Week of August 28- Essential Question: How can we get the things we need? Week of Sept.4- Essential Question: What can lead us to rethink an idea? Week of Sept. 11- Essential Question: How can experiencing nature change the way you think about it? Week of Sept. 18- Essential Question: How does technology lead to creative ideas? Week of Sept. 25- Essential Question:What are the positive and negative effects of new technology? Week of October 2- Essential Question:What do good problem solvers do? Week of October 9- Essential Question:What can you do to get the information you need? Week of October 16- Fall Activities Week of October 23- Essential Question: How do we investigate questions about nature? Week of October 30- Essential Question: When has a plan helped you accomplish a task? Week of Nov. 6- Essential Question: What motivates you to accomplish a goal? Week of Nov. 13- Essential Question: What can learning about different cultures teach us? Week of Nov. 27- Essential Question: How can learning about nature be useful? Week of Dec. 4- Essential Question: Where can you find patterns in nature? Week of Dec. 11- Essential Question: What benefits come from people working as a group? Week of Dec. 18- Grinch Week! Week of Jan. 2- Essential Question:How do we explain what happened in the past? Week of Jan. 8- Essential Question: What kinds of stories do we tell? Why do we tell them? Week of Jan. 15- Essential Question:What can you discover when you give things a second look? Week of Jan. 22- Essential Question:What can people do to bring about a positive change? Week of Jan. 29- Essential Question:Why are natural resources valuable? Week of Feb. 5- Essential Question:How do you express that something is important to you? Week of Feb. 12- Essential Question:What experiences can change the way you see yourself and the world around you? Week of Feb. 19- Essential Question: How do shared experiences help people adapt to change? Week of Feb. 26- Essential Question: What changes in the environment affect living things? Week of March 5- Essential Question: How can scientific knowledge change over time? Week of March 12: Essential Question: How do natural events and human activities affect the environment? Week of March 19: Essential Question: How do different groups contribute to a cause? Week of March 26: Paired Reading and Writing on texts about Spring/ Novel Week of April 2: Paired Reading and Writing on texts about Spring/ Novel Week of April 9: Essential Question: How do different groups contribute to a cause? Week of April 16: Essential Question: What actions can we take to get along with others? Week of April 23: Essential Question: How are living things adapted to their environment? Week of April 30: Essential Question: What impact do our actions have on our world? Week of May 7: Essential Question: What can our connections to the world teach us? Week of May 14: Spring Activities/ Novel Week of May 21: Spring Activities/ Novel