Standards and Goals Addressed in
If Whales Could Fly

Students can differentiate and apply the Elements and Principles of Art.

Students can use the Elements and Principles of Art to communicate their ideas and feelings.

Students learn to analyze, critique, evaluate and interpret works of art.
Students learn why people create art.

Students can describe and compare responses to works of art.

Students can analyze art in relation to its cultural and historical background.

Students can articulate the connections between between visual art movements and movements in other art disciplines.

Students will learn that music is able to manipulate mood, emotion, and perception. That the elements of music are a reflection of the human condition, and thus as the elements change, so do our emotional responses.

Students will understand:

Structure and function in living systems

Reproduction and heredity

Regulation and behavior

Populations and ecosystems

Diversity and adaptations of organisms

Students will:

Work flexibly with fractions, decimals, and percents to solve problems

Compare and order fractions, decimals, and percents efficiently and find their approximate locations on a number line

Develop meaning for percents greater than 100 and less than 1

Understand and use ratios and proportions to represent quantitative relationships

Develop an understanding of large numbers and recognize and appropriately use exponential, scientific, and calculator notation

Use factors, multiples, prime factorization, and relatively prime numbers to solve problems

Develop meaning for integers and represent and compare quantities with them.