Indiana Content Area Standards

• Health and Nutrition: Healthy Behaviors

  The acquisition of basic health concepts and functional health knowledge provides a foundation for the promotion of health-enhancing behaviors and risk reduction among youth. This standard focuses on essential concepts that are based on established health behavior theories and models. Students apply knowledge of personal responsibility for health promotion and/or risk reduction. Students also describe the interrelationships of emotional, physical, social, and intellectual health and how they can be impacted by their surroundings.

  • K-2.1.1: Identify that healthy behaviors affect personal health.

• English Language Arts : Communication and Collaboration

  Learning Outcome: Students actively listen and participate in discussions using details and answering questions.

  • 1.CC.1 : Participate in collaborative conversations about grade-appropriate topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
  • 2.CC.1: Participate in collaborative conversations about grade-appropriate topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
  • K.CC.1: Participate in collaborative conversations about grade-appropriate topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.

• English Language Arts: Writing

  Learning Outcome: Students produce writing for a variety of purposes applying their knowledge of language and sentence structure.

  • 1.W.4: Produce (when writing or speaking) narratives using precise words to describe characters and actions and temporal words to signal event order, with ideas organized into a beginning, middle, and ending.
  • 2.W.4: Write narratives that: a. Include a beginning; b. Use temporal words to signal event order (e.g., first of all); c. Provide details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings; and d. Provide a middle and an ending. (E)
  • K.W.4: Use words, pictures, and dictation to narrate a single event or simple story, arranging ideas in order.

• From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes

  • 1-LS1-1 : Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.

• Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics

  • 2-LS2-1 : Plan and conduct an investigation to determine if plants need sunlight and water to grow.

• Science: From Molecule to Organisms: Structures and Processes

  Use observations (firsthand or from media) to describe patterns in the natural world in order to answer scientific questions.

  • K-LS1-1: Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.