Infection Detection

Learning Targets for Infection Detection

This unit focuses on the following essential questions:
How can germs be spread from person to person?
How does the body defend itself from infectious disease?
How can medical professionals use patient symptoms to diagnose illness?
How can scientists determine how a germ spreads through a group of people?

What will students understand?
Scientists ask and identify questions to gain knowledge or solve problems
Scientists develop and use models to represent amounts, relationships, relative scales, and/or
patterns in the natural and designed world(s)
Scientists plan and conduct investigations collaboratively to produce data that serves as
evidence used to answer questions
Scientists make predictions based on prior experiences
Scientists make observations and/or collect data to construct evidence-based conclusions for
natural phenomena
Scientists keep and organize all of their work in a scientific notebook
Scientists work collaboratively and communicate their findings with others
The design process is a step by step method used to guide people in developing solutions to
problems
Infectious agents, such as bacteria and viruses, can cause illness and can spread from person
to person
The body protects and defends itself from infection
Understanding how infectious disease spreads in a population helps medical professionals
with prevention efforts

What will students be able to do?
Identify behaviors to maintain health and prevent the spread of infection
Apply a step by step process to design and perform investigations to find answers to
questions
Utilize critical thinking skills to solve a problem
Recognize that germs can make a person sick
Recognize that bacteria and viruses are germs
Describe the various ways germs can be passed from person to person
Recognize that bacteria and viruses are microscopic in size and that they cannot be seen with
the naked eye
Identify the ways that the body protects and defends itself against infection
Identify behaviors that promote good health
Use scientific tools to examine cells or organisms that are microscopic
Perform an investigation in order to draw conclusions
Maintain a notebook to document work
Share findings and conclusions with others
Organize and analyze medical data to determine a likely source of an infection
Demonstrate the spread of infection using a graphical organizer and justify connections
between infected individuals
Follow a step by step method to solve a problem

Shakespearean Experience

Learning Targets for Shakespeare Unit


This unit focuses on the following essential questions:
What is the impact of Shakespeare on today’s world with regard to writers, actors, playwrights, entertainers, politicians, and the English language?
How are time periods connected and how do their contributions change views of society?
How did Shakespeare used different rhythm and rhyme to represent the character’s social class?
Why Shakespeare?  Why was he in the “right place at the right time” for his plays to become popular?

What will students understand?
The effect of Shakespeare’s works on other literature, media and song
These plays were never meant to be read but experienced in a three dimensional experience
That language changes, but the changes are not impossible to decipher, and can be actually fun​
 That Shakespeare represents an important milestone in history, as the Renaissance brought back the revival of plays and “knowledge” that had been long buried​.

What will students be able to do?
Be able to explain the plot line of Hamlet, a Shakespearean tragedy
Be able to explain the plot line of a Midsummer Night's Dream, a Shakespearean comedy
Know how to appreciate Shakespeare’s plays and that it is important to SEE these plays and not just READ them
Be able to memorize and recite a chosen passage
Be able to paraphrase snippets of scenes in today’s English
Be able to write summaries of plot
Be able to analyze characters and their importance 

5th Grade Book Studies

Field Trips

A Midsummer Night's Dream Performance 

​The High Museum of Art
​STEAM Tour