Wheatland Trunk - standards
Wheatland
Kansas Curricular Standards Connections
The Wheatland traveling resource trunk correlates to the 2004 Kansas History and Government, Economics and Geography Standards, the 2005 Kansas Science Education Standards, and the 2003 Communication Arts Standards in the following ways:
K-2
- Life Science, Benchmark 1, Indicator 2 - Observes life cycles of different living things.
- Life Science, Benchmark 1, Indicator 4 - Examines the structures/parts of living things.
- Science as Inquiry, Benchmark 1, Indicator 5 - Describes an observation orally or pictorially.
Kindergarten
- History, Benchmark 1, Indicator 1 - Identifies and explains how tools and technology used in the home/school meet people's needs.
- History, Benchmark 3, Indicator 3 - Locates the state of Kansas using a map of the U.S.
- History, Benchmark 4, Indicator 1 - Places events in sequential order.
- History, Benchmark 4, Indicator 3 - Scans historic photographs to gain information.
- Literature, Benchmark 1 - Uses literary concepts to interpret and respond to text.
- Reading, Benchmark 4 - Comprehends a variety of text (narrative, expository, technical and persuasive).
First Grade
- Geography, Benchmark 5, Indicator 1 - Identifies ways in which people depend on the physical environment to meet needs and wants.
- History, Benchmark 2, Indicator 2 - Describes the different foods produced in Kansas over time.
- History, Benchmark 4, Indicator 3 - Ask questions, shares information, and discusses ideas about the past using resources such as maps, photographs, books and people.
- Literature, Benchmark 1 - Uses literary concepts to interpret and respond to text.
- Reading, Benchmark 4 - Comprehends a variety of text (narrative, expository, technical, and persuasive).
Second Grade
- Economics, Benchmark 1, Indicator 2 - Identifies producers and consumers.
- Geography, Benchmark 3, Indicator 1 - Describes how weather affects environment (e.g., deciding when crops are planted and harvested, lack of rainfall causes drought, early freeze kills plants).
- Geography, Benchmark 5, Indicator 5 - Describes how physical systems influence people and their activities.
- History, Benchmark 1, Indicator 3 - Identifies important innovations made in the past that influence today.
- Literature, Benchmark 1 - Uses literary concepts to interpret and respond to text.
- Reading, Benchmark 4 - Comprehends a variety of text (narrative, expository, technical, and persuasive).
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