Illinois Learning Standards for

Iron Horses

Curriculum Ideas: History – the impact of the transcontinental railroad. Various people who worked on the railroad. Geography – understand a map. Math – using fractions and decimals. Adding columns of 100s. Science – how a steam engine works. Science/Geography – understanding climatic regions. Fine Art - Use various media; understand relationship between art and text in Picture Book.

Social Science/History (general)

Stage C (2^nd ,3^rd ,4^th) 16e 3. Tell how people, goods, and services moved from one place or geographic region to another in the past.

Stage D (3^rd, 4^th, 5^th) 16d 2. Identify the turning points in local, Illinois, and United States social history. 18 C 1. Give examples of how technology helps to transform a society.

Geography: (mural research)

Late Elementary 17.A.2a Compare the physical characteristics of places including soils, land forms, vegetation, wildlife, climate, natural hazards. 17.A.2b Use maps and other geographic representations and instruments to gather information about people, places and environments.

Middle/Junior High School17.C.3a Explain how human activity is affected by geographic factors

Math: (map and mural activities)

Stage D (3^rd, 4^th,5^th )6D.3 Solve multi-step number sentences and word problems using whole numbers and the four basic operations.

Science: (locomotive)

Stage B (1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd) 12C.1 Apply scientific inquiries or technological designs to demonstrate energy sources. . . analyzing which energy sources power different objects.

Stage D (3^rd, 4^th, 5^th) 12C 1 Apply scientific inquiries or technological designs to compare the properties of various kinds of energy. . . explaining the interrelationships among light, heat, sound, chemical, electrical and mechanical energy.

Language Arts: (Oral presentation)

Stage B (1^st,2^nd, 3^rd ) 4B.3 Focus and present information on a single topic.

Stage D (3^rd,4^th 5^th ) 4B.2 Distinguish among oral presentations intended to inform, to entertain, and to persuade.4B.3 Organize information for the purposes of informing, entertaining, and persuading.4B.4 Use language that is clear, audible, and appropriate. 4B.5 Use appropriate grammar, word choice, and pacing. 4B.6 Use details to elaborate and develop main ideas for purposes of informing, entertaining, and persuading.4B.9 Use notes and outlines 4B.10 Prepare and practice the presentation in advance.

Fine Arts (mural)

Early Elementary 26.A.1e Visual Arts: Identify media and tools and how to use them in a safe and responsible manner when painting, drawing and constructing 26.B.1d Visual Arts: Demonstrate knowledge and skills to create visual works of art using manipulation, eye-hand coordination, building and imagination.

Late Elementary 26.B.2d Visual Arts: Demonstrate knowledge and skills to create works of visual art using problem solving, observing, designing, sketching and constructing.

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Covered Wagons, Bumpy Trails

Curriculum Ideas: Science – weather; taking data; using a thermometer. Language arts: keeping a journal; using research to write a story; developing a character; Math; figuring volume; adding; estimating volume; weight and volume. History: Westward immigration, pioneers, the emigrant trails.

Mathematics: (record and compare temperatures, create weather calendar)

Early Elementary. 7.A.1d Read temperatures to the nearest degree from Celsius and Fahrenheit thermometers.

Early Elementary 10.A.1a Organize and display data using pictures, tallies, tables, charts, or bar graphs.

Late Elementary 6.C.2a Select and perform computational procedures to solve problems with whole numbers, fractions and decimals.

Stage A (1^st, 2^nd) 7A 4 Explore and describe chronological events (e.g., calendars, timelines, seasons).

Stage B (1^st,2^nd, 3^rd)7C 1 Select an appropriate unit and tool for measurement.

Stage C (2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th)7C 1 Select and apply appropriate standard units and tools to measure length, area, volume, weight, time, and temperature. *

Language Arts (write journal entries for pioneer character)

Early Elementary 3.c.1a Write for a variety of purposes including description, information, explanation, persuasion, and narration.

Stage A (1^st, 2^nd) 5C 4. Create a message by drawing, telling, using graphic aids, and/or developmental writing based on acquired information. 5C5.Gather, organize, and share information about a topic.

Stage B (1^st,2^nd, 3^rd) 3C 4 Experiment with different forms of writing (e.g., song, poetry, short fiction, recipes, diary, journal, directions. 5C4 Gather, organize, and share information about a topic.

Stage C (2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th) 3C 3 Experiment with different forms of creative writing (e.g., song, poetry, short fiction, play).

Stage D (3^rd,4^th, 5^th ), Stage E (4^th, 5^th, 6^th) 3C 3 Write creatively for a specified purpose and audience (e.g., short story, poetry, play, rap, parody..

Social Science (general, weather calendar)

Late Elementary 16.D.2b (US) Describe the ways in which participation in the westward movement affected families and communities.

Stage A (1^st, 2^nd) 16A 4 Use a story or an image about the distant past to tell about what life was like during that period.

Stage B (1^st,2^nd,3^rd) 16A 3 (see Stage A 16A 4) 16C 2 Describe how people made a living in the past. (US) 17D 1 Describe daily changes in the weather and changes in the seasons in the local community.

Stage C (2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th) 16E 3 Tell how people, goods, and services moved from one place or geographic region to another in the past. (US)

Science (weather calendar, compare weather)

Early Elementary 11.A.1c Collect data for investigations using measuring instruments and technologies. 13.B.1a Explain the uses of common scientific instruments (e.g., ruler, thermometer, balance, probe, computer).

Late Elementary 11.A.2b Collect data for investigations using scientific process skills including observing, estimating and measuring. Early Elementary

Stage C (2^nd 3^rd, 4^th )12E 2 Apply scientific inquiries or technological designs to examine weather patterns observing local, state, regional or national weather patterns.

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Gold Fever

Curriculum Ideas: geography: reading a map; following directions: fine arts; using different media; language arts: developing characters: reading and writing labels; history: creation of boom and ghost towns; peoples of the gold rush; science- sedimentation, liquid and solids, floating and sinking.

Language Arts (creative writing about fictitious towns’ people)

Late Elementary 3.C.2a Write for a variety of purposes and for specified audiences in a variety of forms including narrative (eg fiction, autobiography) etc.

Stage C (2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th) 3C 3 Experiment with different forms of creative writing (e.g., song, poetry, short fiction, play).

Stage D (3^rd,4^th, 5^th ), Stage E (4^th, 5^th, 6^th) 3C 3 Write creatively for a specified purpose and audience (e.g., short story, poetry, play, rap, parody..

Social Science

Geography (practicing with Gold Creek map)

Early Elementary Goal 17.A.1a Identify physical characteristics of places, both local and global (e.g., locations, roads, regions, bodies of water). 17.A.1b Identify the characteristics and purposes of geographic representations including maps, globes, graphs, photographs, software, digital images and be able to locate specific places using each.

Late Elementary17.C.2b Describe the relationships among location of resources, population distribution and economic activities (e.g., transportation, trade, communications). 17.D.2b Identify different settlement patterns in Illinois and the United States and relate them to physical features and resources.

Stage C (2^nd, 3^rd,4^th) 17C 1 Identify how people use tools and machines to obtain resources and change the physical and human environment in their community and in other places.

History (general- California Gold Rush)

Late Elementary Goal 16.D.2b (US) Describe the ways in which participation in the westward movement affected families and communities.

Stage B (1^st,2^nd, 3^rd,) 16C 2 Describe how people made a living in the past. (US)

Stage D (3^rd,4^th,5^th ) 16A 6 Describe aspects of life in a specific period in a specific region or place using a combination of historical sources.

Stage E (4^th, 5^th, 6^th) 16D 3 Compare and contrast changes in family life as people moved from one geographic region to another during the period of westward expansion.

Fine Arts: (building town model)

Early Elementary Goal 26.B.1d Visual Arts: Demonstrate knowledge and skills to create visual works of art using manipulation, eye-hand coordination, building and imagination.

Late Elementary 26.B.2d Visual Arts: Demonstrate knowledge and skills to create works of visual art using problem solving, observing, designing, sketching and constructing.

Science: (experiments in sediments at www.verlakay.com )

Early Elementary: 11.A.1a Describe an observed event.

Late Elementary: 11.A.2d Use data to produce reasonable explanations.

Stage B (1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd) 12E 2 examine the natural processes that change Earth's surface modeling erosion processes in various soil compositions, or comparing different water flow models for weathering impact, or identifying water cycle in local weather conditions and features.

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Orphan Train

Curriculum Ideas: language arts/fine arts: acting out what you read; deducing emotions from reading; creating characters; writing a script; writing a personal letter. Social studies/history: comparing community services today to those in the past.

Language Arts (script writing, Pack A Bag worksheet)

Early Elementary 3.c.1a Late Elementary 3.C.2a Write for a variety of purposes including description, information, explanation, persuasion, and narration.

Late Elementary 3.A.3 Write compositions that contain complete sentences and effective paragraphs using English conventions.

Stage A (1^st,2^nd) 2B 3. Re-enact and retell stories, songs, poems, plays, and other literary works.

Stage C (2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th) 3C 3 Experiment with different forms of creative writing (e.g., song, poetry, short fiction, play).

Stage D (3^rd,4^th, 5^th ), Stage E (4^th, 5^th, 6^th) 3C 3 Write creatively for a specified purpose and audience (e.g., short story, poetry, play, rap, parody..

Stage A, (1^st, 2^nd) Stage B, (1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd) Stage C (2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th)1A 1 Use phonics to decode simple words in age-appropriate material.

Fine Arts (readers’ theater)

Early Elementary 25.A.1b Drama: Understand the elements of acting, locomotor and nonlocomotor movement, vocal and nonvocal sound, story making; the principles of plot, character, setting, problem/resolution and message; and the expressive characteristics of simple emotions.

Late Elementary 25.A.2b Drama: Understand the elements of acting, scripting, speaking, improvising, physical movement, gesture, and picturization (shape, line, and level); the principles of conflict/resolution and theme; and the expressive characteristics of mood and dynamics.

Early Elementary 26.B.1b Drama: Demonstrate individual skills (e.g., vocalizing, listening, moving, observing, concentrating) and group skills (e.g., decision making, planning, practicing, spacing) necessary to create or perform story elements and characterizations.

Late Elementary 26.B.2b Drama: Demonstrate actions, characters, narrative skills, collaboration, environments, simple staging and sequence of events and situations in solo and ensemble dramas.

Stage A (1^st,2^nd) Stage B (1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd) Stage C( 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th) 26B 1 Demonstrate ways to use space, movement, and voice to create emotions, characters, objects, or to imitate natural events.

Stage D (3^rd, 4^th, 5^th) Stage E (4^th, 5^th, 6^th) 26B 4. Sequence a series of actions and events into a drama.

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Tattered Sails

Curriculum Ideas: Language Arts: reading and following directions, adjectives, writing with detail Science: foods of North America, parts of a plant, plant growth, Math: calculating and manipulating fractions, History: games and recipes of early colonists.

Language Arts (practicing with adjectives, listing favorite and least favorite foods)

Early Elementary 3.c.1a, Late Elementary Late Elementary 3.C.2a Write for a variety of purposes including description, information, explanation, persuasion, and narration.

Stage A, (1^st, 2^nd) Stage B, (1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd) Stage C (2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th)1A 1 Use phonics to decode simple words in age-appropriate material.

Stage C (2^nd,3^rd,4^th) 3A 9 , Stage D (3^rd, 4t, 5^th) 3A 7 Demonstrate appropriate use of the various parts of speech (e.g., nouns, pronouns, verbs).

Social Science (general)

Early Elementary 16.D.2a (US) Describe the various individual motives for settling in Colonial America.

Stage C (2^nd,3^rd,4^th) 16E 3 Tell how people, goods, and services moved from one place or geographic region to another in the past. (US)

Stage E (3^rd,4^th,5^th) 16 D 1 Compare and contrast family and community life in two or more American colonies in terms of the colonists' motives for settling there.

Science: (grow, measure, and describe the Three Sisters –corn, beans, squash)

Early Elementary 11.A.1c Collect data for investigations using measuring instruments and technologies. 12.A.1a Identify and describe the component parts of living things (e.g., birds have feathers; people have bones, blood, hair, skin) and their major functions.

Late Elementary 11.A.2b Collect data for investigations using scientific process skills including observing, estimating and measuring. 12.A.2a Describe simple life cycles of plants and animals and the similarities and differences in their offspring

Stage A (1^st,2^nd) 11A 4 Collect data for guided inquiry identifying and using instruments for gathering data, making estimates and measurements, recording observations, or reading data from data-collection instruments. Stage B (1^st,2^nd,3^rd) 11A 4 Collect data for investigations, choosing and using appropriate instruments and units, recording data on classroom charts, tables, journals or on computers,12A 1 Explore common and diverse structures and functions of living things, . . . associating common plant products with plant structures and functions, or comparing common and distinctive plants' or animals' growth cycles, structures and functions.

Math (recipe changes and manipulations)

Late Elementary 6.C.2a Select and perform computational procedures to solve problems with whole numbers, fractions and decimals.

Stage D (3^rd,4^th, 5^th) 6B 2 Solve addition or subtraction number sentences and word problems using fractions with like denominators.

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Broken Feather:

Curriculum Ideas: Language Arts: Listen to and retell a story, conduct an interview, report on what you learned, read for information, relate reading to personal experience. History: Read primary source material, U.S./Indian relations, westward migrations, reservations and Indian schools.

Language Arts (interview, oral history, retell a story orally or in writing)

Early Elementary 3.c.1a Write for a variety of purposes including description, information, explanation, persuasion, and narration.

Late Elementary 3.C.2a Write for a variety of purposes and for specified audiences in a variety of forms including narrative (e.g., fiction, autobiography), expository (e.g., reports, essays) and persuasive writings (e.g., editorials, advertisements).

Late Elementary 2.B.2a Respond to literary material by making inferences, drawing conclusions and comparing it to their own experience, prior knowledge and other texts.

Stage A (1st,2nd) Stage B (1st,2nd,3rd) 3B 1 Use age-appropriate prewriting strategies (e.g., drawing, brainstorming, graphic organizers) to generate and organize ideas with teacher assistance. Stage A (1st,2nd) 3B2. Tell a focused story using various approaches (e.g., pictures, scribbles, letter approximations, connected oral account). 3C 2 Retell a focused story. 5C6 Retell information.

Stage B (1st,2nd,3rd) 3B 3 Use a series of pictures and basic text to tell a focused story. 4B 3 (speaking) Focus and present information on a single topic.

Stage C (2^nd,3^rd,4^th) 4A 4 Separate and retell main ideas from information that is given orally. 4A 5 Formulate relevant and focused questions. 5A 1 Access print, non-print information for written reports, letters, and/or stories.

Stage D (3^rd,4^th,5^th) 4A 4 Paraphrase and summarize the content of both formal and informal presentations or messages (e.g., directions, announcements, conversations, speakers, media presentations).

Stage E (4^th,5^th,6^th) 4A 5 Paraphrase and summarize the content of a formal/informal spoken presentation or message (e.g., classroom or assembly speakers, media presentations, student reports or speeches, classroom debates).

Social Science (general, Chief Joseph biography)

Late Elementary 18.C.2 Describe how changes in production (e.g., hunting and gathering, agricultural, industrial) and population caused changes in social systems.

Stage E (4^th,5^th,6^th) 14 F. 2. Discuss consistencies and inconsistencies expressed in United States political traditions and actual practices (e.g., freedom of speech, the right to bear arms, slavery, voting rights). 14 F 4 Describe historical examples featuring the denial or extension of civil rights to various individuals or groups.

Stage F (5^th, 6^th, 7th) 14F 1 Give examples of events where people have had to fight to win their equality.

(Conflict and society lesson at www.verlakay.com)

Stage E (4,5,6) 16B 6 Identify significant political leaders of the non-Western world (e.g., Genghis Khan, Gandhi, Mandela). 18C 3 Identify historically significant people who affected social life or institutions.

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Homespun Sarah

Curriculum Ideas: History: Colonial life. Fine Arts: Weaving, pattern, and texture. Math: Graphing, displaying data, measuring, mean, median, estimation, predicting patterns. Science: Use a hand lens, making observations. Health: Human growth.

Mathematics: (growth chart and graph, manipulate data, extend and analyze weaving patterns)

Goal 10 Collect, organize, and analyze data using statistical methods. Early Elementary 10.A.1a Organize and display data using pictures, Tallies, tables, charts, or bar graphs.

Late Elementary 10.A.2b Using a data set, determine the mean, mode, and range, with and without the use of technology.

Early Elementary 7.A.1a Measure length, volume, and weight/mass using rulers, scales and other appropriate measuring instruments

Stage A (1^st,2^nd) 7A 3 Measure objects using non-standard units10A 1 Organize, describe, and label simple data displays such as pictographs, tallies, tables, and bar graphs. 8A 2.Recognize, describe, and extend patterns such as sequences of sounds, motions, shapes, or simple numeric patterns, and translate from one representation to another (e.g., red-blue-red-blue translates to snap-clap-snap-clap). 8A 3 Describe given patterns using letters. 8A 4 Analyze repeating patterns.

Stage B (1^st,2^nd,3^rd) 7A 2 Measure objects using standard units. 8A 3 Recognize, describe, and extend geometric and numeric patterns. 8B 8B - Students who meet the standard can interpret and describe numerical relationships using tables, graphs, and symbols. 10 A 1 Organize and interpret simple data displays such as pictographs, tallies, tables, and bar graphs.

Stage C (2^nd,3^rd,4^th) 7A 2 Measure objects using standard units in the U.S. customary and metric systems. 7C 1 Select and apply appropriate standard units and tools to measure length, area, volume, weight, time, and temperature. 8A 1 Extend geometric and simple numeric patterns using concrete objects or paper and pencil. 10 A 2 Represent data using tables and graphs such as tallies and bar graphs. 10 A 4 Determine the median of data on a graph.

Stage D (3^rd, 4^th, 5^th) 8A 5 Create, describe, and extend patterns.

Social Science/ History (general)

Late Elementary, 16.D.3b (US) Describe characteristics of different kinds of families in America during the colonial/frontier periods and the 19th century

Stage B (1^st,2^nd,3^rd) 16C 2 Describe how people made a living in the past. (US)

Fine Arts (weaving patterns, paper weaving extention)

Late Elementary 26.A.2f Visual Arts: Understand the artistic processes of printmaking, weaving, photography and sculpture

Stage D (3^rd,4^th,5^th) 26A 6 Demonstrate fundamental processes in a variety of visual art forms (e.g., painting, weaving).

Stage E (4th,5th,6th) 26A 6 Describe or demonstrate the process of weaving (e.g., paper weaving, cardboard, loom).

Science (growth chart – data collection and manipulation)

Early Elementary 11.A.1c Collect data for investigations using measuring instruments and technologies. 11.A.1e Arrange data into logical patterns and describe the patterns. 13.B.1a Explain the uses of common scientific instruments (e.g., ruler, thermometer, balance, probe, computer).

Late Elementary 11.A.2b Collect data for investigations using scientific process skills including observing, estimating and measuring.

Physical Development and Health (growth chart)

Early Elementary Goal 23.C.1 Identify individual differences in growth and development among people

Stage B (1^st,2^nd,3^rd) 23C 6 Compare one's growth to that of one's peers.

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Verla Kay Style Rhyme

Language Arts:

Early Elementary 2.A.1c Describe differences between prose and poetry

Stage A (1^st,2^nd) 2A 4 Imitate rhythm/rhyme patterns. 3C 4 Experiment with different forms of writing (e.g., song, poetry, short fiction, recipes, diary, journal, directions).

Stage B (1^st,2^nd,3^rd) 2A 7 Recognize a regular beat and similarities of sound (rhythm and rhyme) in poetry. 3C4 Experiment with different forms of writing (e.g., song, poetry, short fiction, recipes, diary, journal, directions).

Stage C (2^nd,3^rd,4^th) 2A 12 Discover poetic devices (e.g., rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, onomatopoeia, repetition, simile, metaphor). 3C 3 Experiment with different forms of creative writing (e.g., song, poetry, short fiction, play).

Stage D (3^rd,4^th,5^th) 2A 10 Identify rhythm and rhyme in original work. 3C 3 Write creatively for a specified purpose and audience (e.g., short story, poetry, play, rap, parody).

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