This 14 day Unit Plan integrates the Utah Core Standards for Language Arts and for Reading and Writing in History/Social Studies with the existing Utah Social Studies Standards. The students read, research, draw conclusions, and write beginning level argumentative essays comparing/contrasting major world religions. For a more thorough summary see the Background For Teachers section.

Integrate literature with science by reading Sylvester and the Magic Pebble. Students will learn to describe rocks by using different physical properties.

This wiki page documents the activities, articles, links, and resources used, as well as the teacher created Open Educational Resources (OER) during the SLANT Institute.On July 19-23, 2010 San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), in collaboration with the California Academy of Sciences, the de Young Museum, 826 Valencia, KQED, ISKME, and the Exploratorium launched the Science, Literacy, Arts iNtegration in the Twenty-first century (SLANT) Summer Institute for Pre-k through 8th Grade Teachers to explore and investigate science and art integration. Participants received resources to use in the classroom and on field trips as they plan lessons with grade level colleagues.

Students will create a class chart showing what they are wearing. They will also become "season watchers" to help them understand the seasons.

Students will write a personal narrative about a time they surprised themselves or someone else.

Table of Contents:
Introduction to the Materials
Module 1: Sequences
Module 2: Linear & Exponential Functions
Module 3: Features of Functions
Module 4: Equations & Inequalities
Module 5: Systems of Equations & Inequalities
Module 6: Transformations & Symmetry
Module 7: Congruence, Construction & Proof
Module 8: Connecting Algebra & Geometry
Module 9: Modeling Data
Core Correlation

After reading Eric Carle's story "The Tiny Seed", students will make a seed house and write observations in their discovery journal.

This activity shares ideas on how to spotlight each student in your classroom.

Students will bring a stuff animal to school and create a class graph and individual pet books.

Students will learn about the different forms of media, such as newspapers, radio, and television.

Using the The Tortoise and the Hare fable students will learn basic map skills.

In this lesson students will practice visualizing and understanding that visualization is an important comprehension strategy. Students will share their visualization of the story through original artwork.

Students will learn about weather by taking walks in various types conditions: sunny, rainy, windy and snowy.