SYLLABUS FOR 2024-2025

Class Highlights

Every day we focus on social, emotional and life skills throughout each lesson.

Every Tuesday morning, we will be attending our Community Based Instruction Trips to practice social, work, and communication skills.

The following is a monthly list of topics or units we will focus on from the Unique curriculum found on n2y.com. Each unit has math, science, history, and language arts activities that will be focused on these topics for each month.

We will cook at least one recipe in the classroom together per month to practice those daily life skills.

ATTENDANCE

Please see the Student Handbook for the updated Attendance Policy.

GRADING

Student’s grades will reflect their participation throughout the week and a daily graded assignment once a week in every academic subject. This is to show their engagement and academic growth throughout each semester.  

AUGUST

Transition Topic: Month to get a baseline of data of where each student is on their IEP goals and get to know one another.

● Personal Wellness: Transition Standards for Daily Living Recognize benefits of and apply appropriate fitness habits and practices

● Recreation and Leisure: Transition Standards for Community Living Participate in recreation-leisure activities of choice.

● Social Studies Standards: American Government: Identify local issues and participate in the community to maintain or improve conditions.

September

Government: Leaders in our Lives Topic

Social Studies Standards for government: Identify key responsibilities of government (e.g., make laws, protect rights).

● Identify the three branches of the U.S. government and explain the function of each.

● Identify public agencies or public policies and explain how they benefit citizens.

● Identify the basic structure of state or local government and how these structures work with that of the federal government. ● Identify different forms of governments.

● Identify local issues and participate in the community to maintain or improve conditions.

● Experience information from leveled text related to U.S. documents and those of historical significance, including an evaluation of their themes/purposes.

October

Life Science: Knowing our Ecosystems

● Recognize the diversity of organisms by sorting plants and animals according to their classification.

● Recognize the interdependence of plants and animals and changes over time.

● Identify how plants and animals adapt to their environment.

● Describe how energy is transferred in environments (e.g., food chains, carbon cycling).

● Identify ways in which human activity positively or negatively impacts the environment and biodiversity (e.g., pollution, damaging habitats, over hunting).

November

Geography: Where does it come from?

● Describe ways technology and innovation led to global change (transportation to other countries, exploration, trade, etc.).

● Use globes, maps and internet resources to locate various places and to gain information about those places.

● Trace commonly used goods made in different parts of the world to understand worldwide trade.

● Describe ways that technological advances bring people together from around the world (internet, air transportation, etc.). Social Studies St

December

Transition: The Gift of Giving

● Explore opportunities for civic participation

January

Physical science: What the matter?

● Recognize and investigate real-world examples of physical (size, shape, state, or appearance) and chemical changes (transformation to a different kind of matter) to matter.

● Identify and investigate entries in the Periodic Table of Elements in relation to real-world product uses (gold in jewelry, aluminum in foil wrap, etc.).

February

History: Leaders for Peace and Equality: Recognize that attitudes can reflect prejudice and discrimination (e.g., racial discrimination that continued after the Civil War, Nineteenth Amendment).

● Identify roles of leaders as peacekeepers in the community, state and country (e.g., emergence of United States as a world leader after World War I).

● Recognize that working as a group can help identify a problem and develop a plan for its solution (e.g., the Great Depression and the New Deal).

● Describe contributions to our society by people of various cultures, races and ethnicities.

March

Physical Science: Energy is everywhere

● Describe and investigate examples of energy and energy transfers in daily life (light bulb, car engine, sound in a radio, etc.).

April

Economics: But I want it!

● Explain that goods and services are produced on the basis of people’s wants and needs.

● Compare prices of similar items and determine which is the best buy.

● Recognize that prices are determined by supply and demand.

● Identify goods and services made in the United States and those obtained from other countries.

● Identify advantages and disadvantages of ways to make purchases, including cash, credit and loans.

● Identify reasons and ways to save money.

● Identify reasons and ways to borrow money.

 ● Identify differences between credit and debit cards

May

Earth and Space Science: Our Changing Earth

● Investigate the impact of geological events on Earth’s surface (earthquakes, hurricanes, fires, etc.).

● Identify types, causes and consequences of land, water and air pollution.

● Identify and describe ways that humans have changed the environment (deforestation, waste management, etc.).

● Understand the importance of and participate in ways to reduce, reuse and recycle in order to save resources.

● Identify and describe benefits of alternative energy, including the Sun's role in creating energy.

● Explore the development of Earth's surface over time (plate tectonics, erosion, glaciers, volcanoes).

● Identify Earth’s layers.

● Describe the impact of the environment on rock formation.