Standards
Idaho State Standards
Here are correlations to the Idaho State Language and Math standards and to the Idaho State Science Standards. For more information about the overall standards, see the complete Idaho Content Standards for Science, the Next Generation Science Standards, and the alignment between Idaho and NGSS Science Standards. You may also access the Idaho English Language Arts/Literacy Standards and Mathematics Standards.
Language
Kindergarten
ELA/Literacy K.W.RW.1
Routinely write or dictate writing for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Suggested Lesson
Draw a red blood cell. Show the distinctive shape of a red blood cell. Label it “Red Blood Cell.”
Fourth Grade
ELA/Literacy 4.ODC.OC.3
Identify the reasons and evidence a speaker provides to support particular points being made.
Suggested Lesson
Call your local blood drive facility (hospital or Red Cross) and find out the details of donating blood. Report it back to your class.
Fifth Grade
ELA/Literacy 5.W.RW.4
Write personal or fictional narratives that establish a situation and narrator; organize around a central problem, conflict, or experience using descriptions, dialogue or pacing to develop the characters, event(s), or experience(s); and provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated events.
Suggested Lesson
Write about the journey a drop of blood might take from the heart and back again. Include details that illustrate the parts of the body it will travel through, how it will get oxygen and how it will give up carbon dioxide.
Math
First Grade
Math 1.MD.C.4
Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories; ask and answer questions about the total number of data points, how many in each category, and how many more or less are in one category than in another.
Suggested Lesson
By measuring water into tubs or other containers, create a visual of the amount of blood found in the body of a first-grade student and in the body of an adult.
Third Grade
Math 3.MD.A.1
Tell and write time to the nearest minute within the same hour and measure time intervals in minutes. Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of time intervals in minutes.
Suggested Lesson
Teach students how to measure their pulse. Begin by measuring their pulse at rest. Ask them to predict what will happen to their pulse after they do 40 jumping jacks. Perform the exercise and then measure again. See how close they were to their prediction.
Fifth Grade
Math 5.MD.B.2
Collect, represent, and interpret numerical data, including whole numbers, and fractional and decimal values. Interpret numerical data represented with tables or line plots.
Suggested Lesson
Bring in donated hearts from a butcher or grocery store to measure and/or weigh. Consider using cow, lamb, rabbit, chicken or others. Create tables or line plots to display and compare results.
Science
Fourth Grade
Life Sciences: 4-LS-1.1
Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
Supporting Content
Animals have various body systems with specific functions for sustaining life: skeletal, circulatory, respiratory, muscular, digestive, etc.
Fifth Grade
Physical Sciences: 5-PS-3.1
Use models to describe that energy in animals' food (used for body repair, growth, motion, and to maintain body warmth) was once energy from the sun.
Supporting Content
The energy released from food was once energy from the sun that was captured by plants. Food provides animals with the materials they need for body repair and growth and the energy they need to maintain body warmth and for motion. Examples of models could include diagrams and flow charts.
Sixth Grade
Life Sciences: MS-LS-1.3
Use argument supported by evidence for how a living organism is a system of interacting subsystems composed of groups of cells.
Supporting Content
In multicellular organisms, the body is a system of multiple interacting subsystems. These subsystems are groups of cells that work together to form tissues. Tissues form organs that are specialized for particular body functions. Examples could include the interaction of subsystems within a system and the normal functioning of those systems.
Life Sciences: MS-LS-1.6
Develop a conceptual model to describe how food is rearranged through chemical reactions forming new molecules that support growth and/or release energy as matter moves through an organism.
Supporting Content
Within individual organisms, food moves through a series of chemical reactions in which it is broken down and rearranged to form new molecules, to support growth, or to release energy.
Life Sciences: MS-LS-4.3
Analyze visual evidence to compare patterns of similarities in the anatomical structures across multiple species of similar classification levels to identify relationships.
Supporting Content
Emphasis is on inferring general patterns of relatedness among structures of different organisms by comparing diagrams pictures, specimens, or fossils.