K-2 Programs

Correlations are available for the following programs:

Fred the Fish

Students go on an imaginary journey with Fred the Fish to learn how different kinds of pollution affect the fish in a stream. This is a very visual activity where students see the effects of water pollution.

Fred the Fish is available as an online program. Click here to download the PDF. For an editable copy of the PowerPoint, contact our education specialist.

Standard – Earth and Space Sciences
Organizer – Process that Shape the Earth
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator – Benchmark B 1.3, Benchmark C K.3

Standard – Life Sciences
Organizer – Characteristics and Structure of Life
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator – Benchmark A 1.1, Benchmark A 2.1,
Benchmark B 2.2, Benchmark B 2.3

Standard – Life Sciences
Organizer – Diversity and Interdependence of Life
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark A 2.5, Benchmark B 2.6

Standard – Science and Technology
Organizer – Abilities to do Technological Design
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator – Benchmark B K.3,

Standard – Scientific Inquiry
Organizer – Doing Scientific Inquiry
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator – Benchmark B K.10, Benchmark C 1.5,
Benchmark C 2.5, Benchmark C 2.6

Standard – Scientific Ways of Knowing
Organizer – Ethical Practices
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator – Benchmark B K.3, Benchmark B 2.3

Standard – Scientific Ways of Knowing
Organizer – Nature of Science
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator – Benchmark A K.2, Benchmark A 1.2

Animal Tracks and Wildlife

Students view a variety of animal skins and discuss animal characteristics. They learn how pollution and litter can affect animals within an ecosystem. Students take home an animal track made from plaster of Paris.

Standard – Life Sciences
Organizer – Diversity and Interdependence of Life
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator – Benchmark B K.5, Benchmark A 1.4,
Benchmark A 2.5

Standard – Life Sciences
Organizer – Characteristics and Structure of Life
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator – Benchmark A 1.1, Benchmark A 2.1,
Benchmark B 2.3

Standard – Life Sciences
Organizer – Heredity
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator – Benchmark C K.3

Standard – Science and Technology
Organizer – Abilities to do Technological Design
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator – Benchmark B K.3

Standard – Scientific Ways of Knowing
Organizer – Ethical Practices
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator – Benchmark B K.3, Benchmark B 2.3

Web of Life / Links in the Chain

By playing a game, students learn how pollution enters the aquatic ecosystem. They learn how non-point source pollution affects the organisms in the food chain of that ecosystem, what a food chain is, and how biological magnification affects those organisms.

Standard – Life sciences
Organizer – Characteristics and Structure of Life
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator – Benchmark A 2.1, Benchmark B 2.2,
Benchmark B 2.2, Benchmark B 2.7

Standard – Life Sciences
Organizer – Diversity and Interdependence of Life
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator – Benchmark A 2.5

Standard – Science and Technology
Organizer – Understanding Technology
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator – Benchmark A 2.1, Benchmark A 2.3

Standard – Scientific Inquiry
Organizer – Doing Scientific Inquiry
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator – Benchmark C 2.10

Finding the Connections

Students construct a poster and connect the insects and animals in a given food chain and ecosystem while they describe the interdependence between them.

Standard – Life Sciences
Organizer – Characteristics and Structure of Life
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator – Benchmark A 1.1, Benchmark A 2.1,
Benchmark B 2.2, Benchmark B 2.3, Benchmark B 2.7

Standard – Life Sciences
Organizer – Diversity and Interdependence of Life
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator – Benchmark A 1.4, Benchmark A 2.5

Making Paper / Recycling

This program teaches students to recycle old newspapers into new products such as decorative magnets, pins, Christmas ornaments and more. Students learn the advantages of recycling and paint their own ornaments to keep.

Standard – Science and Technology
Organizer – Understanding Technology
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator – Benchmark A K.2, Benchmark A 1.3,
Benchmark A 2.2, Benchmark A 2.3

Standard – Science and Technology
Organizer – Abilities to do Technological Design
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator – Benchmark B 2.4

Standard – Earth and Space Science
Organizer – Earth Systems
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator – Benchmark D 1.1

Standard – Physical Sciences
Organizer – Nature of Matter
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator – Benchmark D 1.2, Benchmark A 1.3

Standard – Scientific Ways of Knowing
Organizer – Science and Society
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator – Benchmark C 1.3

Standard – Scientific Ways of Knowing
Organizer – Ethical Practices
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator – Benchmark B K.3, Benchmark B 2.3

Indoor Stream Monitoring

Students utilize scientific inquiry to compare two different artificial streams. They seine (using a special net) for macroinvertebrates and learn how these macroinvertebrates can determine the quality of water in a stream. Students learn how tolerance to water quality conditions varies from species to species.

Standard – Scientific Inquiry
Organizer – Doing Scientific Inquiry
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator – Benchmark A 2.2, Benchmark B 2.7,
Benchmark C 1.4, Benchmark C 1.5, Benchmark C 1.9, Benchmark C 2.5,
Benchmark C 2.6, Benchmark C 2.10

Standard – Scientific Ways of Knowing
Organizer – Ethical Practices
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator – Benchmark B 2.3

Enviroscape Watershed Model

This models helps students understand what a watershed is and how it drains. Students will place simulated pollutants on the land to see how we contribute to water pollution.

Standard – Earth and Space Science
Organizer – Processes that Shape the Earth
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator – Benchmark B K.2, Benchmark B 1.3,
Benchmark D 1.1, Benchmark B 1.2

Standard – Scientific Inquiry
Organizer – Doing Scientific Inquiry
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator – Benchmark A 2.1, Benchmark B K.10,
Benchmark C 2.5, Benchmark C 2.6, Benchmark C 2.10

Standard – Scientific Ways of Knowing
Organizer – Nature of Science
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicators – Benchmark A K.2, Benchmark A 1.2

Standard – Scientific Ways of Knowing
Organizer – Ethical Practices
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicators – Benchmark B K.3, Benchmark B 2.3

Standard – Scientific Ways of Knowing
Organizer – Science and Society
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicators – Benchmark C 1.3

Guess What I am / Felt Board

Students, using felt objects and a felt board, learn about ecosystems and how everything within them rely on soil and water. Seasonal changes are discussed. “Guess What I Am” involves feeling objects in a bucket and discussing if they are natural or man-made. Decomposition of material into soil is explained.

Standard – Earth and Space Science
Organizer – Processes that Shape the Earth
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicators – Benchmark C K.5, Benchmark B K.2,
Benchmark B 1.3

Standard – Earth and Space Science
Organizer – Earth Systems
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicators – Benchmark D 1.1

Standard – Life Sciences
Organizer – Characteristics and Structure of Life
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicators – Benchmark A K .1, Benchmark A 1.1,
Benchmark B 1.5, Benchmark A 2.1, Benchmark A 1.2

Standard – Life Sciences
Organizer – Heredity
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicators – Benchmark C K.4

Standard – Life Sciences
Organizer – Diversity and Interdependence of Life
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicators – Benchmark B K.6

Standard – Scientific Ways of Knowing
Organizer – Ethical Practices
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicators – Benchmark B K.3

Standard – Physical Sciences
Organizer – Nature of Energy
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicators – Benchmark C 1.8

Standard – Scientific Inquiry
Organizer – Doing Scientific Inquiry
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicators – Benchmark A 1.1

Stream Table

This is an exciting hands-on way to learn about stream morphology. The stream table is available for loan, teaching concepts of stream behavior. A teaching guide is included; the stream table can demonstrate streambank erosion, streambank protection, stream energy and slope change, among other concepts.

Standard – Earth & Space Science
Organizer – Earth Systems
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicators – Benchmark C 2.4

Standard – Science and Technology
Organizer – Understanding Technology
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicators – Benchmark A 2.1, Benchmark A 2.2,
Benchmark A 2.3

Standard – Scientific Inquiry
Organizer – Doing Scientific Inquiry
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicators – Benchmark A 2.1, Benchmark A 2.2,
Benchmark A 2.3, Benchmark B 2.4, Benchmark C 2.5, Benchmark C 2.6,
Benchmark C 2.7, Benchmark C 2.10

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K-2 Programs

Correlations are available for the following programs:

Fred the Fish

Animal Tracks and Wildlife

Web of Life / Links in the Chain

Finding the Connections

Making Paper / Recycling

Indoor Stream Monitoring

Enviroscape Watershed Model

Guess What I am / Felt Board

Stream Table