4-1: Caverns of Secrets

Materials
  • 4-1 Reading

    Caverns of Secrets

  • 4-1 Grammar

    Adjectives

  • 4-1 Speaking

    Caverns and Caves

  • 4-1 Media

    Flooded Caves

  • 4-1 Vocabulary

    Earth's Biome
Objectives
  • Students will read and learn about mysterious and amazing caves and caverns around the world.
  • Students will be able to describe orally and in writing mysterious and amazing caves and caverns around the world.
  • Students will learn how to use adjectives.
Content
  • Vocabulary

    accustomed, insignificant, puny, gem, cavern, melody, stalactite, condense, soluble, deposit, stalagmite, gradual, dissolve, resonate, rig, operational, chandelier, privilege, magma, endure

  • Grammar

    Using Adjectives: 4-1 Grammar Adjectives

4-2: Under the Sea

Materials
  • 4-2 Reading

    Under the Sea

  • 4-2 Grammar

    Identifying Adjective Clauses

  • 4-2 Speaking

    Just Keep Swimming

  • 4-4 Media

    Brinicles

  • 4-2 Vocabulary

    Bodies of Water
Objectives
  • Students will read and learn about amazing organisms and creatures in the depths of the ocean.
  • Students will be able to describe orally and in writing amazing organisms and creatures in the depths of the ocean.
  • Students will learn how use Identifying Adjective Clauses, specifically in relation to the use of relative pronouns who, whom, whose, that, which, when, where.
Content
  • Vocabulary

    trench, kiddie pool, penetrate, sparse, teeming, thrive, stalactite, condense, soluble, deposit, protrude, bait, lure, luminous, yeti, scavenge, proportional, fang, dismal, goblin, prominent, fossil, uncovered

  • Grammar

    Using Identifying Adjective Clauses: 4-2 Grammar Identifying Adjective Clauses

4-3: Beneath the Surface

Materials
  • 4-3 Reading

    Beneath the Surface

  • 4-3 Grammar

    Non Identifying Adjective Clauses

  • 4-3 Speaking

    Dig Deep

  • 4-3 Media

    Magma

  • 4-3 Vocabulary

    Talking about Geography
Objectives
  • Students will read and learn about natural wonders below the surface of the Earth.
  • Students will be able to describe orally and in writing various natural wonders below the surface of the Earth.
  • Students will learn how to use Non Identifying Adjective Clauses, and will learn how punctuation and function differentiates Non Identifying Adjective Clauses from Identifying Clauses.
Content
  • Vocabulary

    mine, mere, burrow, millenia, mole, flesh, sensory, receptor, acre, meticulous, chamber, regulate, Marvel, deprivation, rupture, erupt, active, devastating, expulsion, atomic bomb

  • Grammar

    Using Non Identifying Adjective Clauses: 4-3 Grammar Non Identifying Adjective Clauses

4-4: Frozen Treasures

Materials
  • 4-4 Reading

    Frozen Treasures

  • 4-4 Grammar

    Adjective Clauses with Quantifiers

  • 4-4 Speaking

    Ice Cold

  • 4-2 Media

    A Black Bear and her Cub

  • 4-4 Vocabulary

    Landforms
Objectives
  • Students will read and learn about natural wonders of the world’s polar regions.
  • Students will be able to describe orally and in writing the natural wonders of the world’s polar regions.
  • Students will learn how to use Adjective Clauses with Quantifiers.
Content
  • Vocabulary

    desolate, polar, predominantly, interior, illuminate, glacier, metamorphosis, tinge, spectrum, crevice, keen, recede, expose, bounty, forager, venture, unstable, submerge, mussel, trove

  • Grammar

    Using Adjective Clauses with Quantifiers: 4-4 Grammar Adjective Clauses with Quantifiers

4-5: Hidden Bonds

Materials
  • 4-5 Reading

    Hidden Bonds

  • 4-5 Grammar

    Adjective Phrases

  • 4-5 Speaking

    Natural Partnerships

  • 4-1 Listening

    Natural Beauty in My Home

  • 4-1 Writing

    Explorer's Diary
Objectives
  • Students will read and learn about various complex and amazing relationships between living organisms in nature.
  • Students will be able to describe orally and in writing various complex and amazing relationships between living organisms in nature.
  • Students will learn how to construct Adjective Phrases.
Content
  • Vocabulary

    partnership, symbiosis, interaction, mutualism, commensalism, parasitism, devour, toothpick, avian, nocturnal, hitchhiker, barnacle, opportunistic, expense, tick, harass, minuscule, burdensome, selfish, inseparable

  • Grammar

    Constructing Adjective Phrases: 4-5 Grammar Adjective Phrases

4-6: Seeing is Believing

Materials
  • 4-6 Reading

    Seeing is Believing

  • 4-6 Grammar

    Punctuating Adjective Clauses

  • 4-6 Speaking

    Imagine this Forest

  • 4-2 Listening

    What is Eco-Tourism?

  • 4-2 Writing

    Extreme Adventures
Objectives
  • Students will read and learn about unbelievable natural phenomena.
  • Students will be able to describe orally and in writing unbelievable natural phenomena.
  • Students will learn how to use punctuation with both Identifying and Non Identifying Adjective Clauses.
Content
  • Vocabulary

    crater, lucrative, mitigate, rage, eerie, otherworldly, emanate, mesmerize, sci-fi, halo, firefly, bioluminescent, emit, algae, plankton, boom, shoreline, influx, microscopic, erode

  • Grammar

    Using Punctuation Adjective Clauses 4-6 Grammar Punctuating Adjective Clauses
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