Investigating animals: Using nonfiction for inquiry-based research

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Information Skills (2000)

Grade 1

• Goal 4: The learner will EXPLORE and USE research processes to meet information needs.
  • Objective 4.01: Identify information needs and formulate questions about those needs.
  • Objective 4.05: Gather information.
  • Objective 4.07: Organize and use information.
  • Objective 4.09: Present information in a variety of formats (print, graphical, audio, video, multimedia).
• Goal 5: The learner will COMMUNICATE reading, listening, and viewing experiences.
  • Objective 5.01: Respond to reading, listening, viewing experiences orally, artistically, dramatically through various formats.
  • Objective 5.02: Produce media in various formats (e.g., pictorial, multimedia).
  • Objective 5.04: Collaborate with others, both in person and through technologies, to identify information problems and to design, develop and evaluate information products and solutions.

Grade 2

• Goal 4: The learner will EXPLORE and USE research processes to meet information needs.
  • Objective 4.01: Identify information needs and formulate questions about those needs.
  • Objective 4.05: Gather information.
  • Objective 4.07: Organize and use information.
  • Objective 4.09: Present information in a variety of formats (print, graphical, audio, video, multimedia).
• Goal 5: The learner will COMMUNICATE reading, listening, and viewing experiences.
  • Objective 5.01: Respond to reading, listening, viewing experiences orally, artistically, dramatically through various formats.
  • Objective 5.02: Produce media in various formats (e.g., pictorial, multimedia).
  • Objective 5.04: Collaborate with others, both in person and through technologies, to identify information problems and to design, develop and evaluate information products and solutions.

Kindergarten

• Goal 4: The learner will EXPLORE and USE research processes to meet information needs.
  • Objective 4.03: Develop a search strategy which includes the continuous evaluation of the research process and the information gathered.
  • Objective 4.05: Gather information.
  • Objective 4.07: Organize and use information.
  • Objective 4.09: Present information in a variety of formats (print, graphical, audio, video, multimedia).
• Goal 5: The learner will COMMUNICATE reading, listening, and viewing experiences.
  • Objective 5.01: Respond to reading, listening, viewing experiences orally, artistically, dramatically through various formats.
  • Objective 5.02: Produce media in various formats (e.g., pictorial, multimedia).
  • Objective 5.04: Collaborate with others, both in person and through technologies, to identify information problems and to design, develop and evaluate information products and solutions.

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 1

• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.03: Discuss unfamiliar oral and/or written vocabulary after listening to or reading texts.

Grade 2

• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.02: Connect and compare information within and across selections (fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama) to experience and knowledge.
  • Objective 3.03: Explain and describe new concepts and information in own words (e.g., plot, setting, major events, characters, author's message, connections, topic, key vocabulary, key concepts, text features).

Kindergarten

• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.02: Discuss concepts and information in a text to clarify and extend knowledge.