Conservation Quest Academic Standards

Conservation Quest Academic Standards

Kindergarten

Science-

K.1.1 Raise questions about the natural world.

Social Studies-

K.3.5 Describe and give examples of seasonal weather changes and illustrate how weather affects people and the environment.

K.3.7 Recommend ways that people can improve their environment at home, in school and in the neighborhood.

1st Grade

Science-

1.3.3 Investigate by observing and also measuring that the sun warms the land, air, and water.

1.4.4 Explain that most living things need water, food, and air.

Social Studies-

1.2.4 Describe ways that individual actions can contribute to the common good of the community.

1.3.9 Give examples of natural resources found locally and describe how people in the school and community use these resources.

1.4.4 Describe how people in the school and community are both producers* and

consumers.

2nd Grade

Science-

2.1.7 Recognize and describe ways that some materials — such as recycled paper, cans, and plastic jugs — can be used over again.

2.3.6 Discuss how people use electricity or burn fuels, such as wood, oil, coal, or natural gas, to cook their food and warm their houses.

2.4.3 Observe and explain that plants and animals both need to take in water, animals need to take in food, and plants need light.

2.4.5 Recognize and explain that materials in nature, such as grass, twigs, sticks, and leaves, can be recycled and used again, sometimes in different forms, such as in birds' nests.

2.5.3 Observe that and describe how changing one thing can cause changes in something else, such as exercise and its effect on heart rate.

2.5.5 Explain that some events can be predicted with certainty, such as sunrise and sunset, and some cannot, such as storms. Understand that people aren't always sure what will happen

since they do not know everything that might have an effect.

Social Studies-

2.4.1 Define the three types of productive resources and identify productive resources used to produce goods and services in the community.

3rd Grade

Science-

3.1.6 Give examples of how tools, such as automobiles, computers, and electric motors, have affected the way we live.

3.1.8 Describe how discarded products contribute to the problem of waste disposal and that recycling can help solve this problem.

3.2.5 Construct something used for performing a task out of paper, cardboard, wood, plastic, metal, or existing objects.

3.3.7 Identify and explain some effects human activities have on weather.

3.3.8 Investigate and describe how moving air and water can be used to run machines like windmills and waterwheels.

3.4.8 Explain that some things people take into their bodies from the environment can hurt them and give examples of such things.

Social Studies-

3.3.7 Describe how climate and the physical characteristics of a region affect the

vegetation and animal life living there.

3.3.10 Use a variety of information resources* to identify regional environmental issues and examine the ways that people have tried to solve these problems.

3.3.11 Identify and describe the relationship between human systems and physical systems and the impact they have on each other.

4th Grade

Science-

4.1.7 Discuss and give examples of how technology, such as computers and medicines, has improved the lives of many people, although the benefits are not equally available to all.

4.1.9 Explain how some products and materials are easier to recycle than others.

4.3.11 Investigate, observe, and explain that things that give off light often also give off heat.

4.3.13 Observe and describe the things that give off heat, such as people, animals, and the sun.

4.3.14 Explain that energy in fossil fuels comes from plants that grew long ago.

4.4.7 Describe that human beings have made tools and machines, such as x-rays, microscopes, and computers, to sense and do things that they could not otherwise sense or do at all, or as quickly, or as well.

5th Grade

Science-

5.1.5 Explain that technology extends the ability of people to make positive and/or negative changes in the world.

5.1.6 Explain how the solution to one problem, such as the use of pesticides in agriculture or the use of dumps for waste disposal, may create other problems.

5.4.5 Explain how changes in an organism's habitat are sometimes beneficial and sometimes harmful.