Girl Scouts Journeys Content Unit Report
Grades: K, 1
States: California Content Standards Daisy Flower Garden
Summary: WELCOME TO THE DAISY FLOWER GARDEN In this journey for kindergarteners and first-graders, a favorite pastime--gardening--meets the Girl Scout Law. The result is a storybook world of flowers and little girls who, together, do great things. (978-0-88441-709-5)
California Content Standards
Health and PE / Language Arts / Mathematics / Science / Social Studies Grade: K - Adopted 1997
CONTENT STANDARD / DOMAIN
CA.2.0. Reading: Reading Comprehension: Students identify the basic facts and ideas in what they have read, heard, or viewed. They use comprehension strategies (e.g., generating and responding to questions, comparing new information to what is already known). PERFORMANCE STANDARD /
STRAND
2.3. Comprehension and Analysis of
Grade-Level-Appropriate Text: Connect to life experiences the information and events in texts. PERFORMANCE STANDARD /
STRAND
2.5. Comprehension and Analysis of
Grade-Level-Appropriate Text: Ask and answer questions about essential elements of a text. CONTENT STANDARD /
DOMAIN
CA.1.0. Listening and Speaking: Listening and Speaking Strategies: Students listen and respond to oral communication. They speak in clear and coherent sentences.
PERFORMANCE STANDARD / STRAND
1.2. Comprehension: Share information and ideas, speaking audibly in complete, coherent sentences. CONTENT STANDARD /
DOMAIN
CA.2.0. Listening and Speaking: Speaking Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics): Students deliver brief recitations and oral presentations about familiar experiences or interests, demonstrating command of the organization and delivery strategies outlined in Listening and Speaking Standard 1.0.
PERFORMANCE STANDARD / STRAND
2.2. Recite short poems, rhymes, and songs.
Grade: 1 - Adopted 1997 CONTENT STANDARD /
DOMAIN
CA.2.0. Reading: Reading Comprehension: Students read and understand grade-level-appropriate material. They draw upon a variety of comprehension strategies as needed (e.g., generating and responding to essential questions, making predictions, comparing information from several sources).
PERFORMANCE STANDARD / STRAND
2.4. Comprehension and Analysis of
Grade-Level-Appropriate Text: Use context to resolve ambiguities about word and sentence meanings. 2.6.
PERFORMANCE STANDARD / STRAND
Comprehension and Analysis of
Grade-Level-Appropriate Text: Relate prior knowledge to textual information.
CONTENT STANDARD / DOMAIN
CA.3.0. Reading: Literary Response and Analysis: Students read and respond to a wide variety of significant works of children's literature. They distinguish between the structural features of the text and the literary terms or elements (e.g., theme, plot, setting, characters).
PERFORMANCE STANDARD / STRAND
3.3. Narrative Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text: Recollect, talk, and write about books read during the school year.
CONTENT STANDARD / DOMAIN
CA.1.0. Listening and Speaking: Listening and Speaking Strategies: Students listen critically and respond appropriately to oral communication. They speak in a manner that guides the listener to understand
important ideas by using proper phrasing, pitch, and modulation.
PERFORMANCE STANDARD / STRAND
1.1. Comprehension: Listen attentively.
PERFORMANCE STANDARD / STRAND
1.4. Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication: Stay on the topic when speaking.
CONTENT STANDARD / DOMAIN
CA.2.0. Listening and Speaking: Speaking Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics): Students deliver brief recitations and oral presentations about familiar experiences or interests that are organized around a coherent thesis statement. Student speaking
demonstrates a command of standard American English and the organizational and delivery strategies outlined in Listening and Speaking Standard 1.0. PERFORMANCE STANDARD /
STRAND
2.1. Recite poems, rhymes, songs, and stories.
Grade: K - Adopted 1998 CONTENT STANDARD /
DOMAIN
CA.1. Physical Sciences: Properties of materials can be observed, measured, and predicted. As a basis for understanding this concept:
PERFORMANCE STANDARD / STRAND
1.a. Students know objects can be described in terms of the materials they are made of (e.g., clay, cloth, paper) and their physical properties (e.g., color, size, shape, weight, texture, flexibility, attraction to magnets, floating, sinking).
CONTENT STANDARD / DOMAIN
CA.2. Life Sciences: Different types of plants and animals inhabit the earth. As a basis for understanding this concept:
PERFORMANCE STANDARD / STRAND
2.a. Students know how to observe and describe similarities and differences in the appearance and behavior of plants and animals (e.g., seed-bearing plants, birds, fish, insects).
PERFORMANCE STANDARD / STRAND
2.c. Students know how to identify major structures of common plants and animals (e.g., stems, leaves, roots,
arms, wings, legs). CONTENT STANDARD /
DOMAIN
CA.4. Investigation and Experimentation: Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and
conducting careful investigations. As a basis for understanding this concept and addressing the content in the other three strands, students should develop their own questions and perform investigations. Students will:
PERFORMANCE STANDARD / STRAND
4.a. Observe common objects by using the five senses.
PERFORMANCE STANDARD / STRAND
4.b. Describe the properties of common objects.
PERFORMANCE STANDARD / STRAND
4.d. Compare and sort common objects by one physical attribute (e.g., color, shape, texture, size, weight). PERFORMANCE STANDARD /
STRAND
4.e. Communicate observations orally and through drawings.
Grade: 1 - Adopted 1998 CONTENT STANDARD /
DOMAIN
CA.2. Life Sciences: Plants and animals meet their needs in different ways. As a basis for understanding this concept:
PERFORMANCE STANDARD / STRAND
2.a. Students know different plants and animals inhabit different kinds of environments and have external features that help them thrive in different kinds of places.
PERFORMANCE STANDARD / STRAND
2.b. Students know both plants and animals need water, animals need food, and plants need light.
PERFORMANCE STANDARD / STRAND
2.e. Students know roots are associated with the intake of water and soil nutrients and green leaves are
associated with making food from sunlight. CONTENT STANDARD /
DOMAIN
CA.4. Investigation and Experimentation: Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and
conducting careful investigations. As a basis for understanding this concept and addressing the content in the other three strands, students should develop their own questions and perform investigations. Students will:
PERFORMANCE STANDARD / STRAND
4.a. Draw pictures that portray some features of the thing being described.
Daisy Flower Garden
-Summary: WELCOME TO THE DAISY FLOWER GARDEN: A HOW-TO GUIDE FOR ADULT VOLUNTEERS (978-0-88441-710-1)
California Content Standards
Health and PE / Language Arts / Mathematics / Science / Social Studies Grade: K - Adopted 1997
CONTENT STANDARD / DOMAIN
CA.2.0. Reading: Reading Comprehension: Students identify the basic facts and ideas in what they have read, heard,
or viewed. They use comprehension strategies (e.g., generating and responding to questions, comparing new information to what is already known). PERFORMANCE STANDARD /
STRAND
2.3. Comprehension and Analysis of
Grade-Level-Appropriate Text: Connect to life experiences the information and events in texts. PERFORMANCE STANDARD /
STRAND
2.5. Comprehension and Analysis of
Grade-Level-Appropriate Text: Ask and answer questions about essential elements of a text. CONTENT STANDARD /
DOMAIN
CA.1.0. Listening and Speaking: Listening and Speaking Strategies: Students listen and respond to oral communication. They speak in clear and coherent sentences.
PERFORMANCE STANDARD / STRAND
1.2. Comprehension: Share information and ideas, speaking audibly in complete, coherent sentences. CONTENT STANDARD /
DOMAIN
CA.2.0. Listening and Speaking: Speaking Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics): Students deliver brief recitations and oral presentations about familiar experiences or interests, demonstrating command of the organization and delivery strategies outlined in Listening and Speaking Standard 1.0.
PERFORMANCE STANDARD / STRAND
2.2. Recite short poems, rhymes, and songs.
Grade: 1 - Adopted 1997 CONTENT STANDARD /
DOMAIN
CA.2.0. Reading: Reading Comprehension: Students read and understand grade-level-appropriate material. They draw upon a variety of comprehension strategies as needed (e.g., generating and responding to essential questions, making predictions, comparing information from several sources).
PERFORMANCE STANDARD / STRAND
2.4. Comprehension and Analysis of
Grade-Level-Appropriate Text: Use context to resolve ambiguities about word and sentence meanings. PERFORMANCE STANDARD /
STRAND
2.6. Comprehension and Analysis of
Grade-Level-Appropriate Text: Relate prior knowledge to textual information.
CONTENT STANDARD / DOMAIN
CA.3.0. Reading: Literary Response and Analysis: Students read and respond to a wide variety of significant works of children's literature. They distinguish between the structural features of the text and the literary terms or elements (e.g., theme, plot, setting, characters).
PERFORMANCE STANDARD / STRAND
3.3. Narrative Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text: Recollect, talk, and write about books read during the school year.
CONTENT STANDARD / DOMAIN
CA.1.0. Listening and Speaking: Listening and Speaking Strategies: Students listen critically and respond appropriately to oral communication. They speak in a manner that guides the listener to understand
modulation. PERFORMANCE STANDARD /
STRAND
1.1. Comprehension: Listen attentively.
PERFORMANCE STANDARD / STRAND
1.4. Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication: Stay on the topic when speaking.
CONTENT STANDARD / DOMAIN
CA.2.0. Listening and Speaking: Speaking Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics): Students deliver brief recitations and oral presentations about familiar experiences or interests that are organized around a coherent thesis statement. Student speaking
demonstrates a command of standard American English and the organizational and delivery strategies outlined in Listening and Speaking Standard 1.0. PERFORMANCE STANDARD /
STRAND
2.1. Recite poems, rhymes, songs, and stories.
Grade: K - Adopted 1998 CONTENT STANDARD /
DOMAIN
CA.1. Physical Sciences: Properties of materials can be observed, measured, and predicted. As a basis for understanding this concept:
PERFORMANCE STANDARD / STRAND
1.a. Students know objects can be described in terms of the materials they are made of (e.g., clay, cloth, paper) and their physical properties (e.g., color, size, shape, weight, texture, flexibility, attraction to magnets, floating, sinking).
CONTENT STANDARD / DOMAIN
CA.2. Life Sciences: Different types of plants and animals inhabit the earth. As a basis for understanding this concept:
PERFORMANCE STANDARD / STRAND
2.a. Students know how to observe and describe similarities and differences in the appearance and behavior of plants and animals (e.g., seed-bearing plants, birds, fish, insects).
PERFORMANCE STANDARD / STRAND
2.c. Students know how to identify major structures of common plants and animals (e.g., stems, leaves, roots, arms, wings, legs).
CONTENT STANDARD / DOMAIN
CA.4. Investigation and Experimentation: Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and
conducting careful investigations. As a basis for understanding this concept and addressing the content in the other three strands, students should develop their own questions and perform investigations. Students will:
PERFORMANCE STANDARD / STRAND
4.a. Observe common objects by using the five senses.
PERFORMANCE STANDARD / STRAND
4.b. Describe the properties of common objects.
PERFORMANCE STANDARD / STRAND
4.d. Compare and sort common objects by one physical attribute (e.g., color, shape, texture, size, weight). PERFORMANCE STANDARD /
STRAND
4.e. Communicate observations orally and through drawings.
Grade: 1 - Adopted 1998 CONTENT STANDARD /
DOMAIN
CA.2. Life Sciences: Plants and animals meet their needs in different ways. As a basis for understanding this concept:
PERFORMANCE STANDARD / STRAND
2.a. Students know different plants and animals inhabit different kinds of environments and have external features that help them thrive in different kinds of places.
PERFORMANCE STANDARD / STRAND
2.b. Students know both plants and animals need water, animals need food, and plants need light.
PERFORMANCE STANDARD / STRAND
2.e. Students know roots are associated with the intake of water and soil nutrients and green leaves are
associated with making food from sunlight. CONTENT STANDARD /
DOMAIN
CA.4. Investigation and Experimentation: Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and
conducting careful investigations. As a basis for understanding this concept and addressing the content in the other three strands, students should develop their own questions and perform investigations. Students will:
PERFORMANCE STANDARD / STRAND
4.a. Draw pictures that portray some features of the thing being described.
