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| Date: 10/15/2002 |
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| Title: Pencil Points |
| Discipline: Science, Language Arts, Mathematics |
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The main lesson addresses these academic content standards:
DCCS 3
Scientific, Technological and Economic Change, Content Standard 3: Students recognize scientific, technological and economic changes and understand how they have affected societies, culture, and politics throughout history. Grade 3: The student defines basic needs, wants, resources and sharing; creates narratives and stories that describe individuals' search for the necessities of life. By the end of Grade 3, the student will give examples that show how scarcity and choice govern our economic decisions; explain how needs and wants dictate supply and demand. By the end of Grade 5, the student will describe how limited resources necessitate choice.
Reading/English Language Arts
Language for Research and Inquiry, Content Standard 3: Students use language and symbol systems (e.g., timelines, maps, graphs, and charts) to define problems and organize information. Grade 4: The student uses current events and periodicals as sources for expository writing. Students make connections between written text and life experiences.
DCCS1
Scientific Inquiry, Content Standard 1: Understand and develop abilities to do scientific inquiry by asking questions based on current knowledge, performing investigations and devising logical explanations. By the end of grade 5, the student will conduct investigations to know that scientific investigations may take many different forms, including observing what things are like or what is happening somewhere, collecting specimens for analysis, and doing experiments.
MD3.0, 3.5.7, 3.8.7
Writing (3.0): Students produce informational, practical, persuasive and narrative writing that demonstrates an awareness of audience, prupose and form. Persuasive Writing: By the end of grade 5, students write to persuade an intended audience by selecting an appropriate form that (3.5.7):
*establishes a clear position in support of a proposition or proposal,
*supports the position with organized and relevant evidence.
By the end of grade 8, students support arguments with detailed evidence, examples, and reasoning, differentiating between evidence and opinion (3.8.7)
Practical Writing: By the end of grade 5, students write letters (friendly and formal).
MD4.0
Students will use geographic concepts and processes to examine the role of culture, technology and the environment in the location and distribution of human activities and spatial connections throughout time.
VA3.8, 7.8
Writing, Grade 3: 3.8 The student will write stories, letters, simple explanations and short reports across all content areas.
Writing, Grade 7:7.8 The student will develop narrative, expository, persuasive, and technical writings
*Elaborate the central idea in an organized manner,
*Choose vocabulary and information that will cause a reader to perceive images and tone.
VA6.1
Scientific Investigation, Reasoning, and Logic, Grade 6:6.1 The student will plan and conduct investigations in which:
*observations are made involving fine discrimination between similar objects,
*differences in descriptions and working definitions are made,
*one variable in manipulated over time with many repeated trials.
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