3. Using the same scale, Magda would put Uranus 9.5 cm away from Saturn. 20 times farther away from the sun than Mars i s. 4. Neptune is 105,500,000 105 ,500,000 km 5. How far away from the sun is Venus in kilometers?

George Santayana was born in Spain in 1863 and moved to the United States as a young boy. He became a famous philosopher, poet, and novelist. This famous statement of his is often quoted:

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Off the Scale

Week 7

Read the text and quotation from a historical figure. Then paraphrase the quotation.


DAY 3

Map Key


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Week 7

6. How many magnitude 3 earthquakes happened this week?


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Magnitude:

Room A: I divided 100 by 5 to get 20. There are 20 numbers that are multiples of 5. Room B: I divided 100 by 3 to get 33 (and a remainder of 1). There are 33 multiples of 3. Room C: I added 20 and 33. Then I subtracted the six numbers that are multiples of both 5 and 3 because they are counted twice. (20 + 33) – 6 = 47, so there are 47 numbers.

smart, strong, elegant, kind always smiling, hardworking tough and nice at the same time resourceful, knows about everything


Look at the map. It shows earthquakes in California in a single day. Interpret the map, key, and data to complete the items.

4. The school was impressed with your work and wants to know how you figured out the answers. Use numbers or words to explain how you found each solution.

Now write some qualities that make each of the people you admire unique.

.

Zeus has to prove himself to the local citizens, who want to send him back to Greece.

to decide what something means interpret:to interpret:

Room C Nick took all the numbers that were multiples of 3 and all the numbers that were multiples of 5.

4.

.

What is the main conflict?

Shake, Rattle, and Roll

Week 7

Room B Nick took all the numbers that were multiples of 3. 2. How many cards did he take?

3.

action adventure a statue of Zeus that comes to life and breaks out of his temple The setting is modern Memphis, Tennessee Describe the main character.He is a superhero who rescues people. He can f ly, he towers over everyone, and he can turn bad guys into statues.

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1. How many cards did he take?

2.

My story will be about


Room A Nick took all the numbers that were multiples of 5.

Michelle Obama Aunt Andrea, Andrea, my my mother’s sister Mr. Turner, Turner, my teacher Joseph, my best friend friend

2.

5.

Oh, no! Quick Nick the Number Thief stole some number cards from three first-grade classrooms. All of t he cards were taken from hundred charts. Help find Nick and the stolen goods by figuring out how many number cards were taken from each room. Read the clues and answer t he questions.

1.

Pretend you are going to write a piece of fiction about the statue of Zeus at Olympia. You can choose any genre: historical fiction, action adventure, comedy, mystery, or science fiction. Which genre would you choose?

4.


List the four people you admire the most. They may be family members, other people you know, or famous people. Evaluate their qualities by completing the item.

1.

3.

Catch That Thief!

Week 7

to judge carefully

DAY 5

The Statue of Zeus in the Temple of Zeus at Olympia was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. It was sculpted about 2,500 years ago and was destroyed in an earthquake over 1,500 years ago. The statue was 40 feet tall. How tall are you? Imagine how huge that statue was!

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What I Like About You

Week 6

to think of ways to solve a problem or gather ideas

Read the text and brainstorm ideas for a story.

Now think of five more landform or water anagram pairs of your own and write them on the lines below.

4. If you were camping and found a frog and wanted to keep it warm, which of these could you put it in? Why?

evaluate:

brainstorm:

desert ocean mesa forest delta marsh shore isle coast strait

1. rested

a good insulator: a material whose electrons are not free to interact easily with other materials

Explain your choice.

DAY 4

Anagrams are words that are made by arranging the letters of another word. For example, stream is an anagram of master . Experiment with the letters in the words below to find anagrams that name landforms and bodies of water.

a good conductor: a material whose electrons flow freely, carrying electrical current to other materials

Zeus at Olympia

Week 6

to try doing things to see their effect experiment:to experiment:

Read the text and complete the items.

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Words in Disguise

Week 6


How are they alike? The hot desert wind was

.

2. The small pond is a diamond shining in the sunlight.

a pond and a diamond Both are bright and shiny. a mirror ref lecting the sun

What two things hings are being compared? How are they alike? The small pond is

.

3. I get ready for school quickly, but my brother is a snail.

a person and a snail Both move very slowly. a turtle I get ready for school quickly, but my brother is What two things are being compared?

How are they alike?


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Number Grids

DAY 2


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Exquisite Equines

Week 8

DAY 3


Fill in the number grids. In each box, write a number that exemplifies the headings in both the box’s row and column. For example, 7 is an odd number that is less than 10. You may use a number more than once in a grid.

Early Explorers

Week 8

less multiple than 10 of 3

What do you suppose it was like to be an explorer in ancient times, without the modern equipment we have now and without the knowledge that we’ve gained over the centuries? Pytheas was a famous Greek geographer and explorer. About 2,300 years ago, he set sail on the Mediterranean Sea from the south coast of what is now France. He sailed into the Atlantic Ocean, north through the Irish Sea, and into the North Sea. He came to a land he called Thule, which is believed to be the country that we call Norway today.

Horses are tall, majestic creatures standing on four hooved feet with long, flowing manes. They are tame, swift, and agile but delicate. Zebras, on the other hand, are shorter and stockier hooved animals with bold black and white stripes and spiked manes. They are sturdy but not easy to tame.

2.

factor of 60

greater than 12

odd number

When Pytheas arrived home, he reported that he had been told that there was a land even farther north than Thule where the sea was solid and the sun never set in the summer. People thought it was a tall tale and made fun of Pytheas for believing it.

factor of 81 1.

odd number

7

9

greater than 5

8

factor of 24

3

18 12

3.

greater than 8 even number multiple of 5 less than 20

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15 10 12

multiple of 4

prime number two-digit number factor of 36

17 29 3 46 57 27 18 9 3

both

tall long manes tame swift agile delicate

16 32 50 30 20 25 14 8 10

Math


shorter stockier black/white stripes spiked manes sturdy not easy to tame

Science


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2.

3.

DAY 5

No. In the far north, the sea is frozen, and the sun doesn’t set in the summer.

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Decimal Duo

DAY 1

infer:

Gym,Field & Court

Your class is going on a field trip. You will be riding on a bus for two hours each way. You can choose one of four magazines to read on the bus ride. Read the descriptions below, make a choice, and explain why you chose that magazine.

Buck lived at a big house in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley. Judge Miller’s place, it was called. It stood back from the road, half hidden among the trees, through which glimpses could be caught of the wide cool veranda that ran around its four sides. The house was approached by gravelled driveways which wound about through wide-spreading lawns and under the interlacing boughs of tall poplars. At the rear things were on even a more spacious scale than at the front. There were great stables, where a dozen grooms and boys held forth, rows of vine-clad servants’ cottages, an endless and orderly array of outhouses ...

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to give good reasons for your thoughts explain:to explain:

Read the paragraph from The Call of the Wild, published in 1903. It is about a dog named Buck. As you read, visualize Buck’s surroundings. Then draw the two views of the place where he lived.

Do you think Pytheas’s report about the land north of Thule was a tall tale? Why or why not?

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On the Bus

Week 8


Why did you choose these three traits?

I chose courage because long voyages were dangerous, curiosity because that is a reason for wanting to explore, and persistence because early explorers faced many hardships.

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A Dog’s Home visualize:

four feet hooves manes tails

Name three personal traits or qualities that you think Pytheas and other ancient explorers must have had.

courage, curiosity, persistence

Venn diagram

prime evenmult.of 4. num. num. 9 one-digit 7 4 9 num. factor 2 6 18 of 18 less than 30 29 28 27

factor of 100

DAY 4

Read the text and evaluate Pytheas’s accomplishments as you complete the items.

Read the description of zebras and horses and look at the pictures. Then fill in the Venn diagram to compare each animal’s traits.

Parts of the first grid have been f illed in to help get you started. For the last grid, write your own headings and fill in the boxes.

1.

Week 8


1.

Hither and Yon magazine contains articles about places to visit around the world. Some have majestic mountains, glaciers, waterfalls, ancient wonders, beaches, lakes, volcanoes, and bustling cities.

Tomorrow’sScience magazine contains articles about new scientific discoveries and inventions in technology, space, health, and the environment.

What are three things you know are true about Kwan’s decimal?

It can be written as a fraction with 100 100 as the denominator denominator.. Its value is less than 101 . 9 Its value is greater than 1,000.

Magazine descriptions Gym, Field & Court magazine magazine contains articles about current developments in a variety of sports and includes features about sports teams and athletes.

DAY 2

Kwan and Emi are thinking of two different decimals. They wrote all but the last digit of their number on a sheet of paper. Neither of the decimals has 0 as the last digit. Look at the numbers carefully. Then infer to answer each question.

T o m o r r r o w’ w s

Pop Culture magazine contains articles about bands, music artists, movies, actors, and television shows.

Week 9

to figure out using observation and experience

0.0

front

drawing of a house with several driveways leading to the house through grass fields, tall trees with branches on each side of the driveways

2.

It can be written as a fraction with 1,000 1,000 as the denominator denominator. 1 Its value is less than 100 . 9 Its value is greater than 10,000 .

Hither and Yon magazine. 2. I chose this magazine because I am very interested in seeing what life is like in different different states and and around the world. I would like to meet and learn more about people from different parts of my country and from other countries. 1. I would choose

back

drawing of stables, cottages, and outhouses

3.

where to see glaciers glaciers before before they all melt how old cultures built Stonehenge and pyramids Language Arts/Art


complete: to make something whole

Unscramble the following word jumbles about different types of energy. Then use some of the answers to complete the paragraph.

2. aeeghlmort 3. aeht 4. dinw 5. befilou 6. adilt

kinetic geothermal heat wind biofuel tidal

Do you think that the

wind

7. aaccehilmn 8. alors 9. accehilm 10. ccdeehilorrty 11. aeilnoptt 12. acelnru

Language Arts


mechanical solar chemical hydroelectric potential nuclear

Timeline of Great Thinkers

500

BCE

1.

• Socrates, considered by many the father of western philosophy, was born in Greece in 470 BCE. • The conquests of Alexander the Great introduced Greek philosophy to many lands.

BCE

• In his youth, Socrates studied music,gymnastics,and grammar.

367 BCE 360

BCE

• Plato died nine years after Alexander was born.

356

BCE

• Plato became Aristotle’s teacher about 367 BCE.

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AD


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Read the directions below. Visualize and draw your route on the map.

park

bike path

c o n s t r u c t i o n

Mark on the map where the construction is probably taking place.

3.

Describe how to get home a different way, still avoiding the construction zone.

I turn southwest out of the mall’s entrance. I cross the street to the park with the pond. I walk around the bike path that goes around the pond from the south end to the north end. Then I cross onto my cousin’s street near the school and walk north past the police station to his house.

• Plato wrote The Republic around 360 BCE.

Social Studies

NE

SW

2.

• Alexander III, later known as Alexander the Great, was born in Macedonia in 356 BCE. BCE

DAY 5

N NW

W

Leave our house, which is just off the map north of the police station. Walk southeast in front of the police station, curve east at the school, and cut in front of the school. Use the crosswalk to get to the park. Then cut through the park and in between the gas station and the fire station onto the street that is east of the mall. Then go southwest to get to the mall’s front entrance.

• Plato was Socrates’ student until Socrates’ death in 399 BCE.

470 BCE

1

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Imagine you are visiting a cousin and there is road construction going on. Your cousin gives you directions to walk to the mall while he is at school.

energy can be converted to


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• Aristotle began tutoring Alexander when Alexander was 13 years old.

1

Science

DAY 4

Read the list of events from ancient Greek history. Fill in the years from some of the events. Then order all of the e vents by drawing a line from each event to its location on the timeline.

heat

mechanical power Tidal to run a machine. and hydroelectric energy work biofuel in a similar way, with water as the original source. Alternatively, chemical energy to power vehicles. uses

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Finding Your Way

Week 9


399

Math

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energy generated by the turbines

warms the air, causing it to rise. That air movement turns the blades. This

Without knowing the last digit, can you tell which decimal is greater? Explain.


• As a young man, Alexander set out to establish a vast empire.

in the picture below starts with moving air? Actually, the sun’s

kinetic

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Get Energized

1. ceiiknt

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0.00

Kwan’s decimal is greater. The smallest it can be is 0.01. The greatest number Emi’s decimal 9 can be is 0.009 0.009,, or 1,000 . Kwan’s decimal equals 10 9 1,000. That is greater than 1,000.

3. Write two topics that you would hope to find in the magazine you chose.


What are three things you know are true about Emi’s decimal?

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DAY 1

express: to write thoughts or feelings in a particular way

deduce:

Different people have different ideas about the value and importance of homework. Many are completely in favor of it. Some are strongly against it. Still others have mixed feelings. On t he lines below, first complete two brief statements about homework. Then draw an emoji and complete the t hird statement to express your own opinion. Be sure to i nclude details to support your opinion.

1. hot tar 2 3

1

mad bone

category:

tonsils spinal cord

in slots island crop

Write them in. 2

1.

1

2.

4

nucleus cytoplasm parts of a cell

2. sun clue

4

3.

5

8 costly map

3 4

3 4

1

4

1 2

3 5

1

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5

4 5

1

5 8

3

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category:

8 3. theme tremor

comic ropes 1

4.

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2

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9 5 7

6 7

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category:

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edge visit

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5 8

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1 2

category:

5. the wig

12

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rather eat

3 4

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7 8

3

2

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1

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teeth scoops

central nervous respiratory

uncover antlers sorry pirate

weight height eighth heart rate ropes boulders blood pressure vital signs/medical measurements Science


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In a Few Words

DAY 5

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Imagine a future time when Earth’s surface is overpopulated and running out of space. We will need to find a new place into which we’ll expand.

Imagine that we are allowed to use only 14 words to communicate. Think about the most important things you w ill want to say. Prioritize your list and complete the items below.

Evaluate the t

hree options below. For each one, describe the challenges that would have to be solved to make a new settlement. Explain why humans should consider settling there.

Notes on Site 39583

scale stethoscope

laces

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You have been invited to help on an archaeological dig. Your first assignment is to sketch a quick map of the dig site. The archaeologist in charge has given you her notes. Draw a map to represent the site as described in the notes. You can use symbols and a map key, labels, or whatever you wish.

category:

thermometer microscope medical tools

4 5 12

Future Building Frontiers

Week 10

moose rib

circulatory digestive body systems

4. circular toy 3

10

2 5

7.

membrane ribosome

amber men

1 1 4

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throat abdomen body parts

1

Deduce which fractions are missing from the circles.

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DAY 3

Read each set of four anagrams. Unscramble them and write the words on the lines. All four unscrambled words have something in common. Categorize the set of words. Some clues have been provided.

2 3

1 3

Week 10

categorize:to name a group

1 3

When you add any two fractions that are in the circles, their sum should equal the number written between them.

8

Language Arts

DAY 2


Clue:

It helps us remember what we learned in class. 2. one bad thing about homework: It takes time away from other worthwhile activities. 3. my opinion about homework:I have mixed feelings. I agree that students can benefit from doing homework. We get to practice skills until we’re good at them, and we can take our time thinking about hard questions without the pressure of a classroom. But I also feel like too much homework isn’t good, either. Sometimes it’s hard for me to find time for other things such as sports, practicing piano, drawing, and spending time with my family and friends. I think these things are pretty important, too.

All Things Human

Week 10

Some fractions are missing. They belong in the ci rcles below. Use the following clue to help you figure out which fractions you need.

1. one good thing about homework:


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1. What is another way to convey meaning to others without words?

We can use body language and gestures.

• Ruins to be excavated in NW corner of the site. • Circle of stones to the east and a bit south of the ruins.

2. What are some specific ideas that can be conveyed without using words? Write four.

happy, eat, I, you

• Our campsite is in the SW corner of the site. • Bits of pottery and animal bones found in the NE corner ofthe area. • A small brook runs through the site from the eastside of the campsite in a northeasterly direction on the east side of the circle of stones and west of the area where pottery and bones were found.

3. Think about what parts of speech you will need. What are they?

I’ll need some verbs, nouns, and adverbs.

• The southeast corner of the site is heavily wooded.

4. Write your list of 14 words below.

pottery and bones found

ruins circle of stones

k o o r b

high in Earth’s atmosphere

N

W

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S

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Sequence Show-Offs

1. A: Start with 8. Then keep adding 5.

DAY 2

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Week 11 DAY 3

exemplify:to be a good example of something

Read the list of resources used to manufacture goods. Decide which resources are renewable and which are nonrenewable.

5. Write three sentences using words from your list. Your sentences do not have to be complete—you just have to be understood. Explain in parentheses how you will convey other words or ideas.

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8

,

clay leather

Wizard B

decide:

granite sand

grass wood

3 , 8 , 13 , 18 , 23 How are the sequences alike?The numbers end in 3 and 8, alternating. How are the sequences different?They start 5 apart. 19 , 23 , 27 , 31 , 35 2. A: Start with 19. Add 4 each time. 7 , 11 , 15 , 19 , 23 Each number is 4 greater than the previous number. How are the sequences different?They start 12 apart.

iron wool

Most researchers and historians believe Atlantis never existed, except in Plato’s imagination, for these reasons: • Authors often make up places that do not exist.

grass, leather, wood, wool

• No other historical records mention Atlantis. • No physical evidence has ever been found to indicate that Atlantis existed. Some do think Atlantis may have existed, for these reasons:

What do these materials have in common?

They all come from living things (plants or animals). 2. nonrenewable:clay, granite, iron, sand

• Other historical records that mentioned Atlantis may not have survived. • Ancient cities such as Troy disappeared in earthquakes, fires, or volcanic eruptions. When Homer wrote about Troy in The Iliad almost 3,000 years ago, it was believed to be mythical until found in the 1870s. • A computer expert used Plato’s clues about the location of Atlantis to determine that it might have been near Morocco. Then he went to Morocco and found black and red striped stone like that in Plato’s description of Atlantis.

What do these materials have in common?

They all come from the ground and are not alive.

1. Decide which statement you agree with. Mark it with an

I believe it’s likely but not certain that Atlantis existed.

Math

3. clay 4. granite 5. grass

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Write an item that exemplifies the resource.

6. iron


X.

I absolutely believe that Atlantis existed.

How are the sequences alike?

They produce the same sequences except for the starting numbers.

DAY 4

The Greek philosopher Plato wrote in great detail about an advanced civilization on an island called Atlantis. According to Plato, the island existed about 11,000 years ago and sank suddenly into the sea on a night of earthquakes and fire.

1. renewable:

B: Start with the first five multiples of 4. Add 3 to each number.

3. What do the results tell you about Wizard A’s rules and Wizard B’s rules?

Week 11

to choose after thinking

Read the text and complete the items.

13 , 18 , 23 , 28

B: Start with the first five multiples of 5. Subtract 2 from each number.


The Lost Island

Resources

Wizard A

need sleep water trouble help get go

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Week 11


Wizard A and Wizard B love creating number sequences. A sequence is a list of numbers that is produced in a certain way. Today the wizards are having a sequence-making contest. They have displayed the rules for their sequences below. Write the first five numbers in each sequence. Then compare them.

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before after now make food understand want

on a spaceship looking for an Earth-like planet

Gravity would be a challenge to living in the sky. We’d have to figure out how to grow food without soil. At least we could get water from the clouds. To live underground, we’d have to make a strong light source. It might be too hot to be comfortable, and we’d need an oxygen source as well. We could build a spaceship with all the life support we need. We’d need a constant supply of food and water, and we’d have to get really good at recycling.

woods

campsite

belo w Earth’s crust

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brick countertop basket frying pan

Science


7. leather 8. sand 9. wood 10. wool

belt concrete bookcase sweater


I believe it’s unlikely but not impossible that Atlantis existed. I absolutely believe that Atlantis never existed.

2.

What new reason or finding could change your mind?

I would want to see more actual scientific evidence that matches Plato’s description or the discovery of another ancient writer’s text with a matching description of Atlantis. © Evan-Moor Corp. •EMC3276 •Daily Higher-Order Thinking

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Back to Life

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Pun Fun

DAY 5


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explain:to give good reasons for your thoughts

Look at the three extinct animals below. Choose one and compose a short story about a day in its life. Give your animal a name. Include details about what it looked like, its environment, and what it ate.

A pun is a special kind of joke. The humor in puns may come from words or phrases that have more than one meaning or from words that sound alike. Read the riddle and find the best answer to complete the pun. Write the letter of the answer on the line. Then explain why the riddle is a pun.

a. He didn’t want anyone to think he was chicken.

woollymammoth extinct 10,000 years ago

“Slide” sounds like “side.” h “Poultry” sounds like “poetry.”

g. a commentator

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h. poultry in motion

• It is greater than 10 × 0.06.

a

2.

Now it’s your turn. Choose a different number from the chart. Write six clues about the number. Include at least one multiplication clue.

b

g “Commentator” sounds like “common tater.” f 7. How does a buffalo say goodbye to his son? “Bison” sounds like “Bye, son.” e 8. Why did the spider need a computer? The sites spiders live in are webs. 6. What do you call an ordinary potato?

Language Arts

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Math

1.

modern Olympic Games

2.

more countries Greeks only men and men only every 4 years women only Greece track events more events hosts winter sports many countries host

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0.7

0.71

0.78

0.8

0.815

0.87

0.9

0.935

0.97

0.99

Week 12 DAY 5

something

Social Studies

3 25

5 25

7 25

9 25

What should Asher do to convert the fractions to decimals?

What should Asher do to convert the decimals to percents?

Multiply each decimal by 100 (move the decimal point to the right two places). Get rid of the decimal point. Put a percent sign at the end.


12%

20%

28%

36% Math/Art


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Choices, Choices!

0.6 9

What should Asher do to figure out fractions for the shades?

4% 67

0 .67 2

Multiply the numerator and denominator of each fraction by 4. The denominator becomes 100. Change the fractions to their decimal form. (4/100 becomes 0.04.) 0.04 0.12 0.2 0.28 0.36

both

Science

0.6 3


1 25

Venn diagram

ancient Olympic Games


0. 52 8

Count the total number of squares. Then count how many are of each shade. Write the shade number over the total number.

The Olympic Games were revived in 1896. In the modern Games, men and women from many countries compete in a much wider variety of events, including winter sports that require ice or snow. Countries take turns hosting the competitions in their own countries, and they are broadcast all around the world.

I’d rather spend the time taking a fun class or going home sooner. In the future, when I apply to college or apply for a job, they won’t care whether I exercised every day. I know that some people really like sports or working out, but it should be their decision, not forced on all of us.

0.5

0.5 2

Look at the design Asher made in art class. Asher’s art teacher is also his math teacher. She wants the students to use a fraction, a decimal, and a percent to describe how much of their design is made of the different shades. Describe the steps Asher should take to convert the amounts. Then write the fractions, decimals, and percents for each shade.

Imagine passing through the gateway to the ancient Olympic Stadium on your way to take part in the very first Olympic Games in 776 BCE. You could compete if you were a free male of Greek origin. Women weren’t even allowed to watch! The Games were held in the same place every four years until 343 AD, when they ended. Events were limited to foot races, long jump, shot put, javelin throw, boxing, wrestling, and chariot races.

A school is debating whether or not to require students to exercise every day. What do you think? Defend your opinion.

0.3

.

convert: to change the form of

Read the text. Then compare the ancient and modern Olympic Games in a Venn diagram.

I like to skate and play volleyball at the beach. I hope to compete on the track team next year. I sometimes get antsy sitting in my classes. I spring out of bed every morning and can’t wait to start my day.

0.45

Bold Design

Week 12


I get plenty of exercise running from one class to the next and walking my dog. I don’t really like sports. I like to relax at home. I eat healthy food. I’m strong enough to do the things I need to do.

0.23

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The Olympic Games

Read the two statements from students about their exercise habits.

0.2

0.4

The number is less than 0.92. It has more than one decimal place. It is an odd number. It is greater than 10 x 0.0031. It is divisible by 5. Its digits add up to an even number. My number is 0.815 .

“Pouch” sounds like “couch.”


0.63

The number is

c

5. What do you call a kangaroo that watches TV all day?

DAY 3

0.15

• It is less than 10 × 0.08. 1.

“Paste” means glue and mashed food.

Week 12

to support an opinion

• Its digits add up to 9.

d

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Exercise Debate

0.1 0.37

• It is divisible by 3.

f. bison

4. How do you put a smashed tomato back together?

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• It has fewer than 3 decimal places.

Usually it’s a chicken crossing.


DAY 2

• The number is greater than 0.153.

d. to get to the other slide

3. Why did the turkey cross the road?

Delia the dodo woke up in her nest on the ground and stretched her tiny wings. She hopped out and wandered about, looking for breakfast. She’d like some lychees, if they were ripe yet. She came to some nuts first and ate them, and then yanked up a plant and chomped on its roots. She saw some nice stones along the way and swallowed those to help break up the nuts. Suddenly from behind, something was picking her up! She jammed her sharp beak into the soft skin, fell to the ground, and scampered away. That was close!

Clues:

c. with tomato paste e. to look up web sites

Week 12


This detective is tracking down a number. It is somewhere on the chart below. Read the clues to help you deduce the number. As you read, eliminate the numbers from the chart by crossing them out. When you’re done, the number that is left is the one the detective is tracking.

b. a pouch potato

2. What do you call a chicken that is crossing a road?

saber-toothed tiger extinct 10,000 years ago

deduce:

Answers

d

1. Why did the chicken cross the playground?

dodo bird, extinct 500 years ago

Number Hunt

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Angles in Words

Speaking Hypothetically

Week 13 DAY 2


Week 13 DAY 3

critique:to tell what is good and bad about something

scenic Read these pairs of choices and prioritize them. Circle the one you would choose. Then explain your choice.

fast

Look at the angles of the letters in “CAT”:

Read about what makes a good hypothesis. Then critique the hypotheses below. If the hypothesis is good, explain why. If it is not good, explain why not.

right angle exactly 90°

1 point

acute angle less than 90°

2 points

obtuse angle greater than 90°

3 points

A good hypothesis

1. Take the long route between the coast and the forest. OR

Take the shortestroute through flat, empty land.

If I’m going somewhere, I’d like to see something pretty along the way so the whole trip is fun. Why?

The letters C and T each have two right angles. The letter A has three acute angles and two obtuse angles. If each angle gets points according to the chart, CAT is worth 16 points.

• states what scientists believe will happen • can be tested using the scientific method • includes specific variables, or qualities that you can control, change, or measure

1. What happens to fish when there is less oxygen in the water?

Be the sun that melts the snowman.

The sun has all the power and won’t run out any time soon. The snowman will become a puddle sooner or later.

1.

2. It is better to eat more small meals than fewer big ones.

Live without your favorite food.

It’s hard to find a friend who really understands me. There are a lot of foods I could eat instead of my favorite.

n umb er

p oi nts

right angles

6

6

right angles

4

4

acute angles

3

6

acute angles

8

16

obtuse angles

2

6

obtuse angles

2

Why?

total

Even if I could make the world peaceful today, it might not last if someone starts a new war. A cancer cure would last forever. Why?

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n umb er

18

3.

po in ts

3. Walking 30 minutes every day will make it easier to fall asleep.

n umb er

p oi nts

right angles

0

0

acute angles

8

obtuse angles

4 total

26

4. A light bulb will last longer if it is kept free of dust.

n umb er

not good

good

not good

po in ts

0

0

16

acute angles

7

14

12

obtuse angles

4


good

It is a statement that can be tested, and it has a specific variable (how long the bulb will last). right angles

28

not good

It is a statement that can be tested, and it has a specific variable (time before falling asleep).

6 total

good

It doesn’t define “better.” Better in what way ? “Better” could be an opinion.

4.

4. Cure cancer. OR

Bring world peace.

not good

2.

Why?

3. Live without your best friend. OR

good

It is a question, not a statement. Also, it doesn’t mention what scientists think might happen.

Write four 3-letter words. Tally the different angles and calculate the points. When you choose your words, strategize to beat the score for CAT.

2. Be a snowman. OR

5. I think that country music is the best kind.

12 total

good

not good

It states an opinion, not something that can be tested.

26 Math

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All the King’s Trees defend:

DAY 4


visualize:

Read the sign and answer t he questions. Then defend your opinions.

Suppose the man finds a tree that has fallen over in a storm. If the man chops up the tree for firewood, do you think he should be punished? Why or why not?

2.

e t i r w write

My answers would be the same. In a democracy, people can vote to change an unfair law. They should obey the laws because they have a say in making and changing them. Social Studies


inform

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Utni said, “I’m definitely 5 12 inches taller than Markus.” 1 2

masterpiece is to remarkable

impossible is to easy

explanation:

DAY 3

1

Utni

quills are to porcupine

roses are to vase

explanation:

1

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Science

DAY 5

what you observe

Anand

Week 15 DAY 1


Density describes how tightly packed something is with the things that fill it. Imagine that two brothers are packing their suitcases with clothes for a vacation.

Read the text.

The most intact flute is about nine inches long. It was carved from the wing bone of a very large bird called a griffon vulture. The flute has five finger holes that researchers think may have been made using stone tools. The flute was probably played by blowing through the V-shaped opening carved in the top. An archaeologist used a griffon vulture bone to make a copy of the ancient flute and has been learning to play it.

Now compose an acrostic poem about this flute. Each letter of the word flute begins a phrase about the flute. The poem does not have to rhyme. 1.

Anand ’s suitcase will be more dense because he is packing more clothes in the same space.

Example of an acrostic poem for the word

If the suitcases are the same size,

2. Determine which picture shows a

art :

Audio and visual Reaching the heart

s

Words written in the Phoenician alphabet are difficult to read because the alphabet has no vowels. The Phoenicians used an ’aleph mark, like an apostrophe in English, to show where the vowel sounds were.

ormed from the wing bone of a huge bird L ost in a cave for 40,000 years U ntil it was finally found T he oldest musical instrument E ver found in this world F

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’aleph

Another challenge is that words in the Phoenician alphabet are spelled from right to left. Here is an example. The letter on the right stands for the first sound in the word, so this word could be tag or tug. 1. Apply the alphabet to figure out what the word might be. Write the possible answers on the line.

mast, mist, most, must 2. In the space below, apply the Phoenician alphabet to write a word. Then write your word in English.

minutes

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Week 15

Abracadabra!

DAY 2

analyze:to look at closely for patterns and relationships

1. Multiply the three-digit numbers in the box by 11. Then multiply the product by 91.

215 x 11 215 2,150 2,365 2,365 x 91

2,365 212,850 215,215

342 x 11

215

469 x 11

342 3,420 3,762

469 4,690 5,159

3,762 x 91 3,762 338,580 342,342

5,159 x 91 5,159 464,310 469,469

342 469

Trying to speak without words

forest that is more dense and circle it.


samekh

Try this amazing trick. Then analyze your results to complete the items.

In 2008, the earliest musical instrument discovered so far was found in a cave in Germany. The instrument, a flute, was originally believed to be about 35,000 years old. More recent carbon-dating shows that it likely was carved as long as 40,000 to 43,000 years ago. Pieces of other ancient flutes were also found in the cave.

Ajay

nun n

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Wing Bone Flute

Week 14

determine: to figure out using facts or

teth t

mem

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DAY 4

d

m

They have survived animal predators, but if people started hunting them a lot, they’d be gone.

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3. Predict a situation in which you think crocodiles might have trouble surviving. Describe the situation and how you think it came about.


Math

Language Arts

Many modern alphabets, including English, are based on an alphabet developed by the ancient Phoenicians. Below are a few of the 22 letters in the Phoenician alphabet.

Crocodiles have already lived through changing environments, which probably included hotter and colder temperatures, so they probably won’t be affected much.

1

It’s a thing and what it protects.

Read the text and apply it to read and write words using the Phoenician alphabet.

2. How do you predict crocodiles will respond to Earth’s increasing temperature?

1

.


The ability to compete for food—they can eat anything and can go to a different type of habitat if needed to find food.

65 2 inches Ana 63 inches yes Explain. Markus could be 62 inches tall. Then Utni would be 67 2 inches and Ana would be 65 inches tall. no Explain. 3. Could any of the friends be 6 feet tall? The tallest Markus could be is just under 65 inches. If he were 65 inches tall, then Utni would be 65 + 5 2 , which is 70 2 inches. That is still less than 6 feet (72 inches).

are to

apples are to tree

1. Do the crocodile’s adaptations have more to do with the ability to compete for food or avoid predators? Explain.

2. Are there other possibilities for the friends’ heights?

They’re synonyms.

spots are to giraffe

Crocodiles have adaptations that allow them to live through harsh conditions and adjust to changing environments. They are semiaquatic, which means they can live both on land and in water. In fact, they can live in a variety of habitats, from salt water to deserts. And they aren’t picky eaters: crocodiles will eat anything that crosses their path, from insects to wildebeests.

1. How tall are the friends? Suggest one possibility. Show how you determined the heights.

.

spotless is to clean

The Phoenician Alphabet

Week 14

Crocodiles are one of the oldest animals on the planet. Modern crocs first appeared about 84 million years ago, and they have changed very little since then. They have survived two mass extinctions, including the one that killed off the dinosaurs.

Markus said, “I know I’m taller than 55 inches but shorter than 65 inches.”

is to

polite is to rude


Read the text. Then complete the items.

Three friends were trying to figure out how tall they were.

squabble

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halt

It’s a thing and how you get rid of it.

4. Spines are to cactus as


Crocodile Rock

Week 14


persuade

It’s a thing and its purpose. share

explanation:

.

embellish

3. Obscene is to inappropriate as

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explanation:

hear

Pretend you are Aisha and write a response to Carina using mirror writing.

Language Arts/Math

research

2. Fire is to extinguish as rumor is to

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Wool is to sheep as paper is to trees.

Example

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Would your answers be the same if the man lived in a democracy, in which people vote, instead of in a kingdom, in which the king has all the power? Why or why not?

Markus

DAY 1

Look at the first pair of italic words in each analogy and analyze their relationship. Circle the word or words that best complete the analogy. Then explain how both sets of words are related. See the example below.

I just overheard our teacher and principal talking about the assembly next week. They will be giving out achievement awards. Guess who is getting one! Make sure you are ready to have your picture taken!

A man cuts down a tree for firewood to keep his family warm. Do you think the man should be punished? Why or why not?

Ana said, “If I stand next to Utni, you’ll see that I’m 2 inches shorter than he is.”

Week 14


1. Game is to entertain as newspaper is to

1.

Yes. The tree still belongs to the king. 3.

DAY 5


explanation: It’s a thing and where it comes from.

Yes. He broke the law, which was clearly posted. 2.

Making Analogies

Week 13

Carina wrote a secret note to her friend Aisha. She wrote the message using mirror w riting, or backward writing, to make it hard for others to read. Visualize how the letters would look written forwards. Then decode her message.

Every tree in this kingdom belongs to the king. Anyone who cuts down a tree will be severely punished.

1.

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2. What do all the products have in common?

The first three digits repeat. 3. Why do you think you got the results you did? Test your idea by multiplying another three-digit number by 11 and 91.

11 × 91 = 1,001. When you multiply by 1,000, you get that number and 000. When you multiply it by 1, you get the number. Then you add the products together. © Evan-Moor Corp. •EMC3276 •Daily Higher-Order Thinking

198 x 11 198 1,980 2,178 2,178 x 91 2,178 196,020 198,198 Math

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Tomorrow’s Bears

Time Travel

DAY 3


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Wacky Weather

Week 15 DAY 4

to choose after thinking

Look at the timeline. Then read the questions and decide on your answers.

Read the text. Then complete the item.

The chart below shows the weather for last month. (Every month on Kerplop has 25 days.) Use the chart to complete the items. 3,000 BCE

Fast forward 200 years: imagine that warmer global temperatures have stabilized and the polar bears survived. Imagine you are traveling through their habitat. Conjecture how the polar bears might have adapted in order to survive and write a journal entry about how they look, what they are doing, and what their habitat is like.

1.

Today we hiked in the Tongass National Forest in southern Alaska and were surprised to see a snow-white bear scraping moss and lichens off of rocks along a stream and eating them. I watched it through binoculars and noticed webbing between its toes. It looked like polar bears that I’ve seen in textbooks, but it was not as large or stocky, and I’ve never heard of a bear with webbed feet. We also saw it reach into the stream and catch live fish. Later on, we saw a white bear swimming on its back in a lake like an otter!

2.

2,000 BCE

1,000 BCE

1 BCE–1 AD

1,000

2,000 AD

AD

If you could travel back in time to visit any place or era, what time and place would you choose?

Weather

Number of Days

I would choose ancient Egypt thousands of years ago at the time the pyramids were being built.

sun rain

11 4

clouds snow

6 3

hail

1

Why would you choose that time and place?

I would like to see how they built the pyramids without any of the cranes, forklifts, or other equipment that we have now. 3.

1.

What percent of the days had each type of weather? sun

2.

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sun 44%

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Cartoon Video

DAY 1

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24

snow

12

4

hail

3. Evaluate the chart and the circle graph.

Which do you think is more helpful in describing last month’s weather? Explain.

The circle graph is more helpful. You can see the sizes without having to compare the numbers. But if you needed exact numbers of days, you’d have to look at the chart.

clouds 24%

snow 12%

Math/Science


Building Up

Week 16 DAY 2


Imagine that you are making a cartoon video about the four characters pictured below. First, write each character’s name below his or her picture. Think about a situation to put your characters in and dramatize the situation with dialogue. Write it like a script for a play.

clouds

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16

rain 16%

If you could bring just one item from the present day with you on your visit to the past, what would you bring, and why?

I would bring a camera so I could take pictures to remember what I saw and show people when I got back to the present.


rain

Make a circle graph showing the weather data. Label each section.

hail 4% Science

DAY 5

The planet Kerplop has strange weather. It can be hot and sunny one day and snowy the next! The inhabitants of Kerplop always have to be prepared for any kind of weather.

Polar bears currently hunt their main source of food, seals, on the polar ice cap. However, the ice cap is melting. Now they must swim farther and farther out to sea to reach the ice, and many are drowning.

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Week 16 DAY 3


Here’s an unusual target. It has three rings. Each ring is divided into thirds to make a total of nine small sections. The numbers 1 and 4 have been filled in for you. Read the clues and strategize how the remaining sections should be numbered. Write the numbers on the t arget.

Imagine you have 5 acres to create a skyscraper. The company that will use the building has given you several requirements. Read the requirements. Then design a sturdy structure that meets the requirements. • The rectangular land is bordered by four streets.

Clues:

• Include as much natural lighting as possible. • The building is in a west-coast city that sometimes experiences flooding in winter and occasional strong earthquakes.

• The building needs space for a lobby, business and creative offices, a warehouse, and a company cafeteria and gym.

• Each number from 1 to 9 appears on the target only once. • The three numbers in each third add up to the same sum. • The three numbers in each ring have the same sum as each third.

• Power should be provided by a renewable resource (solar or geothermal).

• The building should reflect the fact that the company develops sport racing bikes. • It should be 29 stories tall in addition to the lobby and warehouse space.

• There needs to be parking for 1,000 cars on the land, either in a lot or a multilevel structure.

Use the space below to design an idea for the skyscraper. You can use a sketch, words, or a combination.

Ari

Bree

Chloe

Dev

4

Dev: Hey, guys. I have a great idea! Chloe: (turning to look at him) Oh, no, not another one. What is it this time ? Ari: Yeah, remember what happened the last time you had a great idea, Dev ? Bree: (frowning) That shortcut of yours turned out to be the longest cut ever! Dev: This idea will be great, I promise! (The others all groan loudly.) Language Arts


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to create a method to do something

DAY 4

Read about a game called terni lapilli and complete the items. Tick-tack-toe is sometimes called a “pencil and paper” game, although you may have played it in other ways without using either a pencil or paper. People in ancient Rome played a game that looked a lot like the modern game of tick-tack-toe. It was called terni lapilli , which means “three pebbles.” Many grids for terni lapilli have been found chalked or scratched on floors of ancient Roman ruins. No X’s or O’s have been found on the grids, though, so scholars believe the game was indeed played with pebbles. Each player had three pebbles, perhaps black ones and white ones to tell them apart. Players would take turns placing them on the board, but play continued as the players took turns moving their pebbles. This game would have involved more strategy and probably not have ended in a draw, as so many games of modern tick-tack-toe do.

How else might people in ancient times have played terni lapilli, besides drawing the grid on a stone surface and using pebbles as markers? Devise two other ways this game might be played using all natural, not human-made, materials. 1.

2.

3.

Make a grid of twigs and use two different kinds of shells as markers. Use a stick to draw a grid in damp soil and use cherry pits and acorns as markers. Why didn’t terni lapilli probably end in a draw as often as tick-tack-toe does?

You can keep moving your pieces until someone wins. In tick-tack-toe, you have to start over after 4 turns because there are no more spaces.

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Week 16

elaborate:

Q u e n c h

The scouts hiked to their campground. It got dark and started to rain. They were all soaked. They set up their tents. The wind blew them down. They put them up again when the storm passed. They changed clothes, gathered wood, and made a campfire. Then they made dinner, roasted marshmallows, and told stories. Then they slept.

Who is your audience?

people who like being active outdoors What is the name of your product?

As the scouts hiked through the woods, dark clouds gathered overhead. Before too long, a chilly rain started to fall. By the time they reached their campground, the scouts were soaked. They quickly began setting up their tents. Just when they thought they were done, a huge gust of wind blew the tents down. Finally, the storm passed, and the scouts began all over again. After changing into dry clothes, the scouts gathered wood for a campfire. They cooked their dinner over the warm fire. After eating, they roasted marshmallows and told stories. At last, the tired scouts settled down to sleep.

Hiller’s Energy Bar What do you most want to show about the product?

Eating them during outdoor adventures gives you the energy you need. 4.

DAY 1

to tell more about something

The story is complete but very bland. Elaborate on the story by adding details to make it more interesting and vivid. Rewrite it below.

A lot goes into making an ad. Examine the ad and use it as inspiration to create an ad about a brand of cereal or an energy bar. Answer the questions to plan your ad.

3.

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The Whole Story

DAY 5


2.

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Science


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Terni Lapilli devise:

drawing and/or description of a skyscraper that meets the description above

2 3

You can’t lose with a bottle of Quench.

Draw your ad here. Include a tagline that sums up the product.

drawing of two happy and strong young women hiking up a steep hill in a mountainous area Hike all the way up with Hiller’s Energy B ar.



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Quad’s Pattern

DAY 2


Figure 2

Figure 3

The Ends of Earth

Week 17 DAY 3


Quad the Robot builds patterns with squares. Today he is using gray and white squares. Figure 1

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Report: Volcano Erupting!

Week 17

Pretend you are a weather reporter for a local news station. Use the data below to figure out how a recent nearby volcano eruption is impactingyour local community. Then generate a report for a broadcast, describing in detail the effects of the eruption and warnings.

Figure 4

wind direction: east

ash cloud height:9,700 meters

high ris k zone: 800 meters

DAY 4

Look at the cartoon and read what the people are saying. Think about what you k now and how you know it, and conjecture about ancient times as you complete the items.

Volcano Data average wind speed: 13 miles per hour

Week 17


Anyone can see that Earth is flat! If you sail too far, you’ll fall off the edge.

Earth is round! It’s a sphere.

1. How do you know Earth is a sphere?

Extrapolate what you see in Quad’s pattern to answer the questions. 1.

How many gray squares and white squares will Quad use in Figure 5? How do you know?

9 gray squares, 16 white squares Quad adds 2 gray squares to each figure, so Figure 5 will have 7 + 2, or 9. The white squares are square numbers, so Figure 5 will have 4 x 4, or 16. 2.

How many gray squares and white squares will Quad use in Figure 10? Explain how you can solve this without having to draw Figures 5 to 10.

19 gray squares, 81 white squares There are 5 figures after Figure 5. I added 5 x 2 gray squares (2 for each extra figure) to the 9 in Figure 5. For the white squares, I added 4 + 5 (1 for each extra figure) and squared it (9 x 9) for Figure 10. Math


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I learned it in school. I’ve seen pictures taken from space.

Tuesday’s eruption of Mt. Edgecumbe has produced an ash cloud at an altitude of 9,700 meters. Pilots are urged to be aware of this and avoid f lying through the area. Easterly winds blowing at an average of 13 mph today are keeping Sitka hazy. If they continue as expected, they will help the ash cloud dissipate fairly quickly. Meanwhile, Sitka’s temperatures have dropped about 5 degrees from our average for this time of year. People who want to check out the volcano, please take note: debris from the eruption was scattered throughout the region. Officials recommend keeping a distance of at least 800 meters from the volcano.

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2. Suppose you had lived long ago when much less scientific knowledge was available. Conjecture whether you think you would have believed that Earth was round or that it was flat. Explain why.

I probably would have thought Earth was f lat because that’s how it looks. It looks like if you just kept going in one direction, you would reach the edge, or the place where it ends. An ancient Greek astronomer named Eratosthenes questioned where Earth ended enough to start exploring the idea. Write two questions he may have wondered about.

Why can’t we get closer to the edge if there is one? 4. Why does the sun set later in different places or at different times?

3.


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Go the Distance

DAY 5

defend:

Read the text. Apply scientific notation to the distances below.

Week 18

A Lucky Day

DAY 1


deduce:

Imagine that your teacher has a budget of $500 for a class field trip. The class members can vote for which trip they want, but they have to explain why. Look at the trips and their cost, circle the one you choose, and then defend your choice.

Exponents can be used to write very large numbers. Use an exponent to write a power of 10. The exponent shows how many times 10 is multiplied by itself.

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Week 17


Social Studies


Week 18 DAY 2


Minh and Romi found some money when they went out. What a lucky day! Read their clues. Deduce how much money they had before they found the extra cash.

For example: 10 0 = 102 = 10 × 10 100,000 = 105 = 10 × 10 × 10 × 10 × 10 Scientific notation uses exponents. To write a large number using scientific notation, write it as a number less than 10 multiplied by a power of 10. For example: 58,000 = 5.8 × 104

2.28 x 108 2. Saturn is 1,427,000,000 kilometers from the sun. Write this number in scientific notation.

1.427 x 109 3. How many kilometers are between Saturn and Mars? Write this number in scientific notation.

1.199 x 109 4. Explain how you found your answer.

I subtracted the distance between Mars and the sun from the distance between Saturn and the sun. Then I wrote it in scientific notation. Science/Math


cost: $220

cost: $250

cost: $490

Language Arts

DAY 3

Week 18


A liter of water weighs 1,000 grams. Its density is 1 g /cm³. Examine these items that float in water.

DAY 4

Read the text and use it to complete the items.

ca nd le

we ig ht: 10 5g

d en si ty: 0. 93 g/c m3

log

weight: 841 g


b lu eb er ry

w ei gh t: 0 .5 g

d en si ty : 0 .6 3 g /c m�

pencil

weight: 2g


weight: 2 g


er ase r

we ig ht: 18 g

d en si ty: 1.5 g/c m�

ch ee se

we ig ht: 10 g

d en si ty: 1.15 g/cm�

key

weight: 16 g


They both use a number with a unit of time. Mayan uses more time units, including longer ones. In our system, you can tell what the season probably is from the month. 2. Use the Mayan Long Count system to write today’s date using your birthdate as a starting point. Just use the years, months, and days.

Their densities are less than 1. What do you notice about all of the items that sink?

My birthdate (month, day, year):

Their densities are greater than 1.

Today’s date (month, day, year):

What can you conclude about what causes items to float or sink?

Today’s date in Mayan (tun, uinal, k’in):

September 12, 2008 November 9, 2018 10.1.28

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$15

How much money did Minh have before he found the five-dollar bill?

I found a ten-dollar bill outside a sandwich shop!

0 1

0 1

I had already spent $4.00 on a sandwich. When I put the ten dollars in my purse, I had twice as much money as I did before I had bought my sandwich.

2.

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0 1

$2

How much money did Romi have before she found the ten-dollar bill?

Math


Bouncing Ball

Week 18 DAY 5


Nadine was doing a science experiment. She stood on the balcony of her apartment building and dropped a rubber ball. Each time the ball hit the ground, it bounced back up to half of the height of the previous bounce. 1.


If the ball rose to a height of 8 feet after its first bounce, how high did it rise after its fourth bounce? Draw a diagram to help you solve the problem.

8 ft 4

2 1

1 2

1 4

1 8

1 16

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

1. Compare how we write dates today with Mayan Long Count dates. How are they similar and different?

What do you notice about all of the items that float?

When I put it in my wallet, I had twice as much money as what I would have had if I had lost five dollars.

5

Read the text and use it to complete the items.

Between 1800 BCE and 250 AD, the Mayan civilization flourished in areas of what is now Mexico and Central America. The Maya used three different calendars. The sacred calendar, or Tzolk’in, had 260 days and was used for scheduling religious ceremonies. The Haab’ calendar had 365 days like the current calendar, but it did not have a leap year, so it varied over time. The Long Count calendar covered long periods of time lasting thousands of years. Its dates were written as five numbers with periods between them. For example, the date “January 1, 2020” appeared as “13.0.7.2.7” on the Mayan Long Count. It stands for 13 b’ak’tun, 0 k’atun, 7 tun, 2 uinal, and 7 k’in. Each term is a length of time: a b’ak’tun is about 400 years, a k’atun is a generation, a tun is about a year, a uinal is about a month, and a k’in is a day. So the date is actually a count of how much time has passed since a starting point in 3144BCE.

Examine these items that sink in water. penny

I found a five-dollar bill on the sidewalk! 5

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The Mayan Calendar

Week 18

conclude: to decide using facts, data, and inferences

3.

Hamlet in the City

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Sitting on Water

2.

You’ll get to go to dinner in the city and then see a modern-day interpretation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in a historic theater.


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1.

Natural History Museum You’ll get to explore dinosaur exhibits, ancient civilizations, specimens of all kinds of animals, geology, and the stars in the planetarium.

I think we should go to the local farm. It will cost us less than half the budget, which means we might be able to have another field trip, such as a museum, later in the year with the remaining money. In addition to the farm trip being the cheapest, I think it will be great for us to get outside. Breathing fresh air and maybe getting a little dirty will be a nice change from being inside all day. Lastly, we can learn a lot from farmers. The trip could be useful for students who love animals, and students who are interested in business, like me, can ask the farmers about how they run their farms.

1. Mars is 228,000,000 kilometers from the sun. Write this number in scientific notation.

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A Local Farm You’ll get to talk to the farmers about both agriculture and livestock to learn their methods and what their daily lives are like.

1 foot

It rose

.

Fill in the blanks to show other information you can derive from your drawing. 2.

The ball bounced to a height of

2

feet after its third bounce.

16 feet high because the first bounce was 8 feet and it was half of where Nadine dropped it from. 8 is half of 16. After how many bounces will it rise less than 1 inch? 8

3.

I know that Nadine’s balcony must be

4. 5.

Imagine how a recording of the ball bouncing would sound from the first bounce to the last. How do you think the bouncing sound would change as it goes along?

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Anagram Game construct: to build by putting parts

DAY 1

together

tame

m

snap

2.

t

cares

3.

e

a

rectangle area = bh

t

stale

5.

shear

6.

8.

triangle area =

9.

tries tires tiers

1 2

h

h b Figure A

bh

The Life of a Loggerhead

Week 19 DAY 3


Read the text. Loggerhead turtles live in oceans and along the coasts, near coral reefs and sea grass beds. They survive on fish, clams, sea urchins, and mollusks, whose hard shells they crush with the powerful jaws that have developed over time.

h

b

b

Figure B

Figure C

Figure A’s area:

Figure B’s area:

Figure C’s area:



1 2

Read each statement about a variable that could affect the loggerhead turtle and its habitat. Predict what the impact would be.

× 5 × 4 = 10 square units

1. The turtles are accidentally caught in fishermen’s nets and other gear.

The turtles will be injured or killed if they cannot escape from being tangled up.

Generate two sets

of shapes below. Each set should have a rectangle, parallelogram, and triangle with the same area. Use the formulas to show that the areas of the three shapes match.

12

1. area = square units rectangle’sarea:

smile

miles limes slime

rites

steak stake takes

m

spear spare reaps

hears share hares

skate

a

pears

scare acres races

steal slate tales 7.

e

parallelogram area = bh

naps pans span 4.

DAY 2


mate

Rearrange the letters in each of the words below to construct three anagrams. 1.

Week 19

You can use formulas to find the areas of rectangles, parallelograms, and triangles.

An anagram is a word that is formed when you rearrange the letters from another word. For example, all the words below are anagrams of the word meat : team

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Area Challenge

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2. Turtle egg nests and baby turtles on beaches are disturbed by tourism and artificial lighting from street lamps and lighted signs.

4 x 3 = 12

Fewer eggs will hatch, and babies that do hatch could be confused by all the lights. They might get lost or eaten.

parallelogram’sarea:

4 x 3 = 12 triangle’s area:

gander

1 2

danger garden ranged

(4 x 6) = 12 18

3. People build houses and hotels on beaches, causing debris and pollution.

2. area = square units rectangle’sarea:

Adult turtles will lose their nesting places, so they won’t have a place to lay their eggs, and fewer babies will be born. Also, the garbage is unhealthy for the turtles.

3 x 6 = 18 parallelogram’sarea:

3 x 6 = 18 triangle’s area: 1 2

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1.

Please pass the salt.

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DAY 2

Think about what you usually do on Saturday. Write how many hours you spend on the activities shown below. Then make a circle graph of your day. Choose a color for each activity and color the graph to match.

playing watching TV computer use

103


A deep sea expedition would be interesting. I’d take my best friend Linda with me because she knows a lot about whales and sea life. I’d also take some books on sea creatures and notebooks and a good camera to record what we see. On our expedition, we’d see hundreds of different kinds of fish that I have never heard of, as well as whales, sharks, and sea turtles. We’d also see coral reefs that look like other worlds. We might even see a sunken ship or a lost city! If we could go scuba diving outside the submarine and explore, that would be incredible! However, it could also be difficult at times. For example, I probably wouldn’t be able to eat pizza or hamburgers. Also, I may get antsy being trapped in a small place. I’d take some games.


A Fine Forecast

Week 20 DAY 3


Examine the

forecast and the graph in the morning newspaper. Use them to answer the questions.

seeing a movie baking eating playing hockey reading/puzzles

3 3 2 3 5

Historical average high and low temperatures

Imagine that you are attending a ceremony in the Cueva de las Manos thousands of years ago. Describe what you see and hear.

66 64

62

Math

170

20 2 1 22 2 3 24 2 5 2 6

Previous Two Weeks

Forecast

April 20 April 6–19 is labeled “Previous Two Weeks,” so that’s before today. The rest is the forecast. The 20th is the first day of the forecast. How do you know?

Eating takes the same amount of time. On my perfect Saturday, I’d spend less time on chores, and the fun things are more evenly balanced. 106

6 7 8 9 1 0 11 1 2 13 1 4 15 1 6 17 1 8 19

1. What date is most likely “today’s” forecast?

Compare the graphs. How are they similar? How are they dif ferent?


DAY 4

Dailyhigh temperature

n u e t r 72 a h r a F e 70 s p e e m r 68 e g e T d (

April

Week 20

to tell the features of something or someone

Cueva de las Manos (Cave of the Hands) is found in Argentina. The walls of the cave are covered with the outlines of human hands. The earliest outlines date back more than 9,000 years. Many of the prints are of left hands about the size of the hand of a 13-year-old boy. This observation has led some people to believe the prints may have been part of some kind of ceremony initiating boys into adulthood.

KEY

Temperature Readings and Predictions for April 6–26

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Color

105

Look at the picture and read the information.

WeatherForecast

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Hours

Cueva de las Manos describe:

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Activity

Language Arts


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Now imagine what the perfect Saturday would look like for you. List the activities you would do and the hours you would spend doing them. Make a graph of your day.

DAY 1

in a submarine for one month. What would your life be like? Who and what would you take with you? What would you do? What would you see? Write a few paragraphs about your time in a submarine.

TODAY: Sunny, warm temperatures should continue today, following the mini heat wave last week. THIS WEEK: Get ready for a temperature dip later this week, with occasional showers and cloudy conditions. These l ow temperatures should return to the historical average range by the end of the week.

2 4 5 3 2

Week 20

Imagine that you are going on a deep sea expedition

Color


imagine: to see an idea or picture in your mind

This looks hot and sunny, like the Mediterranean or the Caribbean. I think that these are fishing boats and that the fisherman has just come in because the cats are waiting attentively and staring right at the fisherman. The fishermen probably feed fish to the cats, so they have learned to wait there patiently for their treat.

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In the Deep Blue

DAY 5

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Two Saturdays

chores/homework

Week 19

to figure out using observation and experience

This place must be a royal palace.

2. Why do you think salt was so valuable in ancient times?

Hours

102

You probably know the saying “A picture tells a thousand words.” Examine the picture and look at what it is telling you. Write down as much as you can infer about what you see. Look at the environment and think about what is happening and why.

Salt was highly valued by many cultures in ancient times. When Marco Polo was in China at the end of the 13th century, he reported that cakes of salt stamped with images of the emperor were used in trade, just as coins or bills are used today. The expression “not worth his salt” arose in ancient Greece, where enslaved laborers were traded for salt. The word salary is from the Latin root sal , because Roman soldiers were paid with salt. Moorish merchants in Africa would trade an ounce of gold for an ounce of salt.

eating

101

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A Picture Tells infer:

Read the text about salt and study the cartoon. Then apply the information from the text to complete the empty speech balloon.

Math

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Pass the Salt

Activity

(6 x 6) = 18


2. Which data in this forecast would be the most important in helping you decide what to wear on a specific day? Why?

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It is dark in the cave. People carry f laming torches to light the way. The walls are covered with handprints. The boy being honored is dressed all in white. The high priest talks about what the boy accomplished to be worthy of this ceremony. He talks about all the others that have come before him. Finally, he covers the palm of the boy’s left hand in paint made from clay and presses it to the wall, chanting softly. Then the procession leaves the cave. Tonight the village will be alive with much feasting and dancing.

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Popcorn Profit

Week 20 DAY 5


Untangling Sentences sort:

Read the text and analyze the graph. Use them to complete the items.

Which Column?

DAY 1

to put things into groups by characteristics

I hope they have something good in the cafeteria today.

Read these tangled sentences and sort the words into two separate sentences. $1.00

$1.50

$2.00 Price per bag

$2.50

$3.00

$3.50 1.

$22.50 $40 $52.50 $60 $62.50 $60 $52.50 Total $ earned at each price

1. If Pensri changed the price by $0.50 each time instead of $1.00, how many bags would she probably have sold at $1.00, $2.00, and $3.00? Add dots on the graph to show your answers.

3.

$2.50 $0.50 $2.50

3. At which selling price was the most money made? 4. At which selling price were the most bags sold? 5. At which price should Pensri continue to sell a bag of popcorn?

4.

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DAY 3



Evaporationincreases

Crops are less nutritious

16.


5.

51

6.

80

7.

61

8.

90

C B A F

9.

73

10.

58

11.

87

12.

100

A D C D

What do you notice about the numbers in column F?

How did you find the solution to problem 2?

How did you find the solution to problem 3?

Explain how you would find under which column any number would be.

Math

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Culture Map

Week 21 DAY 5


The world’s cultures have unique “flavors.” We can get a taste of a culture by experiencing its music, clothing, language, holiday customs, and food. Think about how these aspects of culture are expressed around the world. 1. Choose one of these aspects of culture and circle it. Then draw on each continent on the map a drawing that represents an example of that cultural aspect.

music

• They had created a vast empire and needed to move troops quickly to wage war.


Land dries out

clothing

language

holiday customs

food


Evaporation increases

The Roman road system consisted of approximately 250,000 miles (more than 400,000 km) of good, straight roads. Some Roman roads are still in existence even though they were built almost 2,000 years ago. 1.

Which of the Romans’ reasons for needing good roads do you think is the most important to people today? Why?

Moving goods is the most important. Trucks need good roads to move all kinds of products from one place to another. 2.


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Poetic Pictures

Week 22 DAY 1


I once had a cat named Fred

From the tub in my bathroom

Who would never sleep in my bed.

The cat gets a drink

Then one day

Week 22

Shapes Puzzler

DAY 2

Experiment to see where you can place the shapes on the grid according to the rules.

Rules: • Each row of the grid should have one circle, one square, one triangle, and one diamond.

Limerick

Water drips and drips

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• No shape may appear more than once in either of the diagonal rows that go from corner to corner.

And he decided to sleep on my head!


Inherited or Acquired?

Week 22

Traits are characteristics that living things have. Some traits are passed down from parent to offspring through genes. Other traits are acquired, either by learning or by something happening to the living t hing during its life. Read the trait and sort it as inherited or acquired . Then answer the question. inherited

2. a dog with blue eyes

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3. a girl who speaks Spanish

There are three lines. The lines have 5, 7, and 5 syllables. There is no rhyme.

4. a tree with broad leaves 1. Fill in the grid. Make sure you have followed all the rules.

X X X

5. a boy who can knit a sweater

2. Now use your analysis to compose your own haiku.

6. an elephant with a scar

My alarm goes off Slowly my eyes open wide Ready for the day 3. Limerickanalysis: There are five lines. Lines 3 and 4 rhyme and are shorter than the rest. Lines 1, 2, and 5 have the same rhythm and they rhyme.

7. a sheep with thick wool 8. a mouse with a long tail

X X X

9. a dog that fetches a ball 10. a spider that can spin a web 11. a cat with six toes

4. Now use your analysis to compose your own limerick.

There once was a boy named Baloo Who took a trip to the zoo. He liked the bears best More than the rest ’Til he saw the red kangaroo!

It’s best to start with the square or triangle because they each lie in a horizontal row, a vertical row, and a diagonal row. This narrows your choices for where you can place the other squares or triangles. 115

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X X

12. a hamster that can escape from its cage

2. Do you think it makes a difference which shape you start with? Why or why not?


acquired

X

1. a girl with pierced ears

1. Haiku analysis:

DAY 3


• No shape may appear more than once in any horizontal or vertical row.

I coaxed him my way

Language Arts

2. What are other ways we can learn about other cultures besides at school?

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experiment:to try doing things to see their effect

Read the poems. Analyze the number of lines, the number of syllables or rhythm in each line, and whether or not there is rhyme. Look for patterns in each.

drawings of the circled cultural aspect on each continent

Which of the Romans’ reasons do you believe is the second most important one today? Why?

Communication is second. Much of our communication is electronic, but a lot is still done by regular mail and in person, and we use roads for that.



F A D E

• Good roads were also important for efficient communication across the long distances between the parts of the empire.

Grazing land is reduced

Haiku

6 12 18


• They made money from trade, so they needed roads to move goods from place to place.


Science

F

5 11 17

Divide the number by 6. Find the remainder in the first row. Write that column. If there is no remainder, put it in column F, because if 6 divides into it evenly, there is no remainder.

The ancient Romans are known for many great accomplishments, one of which was an amazing system of roads. The Romans needed good roads for several reasons:

Less livestock is raised

Temperatures increase

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I divided the number by 6. The remainder is 4. That’s column D.

Read the text and answer the questions to evaluate the importance of roads.

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Climate change can have an effect on our food supply, both plant and animal. Read the results related to temperature. Thenorder them on t he cause-and-effect graphic below so that each effect is the cause of t he next effect.

D

3 9 15

I divided the number by 6. The remainder was 1. That’s column A.

The I’m thinking library will be of closed running for on Saturday. student council.

Language Arts

C

2 8 14

The numbers are divisible by 6.

The your stars garden were really looks bright so colorful last and night. healthy.

Roman Roads

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Land dries out

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That where was the did your most exciting grandparents game I’ve live? ever seen!

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Grazing land is reduced

3.

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I’m thinking of running for student council. The library will be closed on Saturday.

The number she sold didn’t make up for the lower amount of money she made on each one.


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The stars were really bright last night. Your garden looks so colorful and healthy.

6. Why didn’t Pensri make more money when she sold more bags?

Cause and Effect Dominoes

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Where did your grandparents live ? That was the most exciting game I’ve ever seen!

2. Calculate how much money she took in at each selling price on the graph. Write the amounts on the lines at the bottom of the graph.


1. 2.

There we have was to take a fire on our our cat to the street vet on last Friday. weekend.

We have to take our cat to the vet on Friday. There was a fire on our street last weekend. 2.

B

1 7 13

the following numbers would appear. Try to solve the problems without listing all the numbers.

Did you hear about the new skating rink that just opened?

$0.50

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Determine under which letter

Here are the t wo sentences untangled:

15

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what you observe

Suppose the numbers 1 to 100 are arranged in columns A, B, C, D, E, and F as shown.

I hope did you they hear about have the new something good skating in rink that the cafeteria just opened? today.

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Week 21


When you hear several people around you speaking at the same time, all their words can sound tangled together. To understand any of the sentences, you must keep track of the words that seem to belong together. Here is an example of how two sentences tangled together might sound:

At Pensri’s Popcorn, Pensri is experimenting with different prices to find the one that makes the most money. The graph below shows the prices she has tried so far and how many bags of popcorn she sold at each price.

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13. Is an inherited trait always physical? Explain your answer.

No. Inherited traits can be behavioral. Things like fish knowing how to swim are behaviors that they already have when they are born.


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Marco! Polo! invent:

Week 22

Every Graph Tells a Story

DAY 4

to create for the first time

Cleopatra . Describe the game. Place two sticks on the ground to represent the banks of the Nile River. Players take turns jumping the Nile. A player who lands in the river is out. For each round, the banks are moved farther apart until only one player is left. That player has one Cleopatra point. Then everybody is back for another round. The first player with three Cleopatra points wins the game. Social Studies

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They all use the bottom-left dot.

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3. What do the letters in the third row have in common?

5

They all use the bottom-right dot.

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DAY 2

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August 23 3. What day of the week will it be 100 days from today (Wednesday)?

Friday 4. Will Nikki have to cook dinner on that day? How do you know?

Yes. She has to cook every 4 days, and 100 is divisible by 4. Math


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Hello, BrainPal

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Week 23 DAY 5


Read the text. Mass and volume are two different ways of describing size. Mass is related to weight— how heavy something is. Volume is how much space something takes up. Bigger isn’t always heavier; it depends how closely packed the particles are that make up the object or substance. The more matter you can squish into a given size, the more mass it has and the denser it is. You can find an object’s density using division: mass ÷ volume = density For example, if some solid silver coins have a mass of 42 grams and their volume is 4 milliliters, their density is 10.5 grams/milliliter, or 10.5 g/mL.

Apply this formula to find the densities of these objects to the nearest tenth of agram/milliliter.

DAY 3

The pictures show three d ifferent objects, each weighing 6 grams. Write A, B, and C below each to match it to its density. gold ring

object

C

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Week 23 DAY 4

1. A car manufacturer has just produced a car called the BioRunner that is powered by household waste.

Will the supply of BioRunners be high or low?

high

low

Will the demand for BioRunners be high or low?

high

low

A lot of people will want a car with cheap fuel. It will take a while for the car manufacturer to produce enough cars. Explain your answer.

2. An article comparing the BioRunner to traditional gasoline-powered cars praised the new technology.

Will the supply of gasoline-powered cars go up or down?

up

down

Will gasoline-powered car prices go up or down?

up

down

Fewer people will buy gas cars, so there will be more unsold cars available. Car dealers will have to offer discounts to sell them. Explain your answer.

3. The car uses a converter to make the waste usable. Many families with the BioRunner are canceling their garbage-collection service.

Will the demand for garbage collection go up or down?

up

down

Will garbage collection prices go up or down?

up

down

People can throw their trash in the converter, so there is no need to collect it. Garbage services have to compete with the converter. Explain your answer.



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Critic’s Corner

Week 24

critique:to tell what is good and bad about something

DAY 1

Planes and Trains

Week 24 DAY 2


Imagine you have a blog cal led “Critic’s Corner.” You review music, movies, video games, and other blogs. Read this sample critique.

Read the text. Joy is a toymaker who made planes and trains to sell at a craft fair. The ratio of planes to trains for sale was 3:4. Within the first hour, Joy sold 6 planes and 5 trains. Then the ratio of planes to trains that she had left became 2:3.

I recently visited Priya Baxter’s science blog. It was pretty interesting. Each week, she includes an at-home science project. Most of them are really neat. For example, her explanation of how to make a thermometer out of a plastic bottle was excellent. I tried it, and it worked really well. However, the project she outlined for how to power a clock with two potato batteries was missing a couple of details. The pictures were great, but I got a little confused and had to go to another website to get mine to work. Another great feature of her blog is the “ Did You Know?” section. It contains interesting, uncommon facts about animals. For example, I learned that it would take a snail about 220 hours to crawl one mile! I like this blog and plan to visit it again!

How many planes and trains did she make in all? How many planes and trains were left after the first hour?

Plan how

you will solve the problem. Show your work in the “My Work” section, and then write your solution below. My Plan

My family and I recently rented Beauty and the Beast. Overall, it was great. The story was a lot like the animated version. The cast was excellent. Emma Watson sings well and made a perfect Belle. I also loved the guy who played Gaston. He was very conceited and ridiculous and was fun to watch. My other favorite character was Belle’s father, played by Kevin Kline. His and Belle’s close relationship was obvious. I liked the Beast as well, but at times, he didn’t look real. I wish they could have made his eyes more expressive. The music and dancing were my favorite parts. If you like musicals, this is a movie you will want to see. © Evan-Moor Corp. •EMC3276 • Daily Higher-OrderThinking

not

Read the situation. Then predict how supply, demand, and prices of goods will be affected.

Ratios can be written as fractions. I’ll list some 3 fractions that are equal to 4 . Then I’ll subtract 6 from the numerator and 5 from the denominator 2 and look for a fraction that is equal to 3. My Work 9

9–6

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15 – 6

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Science/Math

do

problems


Now critique a song, movie, video game, or blog.

2.2 g/mL 8 g/mL 2. object B: mass = 88 g, volume = 11 mL, density = 3. object C: mass = 96.5 g, volume of 5 mL, density = 19.3 g/mL object C 4. Which of the three objects (A, B, or C) is the most dense? object A 5. Which of the three objects (A, B, or C) is the least dense? 1. object A: mass = 24 g, volume = 11 mL, density =

you

solve

BioRunner

Week 23

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How Dense Is It?

can

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me: Hello, Max. Please tell me my schedule today. Max: Hello, Skylar. At work, you have a meeting at 10:30 and a report due to the Dallas branch. Also, your monthly body scan is two days past due. me: Max, commence body scan now. Max: Scanning,Sk ylar...scanning...scanning...scan complete. Your basic indicators are normal. However, there are irregular cells detected behind your left ear. Would you like specific data? me: No. Call Dr. Rosen and transmit data to her. Dr. R: Dr. Rosen here. me: This is patient 4129SJ452. My automated aide is transmitting data to you regarding irregular cells. Dr. R: Please hold, Skylar ...data received. May I activate an eradication procedure ? me: Yes, please! Dr. R: Activating ...Cells are gone. Have a nice day!

Sunday, Thursday, Monday

A

if

The world is using artificial intelligence more and more. We have self-driving cars and personal assistants that can unlock our front door and order cereal while we’re halfway around the world. Conjecture how much more they will be able to do decades from now. Write a dialogue between a human and an automated aide that could take place 20 years from now. Give your automated aide a name.

2. If Nikki is cooking on Wednesday, July 26, on what date after that will she next be cooking on a Wednesday?

salt

You

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conjecture:to make a guess using incomplete information

1. Today is Wednesday. It’s Nikki’s turn to cook. Write the next three days of the week when she will need to cook again.

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2. What do the letters in the second row have in common?

Meghan left at 10:00 a.m. She stopped at a f lower shop and bought some f lowers for a sick friend. Five minutes later, she got back on the road. She traveled on the highway for 25 minutes. After she got off, she drove in town for 10 more minutes and got to the hospital where her friend is at 11:00.

Week 23

object

S

4. Decode the start of this message. Then complete the message in both Braille and English.

The four members of Nikki’s family take turns cooking dinner, so Nikki cooks every fourth day. Nikki wants to make a schedule for herself based on this pattern. Extrapolate the pattern to complete the items below.

J

They are made using the top two rows of dots.

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1. What do the letters in the top row have in common?

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Time (minutes)


Cooking Schedule

object

5 10 15 2 0 2 5 3 0 3 5 Time (minutes)

60

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Braille Code

Analyze each row of the code and answer the questions. ) r u o h r e p s e l i m ( d e e p S

The name of my game is

6. steel paperclips

0

DAY 1

In the 1800s, there were schools for blind students, but there was no good way to A B C D E F G H publish books for them. Charles Barbier was a French army captain who had developed a writing system called sonography that K L M N O P Q R allowed soldiers to communicate silently at night without light. The system used raised dots in combinations to represent letters. It was very complex and was based on language sounds, U V W X Y Z not spelling. A blind teenager named Louis Braille learned about the system and spent four years adapting it for use by blind people. Braille’s system uses a different combination of 6 raised dots to represent each letter.

Now interpret the graph below. Write a story about Meghan’s trip. Think about what it means when the line is going up, is flat, or is coming down.

Think of another real person in history. Invent an outdoor game that uses that person’s name in some way. Your game should be for two or more players and should involve physical activity.

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Week 23

Read the text.

40

Fernando left home and got up to speed quickly. Fifteen minutes from home, there was an accident. Fernando had to slow down to 10 miles an hour. He crawled for 5 minutes until the traffic cleared and speeds returned to normal. It took Fernando 10 more minutes to get to work after that.

Did you know that Marco Polo was a real person? In the year 1271AD, when he was only 17 years old, he set out on a long journey with his father and uncle. For three or four years, they traveled by horse from Italy across the continent of Asia, over deserts and mountains, all the way to China. Young Marco Polo was among the first Europeans to explore China.

Braille Code analyze: to look at closely for patterns and relationships

) r u o h 50 r e p

Look at the line graph, which tells a story. It shows what happened to Fernando when he went to work one day.

You may have played the game where one player, either blindfolded or with eyes closed, repeatedly calls out, “Marco!” Each time, the other players must answer, “Polo!” The blindfolded player tries to tag another player by following the sounds of the voices. The player who is tagged then becomes “it,” and the game continues.

2.

DAY 5


Read about a familiar game.

1.

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24 planes and 32 trains in all. 18 planes and 27 trains left after the first hour.

Math




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A Camel’s Kingdom

Week 24 DAY 3


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The Socratic Method formulate:

My Perfect Home

Week 24 DAY 4

to produce by thinking carefully

Read the information and formulate questions.

Read the text. Bactrian camels are their own species, but they have some traits in common with other living things. They can be grouped with other animals who share characteristics. This leveled grouping system is called taxonomy.

Week 24 DAY 5


Think about the f loor plan of your home. Imagine you are looking down from the top as if the roof has been pulled off. Draw the floor plan of your current home.

Socrates, a philosopher and teacher of ancient Greece, is given credit for developing a method of teaching through asking questions, often called the Socratic Method. Here are just a few examples of the kinds of questions Socrates might have asked:

bedroom 1

living room

• How can you prove or disprove that statement?

Analyze the living beings in each row. Figure out which label from t he word box best categorizes that group and write it on the line in that row.

Now design your ideal home. Draw and label the floor plan below. You may include outdoor features, such as a garden or pool, as well.

• Can you give me an example? • What is another way to look at it? • How does that relate to what we already know?

c am el s

t ou gh fo ot pa ds

a ni ma ls

mamm al s

The Socratic Method can be a helpful tool when people disagree. Suppose Danilo and Linda were having an argument.

h as a ne rv ou ss ys te m

bathroom kitchen

bedroom 2 patio

I deserved a better grade in social studies. It isn’t fair!

species: Bactrian camel

genus:

Of course it’s fair. You didn’t study, and your project was late.

My current home

camels tough foot pads

family:

What if, instead of pointing out why the grade was fair, Linda had used the Socratic Method? Formulate three questions she might have asked.

Why do you think you deserved a better grade ?

order: even number of toes on each foot

class:

My ideal home

drawing of home f loor plans with rooms labeled

1.

mammals

What might have caused the teacher to give you the grade you got ? Can you give me an example of an assignment or test that you think was graded unfairly ?

2.

has a nervous system kingdom: animals

phylum:

Bactrian Dromedary camel camel

llama

giraffe squirrel snake

sea star Science


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DAY 1

What is at the end of the rainbow?

Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran. How many R’s are there in that? Tell me if you can.

3.

There are no R’s in “that.” What is always the center of attention? the letter n

4.

What starts with P and ends with E and has thousands of letters in it?

5.

What occurs once in a second, twice in a week, and never in a month?

6.

What word starts with the letter “t,” is filled with “t,” and ends with “ t”?

7.

What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters?

8.

Seven is an odd number. How can you make it even?

9.

Leave off the letter s. What word contains all 26 letters? alphabet

What is a heavy weight forward but not backward?

13.

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Language Arts

2.

chocolate, cheese, butter, candle wax, ice 2. What do the solids you listed have in common as solids?

They hold their shape, and they can be cut or shaped by a knife/blade.

correct. Explain using words or pictures.

Math


Week 25 DAY 4

1.

The ancient Phoenicians traded with many countries.

2.

People in different countries spoke different languages.

3.

The Greeks added vowels to the Phoenician alphabet.

4.

The English alphabet is related to the Phoenician alphabet.

5.

The Phoenician civilization was destroyed by enemies.

Potluck Puzzler

Week 25 DAY 5

b e a d c

Clues:

• Athena brought a salad, but someone else whose name begins with the letter A brought the tossed salad. • The pickles were brought by one of the four gods. • Zeus brought something made with bread. • Hera baked her dish in the oven.

Effects

• The potato salad was not brought by a goddess.

Readers were able to recognize words more easily.

b.

Other countries adopted the Phoenician alphabet.

c.

No literature from Phoenicia has survived.

d.

Some letters of the Phoenician alphabet look familiar to English speakers.

e.

The Phoenician alphabet was changed and adapted.

6.

What strategy did you use to

• Apollo brought dessert.

potato salad baked beans tossed salad pickles sandwiches

connect the causes and

effects?

fruit salad

In my mind, I added words like “because” and “so.”


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5. List five solids that do not become liquid when using your answer to #4.

wood, fabric, coal, paper, candle wick 6. What happens to them instead? What state of matter are they in?

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H er a

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Social Studies/Logic


A rt em is

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A th en a

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What’s the Silver Lining? exemplify:to be a good example of something

Week 26 DAY 1

Every cloud has a silver lining

• Poseidon brought something that begins with the same letter as his name.

• Ares did not bring a salad.

a.

They do not hold their shape, they turn into a puddle, and they are wet and drippy.

Have you heard the saying “Every cloud has a silver lining”? What exactly does the saying mean? Write a story to exemplify the meaning.

The Greek goddesses Hera, Artemis, and Athena, and the Greek gods Zeus, Apollo, Ares, and Poseidon decided to have a potluck picnic on Mt. Olympus. Use the clues and the grid to narrow down the possibilities and determine who brought what. Write a on the grid to show which god or goddess brought which dish to the picnic.

Causes

3. What do the solids you listed have in common when they become liquids?

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determine:to figure out using facts or what you observe

Read the list of causes and the list of effects. Connect each cause with the effect that makes the most sense. Write the letter of the most logical effect after the cause.

Butter and cheese are softer than chocolate, ice is harder than the rest, and ice is colder.

Chocolate, cheese, and wax are thicker and will become solid again at room temperature. heat 4. What causes the solids to become liquid?

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to relate ideas to your life and to each other

How are the solids different from each other?

How are the liquids different from each other?

This mosaic is Mardia’s favorite. She showed it to her friend Lori. Lori 1 said, “Nice mosaic, Mardia! I see that the shaded square on top is 4 1 of the large square and that 3 of the bottom square is shaded. That 7 7 means you shaded 12 of the large square since 14 + 13 = 12 .”

Lori is incorrect. The top shaded square is 14 of the large square, but the bottom shaded squares are 13 of 41 , or 121 , of the whole square. The shaded areas are 31 of the large square.

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DAY 3

Think about the properties of solids, liquids, and gases as you compare the materials to complete the items.

This mosaic has 36 small squares glued onto a 1-foot square cardboard background. Mardia wants to make a second mosaic. The small squares will be the same size, but the background will be a 2-foot square instead of a 1-foot square.

Assess whether Lori is


Alphabet History

Week 25

A Science State of Mind compare: to find and describe similarities or differences

Mardia isn’t right. The area of the first mosaic is 1 ft 2. The area of the second one is 4 ft 2 (2 x 2 = 4). It’s four times greater, so she needs 4 times as many 1 ft square small squares (4 x 36 = 144). (original)

the letter n: none ton your riddle: What is always found in the middle of lakes? answer: the letter k What can you add to one to make it less?

DAY 2

Mardia says that since the sides of the second square are twice as long as the original’s, she will need twice as many colored paper squares. Assess whether Mardia is correct. Explain using words or pictures.

NOON

12.

Week 25

1. List five solids that can change into a liquid. 1.

What word can be written forward, backward, and upside down and still be read from

11.

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assess: to figure out whether something is correct

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Language Arts/Art


Mardia loves making mosaics with colored paper squares. She glues the squares onto a large square cardboard background to make interesting designs. Two of her mosaics are shown below. Examine them to solve the problems.

the letter w

1. 2.

left to right?


Mardia’s Mosaics

Week 25

to find a solution to a problem

All of the riddles on this page are about words. Solve each riddle. Then write a new riddle of your own that is also about words.

10.

Social Studies

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Word Riddles solve:

3.

P os ei do n

O X X X X X X

A re s

A po l o

X X X O X X X

X X X X X X O


Last spring, I was looking forward to my dance recital. I had dance class three nights a week as well as Writing Club on Wednesdays after school. When my schedule gets tight, writing is always the first thing to go. No wonder every short story or poem I had submitted to student magazines had been rejected. Three weeks before my dance performance, I sprained my ankle doing a leap. I was devastated. I was determined to perform, but my doctor said I had to rest my ankle for at least 4 weeks. Two weeks later, I received an email congratulating me that one of my short mysteries was chosen to be published! And they wanted me to write more! I was upset that I had to miss the recital (the cloud), but being injured gave me time to write (the silver lining). I wrote two more stories while I healed, and both were published! © Evan-Moor Corp. •EMC3276 •Daily Higher-Order Thinking

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Cool Sculptures visualize:

DAY 2


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What’s Your HyPOPthesis?

Week 26

Week 26 DAY 3

hypothesize:to make a good guess based on reasons

Jakob I. Sberg is known for his interesting ice sculptures. Below are two that he created from blocks of ice. Each block is a 1-foot cube. it from the front, back, top, and bottom. Then answer the questions.

Week 26

On the continent of Antarctica, there is no native population, only research scientists. Research bases often use the time zone of the country that owns the base. Look at the map and theorize answers to the questions.

Procedure: • They divided the kernels into three equal-sized groups and prepared each one differently:

8:00 p.m.

Group 1 was warmed in a conventional oven for two hoursand then setaside. 1.

Jakob used a special technique to hang this sculpture in the air. What is the surface area of the entire sculpture, including the bottom? How do you know?

Group 2 was soaked in water for two hours and then set aside. Group 3’s kernels were scratched with a knife. • They counted the number of popped pieces in each group.

2:00 a.m.

1. 2.

Week 26 DAY 5

cup sugar

2 tsp baking powder cup blueberries

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Very Complete Sentences

2 5 1 14 5 1 14

DAY 1

the average described. Write the numbers in the clouds.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

cups blueberries

17, 18, 19

2. The average of six numbers is 63. What could the numbers be?

60, 61, 62, 64, 65, 66

3.

Math/Science

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5. What strategy did you use to solve the problems?

I multiplied the number of items by the average to get the total sum. Then I found numbers that made that sum.

Describe the strategy you used to construct your pangrams.

I wrote some words that use uncommon letters, like q, x, and z. I used those words in a sentence and added other words to make it grammatical and to use the other letters. 139

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A World of Bumper Cars

Week 27

to represent something that is happening

DAY 3

Earth’s continents and oceans sit on crusts that ride on tectonic plates that glide on the soft asthenosphere layer of Earth’s mantle. Like a crowded bunch of slow-motion bumper cars, the plates diverge away from each other, scrape past each other, or converge right into each other. Describe or draw how you would use these materials to model the movement of Earth’s tectonic plates and what happens when plates that sit on top or continents that overlap the plates interact in various ways. • graham crackers

• a can of frosting

• fruit roll cut into squares

What will each material represent in your model?

Earth’s core the asthenosphere tectonic plates continents

Describe how to show two plates scraping past each other with a continent that overlaps both plates.

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Week 27 DAY 4

extend: to make longer

Yesterday’s China

Week 27 DAY 5

figure out: to find an answer

Read the clues and w rite the words to complete the crossword puzzle. Then extend the puzzle. Add four more words that are related in some way to social studies and that will connect with other letters on the page. Add boxes for letters as needed, give the first box for each word a new number, and write a clue for each word you add.

The timeline shows beginning and end dates of some of China’s dynasties, as well as the birth and death dates of some of its important philosophers. Use the timeline to figure out the time spans.

Clues:

1. How long was the Tang Dynasty?

Across

Down

1556 BCE

1. what happened in the past

2. Once upon a

5. solid ground

3. queens and emperors

6. happenings

1

2

8. to make something different 9. money you pay the government 10. money owed

3

t o r y i u m l e v e n r s

6


1046 BCE

Shang Dynasty ends.

3. How long did Confucius live?

72 years

4

w 10 l a n d e 9 r t s b a t x

551 BCE 544 BCE

Confucius is born. Sun Tzu is born.

496 BCE 479 BCE 371 BCE

Sun Tzu dies. Confucius dies. Mencius is born.

289 BCE

Mencius dies.

206 BCE

Han Dynasty begins.

5

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289 years 82 years

4. conflicts

7. to reject a proposed law

8 c h i s a n g 7 v e t o

Shang Dynasty begins.

2. How long did Mencius live?

How will you set them up to represent Earth?

I’ll spread a thick layer of frosting all over the baking sheet. I’ll put cracker squares on the frosting and fruit squares on top of the crackers. Describe how to show plates converging and colliding.I’ll push two crackers toward each other until they smash together.

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• a flat baking sheet

15, 17, 18, 20, 36

4. The average of five numbers is 21.2. What could the numbers be?

2.

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3. The average of four numbers is 107.5. What could the numbers be?

The club’s five-page quiz took way more than six hours to do. In Quebec, I saw an exhausted fake zebra just leaping over my leg. Jan knows she beat my expectation to find a quartz glove.

1.

4. Why do you think the baking times vary?

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1. The average of three numbers is 18. What could the numbers be?

tsp baking powder

4.

Science

DAY 2

Strategize to find a set of different whole numbers that have

26 letters but can repeat letters as needed. See how short you can make them! The sentences can be silly but must be grammatically correct. A complete alphabet is provided so you can keep track of which letters you have used as you go.

cups sugar

20 minutes. Cupcakes are smaller than loaves.

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Construct three pangrams of your own. Each must contain all

cups flour

3. Extrapolate these baking times to estimate how long Jiri should bake the batter in cupcake tins. Explain your reasoning.

3.



The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

The smaller the area of the pan, the less it needs to bake. As the area decreases by about half, the baking time goes down 2–3 minutes.

2.

Social Studies

Sky-High Averages

Week 27

together

A pangram is a sentence that uses all 26 letters of the alphabet. You may have seen this example of a pangram before, which is often used in exercises to practice handwriting or typing:

2. The directions say to bake the batter in a 9" x 13" pan for 35 minutes, an 8" x 8" pan for 32 minutes, or two 9" x 4" loaf pans for 30 minutes. What pattern do you notice?

fruit roll squares

The sun doesn’t rise and set each day. It’s light 24 hours a day for 6 months of the year and then dark or twilight all day the rest of the year.

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construct: to build by putting parts

Recipe for 30 5 6 cup milk 1 2 eggs

2 cups flour

graham crackers

Science


2. Why is it less important to have the time reflect the amount of light outside in this part of the world?


1 egg

a flat baking sheet

The scientists need to keep the same time as the countries they work for to coordinate meetings and communication.

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cup milk

a can of frosting

4:00 a.m.

Soak one group of kernels for 2 hours. Leave another group untreated. Then pop each using the same method and measure the amounts of popped and unpopped corn. If my hypothesis is correct, there will be a lot more popped corn from the soaked group.

Jiri needs to bake 30 muffins for his class. The recipe he is using makes 12 muffins. Look at the recipe. Extrapolate to figure out how much of each ingredient he needs.

1.

Heat and scratching damaged the kernels. Moistening the kernels helped them pop.

3. Describe an experiment that tests one of your hypotheses. How will you know if your hypothesis may be correct?

Read the text.

model:

6:00 a.m.

A map of Antarctica, prominent research stations, and the time zone each station uses

1. Why do you think this system was adopted for this continent?

extrapolate:to use data to estimate beyond the range of the data

1 2

12:00 a.m.

Why do you think the results of t he experiment turned out as they did? Hypothesize two possible reasons.

Baking Time

1 2

1:00 a.m. 6:00 a.m.

12:00 a.m.

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11:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m.

• The heated and scratched groups had less popped corn and more unpopped kernels than the soaked group.


1. Recipe for 12

9:00 p.m.

6:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m.

• The soaked group had the most popped corn and fewest unpopped kernels.

Jakob reproduced the first sculpture. Then he attached an identical piece of sculpture below it, upside down. What is the surface area of this sculpture? Will it be twice as much as the surface area of the first sculpture? Explain.

Math

The world is divided into 24 time zones that meet at the South Pole.

Results:

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• They popped each bag of popcorn separately the same way for the same amount of time.

surface area = 34 square feet Each face is 1 square foot. There are 9 faces on the front. There are 9 faces on the back. 11 faces make up the “steps.” 5 faces are on the bottom. 2.

DAY 4

theorize: to have an idea why or how something happens

Scientists conducted an experiment to test the impact of various physical changes to popcorn kernels. They wanted to see which would result in the fewest unpopped kernels. Read the experiment’s results. Then complete the items.

Visualize what each sculpture would look like if you viewed

South Pole Clocks

220 AD

Han Dynasty ends.

4. How long was it between the end of the Shang Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty?

1664 years 5. How old was Confucius when Sun Tzu was born?

7 years old 6. How long after Confucius died was Mencius born?

108 years 7. How long was the Han Dynasty?

618 AD

Tang Dynasty begins.

907 AD

Tang Dynasty ends.

426 years 8. How long after Mencius died did the Han Dynasty end?

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Tricky Little Words

Week 28 DAY 1


Balance the Toys deduce: to use facts and reason

In each of the following lists of words, there is one word that is different in some way from the others. Analyze the characteristics of the words to find the word that is different. For example, in the group big, out, nap, dot, three of the words have a vowel between two consonants. The word out does not follow this pattern, so it is the one that is different.

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to figure something out

Look at the toys on scales A and B. The weight on one side balances the weight on the other. Analyze the scales and deduce to complete the items. 1.

Have you ever noticed that the pitch of a sound changes as it moves toward you or away from you? Think of the sound of a speeding car, the sound of a “zoom.” That change in pitch is called the Doppler effect. The pitch of the car is higher the closer it gets to you. The pitch goes lower as it moves away from you. It doesn’t matter if the sound source or the listener is doing the moving; either way, the pitch will change.

B.

Read and analyze each set of words. Circle the word in each set that is different from the others and explain how it is different. 1. yellow

purple

brown

Read the situations. Apply what you k now about the Doppler effect and state how the pitch would change or if it would stay the same.

silver

Each of the other words has two syllables.

DAY 3

Read the text.

Draw the toys that are needed to balance the right side of scale C. A.

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C.

gets higher then lower stays the same gets higher 3. walking toward a hornets’ nest gets lower 4. running away from a barking dog on a leash stays the same 5. riding a train gets higher 6. a lawn mower backing up toward you gets lower 7. walking away from a building where an alarm is sounding 1. a motorcycle approaching and passing you

2. bunny

funny

sunny

runny

“Bunny” is a noun. The rest are adjectives. 3. pat

pit

pot

2. playing in a marching band during a parade

put

2.

The others spell real words backwards. 4. ache

best

dirt

scale B: If you take away 1 car on each side, then 1 car = 1 block and 2 balls. scale A: If you substitute 1 block and 2 balls for the car, then you have 3 blocks = 1 block and 4 balls. Take away 1 block on each side: 2 blocks = 4 balls 1 block = 2 balls

floor

The letters in the others are in alphabetical order. 5. gelatin

elating

tagline

tangled

The others all have the same letters. 6. Now make up a set of four words in which one is different from the others. Circle the one that is different.

him

I

she

Use drawings or words to explain how youdeduced the solution.

them

8. Describe a situation in which the pitch would start lower and then get higher.

Watching a horserace: the horses first run away from the spectator stands. They run around the track and come back to the stands to finish.

Tell how that word is different.

“Them” refers to more than one person.

3.

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DAY 4

Now interpret the poem by answering the questions.

Question: “What creature goes on four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening?”

1. What does the first line “I, too, sing America” mean?

Answer: Man, who crawls on all fours as a baby, walks on two legs in the middle part of life, and walks with a cane in old age.

It means that the poet is also what makes his country what it is, not just white people.

Now solve these ancient riddles.

One enters this building blind and comes out seeing.

a school

teeth

5.

There are 50 horses and 50 kings riding on a road. They come to a peach tree with 50 peaches. Each takes one, yet 49 peaches are left on the tree. How can this be?

Social Studies

I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I’ll be at the table When company comes. Nobody’ll dare Say to me, “Eat in the kitchen,” Then.


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A Good Catch

DAY 2


On the Move

Week 29 DAY 3

Imagine it is the 22nd century. What is the modern way of getting around now? Complete the items to plan an ad campaign that aims to persuade people to buy a new transportation product. 1. Describe your target audience, the types of people who would be most likely to want to buy this product.

They are likely to be on the cutting edge of technology, they care about natural resources, and they like speed. 2. What benefits does this product have over older transportation options?

It is much faster, uses only renewable resources, and does not take up much room.

Clues:

• The median length was 12 inches. • The mode of the lengths was12 inches.

3. Design and illustrate an ad that makes your target audience aware of the product.

• Three of the lengths are consecutive odd numbers. (Consecutive numbers follow one after the other in order.)

drawing of a glass compartment like a phone booth or small closet with a person inside holding a device

• The smallest fish was 5 inches shorter than the median length. • The range of the lengths was10 inches.

1.

Fish lengths in inches:

7

9

11

12

2.

What was the length of the shortest fish?

3.

What was the length of the longest fish?

12

16

17

In the blink of an eye, with the energy of a star, TransKosmo takes you there— near or far!

7 inches 17 inches

The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!

All mimsy were the borogoves,

Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun

adjective bright adjective slithering, slimy noun water creatures 3. toves verb move around 4. gyre verb play 5. gimble noun water 6. wabe adjective content 7. mimsy noun trees or f lowers 8. borogoves adjective quiet 9. mome noun peaceful creatures 10. raths 11. outgrabe verb/adjective relaxing adjective angry 12. frumious 149

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The Queen’s Decree


Week 29 DAY 4


The queen has issued a decree! Read the decree and deduce the queen’s reason for allowing some things and forbidding others. Then add five more. Hint: Look closely at the

words.

Royal Decree I Allow

I Forbid

pepper

salt

gloves

mittens

pliers

hammers

valleys

hills

highways

streets

donkeys

horses

eight

seven

peanuts

almonds

magazines

books

volleyball

tennis

She carries a scepter but not an orb.

1. What do all of the allowed items have in common?

All of the words have a letter that hangs down low, below the line. 2. Write five more examples of what the queen will allow and forbid.

She allows She allows She allows She allows She allows


The frumious Bandersnatch!” What I think it means

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Some friends went fishing and caught 7 fish! The fish were different sizes. Read the clues to help you figure out their lengths. Order the fish lengths from the shortest to the longest. Write them in the boxes.

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;

2. slithy

I, too, am America.

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’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

1. brillig

Besides, They’ll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed—


DAY 1

The poem “Jabberwocky” was published by Lewis Carroll in 1871 in the novel Throughthe Looking-Glass. Some of the words he used are nonsense words that the author made up. Read the first two stanzas of the poem. Then write what part of speech each underlined word probably is. Finally, use context to infer the meaning of the underlined made-up words. They are not real words, so don’t worry about being correct.

Part of speech

I think Hughes loved his country but not how African-Americans were treated. He has hope that he will be treated better in the future.


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And the mome raths outgrabe.

4. How do you think Hughes felt about his country when he wrote this? Why?

One of the kings is named Each.

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I, Too

I, too, sing America.

He sees a time when blacks and whites are treated as equals.

the letter “e”

Jabberwocky infer: to figure out using observation and experience

3. What does Hughes envision in the third stanza beginning with “Tomorrow”?

The beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the beginning of every end, and the end of every place: what is it?

DAY 5

It sounds like the author works for white people who hide him in the kitchen when friends come over. It reminds me of slavery.

the stars

Thirty white horses on a red hill: first they champ, then they stamp, then they stand still. What are they?

4.

2. What is the second stanza beginning with “I am the darker brother” talking about? What period in American history does it remind you of?

At night, they come out without being called. By day, they are lost without being stolen. What are they?

3.

Week 28

Read the poem below by Langston Hughes, one of the key f igures who moved African-American arts and culture forward during the 1920s and 30s. As you read, keep in mind that the poem was written in 1926—a time when racism and prejudice were much more apparent than today.

When people think of the sphinx, they usually picture the amazing Great Sphinx at Giza in Egypt. However, sphinxes played a part in the myths and beliefs of ancient peoples in many lands. One famous sphinx was said to have guarded the gate to the Greek city of Thebes. A tale tells how the Greek hero Oedipus saved himself from death at the hands of the sphinx by solving this riddle:

Science


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interpret:to decide what something means

Read the text.

What is it?


I, Too

Week 28


2.

Math

Yes. The lower pitch tells her that the cars have passed and are traveling away from her.

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1.

9. Imagine a blind woman using a cane at an intersection. She hears the pitch of nearby cars getting lower. Is it probably safe for her to cross the street? Why or why not?

Draw another arrangement of the toys to balance the scale.

apples pears spring green bicycles

but forbids but forbids but forbids but forbids but forbids


berries bananas fall red cars

. . . . .

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The Weight of Gravity extrapolate: to use data to estimate beyond the range of the data

A person’s weight depends on the person’s mass and the pull of gravity. Every planet’s gravity is a different strength. That is why the same person would weigh a different amount on a different planet. The chart shows how much a 150-pound person would weigh on each planet in our solar system.

DAY 5

Mercury

150

120

137 pounds

Earth

150 pounds

Mars

57 pounds

Jupiter

381 pounds

Saturn

140 pounds

Uranus

120 pounds

Neptune

180 pounds

Week 30 DAY 1


DAY 2

F

A K W I E

That evening, as they all headed home, Anansi spotted a great globe of light in the forest. He decided to give it to his rescuer, but he couldn’t decide which one. The great god Nyame offered to hold the globe until Anansi decided who most deserved his prize.

Earth

Week 30


If you fold this pattern on the lines 90 degrees, it will make a box. The box is shown below from four different angles, but each one shows a missing face. Visualize which face is missing and how it would be turned. Draw the missing face at the correct angle.

Anansi the spider had six sons. Each was named for his special ability: See Trouble, Road Builder, River Drinker, Animal Skinner, Stone Thrower, and Cushion. One day, Anansi fell into the river and a fish swallowed him up! At that moment, See Trouble saw that his dad was in danger and gathered his brothers. Road Builder paved the way for his brothers to reach the river. River Drinker drank all the water, leaving the fish that swallowed Anansi flopping. Animal Skinner then used his jaws to open the fish and free Anansi. Just then, a falcon swooped Anansi into the sky! Stone Thrower threw a stone and hit the falcon, who quickly let go of Anansi. Then Cushion put himself under his father to soften his fall.

Extrapolate data from the chart to answer the questions.

Block Views visualize:

Most cultures have folktales or myths that explain something about the world. These stories are often fantasies. Read this myth from Ghana about a common character, Anansi. It explains the moon’s presence in the night sky.

57 pounds

Venus

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Mythmaking

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1.

2.

Uranus

Now compose a myth of your own. It can explain any part of the natural world.

1. Would a person who weighs 100 pounds on Earth weigh more or less on Venus?

less 2. About how much would that person weigh on Venus?

Long ago, there was a greedy cat named Buttons. He always drank his saucer of milk as if he were starving. It was never enough, so he roamed the alleys and drank all the other cats’ milk. To avoid being seen, Buttons began stealing milk by night. When a kind witch realized that Buttons had been drinking her cats’ milk, she decided to teach him a lesson. One night, while Buttons was out looking for milk to steal, she took his saucer, filled it with creamy milk, and f lung it high up into the sky, where Buttons couldn’t reach it. Ever since then, it has lit the sky so that the other cats can see him coming.

about 91 pounds

3. About how much would a child who weighs 65 pounds on Earth weigh on Mercury?

about 25 pounds 78 pounds Jupiter

4. How much would that child weigh on Neptune?

5. On which of all the planets would that child weigh the most?

6. Weights vary from planet to planet because each planet’s gravity’s strength varies. Do you think Earth’s gravity is stronger or weaker than Saturn’s? Explain your answer.

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Week 30


what you observe

DAY 3

Fill the tray with lukewarm water.

• lukewarm water

2.

Set the tray on top of the two cups, with the hot cup under one end and the cold cup under the other.

• large cup with 200 mL of ice water • red and blue liquid food coloring

3.

bl ue

red

1.

Observations

2. A huge power outage in a big city has left its residents without power for days. People are using battery-operated devices in the meantime.

spreads quickly across the top; covers whole top in 1–2 minutes, then starts to sink

The blue food coloring spreads out quickly.

3. A large wildfire in the state of Georgia burned a major crop of peanuts.

increase . Explain your answer. The supply of peanuts to make peanut butter is down, so not as much will be made. The manufacturer will charge more for each jar to make up for having fewer to sell.

The price of peanut butter will probably

Food coloring is denser than water.

True. Both food colorings eventually sank. 4.

If all the water were cold, the colors would never spread out.

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Game Time! deduce:

Week 30 DAY 5


Read the clues to help you deduce the names of the players on each team as well as each player’s score. Clues: • The teams tied, each having a total score of 164. • A boy and a girl were on Team A. A boy and a girl were on Team B.

Teresa

Paco

Afshin

Leon

• Teresa didn’t have the lowest score, but it was lower than the average score of the four players. • Paco had 6 more points than Leon did. • Afshin had 6 more points than Teresa did. • The average score of the two girls was 2 points greater than the average score of the two boys.

Write the names of the players and their points. Team A

The red and blue food colorings acted differently because they are different colors.

There is not enough information to tell if the color affected the results. 3.

increase . Explain your answer. Many people will suddenly need batteries for f lashlights and radios. The stores will take advantage and raise prices. The price of batteries will probably

False. In the Observations, it says it moves slowly. 2.

W

F

• Team A’s players had a difference of 4 points between them.

sinks and stays together; moves c ol d slowly toward hot side in a band of color; spreads out over the hot cup hot

4.

Two boys and two girls were playing a video game. They formed two teams—Team A and Team B. Each player earned points in the game.

decrease . Explain your answer. People are more likely to buy it to use next summer if it costs less than the usual price. The store needs to get rid of it quickly.

Results: Water

DAY 4

The price of sunscreen will probably

Add four drops of red food coloring to the water above the hot cup and four drops of blue food coloring to the water above the cold cup. Add both colors at the same time. Color

Week 30

1. A store is stocking its shelves with items for the fall holidays. The store has a lot of sunscreen left over after a mild, rainy summer.

Directions: 1.

• large cup with 200 mL of very hot water

Roller Coaster Prices

Read the situation. Then predict how the price of goods will change and explain why.

• clear glass tray

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Team B

Paco

84

Leon

78

player

points

player

points

Teresa

80

Afshin

86

player

points

player

points


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