Kindergarten Correlation of Core Knowledge and Standards for Alaska Students

Working Draft, June 2001

Strand Core Knowledge Sequence Standards for Alaska Students

Language Arts

  1. Reading and Writing
  1. Book and Print Awareness
  2. Phonemic Awareness
  3. Decoding and Encoding
  4. Reading and Language Comprehension
  5. Writing and Spelling

See Alaska Reading Performance Standards E.B.1

See Alaska Reading Performance Standards E.B.1

See Alaska Reading Performance Standards E.B.1

See Alaska Reading Performance Standards:E.B.1,EC.2

A.  A student should be able to speak and write well for a variety of purposes and audiences.

A student who meets the content standard should:

  1. apply elements of effective writing and speaking; these elements include ideas, organization, vocabulary, sentence structure, and personal style;

See Alaska Writing Performance Standards: E.A.1, E.A.2 E.A.3, E.A.4, E.A.5

 

II.  Poetry

  1. Mother Goose and Other Traditional Poems
  2. Other Poems, Old and New

B.  A student should be a competent and thoughtful reader, listener, and viewer of literature, technical materials, and a variety of other information.

A student who meets the content standard should:

  1. comprehend meaning from written text and oral and visual information by applying a variety of reading, listening, and viewing strategies; these strategies include phonic, context, and vocabulary cues in reading, critical viewing, and active listening;

II.   Fiction

  1. Stories
  2. Aesop's Fables
  3. American Folk Heroes and Tall Tales
  4. Literary Terms

III.  Sayings and Phrases

E.  A student should understand and respect the perspectives of others in order to communicate effectively.

A student who meets the content standard should:

  1. use information, both oral and written, and literature of many types and cultures to understand self and others;
  2. evaluate content from the speaker’s or author’s perspective;

See Alaska Reading Performance Standards: E.B.2, E. B. 3, E.D. 1, E. E. 1

 

 

The following standards are more advanced than Kindergarten or can be incorporated anywhere:

A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, A8

B2, B3

C1, C2, C3, C4, C5

D1, D2, D3, D4

E3, E4

History and Geography

World

I.   Spatial Sense

Geography A.  A student should be able to make and use maps, globes, and graphs to gather, analyze, and report spatial (geographic) information.

A student who meets the content standard should:

  1. use maps and globes to locate places and regions;
  2. make maps, globes, and graphs;
  3. understand how and why maps are changing documents;
  4. use graphic tools and technologies to depict and interpret the world’s human and physical systems;
  5. evaluate the importance of the locations of human and physical features in interpreting geographic patterns; and
  6. use spatial (geographic) tools and technologies to analyze and develop explanations and solutions to geographic problems.
 

II.   Overview of the Seven Continents

American

I.   Geography

Geography B.  A student should be able to utilize, analyze, and explain information about the human and physical features of places and regions.

A student who meets the content standard should:

  1. know that places have distinctive geographic characteristics;
  2. analyze how places are formed, identified, named, and characterized;
  3. relate how people create similarities and differences among places;
  4. discuss how and why groups and individuals identify with places;
  5. describe and demonstrate how places and regions serve as cultural symbols, such as the Statue of Liberty;

Geography C.  A student should understand the dynamic and interactive natural forces that shape the earth’s environments.

A student who meets the content standard should:

  1. analyze the operation of the earth’s physical systems, including ecosystems, climate systems, erosion systems, the water cycle, and tectonics;
  2. distinguish the functions, forces, and dynamics of the physical processes that cause variations in natural regions; and
  3. recognize the concepts used in studying environments and recognize the diversity and productivity of different regional environments.

Geography A.  A student should be able to make and use maps, globes, and graphs to gather, analyze, and report spatial (geographic) information.

A student who meets the content standard should:

  1. use maps and globes to locate places and regions;
  2. make maps, globes, and graphs;
  3. understand how and why maps are changing documents;
  4. use graphic tools and technologies to depict and interpret the world’s human and physical systems;

II.   Native Americans

III.  Early Exploration and Settlement

  1. The Voyage of Columbus in 1492
  2. The Pilgrims
  3. July 4, "Independence Day"

IV.  Presidents, Past and Present

Geography F.  A student should be able to use geography to understand the world by interpreting the past, knowing the present, and preparing for the future.

A student who meets the content standard should:

  1. analyze and evaluate the impact of physical and human geographical factors on major historical events;
  2. compare, contrast, and predict how places and regions change with time;

Geography D.  A student should understand and be able to interpret spatial (geographic) characteristics of human systems, including migration, movement, interactions of cultures, economic activities, settlement patterns, and political units in the state, nation, and world.

A student who meets the content standard should:

  1. know that the need for people to exchange goods, services, and ideas creates population centers, cultural interaction, and transportation and communication links;
  2. explain how and why human networks, including networks for communications and for transportation of people and goods, are linked globally;
  3. interpret population characteristics and distributions;
  4. analyze how changes in technology, transportation, and communication impact social, cultural, economic, and political activity; and
  5. analyze how conflict and cooperation shape social, economic, and political use of space.

History A.  A student should understand that history is a record of human experiences that links the past to the present and the future.

A student who meets the content standard should:

  1. understand chronological frameworks for organizing historical thought and place significant ideas, institutions, people, and events within time sequences;
  2. know that the interpretation of history may change as new evidence is discovered;

Government and Citizenship A.  A student should know and understand how societies define authority, rights, and responsibilities through a governmental process.

A student who meets the content standard should:

  1. understand the necessity and purpose of government;
  2. understand the meaning of fundamental ideas, including equality, authority, power, freedom, justice, privacy, property, responsibility, and sovereignty;
  3. understand how nations organize their governments; and
  4. compare and contrast how different societies have governed themselves over time and in different places.
  V.  Symbols and Figures  

 

 

The following standards are more advanced than Kindergarten or can be incorporated anywhere:

Geography: B6, 7, 8

Geography: C1, 2, 3

Geography: E1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Geography: F3, 4, 5, 6

Government and Citizenship: B1-9, C1-8, D1-5, E1-7, F1-9, G1-7

History

Visual Arts

  1. Elements of Art
  1. Color
  2. Line
  1. Sculpture
  2. Looking at and Talking About Art

A.  A student should be able to create and perform in the arts.

A student who meets the content standard should:

  1. participate in dance, drama, music, visual arts, and create writing;

B.  A student should be able to understand the historical and contemporary role of the arts in Alaska, the nation, and the world.

A student who meets the content standard should:

  1. recognize Alaska Native cultures and their arts;
  2. recognize United States and world cultures and their arts;
  3. recognize the role of tradition and ritual in the arts;
  4. investigate the relationships among the arts and the individual, the society, and the environment;
  5. recognize universal themes in the arts such as love, war, childhood, and community;
  6. recognize specific works of art created by artists from diverse backgrounds;
  7. explore similarities and differences in the arts of world cultures;
  8. respect differences in personal and cultural perspectives; and
  9. investigate careers relating to arts history and culture.

C.  A student should be able to critique the student’s art and the art of others.

A student who meets the content standard should:

  1. know the criteria used to evaluate the arts; these may include craftsmanship, function, organization, originality, technique, and theme;
  2. examine historical and contemporary works of art, the works of peers, and the student’s own works as follows:
    • identify the piece;
    • describe the use of basic elements;
    • analyze the use of basic principles;
    • interpret meaning and artist’s intent;
    • express and defend an informed opinion;
  3. accept and offer constructive criticism;
  4. recognize and consider an individual’s artistic expression;
  5. exhibit appropriate audience skill

D.  A student should be able to recognize beauty and meaning through the arts in the student’s life.

A student who meets the content standard should:

  1. make statements about the significance of the arts and beauty in the student’s life;
  2. discuss what makes an object or performance a work of art;
  3. recognize that people tend to devalue what they do not understand;
  4. listen to another individual’s beliefs about a work of art and consider the individual’s reason for holding those beliefs;
  5. consider other culture’s beliefs about works of art;
  6. recognize that people connect many aspects of life through the arts

 

 

The following standards are more advanced than Kindergarten or can be incorporated anywhere:

A2-7

C6

D7-8

Music

  1. Elements of Music
  2. Listening and Understanding
  3. Songs

There are no Alaska Standards for music.

Mathematics

  1. Patterns and Classification

A.  A student should understand mathematical facts, concepts, principles, and theories.

A student who meets the content standard should:

  1. represent, analyze, and use mathematical patterns, relations, and functions using methods such as tables, equations, and graphs;
  II.   Numbers and Number Sense

A.  A student should understand mathematical facts, concepts, principles, and theories.

A student who meets the content standard should:

  1. understand and use numeration, including,
    • numbers, number systems, counting numbers, whole numbers, fractions
  III.   Money  
  IV.    Computation

A.  A student should understand mathematical facts, concepts, principles, and theories.

A student who meets the content standard should:

  1. perform basic arithmetic functions, make reasoned estimates, and  select and use appropriate methods or tools for computation or estimation including mental arithmetic, paper and pencil, a calculator, and a computer;

A.  A student should understand and be able to select and use a variety of problem-solving strategies.

  1.   formulate mathematical problems that arise from everyday situations;
  2.   develop and apply strategies to solve a variety of problems;
  3.   check the results against mathematical rules;
  4.   use common sense to help interpret results;
  V.   Measurement

A.  A student should understand mathematical facts, concepts, principles, and theories.

A student who meets the content standard should:

  1. select and use appropriate systems, units, and tools of measurement, including estimation;

VI.    Geometry

A.  A student should understand mathematical facts, concepts, principles, and theories.

A student who meets the content standard should:

  1. construct, draw, measure, transform, compare, visualize, classify, and analyze the relationships among geometric figures

 

 

The following standards are more advanced than Kindergarten or can be incorporated anywhere:

B1-8

C1-4

D1-5

E1-3

Science

I.   Plants and Plant Growth

B.  A student should possess and understand the skills of scientific inquiry.

A student who meets the content standard should:

  1. use the processes of science; these processes include observing, classifying, measuring, interpreting data, inferring, communicating, controlling variables, developing models and theories, hypothesizing, predicting, and experimenting;
  2. design and conduct scientific investigations using appropriate instruments;
  3. understand that scientific inquiry often involves different ways of thinking, curiosity, and the exploration of multiple paths;
  II.   Animals and Their Needs  
  III.   Human Body (Five Senses)

A.  A student should be able to acquire a core knowledge related to well-being.

A student who meets the content standard should:

  1. understand that a person’s well-being is the integration of health knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors;
  2. understand how the human body is affected by behaviors related to eating habits, physical fitness, personal hygiene, harmful substances, safety, and environmental conditions;
  3. understand and identify the causes, preventions, and treatments for diseases, disorders, injuries, and addictions;

B.  A student should be able to demonstrate responsibility for the student’s well-being.

A student who meets the content standard should:

  1. demonstrate an ability to make responsible decisions by discriminating among risks and by identifying consequences;
  2. demonstrate a variety of communication skills that contribute to well-being;
 
  1. Introduction to Magnetism
 

  1. Seasons and Weather
  2. Taking Care of the Earth
  3. Science Biographies

A. A student should understand scientific facts, concepts, principles and theories.

A Student who meets the content standard should:

 4. understand observable natural events such as tides, weather, seasons and moon phases in terms if the structure and motion of the earth

A. A student should understand scientific facts, concepts, principles and theories.

14.understand

    • the interdependence between living things and their environments;
    • that the living environment consists of individuals, populations, and communities; and
    • that a small change in a portion of an environment may affect the entire environment (Interdependence);

  15.use science to understand and describe the local environment (Local Knowledge)

D.  A student should be able to apply scientific knowledge and skills to make reasoned decisions about the use of science and scientific innovations.

A student who meets the content standard should:

  1. apply scientific knowledge and skills to understand issues and everyday events;
  2. understand that scientific innovations may affect our economy, safety, environment, health, and society and that these effects may be long or short term, positive or negative, and expected or unexpected;

B.  A student should possess and understand the skills of scientific inquiry.

A student who meets the content standard should:

  1. use the processes of science; these processes include observing, classifying, measuring, interpreting data, inferring, communicating, controlling variables, developing models and theories, hypothesizing, predicting, and experimenting;
  2. design and conduct scientific investigations using appropriate instruments;
  3. understand that scientific inquiry often involves different ways of thinking, curiosity, and the exploration of multiple paths;

 

 

The following standards are more advanced than Kindergarten or can be incorporated anywhere:

A5-13

B4-6

C1-8

D3-6

 

 

Skills for a Healthy Life

World Languages

Technology