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Grades 3-5 Lesson Plans  

Title and ITV Series/Technology

Grade

Subject

SOL

Made in China: The Art of Chinese Calligraphy

Elementary Video Adventures: Stories from China: Land and People: Write

2-3

History, Geography, Math, Art, and Language Arts

History 2.1, Geography 2.4,
Math 3.14, C/T K-2.5, 3-5

Matter for Minors

Properties of Matter, Part 2: Liquids, Solids and Gases

K-3

Science

K.4 a, b, c, d, e, K.5 a, b, c,
1.3 a, b, c, 2.3 a, b, c 3.3 a, b, c

Independent or Dependent? That is the Question

How Scientists Work- What is the Scientific Method?

4-8

Science, Math

Science 4.1 b, c, f, 5.1 e, g , 6.1 e , i, LS.1 b, f, h , PS.1 g, h, k,  Math 5.18, 6.18 a , 7.17 b,  8.12

The Dog Days of Data

Discovering Math:  Statistics and Data Analysis (Grades 6-8)

5-8

Mathematics, Statistics

5.18, 6.18 a, b, c, 7.17 a, b, c, d, e, f, 7.18, 8.13

Proud as a Peacock

U.S. Symbols
Symbols of America

K-3

Social Studies

K.9, 1.11 a, b
 

One Vs. One Hundred...

Math Mastery: Addition. Lesson 1: Getting Started, Lesson 2: Column Addition

3-5

Math

Math 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.3

The Dog Days of Data

Discovering Math: Statistics and Data Analysis: "Example 1: Stem-and-Leaf Plots - Dog Weights"

5-8

Mathematics, Statistics

5.18, 6.18a, b, c, 7.17 a, b, c, d, e, f, 7.18, 8.13

Once in a Blue Moon

The Moon Dance

3-5

Science / Technology

Science: 3.8, 4.7

Coming Attraction

Electricity and Magnetism-The Magic of Magnets

4-8

Science / Math

Science: 4:1 a, b, 4:3 a, 6.1 a ,b,  
LS.1 a, b, c,  PS.1 a ,b, c,  PS.11 a,
Math:   4:20, 6:18 a, 7.17 b, 8:12

What a Tangled Web We Weave
Foldable

Food Chains and Webs

3-8

Science /
Language Arts

Science 3.5, 3.6, 4.5,  L. S. 6, 7, Biology 9a, Writing 8.7, 5.8,  9.6

Deep Blue Sea

Oceans: Earth's Last Frontier  

3-5, 7

Science

SCI.5.6, SCI.ES.11

Doing Dewey Decimal

Media Mania, 103

2-3

Library Information Skills

2.2, 3.3

Dear John...

How to Write a Report and Letter

3-8

Language Arts

English 3.10, 4.8, 5.8, 6.6, 6.7, 7.8,  7.9, 8.7, 8.8

Chances Are

Bill Nye Science Video Probability #303

3-5

Math

Math 2.23, 3.23, 4.18,3.23,
Science 3.1, 4.1, 5.1

Old Glory

Old Glory

K-3

Social Studies


K.1, 1.11, 2.10, 2.12, 3.12

When Push Comes to Shove

Let's Move It: Newton's Laws of Motion

4-8

Science/Math
/Art/History

Science 4.2 a, b, c, d, Math 4.10 a,
 4.11 a, PS.10 a, b

Wild and Wetlands

Man and the Great Dismal Swamp

3-5

Science/Language Arts/Math/Technology

Science 3.1, 3.6, English 3.9, Math 3.9,
3.10, Science 4.1, 4.5, Math 4.7,
Science 5.7, Math 5.3

A Matter of Fact

Mathica's Mathshop: "A Sure Cure"

3-4

Mathematics –Multiplication

Math 3.9, 3.10

I've Got The Power

Simple Machines: A First Look

3

Science – Force, Motion, and Energy

Science 3.2, 3.2a, 3.2b, 3.2d

You Are What You Eat

Herman's Chow-Down Nouns,  "What are Nouns?"

1-3

Language Arts/Technology

3.2e

I Have a Dream!

The Boyhood of Martin Luther King Jr.  & Holiday Facts and Fun: Martin Luther King, Jr., Day

K-3

Social Studies/Math

K1b, K.2, K.17, K.18, 
1.10 a,
 2.10 a, b, c,
3.11a,
3.12

Can You Walk a Mile With My Foot?

Measurement and Scale

4-8

Math/Science

Math 4.11 a, b, c,
Science 5.11 a, b;  4.1 a, b; 5.1 c, d;  6.1, c, d, f;   7.1 c;  8.1 b, c

Can You Hear Me Now?

Breaking the Silence: an Introduction to Sound

5-8

 Science

5.2 a,b,  6.2 c, PS.8 a , b, PH.9     

Say It With A Graph

Geography Basics: Globes, Maps, & Graphs

5-8

Social Studies/ Science/Language Arts/Math

Math (5.18, 6.18, 7.17, 8.12)
Science (5.1, 6.1, LS.1, PS.1)

Social Studies (USI.1, USI.2, CE.1, WHI.1)

Language Arts (5.8, 6.6, 7.8, 8.7, 9.6)

Inquiring Minds Want to Know

What is Scientific Inquiry? 

5-8

Science/Language Arts

 Science, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1,  CH.1,  English, 4.7, 5.8, 6.6, 7.8, 8.7

You Light Up My Spectrum

Light & Color

5-8

 Science/ Art/History

Science 5.3 a, b, c, d, e, PS.9 a, b

Mummy Said There'd Be Days Like This
Attachments

Ancient Times: Segment 4 -" Pyramids of Egypt" and Segment 2 - "Hieroglyphics"
Reading Rainbow # 509 "Mummies Made in Egypt"

2-3

Social Studies / Math / Language Arts / Technology

History:  2.1
Geography: 2.4 a, 2.4 d
Math: 2.20, 2.22, 3.18
English: 2.8 e, 2.9,  2.11, 3.1, 3.7
Technology: C/T5.3

Good Golly, It's Mali

African & African American Folktales, "How Anansi Obtained the Sky God's Stories"

3

Language Arts / Social Studies

Social Studies 3.2

Fat Chance

Baye's Theorem Considering New Information When Making Decisions
Mathica's Mathshop: "A Bundle of Joy", # 110

3-5

Math

Math 2.23, 3.23, 4.18
 Science 3.1, 4.1, 5.1

Tell A Ton of Tall Tales

Telling Tales, Hardy Hard Head #101

3-5

Language Arts

English 3.1, 3.2, 4.1
C/T 5.4, C/T 5.3

We Built This City

Living History Series: Living in Ancient Greece
Life in Ancient Rome: Contributions of Ancient Rome

3-5

History, Geography, Technology

History 3.1, Geography 3.4

Rambling Through the Regions
Attachment


Virginia Pathways,
#101 "Taxes and Transportation"

4

Virginia History / Geography

VS.1i, VS.2b

Let's Make a Dill

Club Write Series 103

4-8

Language Arts / Science

Writing 4.7,  5.7, 6.7, 7.8, 8.5, English 8.5, Science, 6.1, LS 7.1, PS 8.1

Hey, Hey, We're the Pamunkey…and Other American Indians

Native American Series #104, Indians of the Southeast

2-5

History / English / Technology

History 2.3;  English 5.7;  Computer/Technology 5.4; VS.1, VS.2, VS.3, VS.4

Chop Chop, Who's There

Passport to the Rainforest 101

3-5

English / Science / Technology

 English 3.5, 3.10, 4.7, Science 3.6, Computer/Technology 5.4

Now You See Them, Now You Don't

Colonial Life Series, 103

3-5

Social Studies

VA History 3.3, VS.1, VS.3

Picture This

Club Write Series 106

4-8

Language Arts / Descriptive Writing

3.2, 3.6, 3.7, 3.9, 3.11, 4.7, 4.8, 5.1, 5.8, 5.9

The Good Old Days:  Were They?
Attachments

Colonial Life Series 101

5-6

Social Studies

VS.3

This Little Light of Mine
Attachments

Take a Look 2, 109 Electricity

3-5

Science / Math

 Science 3.1, 4.1, 4.3, 5.1,
Math 3.14, 4.12, 5.11, Computer/Technology 5.2, 5.3, 5.4

He Said, She Said, So: What's the Point?
Attachments

Club Write 109, Writing Reports & Point of View

4-8

English

English 6.2, 7.5, and 8.3

Orville and Wilbur Wong and the Fantastic Flying Machine

Read On: Cover To Cover #115, Dragonwings

5-7 Language Arts English 4.1, 5.4, 6.3, 3.5, 3.6, 4.4, 4.5, 5.5, 6.4, 6.5, English/Writing 4.7, 4.8, 5.7, 5.8, 6.8, English Research 4.9, 5.8, 6.9, History 4.7, 6.1, 6.10, C/T 5.3, 5.4, Computer/ Technology C/T5.3, C/T5.4
Can You Do It
Attachments

Reading Rainbow #101

K-3

Language Arts

History K1, 1.1; CivicsK.8, 2.9 ; Oral Language K1, K2, 1.1, 1.2; Writing 1.12, 2.1, Reading Literature 2.5, 2.7, 2.8, 3.7, 4.4, 4.6; Research 3.10 ; Computer/Technology 5.3, 5.4

King Size Dream
Attachments

Holiday Facts & Fun #109

K-3

Social Studies / Math / Science

Social Studies K.1, 1.1, 1.4,2.6,3.5
Math K.8, 1.12, 2.12, 3.14
Science K.2, 1.2

Under Construction
Attachments

Reading Rainbow #1114
 

K-3

Language Arts

K.11,1.12,2.11,3.9

Weather Watchers

Vocabulary - Instruments
Weather Chart - Webquest

Passport to Weather and Climate

3-5 Science Science 4.6, ES.13
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
Attachment

Mathica's Workshop 2 - Eddie Files

3-5

Mathematics

Math 2.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.18, 3.20, 4.2, 4.17

Tribal Survival: Native Americans 3-5 Social Studies History 2.2, 2.3, 3.3, 4.1, 4.7, 5.1, Virginia Studies VS.2, VS.3, English 5.7, C/T 5.4
Stayin' Alive 3-5 Science Science 3.4-2, 3.5-3, 3.6-1, 3.2, 3.4, 3.5, 3.10
Be Specific, Go West to the Pacific
Attachments

Landmarks of Westward Expansion

5-6

Social Studies

SS/History 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, C/T 5.3, 5.4

Flutterings and Flowers
Attachments

NatureWorks

4

Science (Habitats)

Science 4.5, 4.8; Language Arts 4.5, 4.9

The Candy Color Caper
Attachments

Math Vantage

4-8

Math (Probability)

Math 4.18, 4.19, 5.16, 5.17, 6.18; Computer/Technology 5.2, 5.4, 8.1

Who's Who of the Civil War?

Great Campaigns of the Civil War

3-5

Social Studies

History/SS USII.a, US19.b/d/f: English 3.1, 4.9, 5.8: C/T 5.3, 5.4

Down and Dirty

Science is Elementary

3-5 Science Science 1.8, 2.7, 3.1, 3.7,3.10,4.8, Math 2.21, 3.21, 3.22
Let's Journey with a Law

My America

3-6 Social Studies History/SS 3.10, VS10a, USI 7.b
Ring Around the Playground 3-5 Math Math 3.14, 4.11, 4.13, 5.8, 5.11
Tree's Company 2-5 Science Science 3.4, 2.8, 3.10, 4.4, 4.5, 4.8
Hold your Horses! (Seahorses that is...) 3 Science Science 3.4, 3.6, Oral Language 3.2, Research 3.10, Reading/Literature 3.4
Simply Marvelous 3 Science Science 3.2
Do You See What I See 3-5 Science Science K.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, C/T 5.3, C/T 5.4
       
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