NGSS-designed/aligned, project-based curriculum for 6th grade.
SCALE developed the Learning Through Performance curriculum as a way to help 6th grade teachers envision what year-long, NGSS-designed/aligned curriculum might look like. Our curricular design embraces the strengths of project-based learning as an effective instructional model, and incorporates rigorous curriculum-embedded performance assessments to provide students with metacognitive access to their own learning.
The focus for this curriculum is "How do humans influence the world, and how does the world influence humans?" Each unit in this curriculum has a unit essential question closely aligned to the larger course essential question stated above, and the content standards. This enables students to see the connections between each unit and overall focus of the course, and to understand that math and science are an integral part of everyday life.
All the units:
- are project-based
- include instructionally embedded assessments
In addition to our four instructional units, there is a unit devoted to groupwork to help teachers establish classroom norms and expectations around effective collaborative work.
