Appendix on Implementing Arizona State and the Navajo Nation Standards
The students will learn that tuberculosis is a curable disease and that it is a social problem because it affects how people live, work, and survive in the hope of getting cured. The disease needs to be caught early and is more effective at the initial stage. The Arizona Department of Education states science standards in the life science portion, states, “Students develop an understanding of patterns and how genetic information is passed from generation to generation. They also develop an understanding of how genetic information and environmental features impact the survival of an organism.” In addition to these science standards, the Navajo Nation standards are implemented because native students need to know the importance of their culture and language within their learning.
Arizona state science standards:
5.L3U1.10 explains how changes in an environment can affect a population.
5.L4U3.11 explains how natural and human change habitat, and climate and impact populations.
In the classroom strategies of expert groups, process grids, and cooperative strip paragraphs will teach and explain more about how changes affected the native population.
5.L4U3.12 that inherited characteristics can be affected by behavior and/or environmental conditions.
In classroom strategies and in classroom activities, students learn about native tribes affected by traumatic changes in their environment. In classroom activities, students listen to and write their grandparents’ stories about diseases and sicknesses.
Arizona state math standards: Geometry
Graph Points on the Coordinate Plane to Solve Mathematical Problems as was as Problems in Real-World Context
5.G.A.1 Understand and describe a coordinate system as perpendicular number lines, called axes, that intersect at the origin (0,0). Identify a given point in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane using an ordered pair of numbers, called coordinates. Understand that the first number (x) indicates the distance traveled on the horizontal plane axis, and the second number (y) indicates the distance traveled on the vertical axis. The
5.G.A.2 Represent real-world and mathematical problems by graphing points in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane and interpret coordinate values of points in the context of the situation.
For both standards, students create a graphic chart of native tribes and the various illnesses, with a focus on tuberculosis. Navajo Nation standards:
The 4th to 6th Oral Diné Language Standards is used to sustain Navajo thinking and planning. Concept 1: Nisahakees (thinking) and Concept 2 Nahat’a (planning) and support Iisinists’aa’go Dine bizaad bik’i’diishtiih dooleel which means, I will listen to and understand the basic Dine language.)
PO 1. T’aa haida yali’go iiyisii bass ya’ati’igii yiisinists’aago baa nahashne’ dooleel. (I will listen to a speaker and restate the main points.)
PO 2. Iiyisii biniiye saad be yadaati’igii bika iisinists’aa’ dooleel. (I will listen and seek for specific information.)
PO 3. Hane’ bik’i’ diitanigii beesh’ii dooleel. (I will demonstrate my comprehension by acting and explaining what I learned.)
PO 3. Nilch’i al’aan anaa’nligii baa hane’ yiisinist’aa’go shil beehozin dooleel. (I will listen and retell stories related to elements of nature.) These standards help students know the value of their culture and language. Students simultaneously learn the academic content of scientific topics as their performance objectives, along with additional native traditional concepts that will support their understanding.
Students use their Navajo culture and language while completing their clan chart and when inputting information into their big book.
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