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Magnetik® Understanding:People can experience different emotions during change.

Magnetik® Question:How do we react to changes?

Global Issue:Uncertainty during change.

Challenge-Action Question:How can I make a positive impact on my community through

change?

Health and Well-BeingSecond Grade

Knotion® supports the Sustainable Development Goals

Language Mastery

• Parts of Speech: Action Verbs Uses a range of action verbs. • Action verbs that express physical and mental actions.

• Parts of Speech: Subject Pronouns and Object Pronouns

Uses and understands subject and object pronouns. • Subject and object pronouns.

• Tenses: Simple Present Identifies and uses the simple present. • Simple present to express habits, general truths, emotions, unchanging situations.

• Word Structure: Contractions with Verb to Be and Possessives

Uses contractions appropriately. • Apostrophes to make nouns possessive and form contractions.

• Punctuation: Commas in Dates. Uses commas. • Commas in dates.

Reading Skills • Determining Importance States main ideas and lists important details in informational and expository texts, verbally or by using graphic organizers.

• Main idea and details.

Writing Workshop

• Expository Text Understands that an informational text explains and gives facts about a specific topic in an interesting way.

• Self-help books.

Communication • Oral Communication Participates in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade-two topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.

• Dialogues in common situations.

Discusses, contributes, and expands on the ideas of self and others.

• Contribution in discussions to develop a topic maintaining focus on the topic.

Creates audio recordings of stories or poems.Adds drawings or other visual displays to stories or recounts of experiences when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.

• Communication and fluency.

Listens actively to discover new information and create better dialogue.

• Listening for specific information.

Uses content-specific vocabulary to ask questions and provide information.

• Asking and answering questions.

Produces complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification.

• Simple statements and questions using basic tenses.

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Knotion® Subject Topic Learning Outcome Content

Life Science • Structures and Processes of Organisms

Recognizes that as you grow your body changes. • Health and well-being.

Identifies the external parts of a human body (Example: head, hands, feet, knees, and elbows).

• Parts of the human body.

Uses the senses to make and describe careful observations.

• The five senses.

Earth Science • Earth’s Systems Knows that the environment changes over the seasons.

• Environmental changes during seasons.

Knows that climate and weather affect housing and clothes people wear.

• Kinds of shelter and clothes in cold and warm climates.

Understands that water exists as solid ice and in liquid form and can be found in oceans, rivers, lakes, and ponds.

• Water found on Earth as solid or liquid.

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veKnotion® Subject Topic Learning Outcome Content

Citizenship Awareness

• Civic Ideals, Cultural Principles, and Ethics

Understands risky situations and illustrates safe behaviors to prevent injuries to self and others.

• Fitting into a new environment.

HistoricalAwareness

• Historical Chronology Recognizes changes in his or her community over time.

• Changes in the community.

Examines how his or her family has changed over time.

• Family changes.

Predicts ways the community might change in the future.

• Changes in the community.


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Technology and Computational Thinking

• Operations and Concepts Identifies and uses components and ports successfully.

• Portable device basics: screens, physical and virtual keyboard, mouse, headphones, ports, and printers.

Manipulates navigation tools and devices on a basic level.

• Turn a device on and off: basics of login, logout (login with emoji).

• Shapes (such as resizing).• Dragging icons (classify in folders).• Clicking on URLs.• Playing multimedia.• Navigation (scrolling up and down).• Long-press functions (copy, paste).• Gestures.

• File Management Names documents with appropriate files and accesses them easily, renames, shares and deletes.

• Note taking apps (create/save/rename/delete/share).

• Online communities.

• Multimedia and Presentation Tools Uses camera to take pictures and videos.Identifies storage locations for media.Employs audio tools to create recordings.Organizes information sequentially (is capable of creating timelines of people, historical events, etc.).

• Importing and exporting media in presentation apps.

• Problem-Solving and Computational Thinking

Understands algorithms. • Algorithms as simple sequences of instructions.• Basic steps of algorithmic thinking (online and

offline activities) to solve problems and design solutions.

Manipulates block-based visual programming. • Creation of basic enhanced games with different functions.

• Solving problems.

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• The Meaning of Gratitude • Learns the meaning of gratitude.• Discovers how the hearts of different living beings sound like.

• Knowing my Heart • Reinforces the meaning of gratitude through a song.• Physically recognizes the heart as well as its relationship to emotions.

• People I Love a lot • Identifies that, in the heart, it is where love, appreciation, and affection are felt.• Recognizes the people for whom he or she feels affection and love.

• Learning to Express Love • Learns a technique called ‘Shift and Shine’, to manage his or her emotions.• Identifies different ways to send love and affection.

Topic Learning Outcome

• Air and Weather • Makes observations, asks questions and tests predictions. • Collaborates with teammates and shares ideas• Records data and draws conclusions.• Recognizes abiotic and biotic factors in an ecosystem. • Identifies the role of abiotic factors in the ecosystem (air).• Recognizes the importance of recycling for the environment.


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• Needs and Wants • Organizes needs and wants hierarchically based on defined criteria.


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Biomes and Ecosystems Second Grade

Magnetik® Understanding:Habitats have particular elements that are important for the

development of life.

Magnetik® Question:What elements make a habitat a good home for a living being?

Global Issue:Alterations to habitats due to human activity.

Challenge-Action Question:What can I do to protect natural habitats in my community?


Language Mastery

• Tenses: Present Progressive Identifies and uses present progressive. • Present progressive for actions at the moment of speaking.

• Parts of Speech: Possessive Pronouns Expresses possession with possessive pronouns. • Singular possessive pronouns: mine, yours, his, hers, and its.

• Punctuation: Commas Uses commas. • Commas in series to separate items in a list.

• Predicting Anticipates what will happen in a story based on details and background knowledge.

• Predictions based on information from the reading and background knowledge.

Reading Skills • Predicting Anticipates what will happen in a story based on details and background knowledge.

• Predictions based on information from the reading and background knowledge.

Uses text and prior knowledge to make, confirm, or revise inferences and predictions.

• Asking questions during the reading.

Writing Workshop

• Informational: Literary Nonfiction Poster

Understands that a poster is written to entertain and inform readers about a specific topic selecting only interesting and concise information.

• Poster listing information about a specific topic, and details of spacing, margins, colors, and layout.

Communication Communication Participates in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade-two topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.












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Life Science • Ecology Compares the distinct biomes found around the world and the different types of plants and animals that each supports.

• Biome characteristics (Example: annual rainfall, living things within it).

Describes how humans use some plants and animals. • How humans use some plants and animals like cotton, cattle, etc.

Explains how living organisms react to the changes in their environment or dangerous situations.

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• Civic Involvement Understands that civic participation in preserving natural habitats is a right and duty of every individual.

• Citizens have the responsibility to preserve natural habitats.

Environmental Awareness

• Human Interaction With the Environment

Understands that people in communities affect the environment when they meet their needs and desires.

• How people affect their environment to meet their household and business needs.


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• File and Information Management Uses search tools to locate files and apps with assistance.

• Browsing through mobile apps.• Assisted online search.• Assisted sharing in online communities.

Shares files with assistance.

• Personal Data Management Manipulates user accounts. • Logging out safely.• Sharing devices: Privacy fundamentals.• Internet safety and ethics.

• Online Safety Protects, creates, and manages robust passwords. • Scavenger or Treasure Hunt.• Gamified experiences where passwords are

fundamental for learners to achieve a goal.• Confidentiality.• Compromised information.• Managing privacy.• Encryption.

• Cloud Computing Understands how cloud computing is different from using software and apps.

• Search engines.• Definitions.• Uploading, downloading, and retrieving files from

the cloud.

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• Shift and Shine Technique • Finds out how he or she can handle his or her feelings when dealing with change.• Reflects on the value of love.

• Knowing About my Heart and Affection

• Reinforces how to be a loving person in a fun way.• Reinforces the previous learning about the heart’s physiology.• Shares the learning of the past weeks at home and reinforces the techniques.

• The Meaning of Appreciating • Reinforces the practice of the “Shift and Shine” technique by sharing at home what he or she has learned.

• Discovers the meaning of appreciation.

• My Family • Practices the action of appreciating and recognizing the members of his or her family.


• Air and Weather • Makes observations, asks questions and tests predictions. • Collaborates with teammates and shares ideas.• Records data and draw conclusions.• Identifies properties of some abiotic factors (air).• Recognizes the interaction of abiotic and biotic factors in an ecosystem• Identifies nutrients in garden products.• Understands the importance of recycling for the environment.


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• Exchanges • Understands that, in a successful exchange of resources, both parts should agree on the benefits received.


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Science, Technology, and InnovationSecond Grade

Magnetik® Understanding:Technology provides new ways to work in teams.

Magnetik® Question:How does technology allow us to collaborate with others?

Global Issue:Social isolation caused by technology.

Challenge-Action Question:How can I use technology to improve interaction?


Language Mastery

• Word Structure: Countable and Uncountable Nouns

Understands countable and uncountable nouns. • Countable and uncountable nouns.

• Sentence Structure: Want + Infinitive Uses sentences with the structure want + infinitive. • Want and the verb in infinitive.

• Sentence Structure: Subject-Verb-Complement

Recognizes and uses the basic sentence structure: Subject-Verb-Complement.

• Sentence structure: Subject-Verb-Complement.

• Tenses: Future Will Understands and uses the future tense with will. • Future simple with will.

• Parts of Speech: Partitives Understands undefined amounts for using partitives. • Partitives to quantify uncountable nouns.

• Parts of Speech: Adjectives Understands and uses adjectives as words that modify and provide characteristics about nouns and pronouns.

• Adjectives to modify nouns and pronouns by describing specific qualities.

Reading Skills • Monitoring and Checking Asks and answers questions before, during, and after reading aloud, instruction practice time, and independent reading.

• Generating questions to become aware of reading comprehension.

Writing Workshop

• Narrative: Short Fiction and Realistic Fiction

Understands that realistic fiction is a story about a specific character and some events in his life.

• Realistic elements in the description of characters and setting.













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Physical Science • Matter and its Interactions Recognizes how technology helps us observe the world beyond our senses.

• Technological items like a microscope or a telescope allow us to make detailed observations beyond our senses.

• Motion, Forces, and Interactions Understands and demonstrates that certain tools and technology make work easier.

• Simple machines (simple technology) that make work easier.

Earth Science • Earth’s Place in the Universe Understands that patterns of the motion of the sun, moon, and stars in the sky can be observed, described, and predicted.

• Sun, moon, and stars patterns can be predicted.

• Earth’s Place in the Universe Understands that seasonal patterns of sunrise and sunset can be observed, described, and predicted.

• Seasonal patterns of sunrise and sunset.

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Understands that it is important to use technology responsibly.

• Digital responsibility.

Explains how technology influences schoolwork. • Technology makes our schoolwork easier.

Historical Awareness

• Historical Chronology Understands that technology has changed over time. • Technology over time.


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• Online Safety and Digital Identity Understands the importance of not sharing personal information online.

• Privacy and fundamentals of digital footprint (this time addressing both reputation or self-image).

Recognizes how overusing technology can be harmful.

• Mental, physical, and emotional health in relation to technology and its overuse.

• Tapping Locates and uses correct finger and hand when typing.Uses proper posture and ergonomics.Gains proficiency and speed.Learns how to use special characters (´, ñ).

• Tapping games.• Music games (sounds triggered by tapping).• 360 experiences: Ergonomics and movements.

• Painting and Drawing Uses drawing tools (such as pencil, brush, paint bucket, and clipart). Creates animated shapes and lines to generate ideas and create original work for personal and group expression.

• Using an app’s presentation-oriented tools to create animated slides.

• Undo, redo, and using the eraser.• Adding text to drawings without assistance.

• File and Information Management Understands the association of file extensions. • PDF, MP3, MP4, and other file extensions.• Locating files when using search engines.

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• The Value of Kindness • Reinforces the practice of the “Shift and Shine” technique through a song.• Learns the meaning of the value of kindness• Experiences the relationship between the heart and the emotions.

• I learn about my emotions • Identifies life experiences where he or she has experienced different emotions.• Shares life experiences where he or she has experienced different emotions.

• Experiencing tranquility • Shares life experiences where he or she has experienced different emotions.• Expresses emotions that charge his or her battery through a fun activity.

• My body expresses what I feel

• Discovers the strength of emotions.• Begins to better understand and accept his or her emotions.

• I decide what to do with what I feel

• Reinforces the practice of appreciation through a song.


• Air and Weather • Makes observations, asks questions and tests predictions.• Collaborates with teammates and shares ideas.• Records data and draw conclusions.• Understands that living organisms grow and develop.• Recognizes and explains properties of air.• Classifies recycling materials.


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• Money as a Resource Personal Financial Decisions

• Understands that money is a limited resource and it is important to decide how to use it.

• Recognizes the impact of personal financial decisions on the amount of resources available.


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Origins and Cultural DiversitySecond Grade

Magnetik® Understanding:Traditions and celebrations are part of culture.

Magnetik® Question:What aspects make up a culture?

Global Issue:Discrimination.

Challenge-Action Question:What can I learn from other cultures?


Language Mastery

• Word Structure: Comparative Adjectives

Understands and uses comparative adjectives with -er and more.

• Comparative adjectives with ending -er and more.

• Parts of Speech: Conjunctions Uses the conjunctions: and, or, and but. • Conjunctions and, but, or.

• Word Meaning: Homographs and Homophones

Understands words with same spelling but different meaning and words with same sound but different spelling and meaning.

• Homographs and homophones.

• Parts of Speech: Possessive pronouns. Questions with “Whose”

Understands and uses possessive pronouns. • Possessive pronouns: my, mine, our, ours, its, his, her, hers, their, theirs, your and yours.

• Sentence Structure: Quantifiers for Countable and Uncountable Nouns

• How much and How many

Uses quantifiers for countable and uncountable nouns: no, some, any, and, a lot of, how much and how many.

• Quantifiers: no, some, any, and a lot of, how much, and how many.

Reading Skills • Comprehension• Summarizing-Synthesizing

Summarizes a text, selection, or passage determinig key ideas and main points.

• Summarizing to show reading comprehension.

Writing Workshop

• Opinion Understands how to write an opinion based on likes and dislikes, giving reasons.

• Opinions based on likes and dislikes giving reasons.

Communication • Communication Participates in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade-two topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.




Creates audio recordings of stories or poems; adds drawings or other visual displays to stories or recounts of experiences when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.








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Earth Science • Earth’s Systems Understands that a landform is any natural formation of rock and dirt found on Earth.

• How landforms are created and how they interact with one another.

Identifies different landforms and recognizes landforms in the community.

• Landform characteristics.

Recognizes that climate and landscape impact people’s behavior.

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• Civic Involvement Describes ways individuals contribute to a community.

• Neighbors contributing to community life.

Historical Awareness

• Historical Cultural Heritage Understands that communities may be made up of people from many cultures that share cultural similarities and differences.

• Cultural diversity in the community, cultural similarities and differences in the community.

Recognizes personal heritage and compares different cultures around the world.

• Personal origins and identity in different cultures around the world.

Identifies how communities celebrate their traditions.

• Celebrations and traditions.


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• Communication and Collaboration Tools

Demonstrates polite and respectful language when using technological tools.

• Digital citizenship basics.

Uses messaging tools to contact his or her peers and coach.

• Online communities for educational purposes.• Composition of emails: Feedback and review.

Uses virtual world and gaming tools to work collaboratively toward common goals.Develops cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with virtual environments showing other cultures (or even interacting with learners from other cultures, if possible).

• 360 experiences with improved ergonomics and movements.

Transmits information to an audience or other peers.Engages in discussions with peers.Understands crowdfunding and mobilization of communities through technological tools.

• Videocalls through secure, social environments.• Understanding blogs and websites.• Basics of social media (in a safe, educational

environment).

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• Shift and Shine technique • Learns to show what makes him or her happy.• Shares his or her happiness with those around him or her.

• Heart Warmer technique • Learns to control his or her emotions before reacting.• Recognizes which of his or her organs control his or her emotions.

• Problem Solving • Learns a new technique that will help him or her solve problems.

• The value of love • Recognizes the importance of the value of love in his/her life.• Recognizes what it is like to feel love.


• Air and Weather • Makes observations, asks questions and tests predictions. • Collaborates with teammates and shares ideas.• Records data and draw conclusions.• Identifies what a cloud is and how it is formed.• Recognizes that changes in the environment can also affect abiotic factors. • Understands that wind affects weather and build a device to measure its

direction.• Discusses the importance of recycling for the environment.


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• Needs and Wants Personal Financial Decisions

• Understands that needs and wants can be satisfied based on the resources available.

• Recognizes the impact of personal financial decisions on the amount of resources available.


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Productivity and EconomySecond Grade

Magnetik® Understanding:Rural and urban communities depend on each other to produce

and consume goods.

Magnetik® Question:How do country and city interact for the production of goods?

Global Issue:Scarcity of natural resources.

Challenge-Action Question:How can I take advantage of natural resources to produce

goods?


Language Mastery

• Tenses: Simple Past Understands and uses simple past of the verb be. • Verb to be: past form (was, were) in sentences.

• Sentence Structure: Types of Sentences

Uses different types of sentences: statements, questions, and commands.

• Types of sentences: statements, questions, and commands.

• Word Meaning: Synonyms and Antonyms

Recognizes and uses synonyms and antonyms. • Synonyms and antonyms.

• Tenses: Imperatives for Instructions Uses the imperative form of the verb for giving instructions: simple form without subject.

• Commands.

Reading Skills • Asking Questions Asks and generates their own before, during, and after reading questions based on the type of text genre and depending on their purpose for reading.

• Asking questions for comprehension.

Writing Workshop

• Functional: How to (procedures) Understands procedural writing as a list of directions in a sequence to explain how to do something in clear steps according to the sequence of the procedure.

• Steps in a process.













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Physical Science • Matter and its Interactions Understands that a landform is any natural formation of rock and soil found on Earth.

• How landforms are created and how they interact with one another.

Life Science • Structures and Processes of Organisms

Identifies the basic need of animals and humans. • Basic needs of animals and humans.

Identifies the basic need of plants (light, air, water, nutrients).

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• Human Interaction With the Environment.

Analyzes people’s needs in urban and rural areas and how they satisfy these needs.

• People’s different needs and how they are satisfied depending on where they live.

Distinguishes between rural and urban areas and compares their lifestyles.

• Characteristics of rural and urban areas.• Similarities and differences.

Describes ways in which people use the natural environment.

• How people use the natural environment.

Compares land use and access to natural resources in urban and rural communities.

• Land use (Example: housing) and natural resources use (like water) in rural and urban areas.


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• Digital Portfolio Shares content in a personal portfolio to maintain a collection of work throughout his or her learning.

• Online communities and platforms.

• Document Processing Creates more elaborate texts and saves them as assignments with assistance.Inserts and resizes images within a document (assisted).Highlights and annotates documents.Imports media from outside sources.

• Online communities and word processors.• Highlighting, copying, and pasting from one

document to another source for academic delivery.

• Proofreading Proofreads other peers’ work with assistance and the built-in correction tools.

• Spell checker, grammar check, dictionary.


Uses technology tools to represent solutions to problems (age-appropriate).

• Problems with text, sounds, pictures, numbers, algorithms (HTMLs and apps).

• Coding Engages in block-based visual programming problem-solving.

• Gamified visual programming (block-based).

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• Careful attention • Identify what it means to pay attention carefully.

• Recognize Emotions • Recognizes when he or she feels the basic emotions.

• Emotions and techniques for emotional stability

• Reflects upon the emotions he or she has learned.• Identifies techniques that help him or her achieve emotional stability.


• Air and Weather • Makes observations, asks questions and tests predictions. • Collaborates with teammates and shares ideas.• Records data and draws conclusions.• Identifies economic activities related garden produce. • Plans and organizes a scientific investigation.• Creates a design with recycled items.


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• Money • Understands that money is a limited resource and it is important to decide how to use it.


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Power, Authority, and Civil IdealsFirst Grade

Magnetik® Understanding:Authorities make sure laws are respected in order to live in

harmony.

Magnetik® Question:Why is authority important in our community?

Global Issue:Lack of respect for authority.

Challenge-Action Question:How can I motivate others to respect authority?


Language Mastery

• Tenses: Simple Past With Regular and Irregular verbs

Uses the simple past of regular and irregular verbs. • Simple past using regular and irregular verbs.

• Capitalization: Proper Nouns Uses capital letters for proper nouns. • Proper nouns.

• Word Structure: Superlatives Understands and uses superlative adjectives with -est and most.

• Superlative adjectives -est and most.

• Sentence Structure: Direct Object Identifies the direct object in a sentence. • Direct object.

Reading Skills • Visualizing Composes visual images from what is read aloud or read by himself or herself (Example: draws a picture to represent something that was read in a story).

• Visualization to comprehend reading material.

Writing Workshop

• Narrative: Memoirs Understands a memoir as a personal narrative which is a story about the writer’s life written in first person (using I).

• Memoirs.





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Life Science • Classification and Inheritance Recognizes some ways that living things can be grouped.

• Organization of living things according to one attribute. (all these live on land, all these have fur).

Recognizes differences among living organisms of the same species.

• Differences and similarities between insects.

• Structures and Organisms Processes Identifies social insects and recognizes how they are organized.

• Social insects and their specialized roles (queen, soldiers, workers and such).

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• Government Organization, Laws, and Political Systems

Understands and is able to describe the importance of authority.

• The importance and effectiveness of authority and its role in an organized community.

• Historical Cultural Heritage Understands and describes the consequences of the lack of authority.

• Consequences of lack of authority.

Identifies the role of people with authority. • Role of people with authority.


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Understands algorithms, sequences, loops, bugs, and conditionals on a basic level.Designs both problems and their solutions to share with peers.Manages to utilize problem-solving processes with other peers.

• Project-oriented computational thinking and logical processes.

• Algorithms as simple sequences of instructions.• Basic steps of algorithmic thinking to solve

problems and design solutions.• Loops, conditionals, debugging.

Improves interaction with block-based visual programming.

• Creation of basic, but complex games (several functions utilized).

• Solving problems with computational and logical thinking.

• Creativity Uses storytelling apps to demonstrate solutions and ideas.

• Storytelling mobile apps: Creation of settings, scenarios, and characters to enhance storytelling by reinforcing drawing skills and selection of tools.

• Spreadsheets Understands the basics of spreadsheets, and identifies and explains key terms.

• Data collection, analysis, and visualization of data (basics).

• Fields, sets, subsets, query, order, sort (basics).

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• Self-awareness • Recognizes his or her feelings to increase his or her self-awareness.

• The value of truthfulness • Learns the meaning of the value of truthfulness.• Learns to distinguish by himself or herself what it really means to tell the truth.

• Make promises • Learns what it means to make promises and how it feels when these are not kept.

• Appreciation • Explores a healthier perspective and attitude at the beginning of the day and a positive way to end the day through appreciation.


• Air and Weather • Makes observations, asks questions and tests predictions. • Collaborates with teammates and shares ideas.• Records data and draws conclusions.• Evaluates the development of biotic factors in an ecosystem. • Recognizes that wind has speed and builds a device to measure it

(anemometer).• Analyzes the importance of taking care of living and nonliving things in the

garden.• Evaluate different recycling programs in their School.


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• Currency Denomination • Understands that currency has different denominations with different values.• Recognizes the concept of paying with denominations larger than the price of

the purchased object in order to expect change.


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Crisis and Conflict ResolutionSecond Grade

Magnetik® Understanding:People face and resolve disagreements differently.

Magnetik® Question:What’s the best way to resolve a disagreement?

Global Issue:Conflicts and disagreements.

Challenge-Action Question:What can I do to resolve a disagreement in a positive way?


Language Mastery

• Sentence Structure: There was or There were

Uses the expressions: there was and there were. • There was, there were to introduce a topic or say that something existed.

• Parts of Speech: Demonstrative Pronouns

Uses demonstrative pronouns. • Demonstrative pronouns: this, that, these, and those.

• Word Structure: Prefix un- Suffix -ful Identifies and uses the prefix: un- and the suffix -ful. • Prefix -un as “not”. Suffix -ful as characterized by or full of.

• Word Meaning: Compound Words Identifies compound words. • Compound words.

Reading Skills • Inferring Begins to make their own unique interpretation of a text by using their relevant prior knowledge and information gleaned from the text by making guesses, finding connections, and making predictions.

• Inferences to make conclusions when reading.

Writing Workshop

• Narrative: Short Fiction (Historical or Realistic)

Understands that short fiction is a story about a specific character and some event in his life and includes realistic or historical elements in the description of characters and setting.

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Physical Science • Motion, Forces, and Interactions Describes the different ways things can move (Example: straight line, zigzag, vibration, and circular motion).

• Motion.

Explains how to cause objects to move in space. • How to cause motion.

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Identifies feelings and needs behind conflicts. • Feelings and personal needs in conflicts.

Learns how to see things from another person’s point of view.

• Different perspectives and points of view.

Describes the expectations of how to act and behave during and after a disagreement.

• Behavioral expectations during and after a disagreement.

Analyzes conflictive situations and evaluates ways to resolve them positively.

• Examples of conflictive situations and ways of conflict resolutions.

Identifies strategies for anger management and problems resolution skills.

• Different techniques to anger management.

Knows how and when to apply strategies to solve conflicts peacefully.

• Different strategies to solve conflicts.


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• Creativity Uses storytelling apps to demonstrate solutions and ideas.

• Storytelling apps: Creation of settings, scenarios, and characters to enhance storytelling by reinforcing drawing skills and selection of tools.

• Manipulation of 3D models Manipulates pre-design models and applies previous knowledge (resizing, zooming, rotation).

• Creation and manipulation of 3D environments.

• Multimedia and Presentation Tools Uses media and camera apps to take pictures and videos to later share in presentation software.

• Importing and positioning multimedia in presentations.

• Organizing slides.• Creation of visuals and audio for presentations.• Adding hyperlinks.

Saves information and projects in different formats. • Exporting, saving, printing, and sharing files.


Successfully understands algorithms, sequences, loops, bugs, and conditionals on a basic level.Designs both problems and their solutions to share with peers.Manages to utilize problem-solving processes with other peers.




Improves planning, development, testing, and interaction with block-based visual programming.



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• The Value of cooperation • Learns what it means to cooperate. • Learns the different ways he or she can cooperate at home and at school.

• Cooperation, Self-Control, Problem Solving and Communication

• Reinforces what has been learned about cooperation, self-control, problem solving and communication.


• Air and Weather • Makes observations, asks questions and tests predictions. • Collaborates with teammates and shares ideas.• Records data and draws conclusions. • Recognizes garden pests and learns how to control them organically.• Recognizes that rainwater can be collected and Build a device to measure

it.(e.g. rain gauge).• Proposes ways to take care of biotic factors in an ecosystem. • Recognizes environmental conflicts when recycling is not properly carried out.


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• Personal Financial Decisions • Understands the importance of the correct information in order to make decisions for resource allocation.


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Environment and SustainabilityFirst Grade

Magnetik® Understanding:Dangerous waste affects people, animals, and the environment.

Magnetik® Question:How does dangerous waste affects the environment?

Global Issue:Inadequate management of waste.

Challenge-Action Question:How can I have a better waste management?


Language Mastery

• Sentence Structure: Present Simple, Past Simple Questions, and Negatives.

Forms questions and negatives in the present simple and past simple.

• Present and past simple: affirmative, negative and interrogative. Yes /no and Wh- questions.

• Word Structure: Suffix -er, -or Recognizes and uses the suffixes -er and -or. • Suffixes: -er, -or for people connected with a field (teacher, doctor, etc.).

• Word Structure: Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

Uses common comparative and superlative adjectives.

• Comparative and superlative adjectives to describe people and things.

• Word Structure: Abbreviations Recognizes and uses abbreviations. • Abbreviations for names and titles.

Reading Skills • Making Connections Analyze how their connections text-to-self, text-to-world, text-to-text, text-to-media contribute to their understanding of the text.

• Making connections using prior knowledge.

• Informational: Literary Nonfiction Newspaper Article

Analyzes how their connections text-to-self, text-to-world, text-to-text, and text-to-media contribute to their understanding of the text.

• Who, what, where, how, and when writing technique.













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Physical Science • Matter and its Interactions Understands that objects can be sorted based on the different types of materials they are made of.

• Sort objects into whether they sink or float.

Earth Science • Earth and Human Activity Knows how to reduce waste by reducing, reusing, or recycling familiar materials.

• Recycles plastic, aluminum, glass, and other earth materials.

Recognizes properties of materials for the purpose of recycling.

• Sorts trash and explain a what to do with a used t-shirt or an apple core.

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• Human Interaction With the Environment.

Describes how people can help the environment. • The 3 Rs of recycling and how it helps the environment.

Describes the benefits of recycling on the environment.

• The 3 Rs of recycling and its importance.

Learns how to reduce, reuse, and recycle. • The 3 Rs of recycling and how to do it.


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• Internet Searching and Online Databases

Uses browsers and navigates through catalogs and databases for research.

• Online communities.• Search engines.• Streaming apps.

Uses age-appropriate search engines to find information.

• Fundamentals of search engines and tips or formulas.

• Web history and tracking.• Domains.

• Acceptable Use, Copyright, and Plagiarism

Understands basics of citation information, credibility, and relevance.Transfers information learned from online sources into their own words.

• Sharing in online communities.• Giving feedback on sources..

• Organizational and Project Tools Knows how to use graphic organizers, brainstorming applications, and other digital tools collaboratively to gather and organize project-oriented information.

• Interactive whiteboards.• Mindmapping.• Brainstorming apps.• Collaboration tools.

• Multimedia and Presentation Tools Uses camera to take pictures and videos.Records audio for a presentation.Organizes information sequentially (is capable of creating timelines of people, historical events, etc.).

• Importing and exporting media in presentation apps.

• Enhanced presentation with animated features.• Recording voice to improve explanations.


Successfully understands algorithms, sequences, loops, bugs and conditionals on a basic level.Designs both problems and their solutions to share with peers.Manages to utilize problem-solving processes with other peers.




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• Trust • Learns what it means to trust.• Discovers that when he/she trusts, his/her heart is happy and his or her mind is

calm.

• People and memories that comfort him or her

• Recognizes that the people, memories, animals and things that are important for him or her are in their heart, and that knowing this is conforting, makes him or her feel safe and at peace.

• Practices breathing, stops all activities and performs the “Heart Warmer” technique.


• Air and Weather • Makes observations, asks questions and tests predictions. • Collaborates with teammates and shares ideas.• Plans and responds appropriately to a community chore.• Understands the importance of a clean environment.• Promotes recycling campaigns.


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• Saving and Spending • Recognizes that there are different options on how to use money: spend it now or save it for later.


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