Accelerated Plan
Accelerated Plan
Semester 1 — Weeks 1–15
SessionLessonsTitle(s)
Week 1ALesson 1Organizing Things into Categories
Week 1BLesson 2Solids, Liquids, and Gases Introduction
Week 2ALesson 4States of Matter: Changes with Temperature
Week 2BLesson 3Gravity Introduction
Week 3ALesson 5The Concepts of Horizontal and Vertical
Week 3BLesson 6What is Energy?
Week 4ALesson 8Energy Transformation
Week 4BLessons 7 + 9Air is Real / Air and the Atmosphere
Week 5ALesson 10Categorizing the World Around Us
Week 5BLessons 12 + 14Distinguishing Living Things from Natural Earth and Human Made / Technology, Tools, and Animals
Week 6ALesson 11Matter is Made of Particles
Week 6BLessons 13 + 15Changes in Particles with States of Matter / Reversible and Nonreversible Changes
Week 7ALesson 16Sound and Vibrations
Week 7BLesson 18How Sound Travels
Week 8ALessons 17 + 20Kinetic and Potential Energy / Energy in the Natural World
Week 8BLessons 19 + 22Plants vs. Animals: Key Differences / Where All Food Energy Comes From
Week 9ALessons 21 + 23Categories of Materials / Properties of Different Materials
Week 9BLesson 24The Life Cycle Concept
Week 10ALesson 26Metamorphosis and Variation in Life Cycles
Week 10BLessons 25 + 27Understanding Force / How Force and Energy Work Together
Week 11ALessons 28 + 30Animal Adaptations / Food Chains and Energy Flow
Week 11BLesson 29Reading and Drawing Maps
Week 12ALesson 31Matter vs. Energy: What Is the Difference?
Week 12BLessons 32 + 34Identifying Local Plants and Animals / Habitats and Why Organisms Live Where They Do
Week 13ALesson 33Air Pressure
Week 13BLessons 37 + 40 + 45Pressure Inside and Outside / Vacuums and Suction / Air Pressure, Wind, and the Atmosphere
Week 14ALesson 35Day, Night, and Earth's Rotation
Week 14BLessons 36 + 39Compass Directions / Maps and Real-World Directions
Week 15ALesson 38Properties of Magnets
Week 15BLessons 41 + 43Magnetic Fields / Earth as a Magnet


Semester 2 — Weeks 16–30
SessionLessonsTitle(s)
Week 16ALessons 42 + 44What Is a Species? / Variation Within a Species
Week 16BLesson 46Adaptations for Survival
Week 17ALesson 47Air as a Mixture of Gases
Week 17BLessons 49 + 51Mixtures vs. Chemical Reactions / Respiration, Photosynthesis, and the Air
Week 18ALesson 48Earth's Landforms
Week 18BLessons 57 + 59Biomes and Climate / Earth's Major Biomes
Week 19ALesson 50Basic Plant Structure
Week 19BLessons 52 + 54How Plants Function / Plant Reproduction and Seeds
Week 20ALessons 53 + 55Evaporation / Condensation and the Water Cycle
Week 20BLessons 56 + 58Seeds and Germination / Seedling Growth and Plant Responses
Week 21ALesson 60 (Pt. 1)Plants, Soil, and Erosion
Week 21BLesson 60 (Pts. 2+3)Plants, Soil, and Erosion
Week 22ALesson 84Time, Sundials, and Earth's Rotation
Week 22BLesson 61Earth's Orbit and the Seasons
Week 23ALesson 62Dissolving and Solutions
Week 23BLessons 66 + 68Solubility / Crystallization
Week 24ALessons 63 + 69Introduction to Inertia / Inertia and Energy
Week 24BLessons 76 + 79Introduction to Friction / Wheels and Reducing Friction
Week 25ALessons 82 + 86Friction, Heat, and Energy Loss / Air and Water Resistance
Week 25BLesson 65How Fast Things Fall
Week 26ALessons 70 + 73Weightlessness and Free Fall / Mass vs. Weight
Week 26BLesson 75Action and Reaction Forces
Week 27ALessons 64 + 67The Skeleton and How It Works / How Muscles Move the Body
Week 27BLessons 71 + 74Vertebrates and Internal Skeletons / Arthropods and External Skeletons
Week 28ALesson 72The Nervous System and Movement
Week 28BLesson 88Body Systems and Energy
Week 29ALessons 77 + 80 + 83Rocks and Minerals / Crystals and Mineral Structure / Soil Composition
Week 29BLessons 78 + 81Erosion, Sediment, and Fossil Formation / Limestone and Fossils
Week 30ALessons 85 + 87Sedimentary vs. Igneous Rock / Rock Layers and Earth's History
Week 30BLessons 89 + 90Introduction to Resources / Human Resources and Resource Limits

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