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Description and Explanation for the Alignment
of
Alaska
’s Science Performance Standards and Project Wet Lessons
This
project was undertaken to provide
Alaska
’s teachers with a tool to easily match Project Wet Lessons with the
guidelines for science instruction prepared by
Alaska
’s Department of Education in June 2005.
The
Project Wet Grade
Level Recommendations spreadsheet provides a suggested grade level for each
lesson. These recommendations are based on direct application of
Alaska
’s Science Performance Standards within the lesson’s activities,
assessments, and extensions. These recommendations are meant to be guidelines
only. Most lessons are appropriate at several different grade levels. The
spreadsheet provides a “Brief Description”
of each lesson to assist teachers in matching lessons with their personal
classroom curriculums. Some lessons provide adaptations for use with younger
(K-2) students. These lessons are listed in the “K-2 Option” column.
Finally, the “Alaska Science Performance Standards” column provides
information about which standards apply directly to each lesson. The standards
recorded in this column are only those which are directly demonstrated in each
lesson. Individual teachers can certainly address more of the state standards
with their own additions or extensions to the lessons.
The
AK
State Standards for All Project Wet Lessons spreadsheet lists each lesson
and
Alaska
’s Science Performance Standards that are directly addressed by each lesson at
multiple grade levels. Each lesson
in the Project Wet Curriculum and Activity Guide begins with a recommended grade
level range (inside the blue
information box). Lessons and Alaska Science Performance Standards were aligned
for each grade level within that recommended range. The science standards listed
are only those that are directly addressed by the lesson. Individual teachers
can expand the range of science standards with their own additions or extensions
to these lessons.
This
alignment project was prepared by George Taylor and the Wasilla Soil & Water
Conservation District. It is intended to assist
Alaska
’s teachers in their efforts to provide quality conservation instruction to
their students and to justify those efforts to their districts, directors, and
school boards.
An
official copy of the Alaska Performance Standards can be found online at the
state web page http:
//www.eed.state.ak.us/ContentStandards/
A
paper copy of the standards can be ordered at:
State
of
Alaska
Dept.
Of Education & Early Development
ATTN:
Standards
801 West 10th Street, Suite 200
Juneau
,
AK
. 99811-0500
Or
call (907) 465-2800
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