Set up a pen pal exchange with a school in another country to enhance language skills and cultural understanding. Students will write letters and possibly engage in video calls.

Host a mock trial to teach students about the legal system, critical thinking, and public speaking. They will role-play different court positions and work on a fictional case.

Unit: Human vs Bacteria Focus Phenomenon: Why do some people get sick than others. Key concepts: evolution, natural selection and cells

Set up a pen pal exchange with a school in another country to enhance language skills and cultural understanding. Students will write letters and possibly engage in video calls.

Create a PBL for second grade connected to the following amplify science curriculum titled Properties of materials. This unit is about how can you design a mixture for a certain purpose? For centuries, humans have undertaken this challenge. From the creation of medicines, paints, and building materials, to the development of cleaning products, adhesives, and foods, mixtures have proven to be essential to life as we know it. By mixing ingredients together, it’s possible to create a mixture that takes on some of the properties of its ingredients. In this unit, students take on the role of glue engineers and use engineering design practices to create a glue for use at their school, which serves as the design problem for the unit. They conduct hands-on investigations to observe properties of a variety of possible glue ingredients and learn how certain materials respond to heating and cooling; they engage in digital card sorts to apply their understanding of how properties of ingredients affect properties of mixtures; and they search for useful information about each ingredient in the unit’s reference book. Over the course of the unit, students conduct tests that yield quantifiable results, graph their data, analyze and interpret results, and then use that evidence to iteratively design a series of glue mixtures, each one better than the one before. By the end of the unit, students are able to speak knowledgeably about their choices and argue for how a particular glue mixture best meets their design goals, with evidence from a variety of sources.

Create a PBL for second grade connected to the following amplify science curriculum titled Properties of materials. This unit is about how can you design a mixture for a certain purpose? For centuries, humans have undertaken this challenge. From the creation of medicines, paints, and building materials, to the development of cleaning products, adhesives, and foods, mixtures have proven to be essential to life as we know it. By mixing ingredients together, it’s possible to create a mixture that takes on some of the properties of its ingredients. In this unit, students take on the role of glue engineers and use engineering design practices to create a glue for use at their school, which serves as the design problem for the unit. They conduct hands-on investigations to observe properties of a variety of possible glue ingredients and learn how certain materials respond to heating and cooling; they engage in digital card sorts to apply their understanding of how properties of ingredients affect properties of mixtures; and they search for useful information about each ingredient in the unit’s reference book. Over the course of the unit, students conduct tests that yield quantifiable results, graph their data, analyze and interpret results, and then use that evidence to iteratively design a series of glue mixtures, each one better than the one before. By the end of the unit, students are able to speak knowledgeably about their choices and argue for how a particular glue mixture best meets their design goals, with evidence from a variety of sources.

Create a PBL for second grade connected to the following amplify science curriculum titled Properties of materials. This unit is about how can you design a mixture for a certain purpose? For centuries, humans have undertaken this challenge. From the creation of medicines, paints, and building materials, to the development of cleaning products, adhesives, and foods, mixtures have proven to be essential to life as we know it. By mixing ingredients together, it’s possible to create a mixture that takes on some of the properties of its ingredients. In this unit, students take on the role of glue engineers and use engineering design practices to create a glue for use at their school, which serves as the design problem for the unit. They conduct hands-on investigations to observe properties of a variety of possible glue ingredients and learn how certain materials respond to heating and cooling; they engage in digital card sorts to apply their understanding of how properties of ingredients affect properties of mixtures; and they search for useful information about each ingredient in the unit’s reference book. Over the course of the unit, students conduct tests that yield quantifiable results, graph their data, analyze and interpret results, and then use that evidence to iteratively design a series of glue mixtures, each one better than the one before. By the end of the unit, students are able to speak knowledgeably about their choices and argue for how a particular glue mixture best meets their design goals, with evidence from a variety of sources.

This is a financial literacy project. Students should explore compound and simple interest formulas, as well as their application to their near future lives.