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North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Social Studies (2003)

Grade 3

• Goal 4: The learner will explain geographic concepts and the relationship between people and geography in real life situations.
  • Objective 4.01: Distinguish between various types of maps and globes.
  • Objective 4.02: Use appropriate source maps to locate communities.
  • Objective 4.03: Use geographic terminology to describe and explain variations in the physical environment as communities.

Grade 4

• Goal 1: The learner will apply the five themes of geography to North Carolina and its people.
  • Objective 1.01: Locate, in absolute and relative terms, major landforms, bodies of water and natural resources in North Carolina.
  • Objective 1.02: Describe and compare physical and cultural characteristics of the regions.

Grade 5

• Goal 1: The learner will apply key geographic concepts to the United States and other countries of North America.
  • Objective 1.01: Describe the absolute and relative location of major landforms, bodies of water,and natural resources in the United States and other countries of North America.
  • Objective 1.03: Compare and contrast the physical and cultural characteristics of regions within the United States, and other countries of North America.

Mathematics (2004)

Grade 3

• Goal 2: Measurement - The learner will recognize and use standard units of metric and customary measurement.
  • Objective 2.01: Solve problems using measurement concepts and procedures involving:
    • Elapsed time.
    • Equivalent measures within the same measurement system.
  • Objective 2.02: Estimate and measure using appropriate units.
    • Capacity (cups, pints, quarts, gallons, liters).
    • Length (miles, kilometers).
    • Mass (ounces, pounds, grams, kilograms).
    • Temperature (Fahrenheit, Celsius).
• Goal 3: Geometry - The learner will recognize and use basic geometric properties of two- and three-dimensional figures.
  • Objective 3.02: Use a rectangular coordinate system to solve problems.
    • Graph and identify points with whole number and/or letter coordinates.
    • Describe the path between given points on the plane.

Grade 4

• Goal 1: Number and Operations - The learner will read, write, model, and compute with non-negative rational numbers.
  • Objective 1.05: Develop flexibility in solving problems by selecting strategies and using mental computation, estimation, calculators or computers, and paper and pencil.
• Goal 3: Geometry - The learner will recognize and use geometric properties and relationships.
  • Objective 3.01: Use the coordinate system to describe the location and relative position of points and draw figures in the first quadrant.
  • Objective 3.02: Describe the relative position of lines using concepts of parallelism and perpendicularity.

Grade 5

• Goal 1: Number and Operations - The learner will understand and compute with non-negative rational numbers.
  • Objective 1.03: Develop flexibility in solving problems by selecting strategies and using mental computation, estimation, calculators or computers, and paper and pencil.
• Goal 3: Geometry - The learner will understand and use properties and relationships of plane figures.
  • Objective 3.02: Make and test conjectures about polygons involving:
    • Sum of the measures of interior angles.
    • Lengths of sides and diagonals.
    • Parallelism and perpendicularity of sides and diagonals.
  • Objective 3.04: Solve problems involving the properties of triangles, quadrilaterals, and other polygons.
    • Sum of the measures of interior angles.
    • Lengths of sides and diagonals.
    • Parallelism and perpendicularity of sides and diagonals.