Students know rivers and streams are dynamic systems that erode, transport sediment, change course, and flood their banks in natural and recurring patterns.

05: Salmon and Steelhead Creek Walk
06: Defining Our Watershed
11: Creek Monitoring

Students know matter is transferred over time from one organism to others in the food web and between organisms and the physical environment.

01: Getting to Know Salmon and Steelhead
02: The Incredible Journey

Students know the number and types of organisms an ecosystem can support depends on the resources available and on abiotic factors, such as quantities of light and water, a range of temperatures, and soil composition.

09: Salmon and Steelhead Life Stories
10: Designing for Salmon and Steelhead
12: Planning a Restoration Project

Students will select and use appropriate tools and technology (including calculators, computers, balances, spring scales, microscopes, and binoculars) to perform tests, collect data, and display data.

11: Creek Monitoring

Students will construct appropriate graphs from data and develop qualitative statements about the relationships between variables.

04: Community Survey

Students will communicate the steps and results from an investigation in written reports and oral presentations.

13: Celebrating Success

Students will read a topographic map and a geologic map for evidence provided on the maps and construct and interpret a simple scale map.

06: Defining Our Watershed
08: Mapping Our Community

Students will identify changes in natural phenomena over time without manipulating the phenomena (e.g., a tree limb, a grove of trees, a stream, a hillslope).

11: Creek Monitoring

Students use a variety of maps and documents to identify physical and cultural features of neighborhoods, cities, states, and countries....

06: Defining Our Watershed
07: Watershed Web Search
08: Mapping Our Community

Students frame questions that can be answered by historical study and research.

04: Community Survey

Identify the structural features of popular media (e.g. newspapers, magazines, online information) and use the features to obtain information.

07: Watershed Web Search
09: Salmon and Steelhead Life Stories

Clarify an understanding of texts by creating outlines, logical notes, summaries, or reports.

07: Watershed Web Search
09: Salmon and Steelhead Life Stories

Analyze the effect of qualities of the character on the plot and the resolution of the conflict.

09: Salmon and Steelhead Life Stories

Analyze the influence of setting on the problem and its resolution.

09: Salmon and Steelhead Life Stories

Explain the effects of common literary devices (e.g. symbolism, imagery, metaphor) in a variety of fictional and nonfictional texts.

09: Salmon and Steelhead Life Stories

Develop the topic with ... precise verbs, nouns, and adjectives to paint a visual picture in the mind of the reader.

12: Creek Monitoring

Use organizational features of electronic text (e.g. bulletin boards, databases, keyword searches, e-mail addresses) to locate information.

07: Watershed Web Search
09: Salmon and Steelhead Life Stories

Write narratives.

09: Salmon and Steelhead Life Stories

Write research reports.

07: Watershed Web Search

Deliver informative presentations.

13: Community Celebration

Deliver presentations on problems and solutions.

12: Planning a Restoration Project

Compute the range, mean, median, and mode of data sets.

04: Community Survey
11: Creek Monitoring

Identify different ways of selecting a sample (e.g. convenience sampling, responses to a survey, random sampling) and which method makes a sample more representative for a population.

04: Community Survey