LEAF Field Trip and Education Programs Academic & Common Core Standards

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1 PRE-K GRADES K-5 Little Leaves Movement, Story, and Art Programs Trees Organisms AL.1.PK.A1 Explore and ask questions to seek meaningful information about a growing range of topics. AL.2.PK.D1 Recognize and extend simple patterns. AL.3.PK.A1 Use music, art, and/or stories to express ideas, thoughts, and feelings. CC.1.3.PREK.I With prompting and support, clarify unknown words or phrases read aloud. 4.1.PK.E Identify the change of seasons in the environment. 4.4.PK.C Recognize that plants and animals grow and change. 3.1.K.A1 Identify the similarities and differences of living and non-living things. 3.1.K.A3 Observe, compare, and describe stages of life cycles for plants and/or animals A5 Identify and describe plant parts and their function A5 Explain how different parts of a plant work together to make the organism function A5 Identify the structures in plants that are responsible for food production, support, water transport, reproduction, growth, and protection C1 Identify different characteristics of plants and animals that help some populations survive and reproduce in greater numbers. Describe how environmental changes can cause extinction in plants and animals B2 Examine how energy can be transferred from one form to another. 3.1.K.A1 Identify the similarities and differences of living and non-living things. 4.1.K.D Observe and describe what happens to living things when needs

2 Lifecycles are met. 3.1.K.A3 Observe, compare, and describe stages of life cycles for plants and/or animals A2 Investigate the dependence of living things on the sun s energy, water, food/nutrients, air, living space, and shelter C2 Explain that living things can only survive if their needs are being met A1 Describe characteristics of living things that help to identify and classify them A2 Describe the basic needs of living things and their dependence on light, food, air, water, and shelter C Identify different characteristics of plants and animals that help some populations survive and reproduce in greater numbers. Describe how environmental changes can cause extinction in plants and animals A2 Describe how life on earth depends on energy from the sun. 3.1.K.A3 Observe, compare, and describe stages of life cycles for plants and/or animals. 4.1.K.D Observe and describe what happens to living things when needs are met B6 Recognize that light from the sun is an important source of energy for living and nonliving systems and some source of energy is needed for all organisms to stay alive and grow A3 Identify similarities and differences in the life cycles of plants and animals A2 Describe the basic needs of living things and their dependence

3 Rocks & Minerals Land & Water on light, food, air, water, and shelter A3 Illustrate how plants and animals go through predictable life cycles that include birth, growth, development, reproduction, and death A3 Identify differences in the life cycles of plants and animals A3 Compare and contrast the similarities and differences in life cycles of different organisms. 3.2.K.A1 Identify and classify objects by observable properties of matter. Compare different kinds of materials and discuss their uses. 3.2.K.A Describe the way matter can change. 4.2.K.C Identify that there are living and nonliving components in an aquatic habitat. 3.3.K.A1 Distinguish between three types of earth materials rock, soil, and sand A3 Identify how heating, melting, cooling, etc., may cause changes in properties of materials A3 Demonstrate how heating and cooling may cause changes in the properties of materials C3 Recognize that fossils provide us with information about living things that inhabited the Earth long ago A2 Demonstrate that materials are composed of parts that are too small to be seen without magnification A1 Describe how landforms are the result of a combination of destructive forces such as erosion and constructive erosion, deposition of sediment, etc. 4.2.K.A Identify components of a water cycle.

4 Environments 3.3.K.A4 Identify sources of water for human consumption and use A1 Observe, describe, and sort earth materials. Compare the composition of different soils A4 Identify and describe types of fresh and salt-water bodies (ocean, rivers, lakes, ponds) B2 Explore and describe how different forms of energy cause changes. (e.g., sunlight, heat, wind) A1 Explain and give examples of the ways in which soil is formed A1 Describe basic landforms. Identify the layers of the earth. Recognize that the surface of the earth changes due to slow processes and rapid processes A1 Describe how landforms are the result of a combination of destructive forces such as erosion and constructive erosion, deposition of sediment, etc A4 Explain the basic components of the water cycle. 4.1.K.E Identify how the changes of seasons affect their local environment C3 Describe changes that occur as a result of habitat C Describe how pollution affects the health of a habitat E Identify how living things survive changes in their environment C2 Explain that living things can only survive if their needs are being met A2 Describe the basic needs of living things and their dependence on light, food, air, water, and shelter.

5 Bugs & Blooms A2 Describe the different resources that plants and animals need to live A2 Understand that systems have parts and components that work together A2 Describe the usefulness of Earth s physical resources as raw materials for the human made world A5 Differentiate between weather and climate. Explain how the cycling of water, both in and out of the atmosphere, has an effect on climate 3.1.K.A5 Observe and describe structures and behaviors of a variety of common animals A5 Identify and describe plant parts and their function. 4.4.K.C Observe and describe stages of life cycles for plants and animals B6 Recognize that light from the sun is an important source of energy for living and nonliving systems and some source of energy is needed for all organisms to stay alive and grow A5 Explain how different parts of a plant work together to make the organism function A5 Identify the structures in plants that are responsible for food production, support, water transport, reproduction, growth, and protection B2 Identify types of energy and their ability to be stored and changed from one form to another B2 Examine how energy can be transferred from one form to another.

6 Birds The Sky 3.1.K.A5 Observe and describe structures and behaviors of a variety of common animals A2 Investigate the dependence of living things on the sun s energy, water, food/nutrients, air, living space, and shelter C3 - Describe some plants and animals that once lived on Earth, (e.g., dinosaurs) but cannot be found anymore. Compare them to now living things that resemble them in some way (e.g. lizards and birds) B2 Explore and describe how different forms of energy cause changes. (e.g., sunlight, heat, wind) C2 Describe animal characteristics that are necessary for survival B2 Identify types of energy and their ability to be stored and changed from one form to another C1 Describe how organisms meet some of their needs in an environment by using behaviors (patterns of activities) in response to information (stimuli) received from the environment. 4.5.K.C - Identify different types of pollution (land, water or air) and their sources B6 Recognize that light from the sun is an important source of energy for living and nonliving systems and some source of energy is needed for all organisms to stay alive and grow B1 Explain why shadows fall in different places at different times of the day B2 Explore and describe how different forms of energy cause changes. (e.g., sunlight, heat, wind)

7 Mud B6 Recognize that light from the sun is an important source of energy for living and nonliving systems and some source of energy is needed for all organisms to stay alive and grow A5 Explain how air temperature, moisture, wind speed and direction, and precipitation make up the weather in a particular place and time B2 Identify types of energy and their ability to be stored and changed from one form to another B1 Provide evidence that the earth revolves around (orbits) the sun in a year s time and that the earth rotates on its axis once approximately every 24 hours. 4.5.K.B Identify common pests in our homes, gardens and neighborhoods. 3.3.K.A1 Distinguish between three types of earth materials rock, soil, and sand A1 Observe, describe, and sort earth materials. Compare the composition of different soils D Describe how people can help the environment by reducing, reusing, recycling and composting A1 Explain and give examples of the ways in which soil is formed A2 Identify basic properties and uses of Earth s materials including rocks, soils, water, and gases of the atmosphere A1 Describe how landforms are the result of a combination of destructive forces such as erosion and constructive erosion, deposition of sediment, etc.

8 Go Green! Meet the Trees 4.3.K.B Recognize the importance of conserving natural resources. 4.5.K.C Identify different types of pollution (land, water or air) and their sources. 4.5.K.D Identify waste and practice ways to reduce, reuse and recycle B6 Recognize that light from the sun is an important source of energy for living and nonliving systems and some source of energy is needed for all organisms to stay alive and grow C Identify how people can reduce pollution D Describe how people can help the environment by reducing, reusing, recycling and composting B2 Explain how materials are re-used or recycled A2 Describe the different resources that plants and animals need to live A4 Recognize Earth s different water resources, including both fresh and saltwater. Describe phase changes in the forms of water on Earth A2 Describe the usefulness of Earth s physical resources as raw materials for the human made world B2 Describe how waste may be appropriately recycled or disposed of to prevent unnecessary harm to the environment. 3.1.K.A1 Identify the similarities and differences of living and non-living things. 3.1.K.A3 Observe, compare, and describe stages of life cycles for plants and/or animals A5 Identify and describe plant parts and their function.

9 GRADES 6 8 Tree ID & Measurement Watersheds A5 Explain how different parts of a plant work together to make the organism function A5 Identify the structures in plants that are responsible for food production, support, water transport, reproduction, growth, and protection C1 Identify different characteristics of plants and animals that help some populations survive and reproduce in greater numbers. Describe how environmental changes can cause extinction in plants and animals B2 Examine how energy can be transferred from one form to another. 6 th Grade A Explain how different plants and animals in the United States have specific growing requirements related to climate and soil conditions. 7 th Grade D Explain how biological diversity relates to the viability of ecosystems. 8 th Grade B6 Explain how physics principles underlie everyday phenomena and important technologies A2 Describe renewable and nonrenewable energy resources. 6 th Grade D Explain the costs and benefits of recycling in controlling resource use A Identify the five major watersheds of Pennsylvania A Identify the five major watersheds of Pennsylvania. 7 th Grade A Explain how water enters, moves through, and leaves a watershed C Explain how human actions affect the health of the environment. 8 th Grade

10 ALL AGES Green Roofs Arboretum Walking Tours Seasonal Discovery Walks and Scavenger Hunts B6 Explain how physics principles underlie everyday phenomena and important technologies A2 Describe renewable and nonrenewable energy resources. 6 th Grade D Explain the costs and benefits of recycling in controlling resource use 7 th Grade C Investigate resources, their relation to land use, and their impact on the food and fiber system C Explain how human actions affect the health of the environment. 8 th Grade A2 Describe renewable and nonrenewable energy resources A Compare and contrast alternative sources of energy. See Standards for Academic Programs See Standards for Academic Programs