What are relationships? How do they affect students? There are many different types of relationships to explore and this series helps make this topic one that is meaningful to all students. The books in Prufrock's new Differentiated Curriculum Kits employ a differentiated, integrated curriculum based on broad themes. This all-in-one curriculum helps teachers save planning time, ensure compliance with national standards, and most importantly, pique their students' natural excitement and interest in discovery. By participating in the wide variety of activities in the Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grade 3, students will discover the relationships around them and gain a lifelong desire to learn. In Relationships Book 1: Ecosystems, Comparisons, and Power, students will investigate the interdependent relationships between animals and plants. They also will learn about family relationships, peer pressure, fear, and power. Students will compare rules and laws with our rights and freedoms to determine the relationships between the government and its citizens. Each activity helps students explore relationships in depth and encourages students to gain a better understanding of the concept. Other books in the Relationships series include Relationships Book 2: Environment, Cause and Effect, and Citizenship; and Changes Book 3: Economics, Opposites, and Social Action. Each book contains detailed lesson plans, reproducible activity sheets, and assessment tools.

Relationships Book 1: Ecosystems, Comparisons, and Power (Differentiated Curriculum for Grade 3)

Education & Teaching

Debbie Keiser

Brenda McGee

Schools & Teaching

Prufrock Press, Inc.

What would happen if we had automobiles, but no roads? Light bulbs, but no electricity? Our world functions smoothly when systems are in place. Transportation, health care, and education are all organized into systems that we depend upon daily. The Systems Differentiated Curriculum Kit provides exciting activities to help students discover the systems that exist all around them. The books in Prufrock's new Differentiated Curriculum Kits employ a differentiated, integrated curriculum based on broad themes. This all-in-one curriculum helps teachers save planning time, ensure compliance with national standards, and most importantly, pique their students' natural excitement and interest in discovery. By participating in the wide variety of activities in the Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grade 4, students will discover the systems around them and gain a lifelong desire to learn. In Systems Book 1: Exploration, Culture, and Ecology, students will discover the solar system, the water cycle, and their family history (among many other things). Students will learn that systems may provide a way to organize and categorize things. Systems also may provide a common denominator for people to understand topics. Students will explore systems in their everyday surroundings, such as in their culture, language, transportation, and celebrations. They also will study the metric system and apply it to exploration of the solar system. Other books in the Systems series include Systems Book 2: Settlement, Currency, and Measurement and Systems Book 3: Economics, Climate, and Comparisons. Each book contains detailed lesson plans, reproducible activity sheets, and assessment tools. This curriculum unit makes use of the following great children's literature books: 
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<li>A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park; and</li>
<li>biographies of Helen Keller and Louis Braille.</li>
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Systems Book 1: Exploration, Culture, and Ecology (Differentiated Curriculum for Grade 4)

Science & Math

Sarah Wolfinsohn

Biological Sciences

What would happen if we had automobiles, but no roads? Light bulbs, but no electricity? Our world functions smoothly when systems are in place. Transportation, health care, and education are all organized into systems that we depend upon daily. The Systems Differentiated Curriculum Kit provides exciting activities to help students discover the systems that exist all around them. The books in Prufrock's new Differentiated Curriculum Kits employ a differentiated, integrated curriculum based on broad themes. This all-in-one curriculum helps teachers save planning time, ensure compliance with national standards, and most importantly, pique their students' natural excitement and interest in discovery. By participating in the wide variety of activities in the Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grade 4, students will discover the systems around them and gain a lifelong desire to learn.Systems Book 2: Settlement, Currency, and Measurement is the second book from the Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grade 4. In this book, students will discover their hometown history, probability, and climatology (and many other things). Students will learn that systems may provide a way to organize and categorize things. Systems also may provide a common denominator for people to understand topics. Students will explore systems in their everyday surroundings, such as in the formation of the United States, their local history, colonial education systems, money math and history, world-wide money systems, and scale drawings of cave formations and erosion.Other books in the Systems series include Systems Book 1: Exploration, Culture, and Ecology and Systems Book 3: Economics, Climate, and Comparisons. Each book contains detailed lesson plans, reproducible activity sheets, and assessment tools.This curriculum unit makes use of the following great children's literature books: The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare; anda copy of Farmer's Almanac.

Systems Book 2: Settlement, Currency, and Measurement (Differentiated Curriculum for Grade 4)

What would happen if we had automobiles, but no roads? Light bulbs, but no electricity? Our world functions smoothly when systems are in place. Transportation, health care, and education are all organized into systems that we depend upon daily. The Systems Differentiated Curriculum Kit provides exciting activities to help students discover the systems that exist all around them.The books in Prufrock's new Differentiated Curriculum Kits employ a differentiated, integrated curriculum based on broad themes. This all-in-one curriculum helps teachers save planning time, ensure compliance with national standards, and most importantly, pique their students' natural excitement and interest in discovery. By participating in the wide variety of activities in the Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grade 4, students will learn to discover the systems around them and gain a lifelong desire to learn.In Systems Book 3: Economics, Climate, and Comparisons, students will explore the system of free enterprise, weather systems, and the systems on other planets (and many other things). Students will learn that systems may provide a way to organize and categorize things. Systems also may provide a common denominator for people to understand topics. Students will explore systems in their everyday surroundings, such as the system of free enterprise, weather systems, global warming, NASA, the job market, endangered species, and the system of holidays in America.Other books in the Systems series include Systems Book 1: Exploration, Culture, and Ecology and Systems Book 2: Settlement, Currency, and Measurement. Each book contains detailed lesson plans, reproducible activity sheets, and assessment tools.This curriculum unit makes use of the following great children's literature books: The Old Farmer's Almanac;The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois;The Magic School Bus by Joanna Cole;Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary; andPippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren.

Systems Book 3: Economics, Climate, and Comparisons (Differentiated Curriculum for Grade 4)

Childhood is full of wonders. The Wonders curriculum builds on the questions children ask, creating more opportunities for learning. The books in Prufrock's new Differentiated Curriculum Kits employ a differentiated, integrated curriculum based on broad themes. This all-in-one curriculum helps teachers save planning time, ensure compliance with national standards, and most importantly, pique their students' natural excitement and interest in discovery. By participating in the wide variety of activities in the Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Kindergarten, students will learn to discover the wonders around them and gain a lifelong desire to learn.In Wonders Book 3: Machines, My Body, and Physical Fitness, students are challenged with questions such as What is a machine? and How does it work? Students will learn about machines with hands-on exploration. Students will compare and contrast simple and complex machines to their own bodies. They explore the benefits of using machines and taking care of them.The importance of healthy eating and exercise is compared to maintenance on machines we use every day. Physical fitness, nutrition, and the need for rest are explained as students learn how they can better care for the complex machine they call their body.Other books in the Wonders series include Wonders Book 1: Nature, Space, and Community; and Wonders Book 2: Plants, Insects, and Dinosaurs.This curriculum unit makes use of the following great children's literature books:Me and My Amazing Body by Joyan Sweeney; andEat Health, Feel Great by William Sears, M.D.

Wonders Book 3: Machines, My Body, and Physical Fitness (Differentiated Curriculum for Kindergarten)

Angie Harrelson

Lyrcia Sqyres

Systems, Book 3: Economics, Climate, and Comparisons

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