Cleveland Avenue Elementary School

STEM/PBL Curriculum Overview

STEM at CAE is focused on student-centered environment that targets 100% of our student population. Each grade level focuses one
school wide PBL unit and 4 quarterly standards-based units. ELA, Math and Social Studies when applicable are integrated throughout
all units.
Unit Pre-K Kdg st
1 Grade 2nd Grade 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade
School-wide How can we make a clean green difference in ourselves, school and community?
1 Unit: Unit: Unit: Unit: Unit: Unit: Unit:
August Friendship & Community Weather Force & Motion Habitats of The Solar System Simple Circuits
- Diversity Design: Design: Design: Georgia Design:
October Design: Community Weather Inclusive Design: Functional and
Buddy Bench Helpers Musem Tools & Playground Habitat for Cost Effective
Preparation Equipment Leo the 3 rd GREEN Toy
Manual Grade Turtle
2 Unit: Unit: Unit: Unit: Unit: Unit: Unit:
October Farm & City Earth Materials Light & Sound Making a Clean Pollution & Force & Deconstructive
- Friends Design: Design: Green Conservation Motion/Simple Forces &
December Design: School Gardens Emergency Difference Design: Machines Immigration
Classroom Flooding Alert System Design: Storage Unit Design:
Garden Solution Solutions for for Recycled New Games for
Negative Materials the CAE Carnival
Human,
Weather and
Animal Impacts
3 Night & Day Unit: Unit: Unit: Unit: Unit: Unit:
January Living Plants Life Cycles Rocks & Soils The Water Cycle Inherited
- Things/Plants Design: Design: Design: Design: Traits
March Design: School Life Cycles School Water Filtration
Garden Museum Gardens System
Design and Flooding
Manual Solution
 4 Unit: Economics
March Design:
- CAE Market
May

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