Teacher/Student Learning Packet
Curriculum Focus
ELEMENTARY LEARNING GOALS
MATH:
- Develop and use strategies to solve problems, build models, conduct experiments, make lists, tables, and graphs to reason logically.
- Create and solve math problems from real life, relevant situations.
- Observe, compare, and order by measurable attributes, including temperature, linear, capacity, weight/mass, and volume.
- Estimate measurables to describe and compare real life situations.
SCIENCE:
- Explore the interactions of magnets.
- Explore rocks and minerals and their properties.
- Investigate the effects of natural forces on the earth's surface.
LANGUAGE ARTS:
- Summarize information from printed materials.
- Identify important details from presented materials.
- Organize ideas to show relationships.
- Ask questions to clarify and develop unclear ideas.
SOCIAL SCIENCES:
- Describe the functions of the federal government.
- Describe the factors of production.
- Explain how government provides public goods and services.
- Define earth as being made up of land and water.
- Relate important historic events in Nevada to the development of American History.
- Recognize famous explorers in Nevada's history.
THE ARTS:
- View memorials and monuments which artists have created to remember important people and events in the past.
- Examine architectural structures and their functions.
- Construct an architectural form applying the appropriate principles.
- Model with clay.
- Explore the music of other cultures.
COMPUTERS:
- Use a computer to collect data.
- Demonstrate the use of computer-based technologies as a tool.
MIDDLE SCHOOL LEARNING GOALS
MATH:
- Read appropriate standard measuring devices, such as century, decade, km., mi., L., kg., ton...
- Estimates measurements to describe and compare nonstandard appropriate units to real life situations.
- Design a strategy for collecting data to solve a problem.
- Analyze data from a chart.
SCIENCE:
- Apply the steps of the scientific method.
- Exhibit skills in observation through use of the senses and laboratory techniques.
- Use various library and professional resources to develop information on a given topic.
LANGUAGE ARTS:
- Interact verbally in informal situations.
- Identify important details from presented materials.
- Relate prior knowledge to new information.
- Classify information (people, places, things, ideas).
- Expand vocabulary.
- Demonstrate note-taking skills.
- Maintain a journal or log.
SOCIAL SCIENCE:
- Analyze the effects of climate on human populations and regions.
- Analyze the impact of the Great Depression on American society.
- Research the importance of federally developed projects in Nevada.
THE ARTS:
- Relate networks to proper historic and cultural context.
- Construct three-dimensional forms with paper, tagboard, and other assorted materials.
- Explore the music of many cultures including style, instruments, and traditions through listening.
COMPUTERS:
- React with multiple methods of communication, such as videos and computers.
- Employ computer skills acquired previously.
Last Reviewed: 9/16/2004