BCPS Curriculum Alignment

Essential Question for Enduring Understanding

The big question: How can clouds help us predict the weather?

Grade1 Science - Our Earth and Observing the Earth, Sky, and Weather

List applicable BCPS objective(s) and KSI(s) from AIM

Standard 4.0 Chemistry - Students will use scientific skills and processes to explain the composition, structure, and interactions of matter in order to support the predictability of structure and energy transformations. (Source : Maryland State Curriculum )

O-14 The student will perform a laboratory investigation to describe how clouds are formed.

KSI-A Use information from readings and/or investigations to identify the purpose of clouds.
KSI-B Use information from readings and/or investigations to identify the factors needed to create a cloud.
KSI-C Use information from readings and/or investigations to recognize that water is needed to create a cloud.

Maryland State Curriculum for
(MSDE)

Standard 1.0 Skills/Processes Indicator

A. Constructing Knowledge

1. Raise questions about the world around them and be willing to seek answers to some of them by making careful observations and trying things out. Objectives

• Describe what can be learned about things by just observing those things carefully and adding information by sometimes doing something to the things and noting what happens.
• Seek information through reading, observation, exploration, and investigations.

Standard 2.0 Earth/Space Science Indicator

E. Interactions of Hydrosphere and Atmosphere

2. Describe that some events in nature have repeating patterns.

• Observe and compare day-to-day weather changes.
• Observe, record, and compare weather changes from month to month.
• Compare temperatures and type and amount of precipitation across the months.
• Identify the impact of  weather changes on daily activities.
• Identify and describe patterns of weather conditions based on data collected.

• 1.0 – Technology Systems: Develop foundations in the understanding and uses of technology systems.
  
• 2.0 – Digital Citizenship: Practice ethical, legal, and responsible use of technology.
• 3.0 – Technology for Learning and Collaboration: Use a variety of technologies for learning and collaboration.
• 4.0 – Technology for Communication and Expression: Use technology to communicate information and express ideas using various media formats.
• 5.0 – Technology for Information Use and Management: Use technology to locate, evaluate, gather, and organize information and data.
• 6.0 – Technology for Problem-Solving and Decision-Making: Demonstrate ability to use technology and develop strategies to solve problems and make informed decisions.

College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Reading

Key Ideas and Details:
1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, or ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:
7. Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse formats and media, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.

Research to Build and Present Knowledge:
7. Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects based on focused questions, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.
8. Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism.
9. Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

Range of Writing:
10. Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.

National Educational Technology Standards for Students
(ISTE)

1. Creativity and Innovation: Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.
2. Communication and Collaboration: Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.
3. Research and Information Fluency: Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
4. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making: Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources.
5. Digital Citizenship: Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior.

Standards for the 21st-Century Learner
(AASL)

• 1.1.1 Follow an inquiry-based process in seeking knowledge in curricular subjects, and make the real-world connection for using this process in own life.
• 1.1.6 Read, view, and listen for information presented in any format (e.g. textual visual, media, digital) in order to make inferences and gather meaning.
• 2.1.1 Continue an inquiry-based research process by applying critical-thinking skills (analysis, synthesis, evaluation, organization) to information and knowledge in order to construct new understandings, draw conclusions, and create new knowledge.
• 2.1.2 Organize knowledge so that it is useful.
• 2.1.6 Use the writing process, media and visual literacy, and technology skills to create products that express new understandings.
• 3.1.1 Conclude an inquiry-based research process by sharing new understandings and reflecting on the learning.
• 3.1.6 Use information and technology ethically and responsibly.