Handwriting Instruction

The Amundson Cluster uses the handwriting program Handwriting Without Tears.

Math Checklists/Standards

​Science Curriculum

Amundson Science Curriculum based on a two year rotation.

Year One

Matter and It’s Interactions

• Physical properties

• Make observations to construct an evidence-based account of how an object made of a small set of pieces can be disassembled and made into a new object.

• How heating/cooling changes things

• Plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties

Ecosystems

• Experiments with one variable with plants

• Models of pollination and seeds spreading

• Living things and where they live

• Exploring Alabama environments

 Molecules and Organisms

• Inherited traits, plants and animals

• How traits are influenced by environment

• Life Cycles

   

Unity and Diversity

• Fossils

• Characteristics that help plants and animals survive

• Models of habitats

• Engineer solutions to problems created by environmental change

• Research survival techniques of an organism

Earth’s Systems

• Researching Earth’s events -short term and long term (tornados, earthquakes, erosion, glaciers, etc.)

• Models of Earth’s features

 Year Two

 Motion and Stability

• Forces of motion on an object, graphs

• Investigate, measure, and communicate how patterns of motion can predict future motion.

• Explore cause/effect

• Use magnets while utilizing the engineering design project.

• Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem.

• Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.

Earth and Human Activity

• Examine and test ways to control Earth’s events

• Flooding, fires, erosion

Earth’s Systems

• Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.

• Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world.

• Compare multiple solutions designed to slow or prevent wind or water from changing the shape of the land.

• Obtain information to identify where water is found on Earth and that it can be solid or liquid.

Ecosystems

• Living and non-living components of an ecosystem

• Roles of organisms within an ecosystem

• Exploring Alabama’s environment

Earth and Human Interactions

• Describe events that change the earth’s surface (e.g., wind, water, ice, gravity)

• Evaluate a design solution addressing a weather-related hazard

Social Studies Curriculum

Amundson Cluster Social Studies Curriculum
(two-year rotation)

The broad concepts of living and working together in state, nation, geographic and historical studies – people, places, and regions will be included in both years of the rotation. Topics include:
(Year One)

• Segments of time

• Types of maps

• Technology in mapping

• Map skills

• Legends, stories, songs of U.S. cultural history

• Energy resources

• Preparing for natural disasters – safety

• Reasons for settling 13 colonies

• Declaration of Independence, Constitution

• Founding Fathers, Historical Females

• Washington D.C.

• Production and distribution in Alabama

• Supply and demand, trading

• Major world resources

(Year Two)

• Class rules, democratic society

• Historic figures

• National holidays

• American symbols and monuments

• National parks and state parks

• Ways people are affected by human and physical environments

• Human – Environment interaction in Alabama and the world

• Our 50 states

• Political parties, voting process

• Three branches of government

• Why people immigrate to the U.S.

• How populations move/change

• Location of resources/population patterns

• Machines – past/present

• Alabama and U.S. role in the Olympics ​

Educating Responsible Citizens