4th Grade Full Curriculum With Multicultural Focus
Our 4th grade program is centered around on a multicultural curriculum with a black history focus, providing students with a pod experience in the subject areas of language arts, math, geography, and African American History.
Culture Corner Academy
Average rating:
4.8
Number of reviews:(55)
What's included
64 live meetings
64 in-class hoursClass Experience
US Grade 4
At Culture Corner Academy, we believe that learning should be a unique and engaging experience. Our unique online academy offers a multicultural curriculum that is tailored to each child's individual needs, allowing them to learn at their own pace. We are dedicated to providing an enriching and culturally diverse environment, where children can learn and explore their interests. Our team of experienced teachers have designed a curriculum in collaboration with the Khan Academy curriculum that is fun and interactive, while providing our students with the tools and resources they need to succeed. Our goal is to ensure that each student is able to reach their full potential and develop understanding and respect for other cultures. Monday- Around the World ELA and Geography Tuesday-Math Wednesday- Science and Art Thursday- African American History SPRING SEMESTER 🌸 📚 🌎 Around the World ELA and Geography Culture Exploration Reading - Cultures and Traditions of Various Countries Passages as a group. A supplemental video of a brief geography/ virtual field trip of the country will be shown as well. Students will also be individually pulled for personalized level readings every week with the teacher accompanied by comprehension questions during spelling warm ups. -Students will be given a Diversity and Inclusion Writing Prompt every week to write in their writing journals. Feedback will be given upon submission after class for spelling and grammar corrections by the teacher. -Students will be given 10 weekly spelling words that will be practiced through a daily warm up activity in the classroom. Understanding will be assessed in a the form of third party tools (Gimkit, Kahoot, etc). Unit 1: Superheroes of Color Building knowledge: Superheroes Close reading: informational text: Superheroes Close reading: fiction: Superheroes Applying vocabulary knowledge: Superheroes Reading for understanding: drama and fiction: Superheroes Reading for understanding: informational text Unit 2: Growth Mindset Building knowledge: Growth Mindset Close reading: informational text: Growth Mindset Close reading: fiction: Growth Mindset Applying vocabulary knowledge: Growth Mindset Reading for understanding: fiction: Growth Mindset Reading for understanding: informational text Unit 3: Journeys West Building knowledge: Journeys West Close reading: informational text: Journeys West Close reading: poetry: Journeys West Applying vocabulary knowledge: Journeys West Reading for understanding: fiction and informational text: Journeys West Reading for understanding: informational text 🧮 Math with an Ethnomathematics Focus (In math we will be highlighting particular people or achievements from various racial, ethnic, or gendered groups) Unit 1 :Place value Intro to place value: Place value Writing whole numbers in expanded form: Place value Writing whole numbers in written form: Place value Regrouping whole numbers: Place value How 10 relates to place value: Place value Comparing multi-digit numbers Unit 2: Addition, subtraction, and estimation Rounding whole numbers: Addition, subtraction, and estimation Adding multi-digit numbers: Addition, subtraction, and estimation Subtracting multi-digit numbers Unit 3: Multiply by 1-digit numbers Comparing with multiplication: Multiply by 1-digit numbers Multiplication by 10s, 100s, and 1000s: Multiply by 1-digit numbers Multi-digit multiplication: place value and area models: Multiply by 1-digit numbers Estimate products: Multiply by 1-digit numbers Multiply with partial products Unit 4: Multiply by 2-digit numbers Multiply by 10s: Multiply by 2-digit numbers Multiply 2-digit numbers with area models: Multiply by 2-digit numbers Estimate products (2-digit numbers): Multiply by 2-digit numbers Multiply 2-digit numbers with partial products Unit 5: Division Remainders: Division Divide multiples of 10, 100, and 1,000 by 1-digit numbers: Division Division with place value: Division Division with area models: Division Estimate quotients: Division Multi-digit division with partial quotients: Division Multiplication, division word problems: Division Multi-step word problems 🧬 Science Fourth grade science students are becoming more sophisticated in their ability to explain and describe scientific concepts. They will speculate about the observations they make. They will also connect the topics they are learning about to their own experiences. Chapter 1: The Nature of Science Chapter 2: Engineering and Technology Chapter 3: Energy Chapter 4: Living Things Chapter 5: Earth 🚘 50 States of African American History Travel with me on an engaging journey through African-American history through all 50 states! We will explore influential African American heroes , landmarks, and events in TWO new states every class! In each lesson students should expect to learn about 2 African American heroes who either lived in the state or had a significant impact on the state, a major historical civil rights event in the state, fun state trivia throughout the lesson, and a physical historical landmark that is currently in the state today. Students will be creating their own post cards from every state we visit at the end of class. I will give students a slide at the end of class showing them various state icons that they can use on their postcards if they choose. Classes are presented using Canva. Review games are used via Gim Kit and Kahoot. There will occasionally be a supplemental video as well using Youtube. Students will need a notebook or sketchbook for their postcards. Students will be given a notes template to take notes on if they choose but not required. They also will be given a postcard template that they can use to make their postcards on. These can be put in your notebook (glue). Or students can choose to free hand notes (not required) and post cards in their postcards. Week 1- Mississippi and Louisiana Week 2-Florida and Georgia Week 3- South Carolina and North Carolina Week 4- Virginia and Washington DC Week 5- Maryland and Pennsylvania Week 6- Delaware and New York Week 7- Massachusetts and New Hampshire Week 8- Vermont and Rhode Island Week 9- New Jersey and West Virginia Week 10- Ohio and Kentucky Week 11- Tennessee and Indiana Week 12- Arkansas and Illinois Week 13-Texas and Arizona Week 14-Nebraska and Kansas Week 15-California and Oregon Week 16-Hawaii and Nevada 🎨 Art We will do a variety of unique art pieces mostly using sketching techniques. Topics include perspective drawings, historical figures, and landscapes.
Other Details
Parental Guidance
Multiple Third party tools are used in this class. Including Gimkit, Kahoot, and Youtube. These will be used for fun assessments and supplemental material. Canva will be used for any slides. No account creation is needed for these tools. A code will be given and students can access content with the code.
External Resources
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
Sources
www.study.com
www.nationalgeographic.com
www.khanacademy.com
Joined June, 2022
4.8
55reviews
Teacher expertise and credentials
Teacher Autumn
Bachelor of Science in Healthcare Admin, 2015
Masters of Science in Health Admin, 2020
Currently in school for my Masters of Education for my social studies license in Social Studies 6-12
A lot of my European culture background comes from living and teaching in both a public School in Spain for two years and in an international school for one year also in Spain. In both of these school settings we celebrated traditions of different countries throughout our school year. These were led by teachers from those backgrounds and we have teachers shared these experiences with our own classes. These included countries of Spain, Germany, Italy, Ukraine, India, Morocco, UK, Hungary, and Australia. Especially in the international school we had students who came from countries all across Europe and the world and this program was to celebrate these students culture and to share our own.
I have bachelor and masters degree and in my undergraduate studies I took the following courses : Introduction to Geology, various World History, World and National (USA)Geography, and Mineralogy and Structure of the Earth. While I didn't major in these and took them as electives it fueled my need for learning more about the amazing geological wonders that my country had to offer.
I have mentored over 200 teens over the past 6 years through my nonprofit on diversity and current events and continue to lead open group discussions regarding diversity and inclusion for individuals ages 5-18 as well as adults in a corporate setting. I have many years of experience facilitating difficult conversations regarding civil rights and African American History. I have been serving on the Women of Color Community Leadership Board for a Fortune 500 company in Diversified Outsourcing Services industry. This unique is group is a branch of their Diversity and Inclusion department. Through this position I have facilitated, created, and organized trainings on diversity and inclusion, anti racism, and holiday specific courses (history of MLK Day, Kwanzaa, Juneteenth, Indigenous Peoples' Day, and Black History Month) for the work place. In edition utilizing elective courses I have taken though my undergraduate and graduate degrees (World history, American history, North American Slavery) I also have extensively studied the books/textbooks for the purpose of teaching classes for school aged children for various non profit programs and after school organizations, and children on parents who are employed with above listed company as a company benefit on various African American heroes and events both virtually and in person.
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Live Group Class
$60
weekly or $960 for 64 classes4x per week, 16 weeks
60 min
Completed by 4 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 10-12
1-6 learners per class
