A comprehensive look at how energy moves through different ecosystems. Students explore food chains across four unique habitats through reading and hands-on activities.

A lesson exploring the properties of the atmosphere using My Little Pony (G4) characters to explain complex weather concepts like humidity, dew point, and latent heat through visual metaphors.

An immersive hands-on investigation into the physics of sound where students build DIY instruments to explore vibrations, pitch, and volume. This lesson bridges sensory exploration with acoustic engineering principles.

Students explore the plant life cycle and the critical role of sunlight through a hands-on sunflower experiment tailored for Indiana's spring climate.

A hands-on exploration of colonial food preservation and the science of phase changes through butter making. Students learn about the effort required for daily colonial tasks while transforming heavy cream into butter using jars.

A lesson to help students identify and differentiate between herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores based on their diets and physical traits.

Students apply their knowledge to identify real-world problems and design innovative technological solutions.

Students examine how technology can be both helpful and 'tricky', learning to identify pros and cons of digital tools.

Students explore how technology like self-checkouts, scanners, and apps transform the shopping experience for both workers and customers. The lesson culminates in a creative project where students design their own tech-integrated shop.

A comprehensive lesson on plurals ending in -es, covering base words ending in s, x, ch, sh, and z through multi-sensory activities.

Unit overview and teacher facilitation guide for 'The Magic E Files'.

Read a decodable passage featuring i_e words and heart words, followed by a writing application.

Practice complex word chains and orthographic mapping of i_e words to build automaticity.

Learn and map heart words 'by' and 'my' while integrating them into i_e word sentences.

Focus on i_e words with initial and final blends like smile and slide, including word chaining activities.

Introduce the magic 'e' concept for the long i sound in CVCe words and practice mapping basic words like ride and bike.

A comprehensive lesson focused on the 'o_e' (silent e) phonics pattern and the heart words 'by' and 'my' through mapping, chains, and reading.

A 30-minute engineering challenge where students build and test structures using six different material stations to understand earthquake stability.

Final review and assessment of the 'ch' digraph and Heart Words. Students demonstrate mastery through dictation and independent application.

Intensive UFLI-aligned practice including vowel intensive desk tents and a deep-dive tactile study of the Heart Words 'talk' and 'walk'.

Advanced practice with 'ch' through word chaining and cumulative review. Continued reinforcement of Heart Words.

Review of 'ch' spelling and introduction to reading 'talk' and 'walk' within a decodable passage. Emphasis on fluency and comprehension.

Introduction to the 'ch' digraph with phonemic awareness blending/segmenting and the three-part drill. Focus on initial and final 'ch' in words like 'chop', 'rich', and 'chat'.

A comprehensive phonics review lesson focusing on short vowels, the FLSZ rule, welded sounds, digraphs, and specific heart words through detective-themed activities.

A 5-day instructional sequence for teaching the -all, -oll, and -ull sounds, including heart words, blending, segmenting, and reading application.

Review of the week's blend concepts and a formal assessment of decoding and encoding skills for CCVC and CVCC patterns.

Focus on CVCC words ending with S-blends (-st, -sk, -sp) and L-blends (-lt, -lp, -lk). Integration of initial and final blends.

Focus on CVCC words ending with nasal blends (-mp, -nd, -nt, -nk). Students identify the 'stuck' sound before the final consonant.

Focus on CCVC words starting with S-blends (st, sp, sl) and T-blends (tr, tw). Students practice maintaining the sequence of sounds in the cluster.

Introduction to CCVC words starting with liquid blends (L-blends like bl, cl, fl and R-blends like br, cr, dr). Students practice segmenting each sound in the blend.