Systems

<p>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 <i>Systems</i> Differentiated Curriculum Kit provides exciting activities to help students discover the systems that exist all around them. <br><br>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 discover the systems around them and gain a lifelong desire to learn.<br><br><i>Systems Book 2: Settlement Currency and Measurement</i> is the second book from the Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grade 4. In this book students will discover their hometown history probability and climatology (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 in the formation of the United States their local history colonial education systems money math and history world-wide money systems and scale drawings of cave formations and erosion.Other books in the <i>Systems</i> series include <i>Systems Book 1: Exploration Culture and Ecology</i> and <i>Systems Book 3</i>: <i>Economics Climate and Comparisons</i>.<br><br>Each book contains detailed lesson plans reproducible activity sheets and assessment tools.<br><br>Grade 4<br><br>This curriculum unit makes use of the following great children's literature books:</p><ul> <li> <i>The Sign of the Beaver</i> by Elizabeth George Speare; and</li> <li>a copy of <i>Farmer's Almanac.</i> </li> </ul>