C.L.E.A.N. Water Experience

 

Part of being an educator today is aligning classroom activities with various content standards.  At the Record-Eagle, our goal is to help incorporate the newspaper into student learning.  We’ve begun to tie our annual activities and programs to the Michigan Grade Level Content Expectations (GLCE) and the Michigan Curriculum Frameworks. 

 

In addition to the standards listed below, a complete listing of the GLCE can be found at http://www.michigan.gov/mde/0,1607,7-140-28753-87065--,00.html

 

The C.L.E.A.N. Water activities included in Freshwater Focus can be used to satisfy the following content expectations:

 

What is a Watershed?

This activity satisfies:

Michigan Curriculum Framework Strand V.1 The Geosphere

§         All students will describe the earth’s surface; describe and explain how the earth’s features change over time; and analyze effects of technology on the earth’s surface and resources.

                        The geosphere includes earth’s surface and geological processes.

Michigan Curriculum Framework Strand V.2 The Hydrosphere

§         All students will demonstrate where water is found on earth; describe the characteristics of water and how water moves; and analyze the interaction of human activities with the hydrosphere.

The hydrosphere includes all forms of water.  Of particular interest in Michigan is the water environment in the Great Lakes region.

 

News in the ‘Shed – Parts 1 & 2

These activities satisfy:

 

Fourth Grade

            English Language Arts

§         Writing Process: Students will use a variety of drafting techniques when writing an essay with connected, coherent, and mechanically sound paragraphs.

 

Fifth Grade

            English Language Arts

§         Writing Genres: Students will write a position piece to demonstrate understanding of central ideas and supporting details (e.g., position/evidence organizational pattern) using multiple headings and subheadings.

Sixth Grade    

English Language Arts

§         Writing Genres: Students will write an essay (e.g., personal persuasive, or comparative) for authentic audiences that includes organizational patterns that support key ideas.

English Language Arts

§         Writing Process: Students will write for a specific purpose by using multiple paragraphs, sentence variety, and voice to meet the needs of an audience (e.g. word choice, level of formality, example).

 

Eighth Grade

            English Language Arts

§         Writing Process: Students will experiment with various ways of sequencing information (e.g., ordering arguments, sequencing ideas chronologically or by importance)

§         Writing Process: Students will review and revise their compositions for coherence and consistency regarding word choice, cause and effect, and style, and they will read their own work from another reader’s perspective in the interest of clarity.