| Grade/Theme |
America Strand |
World Strand |
Environment Strand |
|
Kindergarten
Discovery
x
x
Thinking Skill Emphasis: |
A Place For Me
•School/Self/Family
• Seasons
•Five Senses
•Citizenship
•Healthy Lifestyles
OBSERVING |
Antarctica
•Map Skills
•Cultures
•Seasons
•Animals
COMPARE/CONTRAST |
My Environment
•Weather/Seasons
•Animals
•Environment
SEQUENCING
|
First Grade
Communities, Cultures,
and Connections
Thinking Skill Emphasis: |
Communities
•School/Family/Neighborhood
•Citizenship
•Healthy Lifestyles
•Weather/Seasons
GOAL SETTING |
Australia
•Map Skills/
....Geography
•Plants/Animals
•Seasons/Weather
•Cultures
FINDING PATTERNS |
Desert Life
•Map Skills/Geography
•Plants
•Water
•Environment
PREDICTING |
Second Grade
Discovery, Challenge,
and Change
Thinking Skill Emphasis: |
Community Concepts
•Community
•Economics
•Plants/Animals
•Citizenship
MAIN IDEA |
Africa
•Map Skills
•Weather/Seasons
•Cultures
x
CLASSIFYING |
Changes
•Healthy Lifestyles
•Rocks
•Environment
FINDING EVIDENCE |
Third Grade
Systems, Cycles,
and Relationships
Thinking Skill Emphasis:
|
Early Americans
•Citizenship/Government
•Map Skills
•Earth, Sun, and Moon
•Early Americans
INFERRING |
South America
•Physical Features
•Maps/Regions/Cultures
•Living Things
•Heat and Light
•Economics
CAUSE/EFFECT |
Ecosystems
•Living / Nonliving Things
•Force and Motion
•Gravity
•Technology
•Environment
PROBLEM SOLVING |
Fourth Grade
Communities, Cultures, and Connections
Thinking Skill Emphasis: |
Utah
•Water Cycle/Weather
•Utah Geography
•History/Cultures
•Citizenship
POINT OF VIEW |
Asia
•Map Skills
•Environment
•Plants & Animals
•Economics
•Current Issues
EVALUATING |
Utah's Environment
•Rocks/Minerals/Fossils
•Soils
•Government
DECISION MAKING |
Fifth Grade
Discovery, Challenge,
and Change
Thinking Skill Emphasis:
|
American History
•Geology/Landforms
•Explorers/Colonists
•Electricity/Magnets
•Revolutionary War
•Government/Citizenship
FINDING EVIDENCE |
North America
•Governments/Cultures of U.S., Canada, Mexico
•War of 1812/Civil War
•Westward Expansion
•Matter
DETECTING BIAS |
Our Environment
•Heredity
•Natural Resources
•Regions of the U.S.
•Industrial Revolution
.....to Present
FACT AND OPINION |
Sixth
Grade
Systems,
Cycles,
and Relationships
Thinking
Skill Emphasis:
|
Ancient
Civilizations
•Citizenship
•Geography
•Ancient Civilizations
•Influence
on America
•Astronomy/Space
SUMMARIZE |
Europe
•Geography
•Middle Ages
•Renaissance
•Microorganisms
ANALYSIS
|
Global
Environments
•Heat/Light/Sound
•Industrial
Revolution
•War in Europe
•Map Analysis
of Europe
•Current Issues
SYNTHESIS |
| LIFE
SKILLS
(Utah State
Board of Ed.)
INTERCONNECTIONS
2007-08
|
Collaborative
Workers
Responsible Citizens |
Effective
Communicators
Complex Thinkers |
Lifelong
Learners
Employable Citizens |