Curriculum Standards
Grade Level Three
Standards
Physical Sciences
1.0 Energy and matter have multiple forms and can be changed from one form to another. As a basis for understanding this concept:
- 1e. Students know matter has three forms: solid, liquid, and gas
- 1f. Students evaporation and melting are changes that occur when the objects are heated.
Life Sciences
3.0 Adaptations in physical structure or behavior may improve an organism’s chance for survival. As a basis for understanding this concept:
- 3b. Students know examples of diverse life forms in different environments, such as oceans, deserts, tundra, forests, grasslands, and wetlands.
- Standards Correlation: Glass Case w/ Plants and Animals, Folsom Lake Fish, Mural
- 3c. Students know living things cause changes in the environment in which they live: some of these changes are detrimental to the organism or other organisms, and some are beneficial.
- Standards Correlation: Folsom Dam, Mural, Water Usage display
- 3d. Students know when the environment changes, some plants and animals survive and reproduce; others die or move to new locations
- Standards Correlation: American River Canyon, Mural, Sand table
History - Social Science - “Continuity and Change”
- 3.1 Students describe the physical and human geography and use maps, tables, graphs, photographs, and charts to organize information about people, places, and environments in a spatial context.
- 3.1.1 Identify geographical features in their local region (e.g., deserts, mountains, valleys, hills, coastal areas, oceans, lakes)
- Standards Correlation: Relief map
- 3.1.2 Trace the ways in which people have used the resources of the local region and modified the physical environment (e.g., a dam constructed upstream changed the river or coastline
- Standards Correlation: American River Canyon, Sand Table
- 3.1.1 Identify geographical features in their local region (e.g., deserts, mountains, valleys, hills, coastal areas, oceans, lakes)
- 3.2 Students describe the American Indian nations in their local region long ago and in the recent past.
- Standards Correlation: American River Canyon
- 3.2.2 Discuss the ways in which physical geography, including climate, influenced how the local Indian nations adapted to their natural environment (e.g., how they obtained food, clothing, tools)
- Standards Correlation: American River Canyon
- 3.2.4 Discuss the interaction of new settlers with the already established Indians of the region.
- Standards Correlation: American River Canyon
- 3.5 Students demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills and an understanding of the economy of the local region.
- 3.5.1 Describe the ways in which local producers have used and are using natural resources, human resources, and capital resources to produce goods and services in the past and present.
- Standards Correlation: American River Canyon, Powerhouse and Dam Model, Sand table, Kitchen, Water Usage display
- 3.5.1 Describe the ways in which local producers have used and are using natural resources, human resources, and capital resources to produce goods and services in the past and present.
Language Arts
1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies – Students listen critically and respond appropriately to oral communication. They speak in a manner that guides the listener to understand important ideas by using proper phrasing, pitch, and modulation
- Comprehension
- 1.1 Retell, paraphrase, and explain what the speaker has said.
- 1.2 Connect and relate prior experiences, insights, and ideas to those of a speaker.
- 1.3 Respond to questions with appropriate elaboration
