A STUDENT SHOULD KNOW THAT:

A. MAPS ARE USED TO PRESENT INFORMATION ABOUT THE EARTH, E.G., LAND FEATURES AND 
     WEATHER CONDITIONS.

B. DIFFERENT MATERIALS, SUCH AS ROCKS, MINERALS, SOIL, AND FOSSILS, MAKE UP THE EARTH.

C. EARTH MATERIALS ARE FORMED IN DIFFERENT WAYS.

       1. For example, by erosion, weathering, and sometimes by rapid processes such as landslides, volcanic
           eruptions and earthquakes
       2. Fossils are revealed by erosion.

D. WEATHER CAN BE DESCRIBED BY MEASURABLE QUANTITIES.

       1. For example, temperature, wind direction and speed, and precipitation as well as cloud cover and types 
           of precipitation

A STUDENT SHOULD KNOW:

E. THE MAJOR SOURCES AND USES OF WATER AND THE FORMS IN WHICH IT APPEARS.

       1. Sources: oceans, precipitation, lakes, rivers, streams
       2. Uses: drinking, recreation, bathing, transportation, solvent
       3. Forms: solid, liquid, gas
           a. Water can be a solid, liquid, or gas and can change back and forth from one form to another.
           b. Water evaporates from the surface of the earth, rises and cools, condenses into rain or snow, and falls 
               again to the surface. The water falling on land collects in rivers and lakes, soil, and porous layers of 
               rock, and much of it flows back into the ocean.  This is known as the "water cycle."

A STUDENT SHOULD BE ABLE TO:

        . Demonstrate the use of different kinds of maps.
        . Observe and identify earth materials such as rocks and soils.
        . Compare and contrast the properties of earth materials such as types of soils and sand, through simple 
          observations and investigation.
        . Sequence the events that describe how some earth materials form.
        . Identify, using maps, charts, graphs, and other visual materials, sources and uses of water and the forms 
          in which water appears.
        . Observe, collect, and record weather data.
        . Recognize, using observations and collected data, the cause and effect relationship between weather 
          conditions and day-to-day experiences.
        . Read and predict weather maps.