Content Standards 

SOCIAL STUDIES STANDARDS
K-2

Goal 1 - HISTORY

Students will understand the emergence and development of civilizations and cultures over time and place.

Indicator 1: Analyze the chronology of various historical eras to determine connections and cause/effect relationships.

Grade Level Standards
First Grade

2. compare everyday life in school and community and recognize that people, places, and things change over time.

Indicator 2: Evaluate the significance of interactions among cultures and civilizations and the impact on cultural diffusion.

Grade Level Standards
First Grade

2. recall people and events from the past and make inferences about everyday life of the time period.

Second Grade

1.      recognize that members of a group share beliefs, attitudes, and values.

Goal 2 - GEOGRAPHY

Students will understand the interrelationships of people, places, and the environment.

Indicator 1: Analyze information from geographic representation, tools, and technology to define location, place, and region.

Grade Level Standards

Kindergarten

4. locate areas referenced in historically based legends and stories.

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LANGUAGE ARTS STANDARDS
K-2

Goal 1 - READING

Students will read at increasing levels of complexity for a variety of purposes.

Indicator 1: Students will apply various reading cues/strategies to interpret and comprehend text, e.g., context, semantic, syntactic, and graphophonic cues.

Grade Level Standards
First Grade

      2.      use knowledge of basic capitalization and punctuation when reading.

      3.     blend beginning, middle, and ending sounds to form words while reading.

      4.      read to confirm initial predictions about text.

Second Grade

1.   use knowledge of consonants, consonant blends, and common vowel patterns to decode unfamiliar words.

5.  recognize specific strategies are needed to read different types of printed materials, e.g., math story problems, poetry.

Indicator 3: Students will interpret and respond to a diversity of works representative of a variety of cultures and time periods.

Grade Level Standards

Second Grade

      1.  describe the role and contribution of authors and illustrators to print materials

  5.   compare/contrast stories and poems by different authors.

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MATHEMATICS STANDARDS
K-2

Goal 4 - NUMBER SENSE
Students will develop and use number sense to investigate the characteristics of numbers in a variety of forms and modes of operation.

Indicator 2: Apply number operations with real numbers and other number systems.

Grade Level Standards

First Grade

1.      recall basic addition and subtraction facts through the 9s.

    3.   use fraction models to identify parts of a whole and parts of a group.

    4.   estimate and find the sum or difference of two whole numbers written in horizontal or vertical
          form.

Second Grade

2. estimate sums and/or differences of two whole numbers and find the answers using the   
    appropriate methods of computing.

SOCIAL STUDIES STANDARDS
3-5

Goal 1 - HISTORY

Students will understand the emergence and development of civilizations and cultures over time and place.

Indicator 1: Analyze the chronology of various historical eras to determine connections and cause/effect relationships.

Grade Level Standards

Third Grade

2. analyze the obstacles and successes of the early settlers in creating communities, including landforms, resources, and waterways.

Fourth Grade

2. explain the impact of people and geographic location on the growth and expansion of South Dakota, emphasizing Manda, Arikara, Sioux, and other historic tribes; explorers (Lewis and Clark and the Veredrye brothers) and traders (Pierre Chorteau and Manuel Lisa); railroad expansion and town building; homesteaders and gold miners; and rainfall, prairie, Great Plains, Black Hills, and the Missouri River system.

Goal 2 - GEOGRAPHY

Students will understand the interrelationships of people, places, and the environment.

Indicator 1: Analyze information from geographic representation, tools, and technology to define location, place, and region.

Grade Level Standards

Fourth Grade

3. use appropriate maps for a specific purpose, including elevation, land use-resource, road maps and mileage tables, time zones, and migration/movement patterns.

Fifth Grade

    2.      determine the purpose of and use appropriate maps, including relief, product, road maps and  
          mileage tables, time zones, migration/movement patterns, population, and historical.

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LANGUAGE ARTS STANDARDS
3-5

Goal 1 - READING
Students will read at increasing levels of complexity for a variety of purposes.

Indicator 1:  Students will use various reading cues/strategies to interpret and comprehend text, e.g., context, semantic, syntactic, and graphophonic cues.

Grade Level Standards
Third Grade

3.  make predictions about information/events in text, reread to extend initial impressions,  and use prior knowledge to confirm or reject predictions.

Fourth Grade

2.  use text organization and prior knowledge to make predictions and comprehend information in various content areas, e.g., headings, graphics.

Fifth Grade

3.  use different reading strategies to comprehend text, such as skimming, scanning, and finding information to support particular ideas.

Goal 2:  WRITING
Students will write effectively for different audiences and specific purposes.
 

Indicator 2:  Students will use appropriate style, organization, and form in technical, transactional, creative, and personal writing.

Grade Level Standards
Third Grade

2.   compose written work which has appropriate organization and focus, i.e., topic and supporting sentences.

Fourth Grade

1.   determine appropriate style and format for published work.

5.   write to inform or entertain a specific audience.

Fifth Grade

2.  generate various autobiographical writings which include single incidents of interest or importance.

5.  write to inform, to entertain, or to provide explanations to specific audiences.

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MATHEMATICS STANDARDS
3 - 5

Goal 1 - ALGEBRA
Students will use the language of algebra to explore, describe, represent, and analyze number expressions and relations that represent variable quantities.

Indicator 1: Analyze procedures to transform algebraic expressions.

Grade Level Standards
Third Grade

      3.  recognize and use the commutative and associative properties of multiplication.
           (example: if 6 x 7 =  42, then what is 7 x 6?)
Fourth Grade

1.  relate the concepts of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to one another. (example: use of the associative, commutative, and distributive properties)

Fifth Grade

2.  simplify numerical expressions involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and parentheses, e.g., m = [3x(2-7)-8].

3.   use variables, expressions, equations, and inequalities to solve problems.
 

Indicator 3: Analyze and describe situations that involve one or more variables.

Third Grade

1. explain the relationship between multiplication and division to compute and check results. (example: 3 x 7 = 21, so 21 / 7 = _)

Fourth Grade

     2.     explain the process used to simplify a two-step problem.

Fifth Grade

4.   solve open sentences using the four basic operations.
 

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