Primary Connections:

Massachusetts History and Social Science Curriculum Framework (2003)
(Massachusetts)

• Geography > Regions of the United States (Grade: 4)

MA Science and Technology/Engineering Framework (2006)
(Massachusetts)

• Earth and Space Science > Weather (Grade: 3 – 5)

National Science Education Standards (1996)
(National)

• Life Science > Organisms and environments (Grade: K – 4)
• Life Science > Organisms and environments (Grade: K – 4)
• Science in Personal and Social Perspectives > Changes in environments (Grade: K – 4)
• Science in Personal and Social Perspectives > Changes in environments (Grade: K – 4)
• Science in Personal and Social Perspectives > Changes in environments (Grade: K – 4)

Secondary Connections:

National Science Education Standards (1996)
(National)

• Science and Technology > Understanding about science and technology (Grade: K – 4)
• Science as Inquiry > Understanding about scientific inquiry (Grade: K – 4)
• Science and Technology > Abilities to distinguish between natural objects and objects made by humans (Grade: K – 4)

MA Science and Technology/Engineering Framework (2006)
(Massachusetts)

• Technology/Engineering > Engineering Design (Grade: 3 – 5)
• Technology/Engineering > Engineering Design (Grade: 3 – 5)
• Life Science (Biology) > Adaptations of Living Things (Grade: 3 – 5)
• Life Science (Biology) > Plant Structures and Functions (Grade: 3 – 5)
• Earth and Space Science > Weather (Grade: 3 – 5)
• Earth and Space Science > Soil (Grade: 3 – 5)

Primary Connections:

Massachusetts History and Social Science Curriculum Framework (2003)
(Massachusetts)

• Geography > 4.8 Regions of the United States (Grade: 4)
  On a map of the world, locate North America. On a map of North America, locate the United States, the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi and Rio Grande Rivers, the Great Lakes, Hudson Bay, and the Rocky and Appalachian Mountain ranges.

MA Science and Technology/Engineering Framework (2006)
(Massachusetts)

• Earth and Space Science > 06 Weather (Grade: 3 – 5)
  Explain how air temperature, moisture, wind speed and direction, and precipitation make up the weather in a particular place and time.

National Science Education Standards (1996)
(National)

• Life Science > Organisms and environments (Grade: K – 4)
  All organisms cause changes in the environment where they live. Some of these changes are detrimental to the organism or other organisms, whereas others are beneficial.
• Life Science > Organisms and environments (Grade: K – 4)
  Humans depend on their natural and constructed environments. Humans change environments in ways that can be either beneficial or detrimental for themselves and other organisms.
• Science in Personal and Social Perspectives > Changes in environments (Grade: K – 4)
  Some environmental changes occur slowly, and others occur rapidly. Students should understand the different consequences of changing environments in small increments over long periods as compared with changing environments in large increments over short periods.
• Science in Personal and Social Perspectives > Changes in environments (Grade: K – 4)
  Environments are the space, conditions, and factors that affect an individual's and a population's ability to survive and their quality of life.
• Science in Personal and Social Perspectives > Changes in environments (Grade: K – 4)
  Changes in environments can be natural or influenced by humans. Some changes are good, some are bad, and some are neither good nor bad. Pollution is a change in the environment that can influence the health, survival, or activities of organisms, including humans.

Secondary Connections:

National Science Education Standards (1996)
(National)

• Science and Technology > Understanding about science and technology (Grade: K – 4)
  People have always had problems and invented tools and techniques (ways of doing something) to solve problems. Trying to determine the effects of solutions helps people avoid some new problems.
• Science as Inquiry > Understanding about scientific inquiry (Grade: K – 4)
  Scientists make the results of their investigations public; they describe the investigations in ways that enable others to repeat the investigations.
• Science and Technology > Abilities to distinguish between natural objects and objects made by humans (Grade: K – 4)
  Some objects occur in nature; others have been designed and made by people to solve human problems and enhance the quality of life.

MA Science and Technology/Engineering Framework (2006)
(Massachusetts)

• Technology/Engineering > 2.3 Engineering Design (Grade: 3 – 5)
  Identify relevant design features (e.g., size, shape, weight) for building a prototype of a solution to a given problem.
• Technology/Engineering > 2.1 Engineering Design (Grade: 3 – 5)
  Identify a problem that reflects the need for shelter, storage, or convenience.
• Life Science (Biology) > 08 Adaptations of Living Things (Grade: 3 – 5)
  Describe how organisms meet some of their needs in an environment by using behaviors (patterns of activities) in response to information (stimuli) received from the environment. Recognize that some animal behaviors are instinctive (e.g., turtles burying their eggs), and others are learned (e.g., humans building fires for warmth, chimpanzees learning how to use tools).
• Life Science (Biology) > 05 Plant Structures and Functions (Grade: 3 – 5)
  Differentiate between observed characteristics of plants and animals that are fully inherited (e.g., color of flower, shape of leaves, color of eyes, number of appendages) and characteristics that are affected by the climate or environment (e.g., browning of leaves due to too much sun, language spoken).
• Earth and Space Science > 08 Weather (Grade: 3 – 5)
  Describe how global patterns such as the jet stream and water currents influence local weather in measurable terms such as temperature, wind direction and speed, and precipitation.
• Earth and Space Science > 04 Soil (Grade: 3 – 5)
  Explain and give examples of the ways in which soil is formed (the weathering of rock by water and wind and from the decomposition of plant and animal remains).