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Core Concepts

Clean and Green is based on the Iowa Core Curriculum adopted by the Iowa Legislature in 2008 to guide schools and teachers for preparing students for success in life. The Iowa Core identifies essential concepts and skills for kindergarten through 12th grade in literacy, mathematics, science, social studies, and 21st century skills. 21st Century Skills are defined as skills needed to thrive in the emerging global environment. 21st Century Skills include--employability, financial literacy, health literacy and technological literacy. These five areas of the Iowa Core provide the top axis of the Clean and Green matrix.

As we began developing Clean and Green, we selected the following essential concepts of the Core Curriculum to guide the development of the Clean and Green program.

Kindergarten

  • Mathematics
    • Count, represent, read, compare, order and conserve (knows that the total number does not change when configured differently) whole numbers.
    • Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count. (Mathematics)
       
  • Life Science
    • Understand and apply knowledge of ways to...care for the environment
  • Social Studies
    • Understand the relationship of the individual to the components of society and culture.
  • Literacy
    • Listen for information and understanding.
    • Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
  • 21st Century Skills
    • Communicate and work appropriately with others to complete tasks.

First Grade

  • Mathematics
    • Collect, sort, organize, and represent data to ask and answer questions relevant to the K-2 environment.
    • 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.
  • Life Science
    • Understand and apply knowledge of ways to...care for the environment
  • Social Studies
    • Understand the relationship of the individual to the components of society and culture
       
  • Literacy
    • Use knowledge of purpose, audience, format, and medium in developing written communication.
    • Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.
  • 21st Century Skills
    • Communicate and work appropriately with others to complete tasks.

Second Grade

  • Mathematics
    • Compare different representations of the same data using these types of graphs: bar graphs, frequency tables, line plots, and picture graphs.
    • Draw a picture graph and a bar graph (with single-unit scale) to represent a data set with up to four categories. Solve simple put-together, take-apart, and compare problems using information presented in a bar graph.
  • Life Science
    • Understand and apply knowledge of ways to...care for the environment
  • Social Studies
    • Understand the relationship of the individual to the components of society and culture.
  • Literacy
    • Use knowledge of purpose, audience, format, and medium in developing written communication.
    • Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply reasons that support the opinion, use linking words (e.g., because, and, also) to connect opinion and reasons, and provide a concluding statement or section.
  • 21st Century Skills
    • Communicate and work appropriately with others to complete tasks. (21st Century Skills)
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