Coordination with Colorado Model Content Standards
The Adventures of Dakota Sandstone program is designed to coordinate with the Colorado Model Content Standards for Science, Geography, Reading and Writing.
COLORADO MODEL CONTENT STANDARDS MATRIX
SCIENCE | GEOGRAPHY | READING
AND WRITING
SCIENCE
Standard 2. Students know and understand common properties, forms, and changes in matter and energy. Especially 2.2- that energy appears in different forms and can move and change
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Chapter 1. STORY OF BIOGENIA
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Chapter 3. FOUR WORLDS
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Chapter 4. MYSTERY OF DELPHI
Standard 4. Students know and understand the processes and interactions of Earth's systems and the structure and dynamics of Earth and other objects in space. Especially 4.1 explaining how minerals, rocks and soils form and 4.4 the structure of the solar system, composition and interactions of objects in the universe.
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Chapter 2. CENTER OF THE EARTH
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Chapter 5. THE GREAT ESCAPE
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Chapter 6. THE MAGIC MUSICIAN
Standard 5. Students know and understand interrelationships among science, technology, and human activity and how they can affect the world. Especially describing the extent of human uses of renewable and non-renewable resources, describing how the use of technology can help solve an individual or community problem, describing how people use science and technology in their professions.
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Chapter 7. PHONE HOME
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Chapter 8. CITY SAVIOR
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Chapter 10. OH, TO BE MERCAPTAN!
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Chapter 11. LOOKING TO THE FUTURE
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Chapter 12. DRIVING DREAMS
GEOGRAPHY
Standard 3. Students understand how physical processes shape Earth's surface patterns and systems. Especially explaining how physical processes influence the formation and location of resources
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Chapter 1. STORY OF BIOGENIA
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Chapter 2. CENTER OF THE EARTH
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Chapter 3. FOUR WORLDS
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Chapter 4. MYSTERY OF DELPHI
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Chapter 5. GREAT ESCAPE
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Chapter 6. MAGIC MUSICIAN
Standard 5. Students understand the effects of interactions between human and physical systems and the changes in meaning, use, distribution and importance of resources. Especially evaluating ways in which technology has expanded human capacity to modify the physical environment and explaining the possible global effects of human modification of the physical environment.
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Chapter 7. PHONE HOME
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Chapter 8. CITY SAVIOR
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Chapter 9. SILJAN RING
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Chapter 10. OH, TO BE MERCAPTAN!
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Chapter 11. LOOKING TO THE FUTURE
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Chapter 12. DRIVING DREAMS
READING AND WRITING
Standard 2. Students write and speak for a variety of purposes and audiences. Especially applying skills in analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and explanation to their writing and speaking.
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All Chapters
Standard 5. Students read to locate, select, and make use of relevant information from a variety of media, reference, and technological sources. Especially using organizational features of electronic information.
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All Chapters
Standard 6. Students read and recognize literature as a record of human experience. Especially reading, responding to, and discussing a variety of novels, poetry, short stories, non-fiction, content-area and technical material, and plays.
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All Chapters
