Audubon Adventures

Standards Correlations

Audubon Adventures is correlated to the Common Core Standards for English Language Arts and the Next Generation Science Standards for grades 3-5. Select your grade, then scroll down to see the correlations.

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GRADE 5

Common Core Standards for English Language Arts
Grade 5	Reading Standards for Informational Text (RIT)	Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (FS)	Writing Standards (W)	Speaking & Listening Standards (SL)
*Caretaking Our World’s Water*
Student Magazine (PDF)	RIT 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10	FS 3, 4	W 2, 4, 7, 9, 10	SL 2, 4, 6
Teacher-led Activities:
Map Your Watershed	RIT 3, 4, 7, 9, 10	FS 3, 4	W 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9,10	SL 1, 2, 4, 5, 6
Design and Build a Birdbath	RIT 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10	FS 3, 4	W 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10	SL 1, 2, 4, 5, 6
*Plants Are for the Birds*
Student Magazine (PDF)	RIT 1, 2, 3, 4, 10	FS 3, 4		SL-1, SL-6
Teacher-led Activities:
Grow Bird Food	RIT 3, 4, 6, 9, 10	FS 3, 4		SL 1, 2, 6
My State Bird	RIT 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10	FS 3, 4	W 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10	SL 1, 2, 4, 5, 6
Plants at Work	RIT 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10	FS 3, 4		SL 2, 5
*Let’s Change Climate Change*
Student Magazine (PDF)	RIT 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10	FS 3, 4		SL 1
Teacher-led Activities
Energy Challenge	RIT 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10	FS 3, 4	W 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10	SL 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Replace and Avoid Challenge				SL 1, 4, 6
*Sharing Our Shores*
Student Magazine (PDF)	RIT 4, 10	FS 3, 4	W 2, 4, 7
Teacher-led Activities:
Camo Egg Hunt				SL 1, 4, 6
Step Up, Stewards!	RIT 4, 7, 9, 10	FS 3, 4	W 2, 4, 5, 7	SL 1, 5, 6
Shorebird vs. Inland Bird Comparison	RIT 3, 4, 7, 10	FS 3, 4	W 2, 4, 7	SL 1, 6
*Raptors! The Birds of Prey*
Student Magazine (PDF)	RIT 4, 10	FS 3, 4	W 2, 4, 7
Teacher-led Activities:
Raptors 24/7	RIT 1, 2,3, 4, 7, 9, 10	FS 3, 4	W 2, 4, 7	SL 1, 4, 5, 6
Counting Hawks	RIT 3, 4, 10	FS 3, 4	W 2, 4, 7, 9	SL 1, 4, 5, 6
Eagle-Eyed Raptors				SL1, 4, 6
*Seabirds: Feathered Ocean Mariners*
Student Magazine (PDF)	RIT 2, 4, 10	FS 3, 4
Teacher-led Activities:
Just Beak It!				SL 1,4, 6
Getting the Message Out…	RIT 4, 7, 9, 10	FS 3, 4	W 2, 4, 5, 7	SL 1, 4, 5
What Keeps Seabirds Frost-Free?	RIT 3, 4, 6, 10	FS 3, 4	W 2, 4, 7	SL 1, 4, 6
*Get to Know Birds*
Student Magazine (PDF)	RIT 1, 2, 3, 4, 10	FS 3, 4		SL-1
Teacher-led Activities:
Eating Like a Bird	RIT 4	FS 3, 4	W 2, 4, 5, 6	SL 1, 3, 4, 5
Looking for Field Marks	RIT 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10	FS 3, 4		SL 1, 2
Build a Bird and Wildlife Park	RIT 4, 7, 9, 10	FS 3, 4	W 2, 4, 5	SL 1, 5
How Birds Get Their Names	RIT 1, 2, 3, 4, 7	FS 3, 4	W 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9	SL 1, 2, 4, 6
What a Difference a Beak Makes	RIT 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7	FS 3, 4	W 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9	SL 1, 2, 3, 4
*Hooray for Hummingbirds!*
Student Magazine	RIT 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10	FS 3, 4
Teacher-led Activities:
Birdwatching, Scientifically		FS 3, 4		SL 1, 4, 6
Pollination Demonstration			W 2, 3, 4, 7, 8	SL 1, 2, 3, 4, 6
Of Sabrewings, Sicklebills, …	RIT 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10	FS 3, 4	W 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10	SL 1, 2, 4, 5, 6
*Birds on the Move*
Student Magazine (PDF)	RIT 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 10	FS 3, 4		SL-1
Teacher-led Activities:
North and South	RIT 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10	FS 3, 4	W 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10	SL 1, 2, 4, 5, 6
Pen Pals for Birds	RIT 1, 2, 4, 7, 9, 10	FS 3, 4	W 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10	SL 2, 4, 5, 6
For the Birds	RIT 1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10	FS 3, 4	W 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10	SL 1, 4, 5, 6
*The Buzz About Native Bees*
Student Magazine (PDF)	RIT 1, 2, 3, 4	FS 3, 4
Teacher-led Activities:
Pollination Demonstration	RIT 1, 2, 3, 4	FS 3, 4	W 2, 3, 4, 5	SL 1, 4
Bee Bundles	RIT 1, 3, 4	FS 3, 4		SL 1, 4
Native Bee Habitat Survey	RIT 1, 2, 4	FS 3, 4	W 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9	SL 1, 2, 4
*Wading Birds*
Student Magazine (PDF)	RIT 1, 2, 3, 4, 10	FS 3, 4		SL-1
Teacher-led Activities:
Adaptations: A Matter of Survival	RIT 4	FS 3, 4
A Year in the Life	RIT 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10	FS 3, 4	W 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10	SL 1, 2, 4, 5, 6
Signs for Life	RIT 4, 7, 9, 10	FS 3, 4	W 2, 4, 5	SL 1, 5
*Owl Prowl*
Student Magazine (PDF)	RIT 1, 2, 3, 4, 10	FS 3, 4		SL-1
Teacher-led Activities:
You Finish the Story!	RIT 4	FS 3, 4	W 2, 3, 4, 8
*At Home in a Habitat*
Student Magazine (PDF)	RIT 1, 2, 3, 4, 10	FS 3, 4	W 1, 2, 4, 9	SL 1, 2
Teacher-led Activities:
Design and Build a Bird Feeder		FS 3, 4		SL-1
*City Life for Wildlife*
Student Magazine (PDF)	RIT 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 10	FS 3, 4
Teacher-led Activities:
Nature’s Time Line	RIT 1, 2, 3, 4	FS 3, 4	W 2, 3, 4, 5	SL 1, 2, 3, 4
Park It!	RIT 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 10	FS 3, 4	W 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6	SL 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Schoolyard Habitat Survey	RIT 1, 2, 4	FS 3, 4	W 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9	SL 1, 2, 4

Common Core Standards for English Language Arts

Grade 5 Reading Standards for Informational Text
RIT-1. Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
RIT-2. Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.
RIT-3. Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text.
RIT-4. Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words or phrases in a text relevant to a grade 5 topic or subject area.
RIT-5. Compare and contrast the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more texts.
RIT-6. Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent.
RIT-7. Draw on information from multiple print or digital sources, demonstrating the ability to locate an answer to a question quickly or to solve a problem efficiently.
RIT-8. Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point(s).
RIT-9. Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.
RIT-10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 4-5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

Grade 5 Reading Standards: Foundational Skills
FS-3. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
FS-4. Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

Grade 5 Writing Standards
W-1. Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
W-2. Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
W-3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
W-4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)
W-5. With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
W-6. With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of two pages in a single sitting.
W-7. Conduct short research projects that use several sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
W-8. Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; summarize or paraphrase information in notes and finished work, and provide a list of sources.
W-9. Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
W-10. Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.

Grade 5 Speaking and Listening Standards
SL-1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 5 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
SL-2. Summarize a written text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
SL-3. Summarize the points a speaker makes and explain how each claim is supported by reasons and evidence.
SL-4. Report on a topic or text or present an opinion, sequencing ideas logically and using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace.
SL-5. Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics, sound) and visual displays in presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.
SL-6. Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, using formal English when appropriate to task and situation.

Next Generation Science Standards
Grade 5	Life Science	Earth’s Systems	Disciplinary Core Ideas	Science & Engineering Practices	Nature of Science
*Caretaking Our World’s Water*
Student Magazine (PDF)		ESS3-1	LS2.A, LS2.B	SE5.4, SE5.5, SE5.6	NS5.a, NS5.b
Teacher-led Activities:
Map Your Watershed		ESS3-1		SE5.1, SE5.2, SE5.3, SE5.4, SE5.5, SE5.6	NS5.a, NS5.b
Design and Build a Birdbath				SE5.1, SE5.2, SE5.3, SE5.4, SE5.5, SE5.6	NS5.a, NS5.b
*Plants Are for the Birds*
Student Magazine (PDF)	LS1-1, LS2	ESS3-1	LS1.C, LS2.A, LS2.B	SE5.1, SE5.3, SE5.4, SE5.5, SE5.6	NS5.a, NS5.b
Teacher-led Activities:
Grow Bird Food	LS1-1		LS1.A	SE4.1, SE4.2, SE4.4, SE4.5, SE4.6	NS4.b
My State Bird	LS1-1, LS1-2		LS1.C, LS2.A, LS2.B	SE5.1, SE5.2, SE5.3, SE5.5, SE5.5, SE5.6	NS5.a, NS5.b
Plants at Work	LS-1, LS1-2		LS1.C, LS2.A, LS2.B	SE5.1, SE5.6	NS5.a, NS5.b
*Let’s Change Climate Change*
Student Magazine (PDF)		ESS3-1	LS2.A	SE5.4, SE5.6	NS5.a, NS5.b
Teacher-led Activities:
Energy Challenge		ESS3-1	LS2.A, LS2.B	SE5.1, SE5.2, SE5.3, SE5.4, SE5.5, SE5.6	NS5.a, NS5.b
Replace and Avoid Challenge		ESS3-1		SE5.1, SE5.2, SE5.3, SE5.4, SE5.5, SE5.6	NS5.a, NS5.b
*Sharing Our Shores*
Student Magazine (PDF)	LS2.A		LS2.A		NS5.a, NS5.b
Teacher-led Activities:
Camo Egg Hunt				SE5.1, SE5.2, SE5.3, SE5.6	NS5.a, NS5.b
Step Up, Stewards!…	LS2.A	ESS3-1	LS2.A	SE5.1, SE5.6	NS5.b
Shorebird vs. Inland Bird Comparison	LS2.A		LS2.A	SE 5.1, SE5.3, SE5.6	NS5.b
*Raptors! The Birds of Prey*
Student Magazine (PDF)	LS2.A		LS2.A		NS5.b
Teacher-led Activities:
Raptors 24/7			LS2.A	SE5.1, SE5.2, SE5.6	NS5.b
Counting Hawks	LS2.A			SE5.1, SE5.3, SE5.4, SE5.6	NS5.a, NS5.b
Eagle-Eyed Raptors				SE5.3	NS5.b
*Seabirds: Feathered Ocean Mariners*
Student Magazine (PDF)	LS2.A	ESS3-1	LS2.A		NS5.b
Teacher-led Activities:
Just Beak It!			LS2.A	SE5.1, SE5.2, SE5.3, SE5.4, SE5.5, SE5.6	NS5.b
Getting the Message Out…		ESS3-1	LS2.A	SE5.1, SE5.5, SE5.6	NS5.b
What Keeps Seabirds Frost-Free?				SE5.1, SE5.2, SE5.3, SE5.4, SE5.5, SE5.6	NS5.a, NS5.b
*Get to Know Birds*
Student Magazine (PDF)		ESS3-1		SE5.1, SE5.6	NS5.a, NS5.b
Teacher-led Activities:
Eating Like a Bird			LS2.A, LS2.B	SE5.1, SE5.2, SE5.3, SE5.4, SE5.5, SE5.6	NS5.b
Looking for Field Marks				SE5.1, SE5.2, SE5.3, SE5.5, SE5.6	NS5.b
Build a Bird and Wildlife Park	LS2.2	ESS3-1	LS2.A, LS2.B	SE5.1, SE5.2, SE5.3, SE5.4, SE5.5, SE5.6	NS5.a, NS5.b
How Birds Get Their Names				SE5.1, SE5.3, SE5.5, SE5.6	NS5.b
What a Difference a Beak Makes				SE5.1, SE5.2, SE5.3, SE5.4, SE5.5, SE5.6	NS5.b
*Hooray for Hummingbirds!*
Student Magazine	LS1-2	ESS3-1	LS2.A	SE5.1	NS5.a, NS5.b
Teacher-led Activities:
Birdwatching, Scientifically				SE5.1, SE5.2, SE5.3, SE5.4, SE5.5, SE5.6	NS5.a, NS5.b
Pollination Demonstration	LS1-2		LS2.A, LS2.B	SE5.1, SE5.2, SE5.3, SE5.4, SE5.5, SE5.6	NS5.b
Of Sabrewings, Sicklebills, …				SE5.1, SE5.2, SE5.5, SE5.6	NS5.b
*Birds on the Move*
Student Magazine (PDF)		ESS3-1	LS2.A		NS5.a, NS5.b
Teacher-led Activities:
North and South	LS1-2		LS2.A	SE3.1, SE3.2, SE3.3, SE3.4, SE3.5, SE3.6	NS3.a, NS3.b
Pen Pals for Birds	LS1-2	ESS3-1	LS2.A		NS5.a, NS5.b
For the Birds	LS-1, LS1-2	ESS3-1	LS2.A, LS2.B	SE5.1, SE5.2, SE5.4, SE5.5, SE5.6	NS5.a, NS5.b
*The Buzz About Native Bees*
Student Magazine (PDF)		ESS3-1	LS2.A		NS5.a, NS5.b
Teacher-led Activities:
Pollination Demonstration			LS2.A	SE5.1, SE5.2, SE5.3, SE5.4, SE5.5, SE5.6	NS5.a, NS5.b
Bee Bundles				SE5.1, SE5.2, SE5.3, SE5.4, SE5.5, SE5.6	NS5.a, NS5.b
Native Bee Habitat Survey		ESS3-1	LS1.A	SE5.1, SE5.2, SE5.3, SE5.4, SE5.5, SE5.6	NS5.a, NS5.b
*Wading Birds*
Student Magazine (PDF)	LS1-1			SE5.6	NS5.a, NS5.b
Teacher-led Activities:
Adaptations: A Matter of Survival				SE3.1, SE3.2, SE3.3, SE3.4, SE3.5, SE3.6	NS3.a, NS3.b
A Year in the Life	LS1-2	ESS3-1	LS2.A	SE5.1, SE5.2, SE5.3, SE5.5, SE5.6	NS5.a, NS5.b
Signs for Life				SE5.1, SE5.2, SE5.4, SE5.5, SE5.6	NS5.b
*Owl Prowl*
Student Magazine (PDF)			LS2.A	SE5.4, SE5.6	NS5.a, NS5.b
Teacher-led Activities:
You Finish the Story!				SE3.6	NS3.a, NS3.b
*At Home in a Habitat*
Student Magazine (PDF)		ESS3.1	LS1.C, LS2.A, LS2.B	SE5.1, SE5.6	NS5.a, NS5.b
Teacher-led Activities:
Design and Build a Bird Feeder				SE5.1, SE5.2, SE5.4, SE5.5, SE5.6	NS5.b
*City Life for Wildlife*
Student Magazine (PDF)		ESS3-1	LS2.A	SE5.1, SE5.2, SE5.6	NS5.a, NS5.b
Teacher-led Activities:
Nature’s Time Line			LS2.A	SE5.1, SE5.2, SE5.3, SE5.4, SE5.5, SE5.6	NS5.a, NS5.b
Park It!				SE5.1, SE5.2, SE5.3, SE5.4, SE5.5, SE5.6	NS5.a, NS5.b
Schoolyard Habitat Survey		ESS3-1	LS1.A	SE5.1, SE5.2, SE5.3, SE5.4, SE5.5, SE5.6	NS5.a, NS5.b

Next Generation Science Standards

Grade 5 Life Science
LS1-1. From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes. Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water.
LS1-2. Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics. Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.

Grade 5 Earth and Human Activity
ESS3-1. Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.

Grade 5 Disciplinary Core Ideas
LS1.C: Organization for Matter and Energy Flow in Organisms. Plants acquire their material for growth chiefly from air and water.
LS2.A: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems. The food of almost any kind of animal can be traced back to plants. Organisms are related in food webs in which some animals eat plants for food and other animals eat the animals that eat plants. … Organisms can survive only in environments in which their particular needs are met. A healthy ecosystem is one in which multiple species of different types are each able to meet their needs in a relatively stable web of life. Newly introduced species can damage the balance of an ecosystem.
LS2.B: Cycles of Matter and Energy Transfer in Ecosystems. Matter cycles between the air and soil and among plants, animals, and microbes as these organisms live and die. Organisms obtain gases, and water, from the environment, and release waste matter (gas, liquid, or solid) back into the environment.

Grade 5 Science & Engineering Practices
SE5.1. Asking questions and defining problems
SE5.2. Planning and carrying out investigations
SE5.3. Engaging in argument from evidence
SE5.4. Using mathematics and computational thinking
SE5.5. Constructing explanations and designing solutions
SE5.6. Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information

Grade 5 Nature of Science
NS5.a. Science explanations describe the mechanisms for natural events.
NS5.b. Science addresses questions about the natural and material world.