GT Primary Foundation Year A (Grades 1 & 2)
TEKS
Fall Semester | |||||
| Unit Title | Introduction | Skills Stations | Critical Thinking | Creativity | Depth & Complexity |
| Time | 1 week | 3 weeks | 2 weeks | 2 weeks | 4 weeks |
| Understandings | Students will understand and cope with social behaviors, learn to save their information in an organized fashion, understand what it means to be GT, and identify qualities in themselves that make them a scholar. | Students will learn to set short-term and long-term goals, apply STEM knowledge and collaboration skills, understand the benefit of taking intellectual risks, and understand the importance of perseverance when faced with challenges. | Students will use critical thinking skills to solve problems, make decisions, and understand the importance of saving ideas. | Students will understand the many ways to be creative, understand originality and its importance, and learn how to collaboratively elaborate on a given idea. | Students will understand the Details, Language of the Discipline, Rules, and Patterns thinking tools. They will distinguish between essential and non-essential details, utilize effective language, apply structural rules to products, and identify repeating patterns. |
| TEKS | Social Studies 1.16B, 1.17C-D, 1.18A, 2.15B, 2.16E, 2.17A
RLA 1.1A-E, 1.6E-F, 1.6H, 1.8A-B, 1.10A/E, 1.13A/E, 2.1A-E
Math 1.13E | Science 1.2A-E, 1.3A-C, 1.6C, 2.2A-F, 2.3A-C, 2.6C
Social Studies 1.10A-B, 1.18A-B, 1.19B, 1.20A-B, 2.17A, 2.19A-B, 2.20A-B
RLA 1.1A-D, 1.13D, 1.27A, 1.28, 1.29, 2.1A-D, 2.13E, 2.28A, 2.29, 2.30
Math 1.1B, 2.1B | Social Studies 1.20A-B, 2.20A-B
RLA 1.1A-D, 2.1A-D
Math 1.1B, 2.1B
Science 1.10B, 2.10B | Social Studies 1.16A-B, 1.17C-D, 1.18, 2.15A-B, 2.16F, 2.17
RLA 1.1A-D, 1.4B-C, 1.6D-E, 1.8B-D, 1.10B, 1.11A-C, 2.1A-D, 2.3B-C, 2.6D-E, 2.8B-D, 2.10B, 2.11
Art 117.105.2A-C, 117.108.2A-C | Science 1.2B-E, 1.3B, 2.2A-F, 2.3B-C, 2.9B
Social Studies 1.9A-B, 1.10A-B, 1.16A-B, 1.17A-E, 1.18, 2.15A-B, 2.16D, 2.17, 2.18A-D, 2.19A-B, 2.20B
RLA 1.1A-D, 1.3, 1.4B-C, 1.7F, 1.13, 1.13D, 1.17, 1.18, 1.27A, 1.28, 1.29, 2.1A-D, 2.3, 2.3A-C, 2.7F, 2.11, 2.13, 2.13G, 2.18, 2.28A, 2.29, 2.30
Math 1.1B-C, 2.1B-C |
GT Continuum of Skills | Leadership & Responsibility Effective Communication | Leadership & Responsibility Effective Communication | Critical Thinking Leadership & Responsibility | Creative Thinking Effective Commnunication | Depth & Complexity |
Spring Semester | |||
| Unit Title | Critical Thinking | Creativity | Depth & Complexity |
| Time | 3 weeks | 3 weeks | 6 weeks |
| Understandings | Students will understand the importance of academic humility and different perspectives. Students will use critical thinking skills to solve grid logic puzzles, word analogies, and utilize the engineering design process. | Students will understand that creative fluency is the generation of many different ideas and that making mistakes can lead to creativity. Students will learn that creative flexibility involves looking from a new perspective. | Students will utilize the Across Disciplines, Change Over Time, Multiple Perspectives, Trends, Ethics, Unanswered Questions, and Big Idea thinking tools to make connections. Students will demonstrate curiosity, communicate findings regarding data trends, and extract central themes. |
| TEKS | Science 1.2A-B, 1.6C, 2.2A-B, 2.6C
Social Studies 1.20A-B, 2.20A-B
RLA 1.1A-D, 2.1A-D
Math 1.1B, 2.1B | Science 1.2E, 2.2E
Social Studies 1.13A, 1.18B, 2.13A
RLA 1.1A-D, 1.4B-C, 2.1A-D, 2.3A-C, 2.11
Math 1.1B, 2.1B
Art 117.105.2A-C, 117.108.2A-C | Science 1.2B-E, 1.3A-C, 2.2A-F, 2.3A-C
Social Studies 1.10A-B, 1.13A, 1.17A-C, 1.18A-B, 1.19B, 1.20A-B, 2.13A, 2.18A-B, 2.18D, 2.19A-B, 2.20A-B
RLA 1.1A-D, 1.4B-C, 2.1A-D, 2.3A-C, 2.11
Math 1.6A-D, 1.10A-B, 2.8B, 2.10A-B
Art 117.105.2A-C, 117.108.2A-C |
GT Continuum of Skills | Critical Thinking Leadership & Responsibility | Creative Thinking | Depth & Complexity Scholarly Inquiry & Research |