| Kid Pix Lesson |
California State Content Standards |
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Kindergarten
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| Neighborhood |
California Standard: History/Social Science K.4-4
Learning and Working Now and Long Ago
Construct maps and models of neighborhoods, incorporating such structures as police and fire stations, airports, banks, hospitals, supermarkets, schools, homes, transportation lines, etc.
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| Color Chart |
California Standard: Language Arts 1.17
Vocabulary and Concept Development
Identify and sort common words in basic categories. |
| ABC Chart |
California Standard: Language Arts 1.17
Vocabulary and Concept Development
Identify and sort common words in basic categories.
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| Animal Chart |
California Standard: Science 2.0
Life Sciences
Different types of plants and animals inhabit the Earth.
California Standard: Mathematics 1.0
Number Sense
Students understand the relationship between numbers and quantities. |
| Measurement |
California Standard: Mathematics 1.1
Measurement and Geometry
Compare the length, weight, and capacity of objects by making direct comparisons with reference objects.
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| Shapes |
California Standard: Mathematics 2.1
Measurement and Geometry
Identify and describe common geometric objects |
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First Grade
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| Things in a House |
California Standard: Language Arts 1.17
Vocabulary and Concept Development
Classify grade-appropriate categories of words.
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| The Four Seasons |
California Standard: Science 3b
Earth Sciences
Students know the weather changes from day to day, but trends in temperature or of rain (or snow) tend to be predictable during a season.
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| Ways to Travel |
California Standard: History/Social Science 1.2-3
A Child’s Place in Time and Space
Construct a simple map, using cardinal directions and map symbols.
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| Habitats |
California Standard: Science 2a
Life Sciences
Students know different plants and animals inhabit different kinds of environments and have external features that help them thrive in different kinds of places. |
| Math Facts |
California Standard: Mathematics 2.0
Number Sense
Students demonstrate the meaning of addition and subtraction and use these operations to solve problems.
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| Telling Time |
California Standard: Mathematics 1.2
Measurement and Geometry
Tell time to the nearest half hour and relate time to events. |
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Second Grade
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| Earth's Resources |
California Standard: Science 3e
Earth Sciences
Students know rock, water, plants, and soil provide many resources, including food, fuel, and building materials, that humans use.
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| Animal Groups |
California Standard: Science 2a
Life Sciences
Students know that organisms reproduce offspring of their own kind and that the offspring resemble their parents and each other.
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| Family History |
California Standard: History/Social Science 2.1-2
Learning and Working Now and Long Ago
Compare and contrast their daily lives with those of parents and grandparents.
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| Land and Water in the United States |
California Standard: History/Social Science 2.2-2
Learning and Working Now and Long Ago
Label from memory a simple map of the North American continent, including the countries, oceans, Great Lakes, major rivers, and mountain ranges. Identify the essential map elements: title, legend, and directional indicator.
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| Money |
California Standard: Mathematics 5.0
Number Sense
Students model and solve problems by representing, adding, and subtracting amounts of money.
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| Survey Graphs |
California Standard: Mathematics 1.0
Statistics, Data Analysis, and Probability
Students collect numerical data and record, organize, display, and interpret the data on bar graphs and other representations.
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Third Grade
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| Indian Communities |
California Standard: History/Social Science 3.2-2
Continuity and Change
Describe the ways in which physical geography, including climate, influences how the local Indian nations adapted to their environment. |
| All About Plants |
California Standard: Science 3a
Life Sciences
Students know plants and animals have structures that serve different functions in growth, survival, and reproduction.
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| Endangered Species |
California Standard: Science 3d
Life Sciences
Students know when the environment changes, some plants and animals survive and reproduce; others die or move to new locations.
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| Fractions |
California Standard: Mathematics 3.1
Number Sense
Compare fractions represented by drawings or concrete materials to show equivalency and to add and subtract simple fractions in context.
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| Polygons |
California Standard: Mathematics 2.1
Measurement and Geometry
Identify, describe, and classify polygons.
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| Phases of the Moon |
California Standard: Science 4b
Earth Sciences
Students know the way in which the Moon’s appearance changes during the four-week lunar cycle. |
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Fourth Grade
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California Native Americans
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California Standard: History/Social Science 4.2-1
California: A Changing State
Discuss the major nations of California Indians, their geographic distribution, economic activities, legends, and religious beliefs; and describe how they depended on, adapted to, and modified the physical environment by cultivation of land and use of sea resources.
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| Spanish Missions |
California Standard: History/Social Sciences 4.2-5
California: A Changing State
Describe the daily lives of the people, native and non-native, who occupied the missions.
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| Rock Properties |
California Standard: Science 4a
Earth Sciences
Students know how to differentiate among igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks by referring to their properties and methods of formation.
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| Perimeter and Area |
California Standard: Mathematics 1.0 d
Measurement and Geometry
Students understand and use formulas to solve problems involving perimeters and areas of rectangles and squares. Use those formulas to find the areas of more complex figures by dividing the figures into basic shapes.
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| Ordered Pairs |
California Standard: Mathematics 2.0 and 2.1
Measurement and Geometry
2.0 Students use two-dimensional coordinate grids to represent points and graph lines and simple figures.
2.2 Draw the points corresponding to linear relationships on graph paper.
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| The Western Trails |
California Standard: History/Social Sciences 4.3-2
California: A Changing State
Compare how and why people traveled to California and the routes they traveled. |
| Native American Culture Regions |
California Standard: History/Social Science 5.1-1
United States History and Geography: Making a New Nation
Describe how geography and climate influenced the way various nations lived and adjusted to the natural environment, including locations of villages, the distinct structures that were built, and how they obtained food, clothing, tools and utensils.
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| Exploring the New World |
California Standard: History/Social Science 5.2
United States History and Geography: Making a New Nation
Students trace the routes and describe the early explorations of the Americas.
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| The Thirteen British Colonies |
California Standard: History/Social Science 5.4-1
United States History and Geography: Making a New Nation
Understand the influence of location and physical setting on the founding of the original 13 colonies and identify on a map the locations of the colonies.
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| Our Solar System |
California Standard: Science 5b
Earth Sciences
Students know the solar system includes the Earth, the Moon, the Sun, eight other planets and their satellites, and smaller objects such as asteroids and comets.
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| Coordinate Graphing |
California Standard: Mathematics 1.4
Algebra and Functions
Identify and graph ordered pairs in the four quadrants of the coordinate plane.
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| Angles and Triangles |
California Standard: Mathematics 1.1, 2.1 and 2.2
Measurement and Geometry
1.1 Derive and use the formula for the area of a triangle by comparing it with the area of a rectangle.
2.1 Measure, identify, and draw angles and triangles by using appropriate tools.
2.2 Know that the sum of the angles of any triangle is 180 degrees.
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Sixth Grade
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| Ancient Egypt |
California Standard: History/Social Science 6.2-1
World History and Geography: Ancient Civilizations
Locate and describe the major river systems, and the physical settings that supported permanent settlement and early civilizations. |
| Contributions of the Romans |
California Standard: History/Social Science 6.7
World History and Geography: Ancient Civilizations
Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures during the development of Rome. |
| Food Web |
California Standard: Science 5b
Life Sciences
Students know matter is transferred over time from one organism to others in the food web and between organisms and the physical environment. |
| Plate Tectonics |
California Standard: Science 1
Earth Sciences
Plate tectonics accounts for important features of the Earth’s surface and major geological events. |
| Volume |
California Standard: Mathematics 1.3
Measurement and Geometry
Know and use the formulas for the volume of triangular prisms and cylinders, compare these formulas and explain the similarity between them and the formula for the volume of a rectangular solid. |
| Pie Chart |
California Standard: Mathematics 1.1 and 2.0
Statistics, Data Analysis, and Probability
1.1 Compute the range, mean, median, and mode of data sets.
2.0 Students use data samples of a population and describe the characteristics and limitations of the sample. |
