Math: Chapter 11 - Measurement (one lesson per day) 

• Monday - Chapter 11, Lesson 1 - Hands On: Measuring with a ruler (learning objective: measure length to the nearest half inch and quarter inch)
• Tuesday - Chapter 11, Lesson 2 - Convert Customary Units of Length (learning objective: Convert measurements of length within the customary system)
• Wednesday - Field Trip
• Thursday & Friday - Conversion worksheets

Science: Chapter 5 on Water Cycles (one lesson per week) 

• We will read the next lesson, asking us to focus on the question, “What are erosion and deposition?”
• How does melting ice cause erosion?
• Learning objective: 
• Students will construct an evidence-based argument that erosion and deposition can change the Earth’s surface
• Key Vocabulary in this lesson: erosion, deposition, and sand dunes

Social Studies: The Civil War

• We will start the Civil War by reading in our textbooks for this unit

• Lesson 20 - The Causes of the Civil War

• What factors helped drive apart the North and the South in the mid-1800s?

• Learning objective: 

• Identify key events that led to the Civil War
• Solve a series of six visual puzzles to reveal key images about the causes of the Civil War
• Discuss critical thinking questions about the causes of the Civil War
• Key Vocabulary: abolitionist, Civil War, Confederacy, secede, sectionalism, Underground Railroad, Union 

• Lesson 21 - The Civil War

• What factors contributed to the outcome of the Civil War?

• Learning Objective:

• Analyze primary source images of the Civil War to discover the factors that enabled the Union to win the war.
• Appreciate the role of historical artifacts in creating historical memory and a sense of shared nationhood.
• Key Vocabulary: draft, Emancipation Proclamation, technology

• On Friday, we will focus our learning on a key person during the Civil War - Abraham Lincoln
• Weekly D.O.G. (Daily Oral Geography) passed out on Monday and will be due on Friday

*Please note that The Week at a Glance is very broad. Please check my nightly Edlio posts to read about what we did in class that day.*