Nevada Content Standards for Elementary Education

Wildlife Adventures is designed for grades K-5. The lesson plan units follow Nevada Content Standards for Elementary Education.
English / Language Arts / Reading	1.0 Students know and use word analysis skills and strategies to comprehend new words encountered in text.
	2.0 Students use reading process skills and strategies to build comprehension.
	3.0 Students read to comprehend, interpret, and evaluate literature from a variety of authors, cultures, and times.
	4.0 Students read to comprehend, interpret, and evaluate informational texts for specific purpose.
	5.0 Students write a variety of texts that inform, persuade, describe, evaluate, or tell a story and are appropriate to purpose and audience.
	6.0 Students write with a clear focus and logical development, evaluating, revising, and editing for organization, style, tone, and word choice.
	7.0 Students write using standard English grammar, usage, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.
	8.0 Students listen to and evaluate oral communication for content, style, speaker's purpose, and audience appropriateness.
	9.0 Students speak using organization, style, tone, voice, and media aids appropriate to audience and purpose.
	10.0 Students participate in discussions to offer information, clarify ideas, and support a position.
	11.0 Students formulate research questions, use a variety of sources to obtain information, weigh the evidence, draw valid conclusions, and present findings.
Mathematics	1.0 To solve problems, communicate, reason, and make connections within and beyond the field of mathematics, students will use various algebraic methods to analyze, illustrate, extend, and create numerous representations (word, numbers, tables, and graphs) of patterns, functions, and algebraic relations as modeled in practical situations.
	2.0 To solve problems, communicate, reason, and make connections within and beyond the field of mathematics, students will use appropriate tools and techniques of measurement to determine, estimate, record, and verify direct and indirect measurements.
	5.0 To solve problems, communicate, reason, and make connections within and beyond the field of mathematics, students will collect, organize, display, interpret, and analyze data to determine statistical relationships, and probability projections.
	7.0 Students will develop the ability to communicate mathematically by solving problems in which there's is a need to obtain information from the real world through reading, listening, and observing in order to; translate this information into a mathematical language and symbols; process this information mathematically; and present results in written, oral, and visual formats.
Science	6.0 Structure and function- Students understand that all life forms, at all levels of organization use specialized structures and similar processes to meet life's needs.
	7.0 Internal and External Influences on Organisms- Students understand that organisms respond to internal and external influences.
	8.0 Heredity and Diversity- Students understand that life forms are diverse and that they pass some characteristics to their offspring.
	9.0 Evolution- The process of Biological Change- Students understand that life forms change over times.
	15.0 Ecosystems- Students demonstrate an understanding that ecosystems display patterns of organization, change, and stability because of the interactions and independencies among the life forms and the physical components of the Earth.
	16.0 Natural Resources- Students demonstrate and understand that natural resources include renewable and non-renewable materials and energy. All organisms, including human, use resources to maintain and improve their existence, and the use of resources can have positive and negative consequences.
	17.0 Conservation- Students understand that humans have the unique ability to change personal and societal behavior based on ethical considerations regarding other organisms, the planet as a whole, and future generations.
	21.0 Scientific Values and Attitudes- Students understand that science is an active process of systematically examining that natural world.
	22.0 Communication Skills- Students understand that a variety of communication methods can be used to share scientific information.
Social Studies
Geography	2.0 Places and Regions- Students understand that physical and human features and cultural characteristics of places and use this information to define and study regions and their patterns of change.
	3.0 Physical Systems- Students understand how physical processes shape Earth's surface patterns and ecosystems.
	5.0 Environment and Society- Students understand that effects of interactions between human and physical systems and the changes in use, distribution, and importance of resources.
Visual Arts	1.0 Observe and interpret the world of nature and of man-made environments; learn from visual images which communicate social conscience.
	2.0 Demonstrate knowledge and skills to create works of visual art using problem solving, observing, designing, sketching, and constructing.
Technology	1.0 Students utilize problem-solving processes through the use of resources to reach a desired outcome.
	2.0 Students use various technology tools to research information and evaluate their accuracy and appropriateness involving problems and making decisions.

 

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