Example of units in a recent school year (8 to 10 year olds)

Change of Address

Identifying attributes of self and community, interviewing and getting to know each other

Happily Ever After

Storytelling and literature study with a focus on “Cinderella” stories, exploring illustrations and characterizations, analyzing and comparing multicultural fairy tales, making choices and changes in our own lives

Fossils and Rocks

Scientific study of fossils and various types of rocks, working to investigate and identify samples, archeological understanding, a look at evolution

Kid Choice
Students used a process of brainstorming, webbing, and democratic decision-making to choose the unit of study

Growing Up

Life and death cycles, roles and relationships, nutrition, the human body,   autobiography and memoir, and issues of childhood

Consumer Choices

Trends and fads, product quality and testing, impact of purchases, recycling, economics and budgeting

Shape of the Land

Uses of land, pollution, architecture, development and neighborhoods,   historical land issues

Kid Choice - Mythology

Students selected an area of mythology to study and prepared a class play

It Ain't Easy Being Green

Growing seeds, the water cycle, weather and climate, farming, agriculture