Standard 1:  Understands basic features of the Earth

Interval Benchmark 1: Knows properties of Earth materials

a:

Knows Earth materials consists of solid rocks and soils, water, and gases of the atmosphere

b:

Recognizes Earth materials can be used in a variety of ways

c:

Classifies rocks and minerals by classification and composition

d:

Knows soil is made up of weathered rock and products of plants and animals, and also contains many living things

e:

Knows fossils provide evidence about plants and animals that live long ago

	Standard 2:  Understands basic Earth processes

Interval Benchmark 1: Knows changes in the Earth and sky

a:

Understands how features on the Earth's surface are constatnly changed by a combination of slow and rapid forces/processes

b:

Understands sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks are formed by different Earth forces/processes

c:

Knows weather can change from day to day and season to season

d:

Describes weather by its measurable quantities such as temperature, wind direction and speed, and precipitation

e:

Knows the observable shape of the moon changes from day to day in a cycle that lasts about a month

	Standard 3:  Understands essential ideas about the composition and structure of the universe and the Earth's place in it

Interval Benchmark 1: Knows objects in the sky

a:

Knows the properties, locations, and movements of the sun, moon, stars, and planets

b:

Knows the sun supplies heat and light to maintain the temperature of the Earth