PYP Unit Summary

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Line of Inquiry

Objectives Assessment Transdisciplinary Connection

Focus Skill/Strategy

Writing Focus PYP Attitudes

Week 1

How do substances go together and how can they be taken apart.

Introduction to investigation 1

SWBAT Explain how certain substances can be separated with screens and filters.

SWBAT Identify substances that make a special kind of mixture. (salt and water etc.)

Teacher Observations (Informal notes on students progress)Assessment ChartsStudents sheets 2 and 3, 4 and 5

Social Studies: Students will learn about salt and elements of the Dead Sea and Lake Bakel.

Students will learn about Henry Cavendish (Scientist)

Compare and Contrast

Students will compare and contrast the different substances that make up Earth’s atmoshere.

Enthusiasm

Cooperation

Week 2

How do substances go together and how can they be taken apart.

How does saturation occur and what are its limits.

Investigation 1 and begin 2

SWBAT Explain how certain substances can be separated with screens and filters. (Continued from last week)

SWBAT Identify substances that make a special kind of mixture. (salt and water etc.) (Continued from last week)

SWBAT Identify the saturation limits of salt, citric acid and water.

Teacher Observations (Informal notes on students progress)Assessment ChartsStudents sheets 6 and7

Reading: Students will read about decompression sickness pages 13-17.

Social Studies: Students will learn about Washington Roebling.

Making Inferences

Main Ideas/ and details

Students will write an informative essay on research they do on citrus fruits and citric acid.

Enthusiasm

Cooperation

Week 3

How does saturation occur and what are its limits.

Why are certain chemicals identifiable by their solubility.

Investigation 2 and begin 3

SWBAT Identify the saturation limits of salt, citric acid and water.

SWBAT Identify explain the process of identifying an unknown chemical by its solubility

SWBAT Determine different concentrations of certain material in different drinks.

Teacher Observations (Informal notes on students progress)Assessment ChartsStudent response sheet 10, 11 and 21

Social Studies: Students will learn about Karl Wilhelm.

Reading: Students will read a short article about the power of citric acid.

Making Inferences

Main Ideas/ and details

Students will continue working on their informative essay about citrus fruits.

Curiosity

Week 4

How is concentration of a material measured in water.

SWBAT Determine different concentrations of certain material in different mixtures.

Teacher Observations (Informal notes on students progress)

Reading: Students will read about how to grow your own crystals.

Making Inferences

Main Ideas/ and details

Students will begin writing their scientific process on their own mixture. Their thinking process will include

Appreciation

Curiosity