Science and Social Studies Indicators 

All About Me:

Citizenship Rights an Responsibilities

1. I can model and tell how to work in a group and why it is important to work together, be polite, and respect others in your group.

2. I can show how to follow the rules in a school setting.

3. I can be a good citizen by:

a. Being honest;

b. Being confident;

c. Respecting the rights of others;

d. Never giving up;

e. Showing a love of my country.

Government

4. I can explain why we have rules where people work.

5. I can predict the consequences of following or not following rules in different places.

Health: Conflict Management: Injury Prevention and Control

Identify and list positive attributes about self and others and ways to nurture these positive feelings.

1.  Specify various healthy ways to deal with negative feelings and difficult situations.

Social Studies Skills and Methods:

6. Use problem-solving/decision-making skills to identify a problem and gather information while working independently and in groups.

Communities: Read Little House

History

6. I can identify and describe how science and technology have changed:

a. Communication in our daily lives from past to present;

b. Transportation of our daily lives from the past to present

Geography

5. I can compare how land is used in urban, suburban, and rural areas.

6. I can tell how people have used and changed the land by building roads and clearing land for buildings.

Economics 

2. I can explain how people are both buyers and sellers of goods and services.

3. I can understand that most people work in jobs in which they produce goods or services.

4. I can explain why people in different parts of the world earn a living in different ways.

Government

4. I can explain why we have rules where people work. 

5. I can predict the consequences of following or not following rules in different places.

Weather/Water Cycle

Life Science 

 Read Apple Tree in Seasons or Arnold's Apple Tree

 9. I can compare Ohio plants during different seasons and describe how their looks change

Earth and Space Sciences

4. I can describe how seasons repeat in a pattern or cycle, but the weather can change

throughout the day.

 5. I can tell about the weather by measuring the temperature and reporting precipitation.

Scientific Inquiry

1. I can ask “How can I?” or “How can we?” questions.

2.I can ask "how do you know" questions not why in appropriate situations and attempt to give reasonable answers.

3. I can explore and investigate my own or my classmates’ “How?” questions.

4. I can follow the correct safety rules when I’m doing an investigation.

5. I can use evidence to answer questions like “What do you think?” or “How do you know?”

 6. I can recognize that answers are given from observations, events, and phenomena.

7. I can use the correct tools and instruments, or equipment, to safely gather scientific

information.

8. I can use tools like a ruler, balance, or thermometer to measure properties of objects.

9. I can use whole numbers to order, count, identify, measure, and describe things and

experiences.

Fire Safety

Injury Prevention and Control

Describe and demonstrate appropriate actions during emergency weather or personal situations.

2.  Discuss and describe what to do during fire or weather emergencies if they are at home.

Columbus:

Time Line: History

3. I can place events in the correct order on a time line.

7.I can tell how some individuals have made a difference in other’s lives:

b. Explorers, inventors, and scientists. (Like: Thomas Edison, Neil Armstrong, and others)

Sound

Physical Science

1. I can explore how things make sounds.

2. I can explore and describe the different sounds made by vibrating objects.

Communication:

1. I can listen attentively, making eye contact with the speaker and asking questions about the material.

4. I can follow two and three-step oral directions.

6. I can speak clearly using the correct tone and language.

7. I can adjust volume to stress important ideas.

8. I can deliver informational presentations that:

a. Present events in logical sequence and maintain a clear focus;

b. Demonstrate an understanding of the topic;

c. Include important facts and details to develop a topic;

Sound and Bats

Life Science

1. I can describe the basic needs (air, water, food, living space, and shelter) that all living things need.

2. I can explain there are different environments with their own plants and animals.

3. I can explain that living things live only in environments that have what they need.

4. I can tell how living things can be alike and different.

5. I can tell why all living things need food in order to have energy.

6. I can explain the different structures of plants and animals that help them live in different

places.

7. I can compare the habitats of many different kinds of Ohio plants and animals and tell some of the ways animals depend on plants and each other.

8. I can compare the activities of Ohio’s animals and plants during the different seasons by telling about changes in their body coverings.

Scientific Inquiry

9. I can use whole numbers to order, count, identify, measure, and describe things and

experiences. (measure bat spans)

Science and Technology

3. I can predict how building or trying something new might affect other people and the

environment. (how insecticide harms bats)

Voting/Government (Age Limit on Trick or Treat)?

Government 

1. I can identify leaders such as the mayor, governor, and president and explain that people elect them. 

2. I can tell why a government is necessary to make and enforce laws, give leadership, give

services, handle disputes, and give order to groups such as schools and communities.

Citizen Rights and Responsibilities

3. I can be a good citizen by:

e. Showing a love of my country.

Veterans Day

Citizen Rights and Responsibilities

3e.  I can be a good citizen by showing a love of my country.

Book Study:  Twas the Night before Thanksgiving

Reading Application:Persuasive Text

2. I can put events from information text in correct order.

Reading Application Literary Text

2. I can describe characters and setting.

Reading Process

2.  I can predict content, events and outcomes from illustrations, clues in the text, or background knowledge.

Pioneers/Pilgrims

History

4. I can use things from the past to answer questions about how people used to live.

5. I can identify the jobs that people did in the past and compare/contrast those jobs to present jobs.

6. I can identify and describe how science and technology have changed

 a. Communication in our daily lives from past to present;

 b. Transportation of our daily lives from the past to present.

Thanksgiving Stories:

Reading Process 

3.  I can compare and contrast information in texts.

Reading Application: Informational, Technical, persuasive text

3. I can list who, what, when, where, if and how questions from informational text, and answer them.

4. I can find the main ideas and the supporting ideas in informational text.

Map Skills:

Geography

1.  I can read and describe a variety of maps.

2. I can make a map with a title and map key that explains all symbols that are used.

Holidays Around the World

People in Societies

1. I can describe the cultural practices and products of people on different continents.

2. I can tell how language, stories, folktales, music, and art are ways in which people from other cultures express themselves.

Forest Animals

Life Science

1. I can describe the basic needs (air, water, food, living space, and shelter) that all living things need.

2. I can explain there are different environments with their own plants and animals.

3. I can explain that living things live only in environments that have what they need.

4. I can tell how living things can be alike and different.

5. I can tell why all living things need food in order to have energy.

6. I can explain the different structures of plants and animals that help them live in different

places.

7. I can compare the habitats of many different kinds of Ohio plants and animals and tell some of the ways animals depend on plants and each other.

8. I can compare the activities of Ohio’s animals and plants during the different seasons by telling about changes in their body coverings.

Scientific Inquiry(ladybugs)

1. I can ask “How can I?” or “How can we?” questions.

2.Ask how do you know questions not why.

3. I can explore and investigate my own or my classmates’ “How?” questions.

4. I can follow the correct safety rules when I’m doing an investigation.

5. I can use evidence to answer questions like “What do you think?” or “How do you know?”

6. I can recognize that answers are given from observations, events, and phenomena.

7. I can use the correct tools and instruments, or equipment, to safely gather scientific

information.

8. I can use tools like a ruler, balance, or thermometer to measure properties of objects.

9. I can use whole numbers to order, count, identify, measure, and describe things and

experiences.

10. I can share reasons (explanations) with others, and give them a chance to ask questions and share other possible reasons.

Martin L. King

History

TimeLine 3. I can place events in the correct order on a time line.

7a.  Social and political leaders in the U.S.; (Like George Washington, Martin Luther King, Jr.,)

Snow/Weather

Earth Science 

4. I can describe how seasons repeat in a pattern or cycle, but the weather can change

throughout the day.

5. I can tell about the weather by measuring the temperature and reporting precipitation.

Read two versions of The Mitten:

Reading Applications: Literary Text

1.  Compare and contrast different versions of the same story.

Scientific Inquiry

7. I can use the correct tools and instruments, or equipment, to safely gather scientific

information.

8. I can use tools like a ruler, balance, or thermometer to measure properties of objects.

9. I can use whole numbers to order, count, identify, measure, and describe things and

experiences.

10. I can share reasons (explanations) with others, and give them a chance to ask questions and share other possible reasons.

Harriet Tubman

History

7. I can tell how some individuals have made a difference in other’s lives:

 a. Social and political leaders in the U.S.; (Like George Washington, Martin Luther King, Jr.,

and others)

Inventors

Use Treasures Unit 6-4

People in Societies

4. I can describe the roles that important people like artists, inventors, scientists, architects,

explorers, and political leaders have played in the cultural heritage of the U.S.

Economics (George W. Carver)

1. I can explain how resources can be used in different ways.

Science/Tech

1. I can explain how making and using technology involves good and bad risks.

2. I can look at why people make new products or invent new ways to meet their needs or wants.

4. I can explain using words, pictures, and writing how to design something new

Body Systems

Growth and Development

1.  Identify the major internal organs (heart, lungs, stomach, brain, kidneys, intestines)

2.  Describe the functions of the organs.

3.  Discuss career options.

Communication

1. I can listen attentively, making eye contact with the speaker and asking questions about the material.

3. I can tell the main idea of someone’s oral presentation and visual media (e.g., movies, films, TV. etc.).

6. I can speak clearly using the correct tone and language.

7. I can adjust volume to stress important ideas.

8. I can deliver informational presentations that:

a. Present events in logical sequence and maintain a clear focus;

b. Demonstrate an understanding of the topic;

c. Include important facts and details to develop a topic;

d. Include a clear beginning and ending;

e. Include diagrams, charts or illustrations as appropriate; and

f. Identify sources.

Research 

1. I can create questions for investigations, assigned topic or person area of interest.

2. I can use searching tools to collect information from a variety of locations (e.g., classroom,

school library, and public library or community resources).

3. I can get information, with the teacher’s help, from more than one resource (e.g., books,

magazines, videotapes, CD-ROMS, websites) and collect data (e.g., interviews, experiments,

observations or surveys) about the topic.

4. I can identify important information and write brief notes about the information.

5. I can sort important information about the topic into categories with teacher’s assistance.

6. I can report important findings to others.

Author Study:  Dr. Seuss

Reading Process

9. I can use criteria to choose independent reading materials.

10. I can read books independently for different reasons.

Monuments and Landmarks

Government

3. I can explain the importance of Washington’s Monument, Jefferson Memorial, and the Lincoln

Memorial and why we have each landmark.

Citizen Rights/Responsibilities 

3.  I can be a good citizen by 

e. Showing a love of my country.

Science and Technology

3. I can predict how building or trying something new might affect other people and the

environment.

Nutrition

a.  Plan a meal which demonstrates  range of healthy items from groups in the food guide pyramid.

b.  Recognize and interpret food labels to make healthy decisions about eating.

1. Locate ingredients on food labels.

2. State why the order of ingredients is important o a food label.

3. Categorize foods according to their place on the food pyramid.

4.  Identify nutritious snacks and junk food.

5. Identify cmmon nutrients among foods found in each group on the food guide pyramid.

6.Discuss career options.

Light/Shadows

Phyical Science

3. I can use a flashlight to show how light travels in a straight line until it hits an object

Scientific Ways of Knowing (measure shadows)

1. I can ask “How can I?” or “How can we?” questions.

2. Explain why scientists review and ask questions about the results of other scientists' work.

3. I can explore and investigate my own or my classmates’ “How?” questions.

4. I can follow the correct safety rules when I’m doing an investigation.

5. I can use evidence to answer questions like “What do you think?” or “How do you know?”

6. I can recognize that answers are given from observations, events, and phenomena.

7. I can use the correct tools and instruments, or equipment, to safely gather scientific

information.

8. I can use tools like a ruler, balance, or thermometer to measure properties of objects.

Continents/Oceans

Geography

3.  I can name and find the continents and oceans

Economics

5. I can tell how money is used to buy goods and services and how different countries use different forms of money. Read Round and Round the Money Goes.

Landforms

Economics

4. I can explain why people in different parts of the world earn a living in different ways.

Geography 

4. I can find and name landforms (plateaus, islands, hills, mountains, valleys) and bodies of water (creeks, ponds, lakes, oceans) in photographs, maps, and 3-D models.

Scientific Ways

3. I can predict how building or trying something new might affect other people and the

environment.

Forest Plants (Radish Seeds)

Life Science

1. I can describe the basic needs (air, water, food, living space, and shelter) that all living things

need.

2. I can explain there are different environments with their own plants and animals.

3. I can explain that living things live only in environments that have what they need.

4. I can tell how living things can be alike and different.

5. I can tell why all living things need food in order to have energy.

6. I can explain the different structures of plants and animals that help them live in different

places.

7. I can compare the habitats of many different kinds of Ohio plants and animals and tell some of

the ways animals depend on plants and each other.

8. I can compare the activities of Ohio’s animals and plants during the different seasons by telling about changes in their body coverings.

Scientific Inquiry

9. I can use whole numbers to order, count, identify, measure, and describe things and

experiences.

10. I can share reasons (explanations) with others, and give them a chance to ask questions and

share other possible reasons.

Moon

Earth Science

2. I can watch and explain how the sun, moon, and stars all look like they move slowly across the sky.

3. I can watch and describe how the moon looks a little different every day but looks the same in about four weeks

Sun/Stars

Earth Science

1. I can tell that there are more stars in the sky than anyone can count.

2. I can watch and explain how the sun, moon, and stars all look like they move slowly across the sky.

Ponds

Life Science

1. I can describe the basic needs (air, water, food, living space, and shelter) that all living things need.

2. I can explain there are different environments with their own plants and animals.

3. I can explain that living things live only in environments that have what they need.

4. I can tell how living things can be alike and different.

5. I can tell why all living things need food in order to have energy.

6. I can explain the different structures of plants and animals that help them live in different

places.

7. I can compare the habitats of many different kinds of Ohio plants and animals and tell some of the ways animals depend on plants and each other.

8. I can compare the activities of Ohio’s animals and plants during the different seasons by telling about changes in their body coverings.

Summer Safety

Injury Prevention

Seek assistance in dangerous situations.

1.  Demonstrate age appropriate actions to prevent and get help for common accidents that may occur at home or school. (stairs, poison, bicycle, game or sports, roller blades, skateboards, scooters and water safety).

2.  Discuss career options.