Grade Level One

Standards

Physical Sciences

1.0 Materials come in different forms (states), including solids, liquids, and gases. As a basis for understanding this concept:

  • 1a. Students know solids, liquids, and gases have different properties.
    • Standards Correlation: Relief Map

Life Sciences

2.0 Plants and animals meet their needs in different ways. As a basis for understanding this concept:

  • 2a. Students know the properties of substances can change when the substances are mixed, cooled, or heated.
    • Standards Correlation: Relief map
  • 2b. Students know both plants and animals need water, animals need food, and plants need light.
    • Standards Correlation: American River Canyon, Sand table, Mural, Kitchen
  • Students know roots are associated with the intake of water and soil nutrients and green leaves are associated with making food from sunlight.
    • Standards Correlation: American River Canyon

Earth Sciences

3.0 Weather can be observed, measured, and described. As a basis for understanding this concept:
  • 3b. Students know that the weather changes from day to day but that trends in temperature or of rain (or snow) tend to be predictable during a season.
    • Standards Correlation: Sand table

History – Social Science - “A Child's Place in Time and Space”

  • 1.2 Students compare and contrast the absolute and relative locations of places and people and describe the physical and/or human characteristics of places.
    • Standards Correlation: American River Canyon, Sand table
  • 1.2.2 Compare the information that can be derived from a three-dimensional model to the information that can be derived from a picture of the same location.
    • Standards Correlation: Dam model, Folsom Historic Powerhouse model
  • 1.2.4 Describe how location, weather, and physical environment affect the way people live, including the effects on their food, clothing, shelter, transportation, and recreation.
    • Standards Correlation: American River Canyon, Sand table

Language Arts

1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies – Students listen critically and respond appropriately to oral communication. They speak in a manner that guides the listener to understand important ideas by using proper phrasing, pitch, and modulation
  • Comprehension
    • 1.1 Listen attentively
    • 1.2 Ask questions for clarification and understanding
    • 1.3 Give, restate, and follow simple two-step directions
  • Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication
    • 1.4 Stay on topic when speaking
    • 1.5 Use descriptive words when speaking about people, places, things, and events.
Last Updated: 11/4/20