Teacher s Guide Table of Contents 5 th Grade Curriculum Aligned to the Common Core Program Overview 7 Program Management & Introductory Lessons 9 Content Area Lesson Plans 39 11 Step-by-Step Instructions to Manage The Walking Classroom in your Classroom 15 Getting Started with The Walking Classroom 17 Day 1: Heart Rate, Aerobic Exercise, Cognition, and Cognitive Function 21 Heart Rate Sheet 23 Day 2: Introducing The Walking Classroom 25 Day 3: Walking and Equipment Guidelines 29 Day 4: The First Walk (no audio) 31 Day 5: Welcome to The Walking Classroom (the first walk with audio) Podcast 1: Welcome! 14:09 33 Day 6: Introduction to The Walking Classroom Podcast 2: Introduction 10:09 35 Day 7: Review of Introduction and Initial Comprehension Quiz Podcast 2: Introduction 10:09 Unit 1: podcast number & name length of podcast Playing with Words 41 (3) Idioms 12:42 45 (4) Negro Baseball League 15:56 49 (5) Casey at the Bat 14:26 53 (6) Take Me Out to the Ballgame 15:15 57 (7) Conservation 15:13 61 (8) Rachel Carson 15:47 1
Unit 1: podcast number & name length of podcast Playing with Words 65 (9) Inez Fung 17:49 69 (10) The Echoing Green 13:00 73 (11) Meteorology 13:54 77 (12) John Muir 15:05 81 (13) Shakespeare 12:38 85 (14) Oxford English Dictionary 15:05 89 (15) Louis Braille 17:59 93 (16) Thomas Edison 16:09 97 (17) Albert Einstein 17:02 101 (18) Homonyms and Homophones 15:02 105 (19) Who s On First 14:09 Unit 2: Renaissance Thinking 109 (20) Interjections 11:55 113 (21) Prepositions 17:26 117 (22) Riddles from The Hobbit 16:22 121 (23) Johannes Gutenberg 17:17 125 (24) Galileo Galilei 16:31 129 (25) Renaissance Artists 18:12 133 (26) Leonardo davinci 18:32 137 (27) Madrigals 14:12 141 (28) Benjamin Banneker 15:10 145 (29) George Washington Carver 15:57 Unit 3: Clues to a Culture 149 (30) Continental Divide 17:20 153 (31) The Cumberland Gap 16:18 157 (32) Davy Crockett 16:27 161 (33) Daniel Boone 17:46 165 (34) Westward Expansion 16:30 169 (35) Lewis, Clark & Sacagawea 17:37 173 (36) Tecumseh 14:37 177 (37) Sequoyah 10:54 2
Unit 3: number & name of podcast length of podcast Clues to a Culture 181 (38) The Santa Fe Trail 15:04 185 (39) The Erie Canal 16:31 189 (40) The Trail of Tears 18:45 193 (41) Manifest Destiny 17:13 197 (42) Civil Disobedience 17:19 201 (43) The Gold Rush 17:16 205 (44) The Pony Express 18:17 209 (45) Trickster Stories 15:54 Unit 4: America in Conflict 213 (46) The Mason Dixon Line 14:49 217 (47) Slave Life & Rebellions 19:21 221 (48) The Underground Railroad 16:21 225 (49) Women of the Civil War 17:35 229 (50) Harriet Tubman 14:13 233 (51) Sojourner Truth 18:12 237 (52) Frederick Douglass 17:07 241 (53) Stanton & Anthony 15:32 245 (54) Abraham Lincoln 16:09 249 (55) Civil War Generals, Part 1 14:32 253 (56) Civil War Generals, Part 2 16:18 257 (57) Emancipation Proclamation 18:36 261 (58) Gettysburg Part 1 16:03 265 (59) Gettysburg Part 2 14:47 269 (60) Assassination of Lincoln 16:24 273 (61) O Captain! My Captain! 17:59 277 (62) Reconstruction 16:27 281 (63) Carpetbaggers & Scalawags 16:51 285 (64) The Star Spangled Banner 18:02 289 (65) The Statue of Liberty 15:36 293 (66) I Hear America Singing 17:44 297 (67) Alliteration and Personification 15:10 301 (68) Types of Conflict in Writing 15:44 305 (69) Greek & Latin Roots and Affixes 14:23 3
Unit 5: number & name of podcast length of podcast Exploration, Real and Imagined 309 (70) Point of View in Writing 16:16 313 (71) Parody 15:07 317 (72) Similes & Metaphors 14:07 321 (73) Deserts of the World 18:17 325 (74) Geology 15:48 329 (75) The Ocean Floor 15:57 333 (76) Marine Life 14:49 337 (77) Currents and Tides 17:25 341 (78) Marco Polo 16:33 345 (79) Christopher Columbus 16:40 349 (80) Pedro Alvarez Cabral 13:40 353 (81) Vasco da Gama 15:45 357 (82) Neil Armstrong 14:22 361 (83) Exploring with Alice 14:40 365 (84) Rene Magritte 17:59 369 (85) Salvador Dali 18:21 Unit 6: Coming of Age 373 (86) The Stock Market Crash of 1929 16:39 377 (87) The Great Depression 14:52 381 (88) The Dust Bowl 17:13 385 (89) Franklin D. Roosevelt Part 1 15:21 389 (90) Franklin D. Roosevelt Part 2 15:26 393 (91) Eleanor Roosevelt 16:34 397 (92) Turning a Hobby into a Career 15:13 401 (93) Conducting Effective Interviews 13:37 405 (94) How Taxes Work 15:15 409 (95) Money 12:22 Unit 7: Careers in Science 413 (96) Bob Alderink, Lab Coordinator 16:03 415 (97) Liz Baird, Director of Education 15:36 417 (98) Dr. Colin Brammer, Entomologist 15:34 419 (99) Dr. Paul Brinkman, Paleontologist 16:53 4
421 (100) Dr. Jason Cryan, Entomologist 16:04 423 (101) Dr. Dan Dombrowski, Veterinarian 16:14 425 (102) Chris Goforth, Citizen Science 16:17 427 (103) Ben Hess, Collections Manager 15:59 429 (104) Dr. Julie Horvath, Evolutionary Genomicist 16:11 431 (105) Dr. Roland Kays, Zoologist 16:29 433 (106) Dr. Emlyn Koster, Geologist 16:13 435 (107) Dr. Stephanie Schuttler, Mammologist 15:19 437 (108) Dr. Julia Stevens, Microbial Ecologist 15:41 439 (109) Dr. Chris Tacker, Geologist 16:42 441 (110) Dr. Patrick Treuthardt, Physicist 16:33 443 (111) Dr. Julie Urban, Evolutionary Biologist 15:47 Appendix 445 447 Teacher s Frequently Asked Questions 451 What is the Science Behind Walk, Listen & Learn? 453 Introductory Letter to Parents 455 Sample Permission Slip 457 The Walking Classroom Photo Release 459 Introductory Survey 461 End of Year Survey 463 Annotated Lesson Plan Sample 467 Podcast Checklist 471 Podcasts, Health Messages, & Common Core Standards 5