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| Calculating area of the shape using an equilateral triangle. |
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| Recording data. |
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| Making a symmetrical shape. |
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| "Coloring our symmetrical shape." |
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| "Our shape is symmetrical." |
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| Colored the grid where the Power Polygons were. |
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| Taking turns placing Power Polygons on the grid paper. |
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| PAX exchange students from Indonesia and Pakistan answering 4th grader questions. |
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| Class photo with Fira and Naina. |
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| Students holding the flags and some money from the countries they learned about. |
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| Lily wearing a prayer costume from Indonesia. |
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| "I've got perpendicular lines!" |
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| "You want what?" |
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| Student shares two perpendicular lines and a right angle. |
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| First one done. |
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| "It's hard to see the blue rubber band, but that's an acute angle." |
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| Student shares her obtuse angle. |
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| Mathematicians hard at work. |
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| Students watching a Rube Goldberg video. rubegoldberg.com |
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| Student sharing his own Rube Goldberg invention. |
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| Students sharing Rube Goldberg ideas. |
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| "I'm going to try and use all six simple machines." |
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| Student wanted to finish his Rube Goldberg invention even though the day was over. |
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Reading Street Unit Theme
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Math
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Social Studies
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Science
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Writing
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Health, Tech, ?
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Discovery-New people and places
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Multiplication and division- 3 units total
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Vermont History
Abenaki
Early settlers
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Energy
Electricity: transfer, collision, speed, circuits, solar
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Personal narrative
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We Care: lessons 1,2,3
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Value of Teamwork
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Data analysis
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Vt Contribution to US Heritage
Agriculture, tourism
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Waves
Wave properties, light, sound/ patterns, wire and wave
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Opinion/argument writing
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Alcohol, Tobacco and other drugs
Lessons 1-3
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Patterns in Nature
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2-D geometry and measurement
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World History
perspectives of different cultures
indigenous cultures
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Animals & Plants
Internal & external structure
Sense
Information processing
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Procedure writing
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Personal Hygiene
Lessons 1-3
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Is there and explanation for everything?
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Addition, subtraction and the number system
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Earth in Universe
Fossils, rock layers
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Response to literature
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What makes an adventure?
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Fractions and Decimals
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Earth Systems
Weather & erosion, plate tectonics, topographic features
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Just so story: alliteration,
repetition, figurative language
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What does it take to achieve our goals and dreams?
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Patterns, functions, and change
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Earth & Human
Natural resources: energy & fuel
Impact on humans
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| Fenel Pierre sharing with students about Haiti. |
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| Students eagerly asking questions at the end of Fenel's presentation. |
