Targeted Content Standards and Benchmarks
Communication and Writing: K-3
- Demonstrate ethical use of resources and materials (that is, copyright, citations of sources)
- Analyze and evaluate information and ideas presented in written, oral, visual, and multimedia communications
- Use a variety of written forms (journals, essays, short stories, poems, research papers) to express ideas appropriate to audience and purpose
- Reflect upon and evaluate own writing
Math:
- Read and interpret various scales (graphs)
- Read, construct, and interpret displays of data (charts, tables, graphs) using appropriate techniques and technologies
- Analyze data to determine strengths of relationships between sets, draw conclusions, and make predictions
Science:
- As stated in the FOSS Trees teacher's guide, students "gain early experiences that will contribute to their understanding of several pervasive themes that relate one scientific idea to another: Structure, Change and Interaction"
Student Objectives
Students will be able to:
- Identify the seasons—names, differences, and changes
- Compare and contrast the seasons from data gathered through measurement and observation
- Synthesize information gathered in seasonal books, newsletters, and presentations
- Begin to understand the planetary causes of seasonal changes, and compare seasons in another part of the world
- Use spreadsheet skills to enter text in a cell, duplicate and move pictures, gather and enter data, make a chart, and compare charts
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