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Academics
MVCS Curriculum follows a five year rotating schedule. Each
one of these units has fully developed goals, objectives,
activities, and assessment rubrics. The “big idea”
units are the basis for all other skills and content taught
at MVCS.
The 2007-2008 thematic unit of study is “Year 4 –
Biomes”.
Year 1 – It is a Whole New World
| Social
Science |
Science |
• Explorers
• Immigration to America
• Who belongs here? Asians, Europeans, Africa, First
Americans, South Americans |
• Weather
• Navigation, boats, magnets
• Float/sink, properties of water
• Butterfly migration |
Year 2 – Communities and Colonies
| Social
Science |
Science |
• Northeast Native Americans
• Colonial Life
• Revolutionary War
• Making a Nation
• Black History |
• Fresh water environments
• Electricity and Benjamin Franklin
• Chemistry |
Year 3 – Our Earth
| Social
Science |
Science |
• Japan
• Continents, hemispheres, major bodies of water
• Vermont |
• Ocean life
• Earth – change over time
• Volcanoes and earthquakes
• Geology of Earth
• Natural resources management and conservation |
Year 4 – Biomes
| Social
Science |
Science |
• Westward expansion and pioneer life
• US Geography
• Canada
• Inuit
• Rainforest countries
• Deserts of the world |
• Deciduous forest
• Grasslands, savannah
• Taiga-conifer forest
• Tundra – properties of snow
• Rainforest, plants and insects
• Desert heat and reptiles
• How are the biomes doing and sustainability of
our Earth |
Year 5 – Long Ago and Far Away
| Social
Science |
Science |
• Medieval and ancient civilizations
• Egypt
• Romans and Greeks
• Dinosaurs
• Outer Space and Planets
• Space Program |
• Simple machines
• Magnetic forces
• Light
• Solar energy
• Constellations
• Gases, liquids, solids, matter
• Flight and rocketry |
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