Life Science Standard: (standards taught in science specialist class are not listed here)
Living things are diverse with many characteristics that enable them to grow, reproduce and survive,
Compare how the different structures of plants and animals serve various functions of growth, survival, and reproduction. For example: Skeletons in animals and stems in plants provide strength and stability.
The Nature of Science and Engineering Standard:
Tools and mathematics help scientists and engineers see more, measure more accurately, and do things that they could not otherwise accomplish.
Use tools, including rulers, thermometers, magnifiers and simple balances, to improve observations and keep record of the observations made.
Civics and government:
The United states is based on democratic values and principles that include liberty, individual rights, justice, equality, the rule of law, limited government, common good, popular sovereignty, majority rule and minority rights.
Explain the importance of civic discourse (including speaking, listening, voting and respecting diverse viewpoints) and the principles of majority rule and minority rights.
The United States government has specific functions that are determined by the way that power is delegated and controlled among various bodies: the three levels (federal, state, local) and the three branches (legislative, executive, judicial) of government.
Identify the three branches of government (executive, legislative, and judicial) and their primary functions.
Economic
Personal and financial goals can be achieved by applying economic concepts and principles to personal financial planning, budgeting, spending, saving, investing, borrowing and insuring decisions.
Describe income as the money earned from selling resources and expenditures at the money used to buy goods and services.
Individuals, businesses and governments interact and exchange goods, services and resources in different ways and for different reasons; interactions between buyers and sellers in a market determines the price and quantity exchanged of a good, service.
explain that producing any good or service requires resources; describe the resources needed to produce a specific good or service; explain why it is not possible to produce an unlimited amount of a good or service.
Geography
People use geographic representations and geospatial technologies to acquire, process and report information within a spatial context.
Use maps and concepts of location (relative location words and cardinal and intermediate directions) to describe places in one's community, the state of Minnesota, the United States or the world.
History
Historical inquiry is a process in which multiple sources and different kinds of historical evidence are analyzed to draw conclusions about how and why things happened in the past.
Examine historical records, maps and artifacts to answer basic questions about times and events in history, both ancient and more recent.
Historical inquiry is a process in which multiple sources and different kinds of historical evidence are analyzed to draw conclusions abut how and how things happened in the past.
Compare and contrast two different accounts of an event.
History is made by individuals acting alone and collectively to address problems in their communities, state, nation and world.
Identify examples of individuals or groups who have had and impact on world history; explain how their actions helped shape the world around them.
The emergence of domestication and agriculture facilitated the development of complex societies and cause far-reading social and cultural effects (early Civilizations and the Emergence of Pastoral Peoples: 8000 BCE - 2000 BCE)
Explain how the environment influenced the settlement of ancient peoples in three different regions of the world. (Early Civilizations and the Emergence of Pastoral Peoples: 8000 BCE - 2000 BCE)
Hemispheric networks intensified as a result of innovations in agriculture, trade across longer distances, the consolidation of belief systems and the development of new multi-ethnic empires while diseases and climate change caused sharp, periodic fluctuations in global populations (Post-Classical and Medieval Civilizations and Expanding Zones of Exchange: 6--CE - 1450 CE)
Compare and contrast daily life for people living in ancient times in at least three different regions of the world (Post-Classical and Medieval Civilizations and Expanding Zones of Exchange: 600 CE - 1450 CE)