Appendix on Implementing Academic Standards
The following standards are from the Pennsylvania Department of Education. They address the subjects under the heading of ELA and Science and cover grades 3 and 4.
Due to the integration aspect of this unit, I have included a few of the standards from each subject area the classes will be touching on (ELA-Reading and Writing/Science).
- ELA: Reading informational Text
- ELA: Writing (Informative/Explanatory Content and Narrative Content)
- Technology and Publication/Conducting Research
- Physical Science, Chemistry and Physics (Describe the composition and structure of the universe and Earth’s place in it)
Students read, understand and respond to informational text-with an emphasis on comprehension, vocabulary acquisition, and making connections between texts with a focus on textual evidence.
Reading (key Ideas and Details, Main Idea, Text Analysis)
CC.1.2.3.A: Determine the main idea of as text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
CC.1.2.3.B: Ask and answer questions about the text and make inferences from the text to support responses.
CC.1.2.3.F: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in grade level text, distinguishing literal from non-literal meaning as well as shades of meaning among related words.
CC.1.2.3.G: Use information gained from text features to demonstrate understanding of a text.
Reading (Vocabulary Acquisition and Use)
CC.1.2.3.J: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational general academic and domain specific words and phrases including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships.
CC.1.2.3.K: determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade-level reading and content, choosing flexibility from a range of strategies and tools.
Students write for different purposes and audiences. Students write clear and focused text to convey a well-defined perspective and appropriate content.
CC.1.4.3.A: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
CC.1.4.3.C: Develop the topic with facts, definitions, details and illustrations as appropriate.
CC.1.4.3.M: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events.
CC.1.4.3.O: Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations.
CC.1.4.3.P: Organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally, using temporal words and phrases to signal event order, provide a sense of closure.
CC.1.4.3.Q: Choose words and phrases for effects.
CC.1.4.3.U: With guidance and support, use technology to produce and publish writing using keyboarding skills as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
CC.1.4.3.V: Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.
3.4.4.D: Identify planets in our solar system and their general characteristics. Describe the solar system motions and use them to explain time.
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