Taken from the Kentucky Department of Education website, the standards listed below, including Academic Expectations, Program of Studies and Core Content for Assessment, have shaped the "From Alaska: Transportation in Denali" segment. While the program also provides the creative teacher ample opportunity to fulfill other State requirements, the standards listed below are directly addressed in the video segment and/or one of the supplemental lessons. For each 'Program of Studies' or 'Core Content for Assessment' entry, a link is provided in cases where a prepared supplemental lesson will assist teachers in fulfilling a requirement.
Academic Expectations 2.19Students recognize and understand the relationship between people and geography and apply their knowledge in real-life situations.
Program of Studies
SS-4-G-3
Students will use various representations of the Earth (e.g., maps, globes, mental maps) to find and explain human and physical geographic features in Kentucky and regions of the United States.
Addressed in: Theme Map
SS-4-G-4
Students will understand how humans have interacted with the physical environment to meet their needs in Kentucky and regions in the United States.
Core Content for Assessment SS-E-4.1.1
Simple physical, political, and thematic maps, globes, charts, photographs, aerial photography, and graphs can be used to find and explain locations and display information.
Addressed in: Theme Map SS-E-4.1.4
After looking at spatial factors, decisions (e.g., where to locate a store, house, playground, or equipment on a playground) are made about where to locate human activities on Earth's surface.
Addressed in: Theme Map SS-E-4.1.5
Different factors in one location can have an impact on another location (e.g., natural disasters, damming a river)
SS-E-4.2.1
Every place is unique and can be described by its human (e.g., language, religion, housing) and physical characteristics (e.g., landforms, climates, water).
Addressed in: Theme Map
SS-E-4.2.2
Regions are areas that have one or more physical or human characteristics in common (e.g., physical: geographical regions of Kentucky, South, Midwest, Western Hemisphere; human: Appalachia, the Cornbelt, Amish country).
SS-E-4.4.1
People depend upon the physical environment for food, shelter, and clothing.
SS-E-4.4.2
People adapt to or modify the environment (e.g., produce food, build shelter, make clothing) to meet their needs.
SS-E-4.4.3
The physical environment both promotes and limits human activities (e.g., mountains as barriers or as protection, rivers used as boundaries or transportation routes).
SS-E-4.4.4
People may have different perspectives concerning the use of land (e.g., building developments, cutting down rain forest for farming).
4th Grade Science
Academic Expectations 2.2 Students identify, analyze, and use patterns such as cycles and trends to understand past and present events and predict possible future events.
Academic Expectations 2.3 Students identify and analyze systems and the ways their components work together or affect each other.
Academic Expectations 2.4 Students use the concept of scale and
scientific models to explain the organization and functioning of living and
nonliving things and predict other characteristics that might be observed.
Academic Expectations 2.6 Students understand how living and nonliving things change over time and the factors that influence the changes.
Program of Studies
S-4-ESS-7 Students will understand that weather changes from day to day and over the seasons. Weather can be described by observing and measuring temperature, wind direction and speed, and precipitation.
Addressed in: Cold Weather
Core Content for Assessment
SC-E-2.3.2
Weather changes from day to day and over seasons. Weather can be described by observations and measurable quantities such as temperature, wind direction and speed, and precipitation.
Addressed in: Cold Weather
4th Grade Math
Academic Expectations
1.5 - 1.9 Students use mathematical ideas and procedures to communicate, reason, and solve problems.
2.10 Students understand measurement concepts and use measurements appropriately and accurately.
Program of Studies
M-4-NC-10 Students will understand and apply computational procedures for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing whole numbers using memorized basic facts.
Addressed in: Travel Time
M-4-GM-5Students will add and subtract time.
Addressed in: Travel Time
M-4-GM-6 Students will read and record temperatures to the nearest degree.
Addressed in: Cold Weather
Core Content for Assessment
MA-E-1.1.2 The operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Addressed in: Travel Time
MA-E-1.2.2
Add, subtract, multiply, and divide whole numbers using a variety of methods (e.g., mental, paper and pencil, calculator).
Addressed in: Travel Time
MA-E-2.2.6
Use standard units to measure volume of rectangular prisms, liquid capacity, money, time, and temperature (e.g., above and below zero).
Addressed in: Travel Time
