Students research from a variety of sources the causes and effects of the Civil War. They will hear from a Juvenile Center Counselor to find the necessary conflict resolution skills needed in today’s world and see how they could have used those skills in the 1860’s to prevent the Civil War from occurring. They will then create a Public Service Announcement discussing conflict resolution skills to present to all grade levels within the school.

Students will research and learn about famous Americans and their contributions through a variety of nonfiction texts and resources. We will also be attending a MLK play at the Folly Theatre. They will then apply their knowledge to their own life and develop a way that they can positively impact others and make a difference, as famous Americans did. Students will also learn about community helpers within our community, their roles, and contributions they make.

Project Focus Questions:

• What are contributions?
• Who are famous Americans?
• What makes them famous/how did they make an impact?
• How can you use your passions, talents, and interests to make a difference in the world?
• What is a community helper?
• How are famous Americans and community helpers alike and different?

After reading Lord of the Flies, students work to develop mock trial-like videos of their chosen conviction of the character Jack. Students participate in workshops and group activities that ask them to contemplate the complicated nature of juvenile law and justice to eventually land on their own opinion of the question.

Students will learn how to read and construct maps. Students will learn how maps tell us a lot about what places were like in the past and how the changes have impact communities. Students will write a personal narrative that accompanies the map they have created of their community, neighborhood, or home.

Students gain understanding of Missouri history by writing, creating, and producing a documentary to teach others about Missouri history.

Identify factors that led to Western Expansion (push-pull) and relate one of those factors to your family’s migration. Tell your family’s story of movement through a scrapbook (digital, traditional, imovie, etc). It must include a family interview, using maps, graphics, primary sources, etc. Share your scrapbook with your family and share reflection with class (include an assessment of the impact of this movement in your family history).

Students will use knowledge of how sound is made to create a working instrument. They will market their instrument to sell in the Music Market as a good (instrument) or a service (concert). They will use basic researching skills to understand and consider cost, scarcity, and understanding of goods, services, producers, and consumers. Students will use speaking and listening skills to advertise their business for peers to view. Students will then practice consumership by spending classroom money on their peer’s goods or services.

National History Day provides an opportunity for students to research a significant historical topic within the context of a national theme. Students choose a historical topic (20+ years in the past), conduct authentic research, analyze and synthesize their findings, decide on the best product by which to present their research and findings (paper, website, group website, performance, group performance, documentary, group documentary), and defend their research conclusions to an outside, scholarly audience.

National History Day provides an opportunity for students to research a significant historical topic within the context of a national theme. Students choose a historical topic (20+ years in the past), conduct authentic research, analyze and synthesize their findings, decide on the best product by which to present their research and findings (paper, website, group website, performance, group performance, documentary, group documentary), and defend their research conclusions to an outside, scholarly audience.

Students realize that Kellybrook is a big school and not everyone knows where to go, especially new students. Students will explore different maps and understand the key elements that make it easier to get somewhere. Teams will pick a specific spot in KB and create a map with written informational directions to help get from one place to another within KB. Students will create a draft of their maps and written text to receive feedback to revise and reflect from peers. This map will incorporate coding for an ozobot to follow as a model of a new student following this map. To finish up as a class, we will create a virtual tour of different spots in KB that can be uploaded to our school website.

The students will learn the difference between wants and needs by hearing the experiences of others in need. The students will hear about different areas of need in the community. We will brainstorm different ways to help people in our community. The students will choose how they want to help and choose an appropriate project to do so. The students will be donating items needed for local animal shelters (old towels and clothing to be turned into animal chew toys, bowls, litter boxes, bedding, food). The students will be writing opinion pieces to help make their choice and narrative pieces to tell what they have learned.

After reading The Outsiders, students will work in teams to put one of the main characters, Johnny Cade, on trail for an incident that happened in the book. Students will take on the persona of layers, witnesses, jury, etc., to prove their claims through evidence from the book.

Students collect data by researching different pizza restaurants to compute various measures of pizza (total price, diameter, area, circumference, price per square in each) in order to make comparisons to figure out which measures would impact the overall value.

Students interview members of their Shark Pod (grades K-5) and research their shark pod mascot to create an original song.

Students will research local charities and choose one they relate to. Students will be creating an artwork that promotes/raises awareness for the charity. Students will be using a printmaking technique to create their project.

Students will research the United States Bill of Rights to understand how individual rights are protected within a community. They will brainstorm a list of rights that apply to second grade citizens and present these ideas to other students in their grade level.

Students create a travel plan/timeline of human expansion within the solar system (between celestial bodies), leading to travel outside of the solar system. Who can get us there the fastest?

Through the exploration of real world writing pieces, students will learn the differences between writing approaches and what makes writing successful in each.

Using our DQ, to justify colonizations of Mars and Jamestown

Students will learn different folktales, fables, and myths from different cultures. Students will also learn about the art of storytelling and will learn how to retell a story they have studied.