Grade+5+SP

= Curriculum Map = = = = =

= = = Module 1 =

=Central Texts:=

Universal Declaration of Human Rights UDHR (United Nations)

UDHR Plain Language Version: [|Plain Language Version]

UDHR Article Strips by Expeditionary Learning

"From Kosovo to the United States" by Isau Ajeti and Blanche Gosselin

History of the UDHR

"Teaching Nepalis to Read, Plant, and Vote" by Lesley Reed

Pam Muñoz Ryan, __Esperanza Rising__ ISBN: 978-0439120425.

American Heroes Reader's Theatre Script

Aaron Shepard, __Readers on Stage__ ISBN: 978-0-938497-21-9.

[|Aaron Shep's RT Page]

Kathleen M. Hollenbeck, __Fluency Practice Read-Aloud Plays: Grades 5-6__: 15 Short, Leveled Fiction and Nonfiction Plays with Research-Based Strategies to Help Students Build Fluency and Comprehension (New York: Scholastic, 2006), ISBN-13: 970-0-439-55421-3.

Michael Ryall, __Readers Theater Grade 5__ ISBN-10: 1557998949.

= Module 2A =

Interview with Bryson Voirin from "Biomes of the World"

"Hawaii's Endangered Happy Face Spider" by Expeditionary Learning

Live Online Interview with Eve Nilson "I Was a Scientist in the Rainforest"

Great Bear Rainforest Remote Camera Project [|Great Bear Video]

Kathryn Lasky, __The Most Beautiful Roof in the World: Exploring the Rainforest Canopy__ ISBN: 978-1-4352-6563-9 (hardcover) ISBN: 978-0-15-200897-0 (paperback)

"The Wings of the Butterfly" by Aaron Shepard

Paul Mason, __Rainforest Research Journal__ ISBN: 978-0-7787-9924-5

I Want To Be A Rainforest Scientist by Expeditionary Learning

=Additional Resources:=

[|Field Notes on Science and Nature] [|Drawn to Nature: Through the Journals of Clare Walker Leslie] [|The Project Gutenberg EBook of Birds in Town and Village] [|Digital Collections: John Muir Journals] [|Field Journal: Plants] [|Selections from the Field Journal of William Duncan Strong]
 * Field Journal Texts for Lesson 1:**

[|A Trail Through Leaves by Hannah Hinchman]
 * Lesson 2:**

[|Pictures: Fire Ant Swarms Form Living Life Raft]
 * Lesson 4:**

[|Ants]
 * Lesson 5:**

[|Learn About Butterflies] Ant Group 1- Bullet Ants [|Ant Group 2- Army Ants] [|Ant Group 3- Leafcutter Ants]
 * Lesson 6:**

[|Ants Life Cycle Graphic] [|Rainforest Butterflies Video] [|Monarch Butterfly]
 * Lesson 7:**

[|Howler Monkeys] [|Howler Monkey from Think Jungle]
 * Lesson 8:**

[|Government Made Easy: Greetings from NY] [|Old York Library: Remember Me to Herald Square: Thirty-fourth Street from River to River]
 * Lesson 11:**


 * Lesson 13:**

[|Smithsonian Libraries] [|Government Made Easy: Ant Close Up] [|Government Made Easy: Butterfly Close Up] [|Peterson First Guide to Insects of North America] [|Peterson First Guide to Butterflies and Moths] [|Peterson First Guide to Birds of North America] [|Rainforest Insects] [|Alex Wild Photography]

= Module 2B =

= Module 3A = "It's Not Just a Game!" by Lori Calabrese

"Roots of American Sports" by Phyllis Goldman

[|Sports in America]

Sharon Robinson, __Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America__ ISBN 978- 0-439-42592-6

Roberto Clemente's Gifts from the Heart [|Gifts From the Heart]

Roberto Clemente in "Great Athletes" [|Roberto Clemente]

Roberto Clemente: Latino Legends in Sports [|Latino Legends in Sports]

Althea Gibson (Sunrise-Sunset) [|Althea Gibson]

Notable Southerners: Althea Gibson

[|Althea Gibson Excellence Act]

= Module 3B =

= Module 4 =

Edwidge Dantikat, __Eight Days: A Story of Haiti__ (New York: Orchard Books, 2010), ISBN: 978-0-545-27849-2.

Darian Hale, __Dark Water Rising__ (New York: Square Fish, 2010), ISBN: 978-0-312-62908-3.

[|Earthquakes] by Meredith Tennant

[|Hurricanes] by Crystal Wicker

[|Earthquakes] Science for Kids

[|How a Hurricane Forms] by Marshall Brain, Craig Freudenrich, Ph.D. and Robert Lamb