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Franklin Park Public Schools
District 84, Cook County
Grade 4: Common Core Cross-Curricular Theme Alignment
Unit 1: American Journeys
Theme 1: American Dreams
Theme 2: A Place for Us
Big Idea: The students will understand why people from all over the world come to America to follow their dreams. Immigrants bring their customs and
cultures to America.
CCSS covered in this unit: RL: 4.7 RI: 4.3
RF: 4.3a
Unit Vocabulary: ambition, gleaming, flourished, ancestor, artifact, cautious, youth, immigrant, prosper, settler, permanent, relocation, origin, regulate,
necessities, belief, border, accompany, audience, nationality, culture, patriotism, population, rural, urban, suburb, textile mill, Industrial Revolution, and
metropolitan area
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Chapter 2
Descriptive
Looking the
Amelia’s Road
By Sea to
Fluency
N/A
N/A
Objective
Writing
United States BL
(Making
America (S)
Short vowels
Student will:
Meaning)
The Memory
Coat
(Making
Meaning)
Coming to
America
(Making
Meaning)
Boundaries
Washed Away
(P)
Consonants
Blends
(Describe a place)
Narrative Writing
(Share a cultural
experience or
tradition)
Research Writing
(Research Ellis
Island and starting
a new life in
America)
Responding to
Literature
(Write a response
to a Rigby small
group book or
trade book)
Understand that the
United States has
diversity in its
landscapes and its
people.
Understand cultural
diversity in the United
States.
Describe ideals that
unite Americans.
Analyze settlement
patterns and regions in
which Americans live.
Chapter 4
Objective
Student will:
Understand that many
early settlements in
the Northeast grew
into dome of the
largest cities in the
U.S. today.
Explain how improved
transportation and
immigration helped
the Northeast cities
grow.
Road Trip U.S.A.
ON
Finding Your
Way Around AL
Greetings from
the Northeast BL
Central Park
New York City’s
Backyard ON
Stories from the
Northeast AL
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Grade 4: Common Core Cross-Curricular Theme Alignment
Unit 2: Remarkable Living Things
Theme 3: So Many Kinds of Animals
Theme 4: Seeds, Fruits, and Flowers
Big Idea: The students will understand how animals and plants survive in different environments and reproduce.
CCSS covered in this unit: RI: 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.8, 4.9, 4.10
RF: 4.3a., 4.4.a.b.c., 4.4, 4.7, 4.9.a
SL: 4.2, 4.3
Unit Vocabulary: variety, species, researchers, abandon, definite, characteristics, identify, category, vertebrate, invertebrate, pollinate, reproduction,
germinate, cones, adapt, criteria, conditions, survival, adaptation, adapt, kingdom, migration, camouflage, predator, prey, hibernation, instinct and learned
behavior, seed, cell, nucleus, cytoplasm, chloroplast
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Slippery, Slithery
Snakes (Making
Meaning)
One Tiny Turtle
(Rigby K)
The Reason for a
Flower By Ruth
Heller
Stellaluna By Janell
Cannon
Into the Sea By
Brenda Guiberson
What do you Know
About Animal
Adaptations? By
Suzanne Slade
Desert Animals By
Connor Dayton
Tiny Seeds
By Eric Carle
The Magic School
Bus Plants Seeds
By Patricia Relf
Life Cycle Books By
Linda
Tagliaferro
Cactus Hotel
By Brenda Guiberson
One Tiny Turtle
(Rigby K)
What’s the
Difference (Rigby
N)
Hurricane at the
Zoo
(Rigby M)
My Bird Journal
(Rigby O)
Turning the Tide
for Turtles (Rigby
Q)
A Night at the
Beach (Rigby S)
Bugs, Beware
(Rigby T)
Zipping, Zapping,
Zooming Bats
(Soar to Success)
Decoding
Accuracy
Fluency
Research
Writing
Animal
Adaptations/
Habitats
Chapter 1
Classifying Plants and
Animals:
Lesson 2: How are
Living Things Grouped?
Objective
Understand that living
things are different,
but share similar
structures.
Lesson 4: How are
Animals Classified?
Objective
Understand and
differentiate between
inherited
characteristics and
learned behaviors of
organisms.
Lesson 5: How
Animals Adapt
Objective
Understand
characteristics that
allow members within
a species to survive
and reproduce.
Understand that all
living things compete
for resources and pass
their traits to their
Classifying
Plants and
Animals BL
N/A
N/A
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offspring.
Chapter 1
Classifying Plants and
Animals
Lesson 3
How are Plants
Classified
Objective
Understand that living
things are different,
but share similar
structures.
Chapter 2
Energy from Plants
Objective
Understand how green
plants use resources to
assist in growth,
maintenance, and
reproduction.
Understand that
working
collaboratively, all
teams’ members
should be free to
reach, explain, and
justify their own
individual conclusions.
Use the science
processes and
knowledge to solve
problems, make
decisions, and form
new ideas
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Grade 4: Common Core Cross-Curricular Theme Alignment
Unit 3: Across the USA
Theme 5: One Country, Many Regions Theme 6: The Land Shapes People’s Lives
Big Idea of This Unit: The students will identify the geography and climate of each region of the US and how geography influences the way people live.
CCSS covered in this unit: W.4.2.a-e, RL.4.9, RI.4.1-3, RI.4.6-7, RI.4.9-10
Unit Vocabulary: canyon, region, surround, solution, dense, aspect, impact, alter, climate, plateau, farmland, fertile, vast, horizon, reflection, access,
surroundings, recreation, port, altitude
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Unit 6
The Story of Hoover
Unit B
Comprehension
Looking the
Descriptive
N/A
Chapter 12
Dam (Rigby O)
Chapter 10
Fix-Up Strategy
United States BL
Writing
Exploring the West
Volcano Man (Rigby
Using Natural
Create
Images
Objective
O)
Resources
Describe a
Describe the landforms Road Trip U.S.A.
Synthesize
Our Changing Earth
Objective
historical
and natural resources
(Rigby M)
Develop and
ON
of the west.
landmark
The Travelers and
understand
Fluency-Convey
Describe Native
the Bear (Rigby M)
properties of earth
Americans of the west.
Emotion and
Finding Your
Woodland People,
materials.
Explain why settlers
Cause/Effect
Meaning
Way Around AL
Desert People
Identify properties of
moved to the west.
(Rigby N)
An Encyclopedia of
Rocks
(Rigby P)
The Wind at Work
(Rigby Q)
The Story of Water:
A Moving Adventure
(Rigby R)
Great Smokey
Mountains
Encyclopedia
(Rigby R)
Tales of Near and Far
(RigbyS)
Extreme USA
(Rigby S)
Science All Around
Us
(Rigby S)
Tuckers Quest
(Rigby T)
Trouble on the Farm
Use punctuation
to inform
meaning
Word StudySynonyms,
Antonyms, and
Homonyms
Listening- Precise
listening
Strategic
Listening
Grammar- Verbs
Determine how
geography
influences a
person’s life
different types of
soil.
Explain how the
energy of the sun can
be captured as a
source of heat and
light on earth (for
example, plants,
solar panels).
Unit A
Chapter 1
Classifying plants and
animals
Lessons 2-5
Objective
Classify and sort
plants.
Classify animals
based on their
similarities and
differences.
Characterize animals
Explore the lives of
miners during the gold
rushes of the 1800s.
Examine and view
artifacts used by
miners.
Describe how people
use the west’s land
and waterways today.
Identify ways in which
people in the west
protect the
environment.
Analyze different
points of view about
how public land should
be used.
Unit 1
Chapter 1
Exploring the USA
Objective
Locate and describe
hemispheres,
continents, countries,
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(Rigby T)
Yee Haw! The Real
Lives of Cowboys
(Rigby T)
Natural Wonders of
the World
(Rigby V)
The Calgary
Stampede
(Rigby V)
Dustbowl Disaster
(Rigby)
The Cherokee
(Rigby)
within a species
according to survival
and reproduction.
Unit A
Chapter 4
Changing in
Ecosystems
Lessons 2-4
Objective
Analyze how
organisms compete
in an ecosystem.
Realize that changes
in an ecosystem
usually affect the
whole system.
Understands that
what benefits one
organism may be
harmful to other
organisms.
and oceans.
Describe the relative
location of the U.S.
Use latitude and
longitude to describe
absolute locations.
Label maps to identify
and describe the
location of states,
major cities, and the
U.S.
Compare and contrast
major landform
regions of the U.S.
Identify and describe
major rivers, lakes, and
coasts in the U.S.
Use a map key and
scale to identify
elevations of places in
the U.S.
Compare and contrast
elevations in the U.S.
Understand the factors
that influence and
define weather and
climate.
Compare and contrast
climates in the U.S.
Analyze and interpret
data displayed on a
line graph.
Describe typical
weather changes
throughout the year.
Identify natural
resources and the way
people use them.
Understand how
people change their
environment to meet
their needs.
Unit 1
Chapter 3
Regions Around You
Objective
Understand how and
why people divide
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places into regions.
Explain how
transportation and
communication
connect regions.
Read and interpret
geographic
information given on a
map.
Identify land uses,
natural resources, and
industries in the U.S.
Compare and contrast
the political regions in
the U.S.
Understand the 3
levels of government
and the services that
each level provides.
Locate and describe
political regions in
North America.
Compare and contrast
the physical features of
North America’s
regions.
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District 84, Cook County
Grade 4: Common Core Cross-Curricular Theme Alignment
Unit 4: Thinking Like a Scientist
Theme 7: Why Does Water Move?
Theme 8: What Makes Soil Different?
Big Idea: The students will understand the movement of water and the importance of water for plants, animals, and humans.
CCSS covered in this unit: RL: 2, 3
RI: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10
Unit Vocabulary: tide, shore, current, coastline, visible, geology, property, layer, artificial, consist, combine, separate, texture, replace, particles, condensation,
evaporation, anemometer, barometer, front, humidity, meteorologist, precipitation, wind vane, mineral, sediment, sedimentary rock, igneous rock,
metamorphic rock
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Chapter 6
A Drop of Water The Story of
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Water Cycle and
Water:
A
Moving
By Walter Wick
Weather
Adventure
Objective
Understand that 75
(Rigby
R)
How the Water
percent of the surface
Good Gauley!
of earth is covered by
Cycle Works
(Rigby M)
water.
By Jen Green
How the water cycle is
Water All
influenced.
Around the
That new tools are
Diary of a Worm Earth
invented to do work
and the affects of life
By Doreen
(Rigby P)
outside of science.
Cronin
The Story of
Use science processes
Hoover Dam
and knowledge to
form new ideas, solve
(Rigby O)
The Rock Cycle
problems, and make
An Encyclopedia
By Sally Morgan
decisions.
of Rocks
Chapter 8
Minerals and Rocks
(Rigby P)
Rocks and Soil
Objective
Trouble on the
Understand that
Jen Green
Farm
natural events are
often predictable and
(Rigby T)
logical.
Understand that data
is collected and
interpreted in order to
explain an event or
concept.
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Grade 4: Common Core Cross-Curricular Theme Alignment
Unit 5: The Early Americans
Theme 9: Native People of North America
Theme 10: Explorers Arrive
Big Idea: The students will understand how Native Americans use nature and their surroundings in everyday life.
CCSS covered in this unit: RI: 4.2
RF: 4.3.a
W: 4.2, 4.7
Unit Vocabulary: claimed, injured, foreign, explorer, cargo, anniversary, valuable, civilization, passage, historian
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On the Banks of
Plum Creek
By Laura Engalls
Wilder
A River Ran Wild
By Lynne Cherry
Woodland People,
Desert People
(Rigby N)
The Sun Above
and the River
Below
(Rigby R)
Tales from Near
and Far
(Rigby S)
Exploring the
World
(Rigby M)
Treasure Lost at
Sea
(Rigby R)
Tucker’s Gold
(Rigby T)
Jean Baptiste
Pointe Du Sable
Father of Chicago
(Rigby T)
Fluency
Prefixes
Root Words
Research Writing
Discuss various forms
of information.
Understand how to do
research on the
Internet and how to
access library
reference materials.
Expository Writing
Understand content of
expository writing,
plan, draft, revise, and
edit an expository
paragraph.
Nonfiction Article
Summarize and
respond to a
Nonfiction article,
giving key ideas from a
piece of writing.
Descriptive Writing
Describe a historical
landmark.
Two-Column Notes
Organize ideas and
important facts for a
test or expository
essay, break down
information into an
easy-to-read format.
Persuasive Writing
Use lists, charts, and
diagrams to select a
topic and gather
details. Write a clear
N/A
N/A
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Unit Concepts
Chapter 4
Lesson 2
Chapter 6
Lesson 2
Chapter 8
Lesson 2
Chapter 10
Lesson 2
Chapter 12
Lesson 2
Unit 2
Illinois Long Ago
from Illinois
Connections
Chapter 4
The Northeast
Lesson 2
Chapter 10
The Southwest
Lesson 2
Chapter 12
The West
Lesson 2
Social Studies
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N/A
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opinion statement, use
order of importance,
and call to action to
convince readers to
participate.
Franklin Park Public Schools
District 84, Cook County
Grade 4: Common Core Cross-Curricular Theme Alignment
Unit 6: Under the Canopy
Theme 11: Life in a Rain Forest
Theme 12: Affecting the Rain Forest
Big Idea: The students will understand why the rain forest is important to our world and the ways that rain forest plants and animals depend on one another.
CCSS covered in this unit: RL: 4.1 4.2,4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.10, 4.8, 4.9
RF: 4.3a, 4.a,b,c.
WS: 4.2.a,b,c,d,e. 4.4,5,6,7,8,9b.,10
SL: 4.1.a,b,c,d., 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6
Unit Vocabulary: zone, slither, suspended, organism, nutrients, complex, vital, predator, thrive, prey, beneficial, bewilderment, eventually, convince, sacrifice,
interaction, ecosystem, tropical, improvement, relationship, canopy
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The Great Kapok
Tree (Rigby)
Bugs Beware!
(Rigby T)
Fluency
Accuracy
Decoding
The Amazing
Amazon
(A-Z, Level U)
Giant Insects
(A-Z, Level V)
Research
Writing
Expository
Writing
Descriptive
Writing
Persuasive
Writing
Additional Resources:
Brain Pop Jr., www.rainforest-aliance.org
Chapter 1
Classifying
Plants and
Animals
Classifying Plants
and Animals
Chapter 3
Ecosystems
Reptile or
Amphibian?
Chapter 2
What features
help plants
make their own
food and
reproduce?
Plant and Animal
Classification
Energy from Plants
How Plants Grow
and Change
Weird Plants
N/A
N/A
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Grade 4: Common Core Cross-Curricular Theme Alignment
Unit 7: Buyers and Sellers
Theme 13: Products and Profits
Theme 14: Buying Smart
Big Idea of this Unit: The student will differentiate what goods and services people buy, sell, and trade, and identify how it is done.
CCSS covered in this unit: RI: 4.7-9
W: 4.1.a-d, 4.2.b, d, e
Unit Vocabulary: fair, discouraged, product, shabby, material, negotiate, inspiration, wealth, advertise, profit, suggest, impress, rim, supply, demand,
purchase, merchant, bargain, compromise, recommend
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Write a petition
Ask the Veterinarian
Comprehension
Unit 1
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Social Studies pg. 55
(Rigby O)
Fix-Up
Chapter
2
Rubric TE 55
The Bake Sale Battle
Strategies: Read Write a business plan
Lesson 3
(Rigby Q)
Social Studies pg. 63
On
United States
Les Paul
Rubric TE 63
(Rigby R)
Create Images
Economy
Persuasive Writing
Drive Toward the
Synthesize:
Donate money for a
Future
new skate park. Pg.
Classify and
Unit 4
(Rigby S)
230
Categorize Info
Chapter 8
Trouble on the Farm
Persuasive Article
(Rigby T)
Word Study
Lesson 3
social Studies
Making Big Bolstead
Persuading people to
Suffixes –ful, Transportation in
Bucks
buy land in the
able, -less, -ness, Midwest Pg. 251
the Midwest
(A-Z, Level X)
-ion, -tion, (See index under
Morty’s Roadside
Rubric TE 251
Make an
Refreshments
ment, -ly, -fully
“economics”)
advertisement
(A-Z, Level R)
Fluency
Social Studies Pg. 259
We are in Business
Read in phrases
Unit 3
Rubric TE 259
(A-Z, Level R)
Newspaper story
Chapter 6
Electric Cars: History Convey emotion
Social Studies Pg. 268
and Future
and meaning
Lesson 3
Rubric TW 268
(A-Z, Level W)
Listening
Ports of the
Write a list of jobs that
Money in the USA
depend on natural
Precise
listening
Southeast
(A-Z, Level T)
resources in the
Strategic
Chapter 7
A Nation on Wheels
southeast.
(A-Z, Level P)
listening
Lesson 1-2
Social Studies Pg. 181
Tanya’s Money
Rubric TE 181
Grammar
Problem
Make a timeline
Conjunctions
(A-Z, Level U)
Social Studies Pg. 190
Rubric TE 190
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Unit 8: Written in Stone
Theme 15: Earth Long Ago
Theme 16: Wearing Away
Big Idea of this Unit: The students will identify plants and animals that existed long ago, and how our world was changed by weathering and erosion.
CCSS covered in this unit: RL: 4.1 RI: 4.2-3, 4.4-7, 4.10 W: 4.2.a-e, 4.4-8
Unit Vocabulary: evidence, fossil, vanish, examine, scrape, extinction, recognize, method, prehistoric, threat, ancient, splendor, significant, erosion,
composition, prevent, previous, survey, glacier, weathering
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Hoover Dam
Compare the environment
Chapter 4
Grammar
This is the West
N/A
N/A
Unit 5
(Rigby O)
before, during, and after a
Changes in the
Interjections
BL
The
Southwest
Volcano Man
forest fire
(Rigby O)
Boundaries Washed
Away
(Rigby P)
Wind at Work
(Rigby Q)
The Sun Above and
the River Below
(Rigby R)
The Story of Water
and a Moving
Adventure
(Rigby R)
Lost in a Cave
(Rigby T)
Trouble on the Farm
(Rigby T)
Bugs, Beware!
(Rigby T)
Prehistoric Trade
(A-Z, Level V)
Natural Wonders of
the World
(A-Z, Level V)
Mysterious Caves
(A-Z, Level Y)
Prehistoric Giants
(A-Z, Level Y)
Irregular Verbs
Word Study
Compound Words
Consonant
Doubling
Comprehension
Monitor
Understand: Genre
Synthesize
Ask Questions:
Meaning
Fluency
Read in Phrases
Use Punctuation to
Inform Meaning
Listening
Critical Listening
Appreciative
Listening
Science Pg. 123
Explain Concepts- Animals
and Fossil Evidence that
Lived Long Ago
Science
Pg. 254, #7
Cause/Effect
Science
Pg. 292, #20
Compare/Contrast
Science
Pg. 292, #13
Venn Diagram
Descriptive
Using Solar Energy from
the Sun
Science
Pg. 303, #20
Science Pg. 302,
#11-12
Compare figures in a
diagram, graph, or chart
Persuasive
Science
Pg. 101
Narrative
Social Studies
Pg. 335
Describe a visit to Tao’s
Ecosystem
Lesson 1-4
Chapter 8
Minerals and Rocks
Lesson 1-3
Chapter 3
Ecosystems
Lesson 1-3
Chapter 9
Changes to the
Earth’s Surface
Lesson 1-3
Chapter 10
Using Natural
Resources
Lesson 1-2
Unit 6
The West
Gold Fever OL
Hang Ten: The
History of
Surfing AL
Welcome to the
Southwest BL
The Story of
Cowboys OL
John Wesley
Powell and the
Colorado River
AL
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Grade 4: Common Core Cross-Curricular Theme Alignment
Discoveries in the
Americas?
(A-Z, Level W)
Otzi: The Iceman
(A-Z, Level W)
Volcanoes
(A-Z, Levels S, V, Z)
Earthquakes,
Volcanoes, and
Tsunamis
(A-Z, Levels T, W)
The Eruption of
Mount Shasta
(A-Z, Level X)
Plate Tectonics
(A-Z, Level Y)
Additional Resources
Website: Science TE Pg. 122- Extreme Natural Events
Pueblo
Summary
Social Studies
Pg. 335
Explain how people in the
southwest have resolved
conflicts over scarce water
resources
Persuasive Letter
Social Studies
Pg. 355
Possible ideas for
conserving oil resources
Report-Expository
Social Studies
City in the southwest
industries and attractions
Pg. 355
Social Studies
Critical Thinking Questions
Writing about southwest
past and present
Pg. 359