STARLAB PLANETARIUM

Bird Migration

Why do birds migrate?How do birds find their way?What is the fastest flying bird?Which bird is the long-distance migration champ?We uncover how birds use prevailing air currents, land formation, the Earth’s magnetic field to help (or sometimes hinder) them on reaching their seasonal destination.

English Language Arts

Acquisition of Vocabulary

Benchmark A Grades K – 3 Use context clues to determine the meaning of new vocabulary words.

Grade K Indicator 1. Understand new words from the context of conversations or from the use of pictures within a text.

Grade 2 Indicator 10. Determine the meaning and pronunciations of unknown words using a beginner’s dictionary, glossaries and technology.

Communication:Oral and Visual

Benchmark A Grade K – 3 Use active listening strategies to identify the main idea and to gain information from oral presentations.

Grade K Indicator 1. Listen attentively to speakers, stories, poems and songs.

Grade 1 Indicator 1. Use active listening skills, such as making eye contact or asking questions.

Indicator 1. Compare what is heard with prior knowledge and experience.Indicator 3. Follow simple oral directions.

Grade 2 Indicator 1. Use active listening strategies, such as making eye contact and asking for clarification and explanation.

Indicator 2. Compare what is heard with prior knowledge and experience.Indicator 3. Identify the main idea of oral presentations and visual media.Indicator 4. Follow two- and three-step oral directions.

Grade 3 Indicator 1. Ask questions for clarification and explanation, and respond to others’ ideas.

Indicator 2. Identify the main idea, supporting details and purpose of oral presentations and visual media.

Benchmark E Grade K – 3 Deliver a variety of presentations that include relevant information and a clear sense of purpose.

Grade K Indicator 5. Deliver informal descriptive or informational presentations about ideas or experiences in logical order with a beginning, middle and end.

Grade 1 Indicator 4. Speak clearly and understandably.

Indicator 5. Deliver brief informational presentations that:a. demonstrate an understanding of the topic; b. include and sort relevant information and details to develop topic.

Grade 2 Indicator 8. Deliver informal presentations that: b. demonstrate an understanding of the topic; c. include relevant facts and details to develop a topic.

Grade 3 Indicator 8. Deliver informal presentations that:b. demonstrate an understanding of the topic.

Benchmark A Grade 4 – 7 Use effective listening strategies, summarize major ideas and draw logical inferences from presentations and visual media.

Grade 5 Indicator 1. Demonstrate active listening strategies.

Indicator 2. Interpret the main idea and draw conclusions from oral presentations and visual media. Indicator 3. Identify the speaker’s purpose in presentations and visual media.Indicator 9. Deliver formal and informal descriptive presentations recalling anevent or personal experience that convey relevant information and descriptive details.

Benchmark B Grade 4 – 7 Explain a speaker’s point of view and use of persuasive techniques in presentations and visual media.

Grade 5 Indicator 1. Demonstrate active listening strategies.

Indicator 2. Interpret the main idea and draw conclusions from oral presentations and visual media.

Benchmark F Grade 4 – 7 Give presentations using a variety of delivery methods, visual materials and technology.

Grade 5 Indicator 9. Deliver formal and informal descriptive presentations recalling an event or personal experience that convey relevant information and descriptive details.

Benchmark E Grade 8 – 10 Give informational presentations tat present ideas in a logical sequence, include relevant facts and details from multiple sources and use a consistent organization structure.

Grade 8 Indicator 9. Deliver formal and informal descriptive presentations that convey relevant information and descriptive details.

Mathematics

Data Analysis and Probability

Benchmark A Grade K – 2 Pose questions and gather data about everyday situations and familiar objects.

Grade K Indicator 1. Gather and sort data in response to questions posed by teacher and students; e.g.; how many sisters and brothers, what color shoes.

Grade 1 Indicator 4. Read and interpret charts, picture graphs and bar graphs as sources of information to identify main ideas, draw conclusions, and make predictions.

Indicator 7. Answer questions about the number of objects represented in a picture graph, bar graph or table graph; e.g., category with the most, how many more in a category compared to another, how many altogether in two categories.

Grade 2 Indicator 2. Read, interpret and make comparisons and predictions from data represented in charts, line plots, picture graphs, and bar graphs.

Grade 3 Indicator 8. Identify the mode of a data set and describe the informationit gives about a data set.

Grade 4 Indicator 5. Propose and explain interpretations and predictions basedon data displayed in tables, charts and graphs.

Grade 5 Indicator 3. Read and interpret increasingly complex displays of data,such as double bar graphs.

Grade 6 Indicator 6. Make logical inferences from statistical data.