Magicicada: A life cycle

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Visual Arts Education (2001)

Grade 1

• Goal 1: The learner will develop critical and creative thinking skills and perceptual awareness necessary for understanding and producing art.
  • Objective 1.05: Carefully observe and examine the world around them.
• Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
  • Objective 2.01: Become familiar with additional basic art media, techniques and processes which may include: fibers - papermaking and paper weaving.
  • Objective 2.02: Use various techniques to create visual effects using texture.
• Goal 4: The learner will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter and ideas to communicate intended meaning in artworks.
  • Objective 4.03: Produce work that shows attention to detail in one's surroundings.

Grade 2

• Goal 1: The learner will develop critical and creative thinking skills and perceptual awareness necessary for understanding and producing art.
  • Objective 1.02: Plan and organize for creating art.
  • Objective 1.04: Refine the form of visual symbols to more accurately define concepts.
• Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
  • Objective 2.02: Recognize specific media and processes

Kindergarten

• Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
  • Objective 2.01: Become familiar with a limited number of basic art media, techniques and processes which may include:
    • Drawing - crayons, oil pastels, non-toxic markers, brushes, computers, pencils, sidewalk chalk
    • Cut paper - glue, scissors, folding, bending 3-D - clay, paper, found objects, including wood scraps
    • Printmaking - stamps, gadgets, found objects, vegetables, monoprint
    • Painting - tempera, watercolors, large brushes, sponges, finger paint
    • Ceramics - pinch, coil, found stamps.
  • Objective 2.02: Explore media freely.
• Goal 4: The learner will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter and ideas to communicate intended meaning in artworks.
  • Objective 4.01: Create art depicting self, family, friends, pets, home, school and community.

Science (2005)

Grade 1

• Goal 1: The learner will conduct investigations and make observations to build an understanding of the needs of living organisms.
  • Objective 1.02: Investigate the needs of a variety of different animals:
    • Air.
    • Water.
    • Food.
    • Shelter.
    • Space.
  • Objective 1.05: Discuss the wide variety of living things on Earth.

Grade 2

• Goal 1: The learner will conduct investigations and build an understanding of animal life cycles.
  • Objective 1.01: Describe the life cycle of animals including:
    • Birth.
    • Developing into an adult.
    • Reproducing.
    • Aging and death.
  • Objective 1.02: Observe that insects need food, air and space to grow.
  • Objective 1.03: Observe the different stages of an insect life cycle.

Kindergarten

• Goal 1: The learner will make observations and build an understanding of similarities and differences in animals.
  • Objective 1.02: Observe how animals interact with their surroundings.