Grade Level: Fifth Grade
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Discovering and Identifying our Strength
Students can identify strengths in their lives that help them be connected, happy, and strong.
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Using Abstraction to Summarize Text
Students will understand the meaning of the CT term ABSTRACTION, as it relates to summarizing a short passage. They will be able to summarize the text into a short, concise statement that contains the key details of the text.
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Decimal Division
Students will use place value reasoning and pattern recognition to solve decimal division problems.
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Protagonist Study
The teacher will review the elements of a story (character, setting, plot), focusing on characteristics of the protagonist. The class will make predictions about what they will see in the protagonists of the “everybody” books (picture books), when we are looking at race, gender and ability. They will also note the publishing date of each…
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Abstraction in Science Models
Students will identify models of molecules as abstractions of what is happening in a chromatography experiment. Students will compare abstractions of chromatography. Students will make their own abstraction to represent the process of separating mixtures.
