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Fun Florida Fieldtrips
…encouraging discovery, promoting academic enthusiasm,
gaining knowledge, all while having a great time!
1. Disney World
2. SeaWorld
5. South Florida Science Museum
6. Museum of Discovery and Science
8. Museum of Science and Industry
11. FCR-STEM
13. Ripley’s Panama City Beach:
15. Mary Brogan Museum of Arts and Sciences:
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Participation in the Sunshine State Young Reader’s Award (SSYRA) Program is an excellent way to promote lifelong reading and to motivate students in grades three through eight to read high quality, high interest contemporary literature. The SSYRA Program website is http://myssyra.org

Curriculum Maps
http://imaginecurriculum.wikispaces.com/
PRIMARY (K-2) http://imagine-sherman.wikispaces.com/Home
INTERMEDIATE (3-5) http://imagine-intermediate.wikispaces.com/home
MIDDLE SCHOOL (6-8) http://imagine-middle-school.wikispaces.com/home
- Kindergarten
- Unit 1 A Colorful Time with Rhythm and Rhyme
- Unit 2 Tell A Story, 1-2-3
- Unit 3 Exploring with Friends In the Neighborhood
- Unit 4 America: Symbols and Celebrations
- Unit 5 The Great Big World
- Unit 6 Wonders of Nature: Plants, Bugs, and Frogs
- Grade 1
- Unit 1 Alphabet Books and Children Who Read Them
- Unit 2 The Amazing Animal World
- Unit 3 Life Lessons
- Unit 4 Winds of Change
- Unit 5 American Contributions
- Unit 6 Around the World with a Glass Slipper
- Grade 2
- Unit 1 A Season for Chapters
- Unit 2 The Wild West
- Unit 3 Building Bridges with Unlikely Friends
- Unit 4 A Long Journey to Freedom
- Unit 5 Hand-Me-Down Tales From Around the World
- Unit 6 Taking Care of Ourselves
- Grade 3
- Unit 1 Stories Worth Telling Again and Again
- Unit 2 Inspired by the Sea
- Unit 3 Creative, Inventive, and Notable People
- Unit 4 The People, The Preamble, and the Presidents
- Unit 5 A Feast of Words on a Planet Called Earth and Beyond
- Unit 6 Fantastic Adventures with Dragons, Gods, and Giants
- Grade 4
- Unit 1 Tales of the Heart
- Unit 2 Literature Settings – Weather or Not
- Unit 3 Animals are Characters, Too: Characters who Gallop, Bark, and Squeak
- Unit 4 Revolutionaries from the Past
- Unit 5 Stories of the Earth & Sky
- Unit 6 Literary Heroes
- Grade 5
- Unit 1 Playing with Words
- Unit 2 Inventive Thinking
- Unit 3 Clues to a Culture
- Unit 4 America in Conflict
- Unit 5 Exploration – Real and Imagined
- Unit 6 Coming of Age
- Grade 6
- Unit 1 I Won’t Grow Up
- Unit 2 Folklore: A Blast from the Past
- Unit 3 Embracing Heritage
- Unit 4 Courageous Characters
- Unit 5 Figure it Out
- Unit 6 Winging It
- Grade 7
- Unit 1 Characters with Character
- Unit 2 Perseverance
- Unit 3 Determination in Life and in Literature
- Unit 4 Survival in the Wild
- Unit 5 Science or Fiction?
- Unit 6 Literature Reflects Life: Making Sense of our World
- Grade 8






