MS 217 – Robert A. Van Wyck

Teachers'  Corner

Magnet Standards
1.  Sustainability
   • Students explore ways to balance human needs with nature's laws.
• Students investigate how to create comfortable lifestyles, so we
   sustain resources for future generations.
2.  Inquiry
  Students explore and make meaning by
   • closely observing
• formulating questions
• analyzing systems
• drawing conclusions
3.  Sense of Place
  Students develop connections to their everyday environments by participating in authentic projects in their natural, cultural and social worlds.
  • Literacy: Students explore how authors use landscape, how a landscape can shape
   the imagination, and how imaginations can shape a landscape.
• Social Studies: Students explore how geography shapes cultures and societies.
• Math: Students explore how place determines value.
• Science: Students investigate how natural laws and processes shape ecosystems and
   biomes.
4.  Activism
  "Think Globally, Act Locally"
  • Students research issues and determine actions that can make a
   difference.
• Students take actions that affect their local and global communities.
5.  Careers
  • Students connect classroom studies with future careers.
• Students investigate new, evolving careers.
6.  Technology
  • Students use technology to achieve academic, green living and career
   goals.
• Students use digital media to communicate individually and work
   collaboratively.
• Students use technology to interact globally and locally.
Peer Review Process

6th Grade

Science:

Social Studies

English Language Arts

Math

  1. NYC Curriculum

Foreign Language

  • NYC Curriculum
  • Sample Unit (coming soon)

Art

Elective

  • Course Description and Outline
  • Sample Unit (coming soon)
7th Grade

Science:

Social Studies

  • NYC Curriculum
  • Overview of Themed 7th Grade Social Studies Curriculum
  • Unit 1 – Natives and Newcomers
  • Unit 2 – Colonial America And Revolution
  • Unit 3 – A New Nation
  • Unit 4 – A Nation Grows
  • Unit 5 – Civil War and Reconstruction

English Language Arts

Math

Foreign Language

  • NYC Curriculum
  • Sample Unit (coming soon)

Art

8th Grade

Science:

Social Studies

  • NYC Curriculum
  • Overview of Themed 8th Grade Social Studies Curriculum
  • Unit 1 – Industrial Society
  • Unit 2 – Progressive Movement
  • Unit 3 – US as an Expansionist Nation
  • Unit 4 – US Between the Wars
  • Unit 5 – US Assumes Worldwide Responsibilities
  • Unit 6 – World War II to the Present
  • Social Studies Exit Projects

English Language Arts

Math

Foreign Language

  • NYC Curriculum

Art

Elective


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