Summary of Skills

Unit 1: Changes on Planet Earth

Science, Social Studies, Language Arts

Language Arts

• Demonstrate a sense of story
• Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
• Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 1 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.
• Distinguish fantasy from reality
• Express ideas through writing and conversation
• Know and use various text features (e.g., headings, tables of contents, glossaries, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text.
• Listen responsively to text read aloud
• Listen when someone is reading aloud
• Present dramatic interpretations of ideas presented in text
• Read or attempt to read own dictated story
• Use naming words and action words
• Use new vocabulary in speech and writing
• Write most letters and some words

Math

• Collect and organize information
• Compare and order sets
• Count objects
• Model addition and subtraction problems
• Observe and record changes in size, mass, color, position, quantity, time, temperature, sound, and movement

Science

• Discuss how weather can force people to change their activities or daily living
• Explain how water can be a liquid or a solid and can be made to change back and forth from one form to the other
• Explain the importance of a push or pull to changing the motion of an object.
• Identify that heat causes change
• Identify types of precipitation
• Identify ways humans depend on their natural and constructed environment.
• Observe and describe changes in animals and plants
• Observe and record changes in size, mass, color, position, quantity, time, temperature, sound, and movement
• Observe animal behavior
• Recognize basic chemical and physical changes
• Recognize changes in the environment
• Recognize differences in the features of the day and night sky and apparent movement of objects across the sky as observed from Earth.
• Recognize how forces (pushes or pulls) affect the motion of an object.
• Recognize patterns of observable changes in the Moon's appearance from day to day.
• Recognize plants are living things that need energy and grow.
• Recognize that humans can change the natural environment.
• Recognize that magnets have poles that attract or repel each other.
• Recognize the features and patterns of the Earth/Moon/Sun system as observed from Earth.
• Report daily on weather changes (changes in wind and sky conditions)
• Summarize ways that humans protect their environment and/or improve conditions for the growth of the plants and animals that live there (e.g., reuse or recycle products to avoid littering).
• Understand that objects in the sky have patterns of movement.
• Understand that plants need to take in water, nutrients and light (to make their own food) for energy and growth.

Social Studies

• Identify locations (beside, on top, behind, underneath, etc.)
• Recognize changes in the environment

Unit 2: Characters Change

Science, Social Studies, Language Arts

Language Arts

• Capitalize dates and names of people.
• Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories.
• Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
• Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on age-appropriate reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.
• Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 1 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.
• Identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
• Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text.
• Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
• Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
• Understand cause and effect relationships.
• Use frequently occurring affixes as a clue to the meaning of a word.
• Use frequently occurring conjunctions (e.g., and, but, or, so, because).
• With guidance and support from adults, demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
• With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.

Unit 3: A First Look at History - Change Over Time

Science, Social Studies, Language Arts

Language Arts

• Activate prior knowledge before reading a text
• Connect information and events in text to own experience
• Connect new information to own experiences
• Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of texts
• Distinguish fantasy from reality
• Identify the sequence of events in a story
• Know and use various text features (e.g., headings, tables of contents, glossaries, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text.
• Predict the content of a story by analyzing the cover
• Read or attempt to read a dictated story
• Recognize concepts
• Use listening skills when being read to
• Use new vocabulary in speech and writing
• Use pictures to support written and spoken language
• Use words that name and words that tell action

Math

• Collect and organize information
• Compare and order numbers
• Order numbers
• Recognize concepts of calendar time
• Sequence numbers from smallest to largest
• Use tools to measure objects
• Use vocabulary related to time and chronology ("first," "before," "after," "next," and "last")

Science

• Collect and organize information
• Observe and record changes in size, mass, color, position, quantity, time, temperature, sound, and movement

Social Studies

• Evaluate how the lives of individuals and families of the past are different from what they are today
• Identify contributions of historical figures
• Observe and describe how individuals and families grow and change
• Observe and summarize changes within communities
• Place events in chronological order
• Recognize examples of change
• Recognize that history relates to people, events, and places of another time
• Use vocabulary related to time and chronology ("first," "before," "after," "next," and "last")