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Units Science In A Snapshot

Six-Week Units

Storyline units built entirely from the SIAS photo gallery — reasoning rehearsal for the Arkansas science standards, paired with real hands-on investigation.

Grades
K – 5
Units
24 · four per grade
Each unit
6 weeks · ~10 lessons
Standards coverage
72 / 72 PEs
ATLAS-assessed (3–5)
42 / 42

The idea

Each unit is an arrangement of photos you already have — not new content. An ordered storyline of SIAS gallery images drives a six-week arc: every lesson pairs a real photograph (reasoning / test-rehearsal) with a hands-on lab, building toward a consensus model and a transfer task on a novel image. Every reporting Performance Expectation across grades K–5 is covered — the grades 3–5 units rehearse the tested standards on the Arkansas ATLAS blueprint, while K–2 lays the foundation — and every unit is backed by real gallery photography.

01 · Anchor

Driving question

A phenomenon photo + Driving Question Board opens the unit.

02 · Investigate

Photo + lab

Each lesson: reason from a real image, then test it hands-on.

03 · Assemble

Consensus + EDP

Put the pieces together; embedded engineering design.

04 · Transfer

Novel-photo summative

An ATLAS-style 3-D cluster on an unseen image.