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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.