Standards

Language Arts 

Standard 1
Oral Language-Students develop language for the purpose of effectively communicating through listening, speaking, viewing, and presenting.

 Objective 1
Develop language through listening and speaking.

  1. Speak clearly and audibly with expression in communicating ideas (i.e., effective rate, volume, pitch, tone, phrasing, tempo).
  2. Speak using simple and compound sentences with appropriate subject-verb agreement and verb tense.

 Objective 2
Develop language through viewing media and presenting
 
  1. Use a variety of formats in presenting with various forms of media (e.g., pictures, posters, charts, ads, newspapers, graphs, videos, slide shows).

Science

Standard 1
Students will understand that water changes state as it moves through the water cycle.
 

Objective 1

 Describe the relationship between heat energy, evaporation and condensation of water on Earth

Objective 2

  Describe the water cycle.

  1. Locate examples of evaporation and condensation in the water cycle (e.g., water evaporates when heated and clouds or dew forms when vapor is cooled).
  2. Describe the processes of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation as they relate to the water cycle.
  3. Identify locations that hold water as it passes through the water cycle (e.g., oceans, atmosphere, fresh surface water, snow, ice, and ground water).
  4. Construct a model or diagram to show how water continuously moves through the water cycle over time.
  5. Describe how the water cycle relates to the water supply in your community.