Schoolwide Enrichment Model (SEM)

MPE students are highly engaged in hands-on, project-based learning during our daily 50-minute Enrichment Block.  Students learn Science and Social Studies concepts through our Schoolwide Enrichment Model (SEM) in TAG and General Education classes daily.

The Schoolwide Enrichment Model was developed by renowned educational psychologist Dr. Joseph Renzulli (University of Connecticut). The SEM model infuses higher level thinking activities and more opportunities for creativity into every classroom. It focuses on enrichment for ALL students through high levels of engagement and the use of enjoyable and challenging learning experiences that are constructed around students’ interests, learning styles, and preferred modes of expression. Paired with Project-Based Learning (PBL), which involves real-word application to solve real-world problems, each Science and Social Studies unit draws student involvement, interest, and investment in learning. By combining the PBL and SEM strategies, student engagement and learning soars!

Kindergarten:

• All About Me
• Safe Choices
• My Community
• How to Be a Scientist
• Day & Night Sky
• Autumn
• Veteran’s Day
• Holidays
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Motion
• American Symbols
• Living/Nonliving Things, Rocks & Plants
• Animals

First Grade:
• Weather
• Plants & Animals
• Maps & Globes
• Historical Figures
• Economics
• Lights & Sound
• Magnets
• Nutrition

Second Grade:
• Life Cycles & Environmental Change
• Economics
• Matter & Motion
• Georgia’s American Indians
• Sun, Moon, & Stars

Third Grade:
• Georgia Habitats
• American Indians & European Explorers
• Heat
• U.S. Government
• Rocks, Soil, & Fossils
• Pollution
• Colonization

Fourth Grade:
• Light & Sound
• Force & Motion
• American Revolution
• U.S. Constitution
• Solar System
• Water Cycle
• Weather
• Civil War & Reconstruction
• Westward Expansion
• Abolition & Suffrage

Fifth Grade:
• Constructive & Destructive Forces
• Electricity
• Magnetism
• Physical & Chemical Changes
• Heredity
• Classification
• Cells & Microorganisms
• Turn of the Century
• World War 1
• Great Depression
• World War 2
• Cold War-2001
• Mustang Market