Inquiry+Skill+and+Standards+for+Learning

First Grade:
//Social Studies:// 1.1 Students will identify continuity and change in the different environments around them, including school and neighborhood communities, and identify individuals, events, and symbols that are important to our country. //English/Language Arts:// 1.4 Students discuss ideas for group stories and other writing. Students write clear sentences and paragraphs that develop a central idea. Students progress through the states of the writing process, including prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing multiple drafts. 1.7 Students listen critically and respond appropriately to oral communication. They speak in a manner that guides the listener to understand important ideas by using proper phrasing, pitch, and modulation. Students deliver brief oral presentations about familiar experiences or interests that are organized around a coherent thesis statement. Students use the same standard english conventions for oral speech that they use in their writing.
 * Indiana State Standards for First Grade:**

Indicator 1.1.1 Follow an inquiry-based process in seeking knowledge in curricular subjects, and make the real-world connection for using this process in own life. Indicator 1.1.5 Evaluate information found in selected sources on the basis of accuracy, validity, appropriateness for needs, importance, and social and cultural context. Indicator 2.1.2 Organize knowledge so that it is useful.
 * Information Literacy Standards:**
 * Form simple questions and begin to explore ways to answer them.
 * Recognize and use facts that answer specific questions
 * Interpret information represented in pictures, illustrations, and simple charts.
 * Demonstrate simple organizational skills such as sorting and categorizing.

Fourth Grade:
**Indiana State Standards for Fourth Grade:**

//Social Studies:// 4.1 Students will trace the historical periods, places, people, events, and movements that have led to the development of Indiana as a state. //English/Language Arts:// 4.2 Students read and understand grade level appropriate material. At Grade 4, in addition to regular classroom reading, students read a variety of nonfiction, such as biographies, books in many different subject areas, magazines and periodicals, reference and technical materials, and online information. 4.4 Students write clear sentences and paragraphs that develop a central idea. Students progress through the stages of the writing process, including prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing multiple drafts.

**Information Literacy Standards:**

Indicator 1.1.1 Follow an inquiry-based process in seeking knowledge in curricular subjects, and make the real-world connection for using this process in own life. Indicator 1.1.5 Evaluate information found in selected sources on the basis of accuracy, validity, appropriateness for needs, importance, and social and cultural context. Indicator 2.1.2 Organize knowledge so that it is useful.
 * Generate questions and practice different ways to locate and evaluate sources that provide needed information.
 * Skim/scan to locate information that is appropriate to age and ability level.
 * Identify facts and details that support main ideas.
 * Organize information in a way that is appropriate for the assignment or question.

The lesson plans presented cover many more Indiana State Standards and Information Literacy Standards for each grade. These are just a few listed above.