In this unit, students will understand where “fake news” comes from, why it exists and how they can think like fact checkers to become fluent consumers, evaluators, and creators of information. They will apply this knowledge by selecting a controversial topic to evaluate, synthesize, and analyze all aspects before sharing with a local audience.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to give fourth graders an overview of 24-hour clocks.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to give fifth graders an overview of 24-hour clocks.

After reviewing natural (physical) and human characteristics from Lesson 1, students use maps to identify and describe significant natural (physical) characteristics of Michigan including mountain ranges, sand dune areas, the Great Lakes, inland lakes and important rivers. In a connection to science students briefly explore how glaciers helped to create some of these natural (physical) characteristics. The lesson uses multiple resources including informational text, legends and photographs.

In this lesson students continue their study of the important natural (physical) characteristics of Michigan by exploring vegetation and climate. They begin by analyzing special purpose maps of forests and orchards. Next they are introduced to the concept of climate, connecting to science topics of weather and seasons from previous grades. In addition, they briefly explore the impact of the Great Lakes on climate. The lesson also includes a chart reading activity dealing with Michigan state symbols.

The Roadmap is a remix of the Michigan Open Book, MC3 and GIANTS all in one place. In this lesson students continue their study of the geographic theme of ‘place’ by exploring significant human characteristics of Michigan including bridges, cities, highways and lighthouses. In addition, students explore how people interact with natural (physical) characteristics by creating human characteristics (e.g. bridges are built over rivers, towns are built along bays.)

The Roadmap is a remix of Michigan Open Book, MC3 and GIANTS all in one place. This foundational lesson introduces students to historical reasoning through the analysis of primary sources, such as historical maps and photographs. They examine how historians are detectives of the past and use evidence from primary and secondary sources. Students then explore the chronology of the settlement of a village in Michigan and identify the causes and effects of the founding of the community.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about multi-step addition of weights with compound units (metric units) - word problems.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about adding compound units in years and months.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to give fourth graders an overview of weight-based english-unit word problems.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about converting integer and fraction sums into decimals.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to give fourth graders an overview of measuring capacity (metric units).

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to give fifth graders an overview of measuring capacity (metric units).

This video and accompanying interactive assessment practice was designed to teach overview of addition sums to first graders.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders an overview of addition (sums to 100).

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about solving multi-step weight problems with subtraction (metric units) - word problems.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about using a scale and multi-step calculations to find weight in grams i.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to give fifth graders an overview of addition and subtraction in kilograms and grams.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to give fourth graders an overview of weight in metric units.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about two-step subtraction of weights (english units) - word problems.