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The Fastest Pig in the West
and Kansas State Standards:
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and
understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human
environments in order to explain the interactions that occur in
Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 4: Human Systems: The student understands how
economic, political cultural, and social processes interact to shape
patterns of human populations, interdependence, cooperation and
conflict.
Kansas, United States and World History: The student uses a
working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals,
groups, ideas, events, eras, and developments in the history of
Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential
analytical and research skills.
Benchmark 2: The student understands the importance of the
experiences of groups of people who have contributed to the richness
of our heritage.
Benchmark 3: The student understands the significance of events,
holidays, documents, and symbols that are important to Kansas,
United States and World history.
Benchmark 4: The student engages in historical thinking skills.
Civics-Government: The student uses a working knowledge and
understanding of governmental systems of Kansas and the United
States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States
Constitution, the necessity for the rule of law, the civic values of
the American people, and the rights, privileges, and
responsibilities of becoming active participants in our
representative democracy.
Benchmark 2: The student understands the shared ideals and
diversity of American society and political culture.
Economics : The student uses a working knowledge and
understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and systems,
applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver,
investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United States living in an
interdependent world.
Benchmark 2: The student understands how the market economy works
in the United States
Reading: Standard 1: Reading: The student reads and
comprehends text across the curriculum.
Benchmark 1: The student uses skills in alphabetics to construct
meaning from text.
Benchmark 3: The student expands vocabulary.
Benchmark 4: The student comprehends a variety of texts
(narrative, expository, technical, and persuasive).
Standard 2: Literature: The student responds to a variety of
text.
Benchmark 1: The student uses literary concepts to interpret and
respond to text.
Benchmark 2: The student understands the significance of
literature and its contributions to human understanding and culture.
Math: Standard 1: Number and Computation: The student uses
numerical and computational concepts and procedures in a variety of
situations.
Benchmark 1: Sense – The student demonstrates number sense for
whole numbers, fractions (including mixed numbers), decimals, and
money including the use of concrete objects in a variety of
situations.
Benchmark 3: Estimation – The student uses computational
estimation with whole numbers, fractions (including mixed numbers)
and money in a variety of situations
Standard 4: Data – The student uses concepts and procedures
of data analysis in a variety of situations.
Benchmark 1: Probability – The student applies the concepts of
probability to draw conclusions and to make predictions and
decisions including the use of concrete objects in a variety of
situations.
Benchmark 2: The student collects, organizes, displays, explains,
and interprets numerical (whole numbers) and non-numerical data sets
including the use of concrete objects in a variety of situations.
Foreign Languages: Standard 2: The student gains knowledge
and understanding of target language cultures
Benchmark 2.1: The student demonstrates an understanding of the
relationship between the practices and perspectives of the target
language cultures
Benchmark 2.2: The student demonstrates an understanding of the
relationship between the products and perspectives of the target
language cultures
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