Systems

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.

Grade 4

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; and
• Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren.