• Unit 2
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     In Unit 2, students will be reading Informational Texts, Realistic Fiction, and Persuasive texts.  Each week students will address one essential Essential Focus Question related to the Unit Theme: Interactions.  At the end of this unit, the students will be able to answer the Theme Question: How do plants and animals live together?
     
     
    Focus Questions:
       Week 1: How do patterns in nature help plants and animals?
       Week 2: How do living things in a habitat support one another?
       Week 3: How can a chain of events affect plants and animals?
       Week 4: How does reintroduction of a species affect plants and animals in a habitat?
       Week 5: Why is it important for plants and animals to depend on each other?
     
     
      Theme Vocabulary:
          Week 1: associate, prefer, investigate, avoid, nature, patterns, repeat, sequence, symmetry
          Week 2: connect, favor, research, dodge, predators, protection, immune, species, emerges
          Week 3: prefer, features, investigate, avoid, depended, well-being, population, available, balance
          Week 4: prefer, investigate, features, associate, habitat, solitary, multiplied
        Week 5: prefer, investigate, features, avoid, associate, food chain, interdependence, camouflage, adaptations,          biodiversity
     
    At the end of the unit, students will get the chance to apply what they've learned about interactions in the Week 6 Project: Make Note of It!