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NC Science Standards

3.E.2.1 Compare Earths saltwater and

freshwater features (including oceans,
seas, rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, and
glaciers).
4.L.1 Understand the effects of
environmental changes, adaptations and
behaviors that enable animals (including
humans) to survive in changing habitats.
4.L.1.3 Explain how humans can adapt
their behavior to live in changing
habitats (e.g., recycling wastes,
establishing rain gardens, planting trees
and shrubs to prevent flooding and
erosion).

5.L.2 Understand the interdependence of

plants and animals with their ecosystem.

NC Common Core ELA Standards

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.1 Engage
effectively in a range of collaborative
discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and
teacher-led) with diverse partners on
grade 3 topics and texts, building on
others' ideas and expressing their own
clearly.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.2: Write
informative/explanatory texts to examine
a topic and convey ideas and
information clearly.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.3 Ask and

answer questions about information
from a speaker, offering appropriate
elaboration and detail.
CSS.ELA-LITERACY.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.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.6 Speak in
complete sentences when appropriate to
task and situation in order to provide
requested detail or clarification. (See
grade 3 Language standards 1 and 3
here for specific expectations.)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.7
Conduct short research projects that
build knowledge about a topic.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.8 Recall
information from experiences or gather
information from print and digital sources;
take brief notes on sources and sort evidence
into provided categories.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.3 Explain
events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a
historical, scientific, or technical text,
including what happened and why, based on
specific information in the text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.9 Integrate
information from two texts on the same
topic in order to write or speak about the
subject knowledgeably.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.9 Integrate
information from several texts on the same
topic in order to write or speak about the
subject knowledgeably.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.1
Write opinion pieces on topics or texts,
supporting a point of view with reasons
and information.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.2
Write informative/explanatory texts to
examine a topic and convey ideas and
information clearly.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.3
Write narratives to develop real or
imagined experiences or events using
effective technique, descriptive details,
and clear event sequences.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.3
Use knowledge of language and its
conventions when writing, speaking,
reading, or listening.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.6 Acquire
and use accurately grade-appropriate
general academic and domain-specific
words and phrases, including those that
signal precise actions, emotions, or
states of being (e.g., quizzed, whined,
stammered) and that are basic to a
particular topic (e.g.,wildlife,
conservation, and endangered when
discussing animal preservation).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.7 Conduct
short research projects that build knowledge
through investigation of different aspects of
a topic.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.8 Recall
relevant information from experiences or
gather relevant information from print and
digital sources; take notes and categorize
information, and provide a list of sources.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.4.1: Engage
effectively in a range of collaborative
discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and
teacher-led) with diverse partners on
grade 4 topics and texts, building on
others' ideas and expressing their own
clearly.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.4.3 Use
knowledge of language and its
conventions when writing , speaking,
reading, or listening.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.4.4 Report on a
topic or text, tell a story, or recount an
experience in an organized manner, using
appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive
details to support main ideas or themes;
speak clearly at an understandable pace.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.1

Write opinion pieces on topics or texts,

supporting a point of view with
reasons and information.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.7

Conduct short research projects that

use several sources to build knowledge
through investigation of different
aspects of a topic.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.8 Recall
relevant information from experiences or
gather relevant information from print and
digital sources; summarize or paraphrase
information in notes and finished work, and
provide a list of sources.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.5.1

Engage effectively in a range of

collaborative discussions (one-on-one,
in groups, and teacher-led) with
diverse partners on grade 5 topics and
texts, building on others' ideas and
expressing their own clearly.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.5.4

Report on a topic or text or present an

opinion, sequencing ideas logically
and using appropriate facts and
relevant, descriptive details to support
main ideas or themes; speak clearly at
an understandable pace.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.5.5

Include multimedia components (e.g.,

graphics, sound) and visual displays in
presentations when appropriate to
enhance the development of main ideas
or themes.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.3

Use knowledge of language and its

conventions when writing, speaking,
reading, or listening.

Technology

3.TT.1.1 Use a variety of technology tools to

gather data and information (e.g., Webbased resources, e-books, online
communication tools, etc.).

Social Studies

3.G.1.3. Exemplify how people adapt to,

change and protect the environment to meet
their needs.

5.G.1.2 Explain the positive and negative

effects of human activity on the physical
environment of the United States, past and
present.