Elementary Library

Kindergarten

Grade 1

Grade 2

Big Question (display)

What do living things need to survive?

How are baby animals the same or different from their parents?

How are living things in a habitat the same or different?

Student Objectives

With support, students will: connect background knowledge with new knowledge, develop note-taking skills, use text features to find information, cite sources, and organize information into a final product.

Standard K.2.1 Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to describe patterns of what living things (plants and animals, including humans) need to survive. Emphasize the similarities and differences between the survival needs of all living things. Examples could include that plants depend on air, water, minerals, and light to survive, or animals depend on plants or other animals to survive. (LS1.C, LS2.B) Standard K.W.2: Use a combination of drawing and writing to compose informative/explanatory pieces and provide information about the topic. a. Write, produce, and expand a complete sentence. b. Use appropriate capitalization and end punctuation. Standard K.W.4: Participate in shared writing projects. a. Recall information from experiences or learned information. b. Interact and collaborate with others throughout the writing process.

Standard 1.2.3 Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the patterns of plants and nonhuman animals that are alike, but not exactly like, their parents. An example could include that most carrots are orange and shaped like a cone but may be different sizes or have differing tastes. (LS3.A, LS3.B)

Standard 2.2.1 Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about patterns of living things (plants and animals, including humans) in different habitats. Emphasize the diversity of living things in land and water habitats. Examples of

Science with Engineering

Education Standards

patterns in habitats could include descriptions of temperature or

precipitation and the types of plants and animals found in land habitats. (LS2.C, LS4.C, LS4.D)

Standard 1.W.2: Write informative/explanatory pieces that

Standard 2.W.2: Write informative/explanatory pieces that introduce a topic, supply facts and definitions to develop points, and provide

introduce a topic, supply facts about the topic, and provide a concluding statement. a. Write, produce, and expand complete simple sentences. b. Use appropriate conventions when writing. Standard 1.W.4: Participate in shared research and writing projects. a. Recall information from experiences or learned information. b. Interact and collaborate with others throughout the writing process.

a concluding statement. a. Write, produce, expand, and rearrange complete simple and compound sentences. b. Use appropriate conventions when writing.

English Language Arts Standards

Standard 2.W.4: Participate in shared research and writing projects on a topic. a. Recall and gather information from provided sources to answer a question about the topic. b. Interact and collaborate with others throughout the writing process.

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