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===**Photos/Standards**=== || ===K-W-L === ===K-What do they already know? === ===**W-What do you want them to know? **=== ===**L-What did they learn? **=== || || || # ......... # ........ # ... # .... # ... # ... || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">|| || __**Gr 3 & 4 Activity Sheets**__

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Math Gr 3 & 4 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Science Gr 3 & 4 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Language and Arts Gr 3 & 4 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Social Studies Gr 3 & 4 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">__**Gr 5 & 6 Full Set Activity Sheets**__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">

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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">__**Math**__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">IL Learning Standards: 6.B.2, 6.C.2a, 6.C.2b, 6.D.2, 7.A.2a, 7.A.2b

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">// STATE GOAL 6: Demonstrate and apply a knowledge and sense of numbers, // <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">// including numeration and operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, // <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">// division), patterns, ratios and proportions. //

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">// STATE GOAL 7: Estimate, make and use measurements of objects, quantities and //

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">// relationships and determine acceptable levels of accuracy. //

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">__**Science**__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">IL Learning Standards: 12.E.2c, 13.B.2b, 13.B.2c, 13.B.2e, 13.B.2f

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">// STATE GOAL 12: Understand the fundamental concepts, principles and // <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">// interconnections of the life, physical and earth/space sciences //

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">// STATE GOAL 13: Understand the relationships among science, technology and //

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">society in historical and contemporary contexts.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">__**ELA**__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">IL Learning Standards: 1.B.2b, 1.B.2c, 3.A.2, 3.B.2a, 3.B.2c, 3.B.2d

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">__**Social Studies**__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">IL Learning Standards: 1.B.2a, 1.B.2c, 1.C.2a, 3.A.2, 3.B.2a, 3.B.2b, 3.B.2c, 3.B.2d, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4.A.2a, 4.A.2b, 4.A.2c, 4.B.2b; 15.A.2a, 15.B.2a, 15.B.2c, 15.C.2b, 15.D.2a || __**Links**__

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Pod To Plate – from seed to your dinner plate.] || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">|| || ||

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">=__**CORN**__= <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">|| ................................................................................................................................. || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,serif; font-size: 15px;">Top Ten Facts About Corn: ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"># <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Corn is produced on every continent of the world with the exception of Antarctica. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"># <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grits are small broken grains of corn. They were first produced by Native Americans centuries ago. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"># <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Before Christopher Columbus's voyage to North America, corn was grown only by the Indians of North, Central and South America. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"># <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Petrified corn cobs that are over 5000 years old have been found in ancient Indian villages in the Western hemisphere. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"># <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When Columbus's ships landed in what is now the West Indies, he traded with the Indians and took corn home with him to Spain. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"># <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Indian name for corn was MA-HIZ which the early settlers began to call maize. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"># <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Indians of North America helped save the settlers from starvation during their first winter in America by providing them with corn to eat. After that first hard winter, the settlers were taught by the Indians how to grow corn by planting corn kernels with small fish for fertilizer. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"># <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Indians also shared their methods of preparing corn with the settlers. This included corn bread, corn pudding, corn soup and fried corn cakes. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"># <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Corn was so valuable in the days of the early settlers that it was used as money and traded for meat and furs. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"># <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Corn is completely domesticated, it cannot exist as a wild plant.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Strategy recommendation: Graphic Organizer/Foldables, technology.

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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wonderful and informative website about corn.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|What is Ethanol?] ||

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">=__**MILK**__= <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">|| || 1. Milk separator device splits milk from cow into <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">cream/butter and milk through a spinning process.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. The froth on top of the milk content is used as what we know as "whip cream'.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. The smaller the cow (e.g. Jersey cow, as in the photo), the higher the butterfat content.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Submitted by L.Choong :) ) ||