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Garbage Goat & Kid

aligning with common core

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6 treats (double sided)

9 treats (double sided)

16 treats (double sided)

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Social Studies

Aligning with Common Core State Standards

Social Study Skills

Critical Reasoning on Claims (SSS1.K.4)

Retell a sequence of events that have happened over time.

Support and Present Claim (SSS4.K.1)

Use a graphic organizer to explain the beginning, middle, and end of a story.

Geography

Human Interaction with Environment (G2.K.1)

Describe how environment affects one's own activities.

History

Understand Historical Chronology (H1.K.1)

Demonstrate that a timeline represents a chronological sequence of events.

Historical Events and Contemporary Issues (H4.K.2)

Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with promoting and support, provide additional detail.

Social Study Skills

Critical Reasoning with Claims (SSS1.1.3)

Retell a sequence of events that have happened over time.

Deliberates Public Issues (SSS3.1.1)

Engage in discussions to learn about different points of view on issues that impact their communities.

Uses Inquiry-Based Research (SSS2.1.2)

Use texts, audio, visuals, and other evidence to identify the main ideas or key details to study life outside of school

Support and Present Claim (SSS4.1.1)

Determine the kinds of sources that will be helpful in answering compelling and supporting questions.

Geography

Understands Characteristics and Spatial Patterns (G1.1.1)

Be able to identify local geographic locations and bodies of water.

Human Interaction with Environment (G2.1.3)

Identify human events and human-made features.

Human Interaction with Environment (G2.1.1)

Explain the way family life is shaped by the environment.

Human Interaction with Environment (G2.1.4)

Identify natural events or physical features.

History

Understand Historical Chronology (H1.1.1)

Create a family timeline to show events in a sequential manner.

Multiple Perspectives and Interpretations (H3.1.2)

Explain how the actions of people in the past influence us today.

Historical Events and Contemporary Issues (H4.1.2)

Explain how different historical documents and artifacts inform our understanding of historical events.

Social Study Skills

Critical Reasoning with Claims (SSS1.2.3)

Develop an explanation about an historical outcome using correct sequence and relevant information to support a point of view.

Support and Present Claim (SSS4.2.1)

Gather relevant information from one or two sources while using the origin and structure to guide the selection.

Uses Inquiry-Based Research (SSS2.2.2)

Identify facts and concepts associated with a supporting question.

Support and Present Claim (SSS4.2.2)

Evaluate a source by distinguishing between fact and opinion.

Geography

Understands Characteristics and Spatial Patterns (G1.2.1)

Apply basic mapping elements to read and construct maps of their communities and the world.

Human Interaction with Environment (G2.2.4)

Distinguish human activities and human-made features from natural events of physical features.

Understands Characteristics and Spatial Patterns (G1.2.2)

Use maps, globes, and other simple geographic models to identify cultural and environmental characteristics of places.

Human Interaction with Environment (G2.2.5)

Recognize ways people depend on, adapt to, and modify the environment to meet basic needs.

History

Understand Historical Chronology (H1.2.1)

Create a timeline for events in a community to show how the present is connected to the past.

Casual Factors Shape Major Events (H2.2.1)

Document how various individuals in the community have shaped local history.

Historical Events and Contemporary Issues (H4.2.1)

Summarize how community history can be used to make current choices.

Understand Historical Chronology (H1.2.3)

Compare life in the past to life today for various members of your community.

Casual Factors Shape Major Events (H2.2.2)

Participate in activities working within one's community that can create a positive impact on oneself and one's local community.

Historical Events and Contemporary Issues (H4.2.2)

Explain how the background of an author influences the meaning of the source and why it was created.

Social Study Skills

Support and Present Claim (SSS4.2.2)

Give clear attribution to sources within writing or presentations.

Geography

Understands Characteristics and Spatial Patterns (G1.2.1)

Apply basic mapping elements to read and construct maps of their communities and the world.

History

Casual Factors Shape Major Events (H2.3.2)

Explain probable causes and effects of events and developments locally.

Multiple Perspectives and Interpretations (H3.3.3)

Describe how people's perspectives shaped the historical sources they created.

Historical Events and Contemporary Issues (H4.3.2)

Use evidence to develop a claim about our past community's history.

English Language Arts

Aligning with Common Core State Standards

Reading in Literature

Key Ideas and Details (RS.K.3)

With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.

Craft and Structure (RS.K.6)

With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas (RS.K.7)

With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear.

Writing

Text Types and Purpose (W.K.3)

Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened.

Speaking and Listening

Comprehension and Collaboration (SL.K.2)

Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details...

Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas (SL.K.4)

Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with promoting and support, provide additional detail.

Language Standards

Vocabulary Acquisition and Use (LS.K.5)

With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.

Vocabulary Acquisition and Use (LS.K.5D)

Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action by acting out the meaning.

Reading in Literature

Key Ideas and Details (RS.1.2)

Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.

Key Ideas and Details (RS.1.3)

Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas (RS.1.7)

Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.

Writing

Text Types and Purpose (W.1.3)

Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.

Speaking and Listening

Comprehension and Collaboration (SL.1.2)

Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas (SL.1.4)

Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly.

Language Standards

Vocabulary Acquisition and Use (LS.1.5)

With guidance and support from adults, demonstrate understanding word relationships and nuances in word meanings.

Vocabulary Acquisition and Use (LS.1.5D)

Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing in manner and adjectives differing in intensity by defining or choosing them or by acting out the meanings.

Reading in Literature

Craft and Structure (RS.2.4)

Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.

Craft and Structure (RS.2.5)

Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas (RS.2.7)

Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.

Writing

Text Types and Purpose (W.2.3)

Write narrative in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.

Speaking and Listening

Comprehension and Collaboration (SL.2.2)

Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas (SL.2.4)

Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences.

Language Standards

Vocabulary Acquisition and Use (LS.2.5)

Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.

Vocabulary Acquisition and Use (LS.2.5D)

Distinguish shades of meaning among closely related verbs and closely related adjectives.

Reading in Literature

Key Ideas and Details (RS.3.3)

Describe characters in a story and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.

Craft and Structure (RS.3.6)

Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas (RS.3.7)

Explain how specific aspects of a text's illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story.

Writing

Text Types and Purpose (W.3.3)

Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.

Text Types and Purpose (W.3.3B)

Use dialogue and description of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations.

Text Types and Purpose (W.3.3.A)

Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.

Text Types and Purpose (W.3.3C-D)

Use temporal words and phrases to signal event order.

Provide a sense of closure.

Speaking and Listening

Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas (SL.3.4)

Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.

Inspired Pedagogy

PBL

Place-Based
Learning

Spokane offers a unique opportunity for place-based learning, through our ample access to historical places, geographic features, and public artwork. View how the National Park Services utilizes this strategy.

VTS

Visual Thinking
Strategies

Stemming from the study of Aesthetic Development, VTS utilizes artwork as a gateway for openminded curiosity and thought-provoking discussions. Exposure and continued practice hone these strategies as transferable skills to engage and analyize the greater world.

EE

Erik Erikson's
Stages of Development

Why? The timeless question of all children, but when is the curiosity lost and over generalization becomes the most common practice? At any age, Erikson's psychological developmental stages function as a framework to reflect and expand upon.

"By studying place as a primary resource, we learn about past peoples, cultures, events, and, ultimately, about ourselves."

NPS on Place Based Learning

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Social Studies

Social Study Skills

Critical Reasoning on Claims (SSS1.K.4)

Retell a sequence of events that have happened over time.

Support and Present Claim (SSS4.K.1)

​Use a graphic organizer to explain the beginning, middle, and end of a story.

Geography

Human Interaction with Environment (G2.K.1)

Describe how environment affects one's own activities.

History

Understand Historical Chronology (H1.K.1)

Demonstrate that a timeline represents a chronological sequence of events.

Historical Events and Contemporary Issues (H4.K.2)

Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with promoting and support, provide additional detail.

English Language Arts

Reading in Literature

Key Ideas and Details (RS.K.3)

With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.

Craft and Structure (RS.K.6)

With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas (RS.K.7)

With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear.

Writing

Text Types and Purpose (W.K.3)

Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened.

Speaking and Listening

Comprehension and Collaboration (SL.K.2)

Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details...

Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas (SL.K.4)

Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with promoting and support, provide additional detail.

Language Standards

Vocabulary Acquisition and Use (LS.K.5)

With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.

Vocabulary Acquisition and Use (LS.K.5D)

Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action by acting out the meaning.

Use a graphic organizer to explain the beginning, middle, and end of a story.