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Content & Performance Standards

Most of our education programs meet the Connecticut Scientific Inquiry, Literacy and Numeracy Content Standards and Expected Performances for each grade range. A detailed chart of these standards and the programs that meet them is available upon request. The programs, as outlined in the table below, also meet grade-specific Science Performance Standards.

Number Performance Standard Classroom Program Loan Box
K.1 Objects have properties that can be observed and used to describe similarities and differences. ¤ Watershed Walk ¤ Liquid Assets
¤ Who Sank the Boat?
¤ Wondering About Weather
K.2 Many different kinds of living things inhabit the Earth. ¤ Watershed Walk  
K.3 Weather conditions vary daily and seasonally.   ¤ Wondering About Weather
1.2 Living things have diffferent structures and behavior that allow them to meet their basic needs. ¤ Watershed Walk  
1.3 Organisms change their form and behavior as part of their life cycles. ¤ Watershed Walk  
1.4 The properties of materials and organisms can be described more accurately through the use of standard measuring units. ¤ Water Wizards
¤ Estimation & Experimentation		 ¤ Liquid Assets
¤ Who Sank the Boat?
2.1 Materials can be classified as solid, liquid or gas based on observable
properties.		 ¤ Oozing Oobleck
¤ Waterworks		 ¤ Liquid Assets
¤ Waterworks
¤ Wondering About Weather
2.2 Plants change their form as part of their life cycles. ¤ Watershed Walk  
3.1 Materials have properties that can be identified and described through the use of simple tests. ¤ Estimation & Experimentation
¤ Polar Opposites
¤ Human Water Cycle
¤ Waterworks		 ¤ Who Sank the Boat?
¤ Weather or Not
3.2 Organisms can survive and reproduce only in environments that meet their basic needs. ¤ The Magic of Microscopy
¤ The Returning Raindrop
¤ The Problem with Pollution		 ¤ Habitats of L.I.S.
¤ Food Chains & Webs
3.4 Earth materials provide resources for all living things, but these resources are limited and should be conserved. ¤ Conservation Capers
¤ The Returning Raindrop
¤ The Problem with Pollution
¤ Watersheds		 ¤ Wise Water Ways
¤ Watersheds
4.2 All organisms depend on the living and non-living features of the environment for survival. ¤ Human Water Cycle
¤ The Problem with Pollution
¤ The Magic of Microscopy
¤ The Rogue Turtle
¤ Macroinvertebrate Messages		 ¤ Habitats of L.I.S.
¤ Food Chains & Webs
¤ Troubled Waters
¤ Invasion of the Aliens
4.3 Water has a major role in shaping the Earth’s surface. ¤ Watersheds ¤ Watersheds
6.1 Materials can be classified as pure substances or mixtures, depending on their chemical and physical properties. ¤ Polar Opposites ¤ Discovering Density
6.2 An ecosystem is composed of all the populations that are living in a certain space and the physical factors with which they interact. ¤ Project W.A.T.E.R. ¤ Habitats of L.I.S.
Food Chains & Webs
Invasion of the Aliens
6.3 Variations in the amount of the sun’s energy hitting the Earth’s surface affects daily and seasonal weather patterns.   ¤ Weather or Not
6.4 Water moving across and through earth materials carries with it the products of human activities. ¤ The Problem with Pollution
¤ Watersheds
¤ The Rogue Turtle
¤ Macroinvertebrate Messages
¤ From the Ground Up
¤ Project W.A.T.E.R.		 ¤ Watersheds
¤ Troubled Waters
8.4 In the design of structures, there is a need to consider factors such as function, materials, safety, cost and appearance.   ¤ A Wet History of New Haven

More Information on All Education Programs

All programs are free for schools in our district*. For more information on Regional Water Authority education programs, call 203-777-1142.

*Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Bethany, Branford, Cheshire, Derby, East Haven, Guilford, Hamden, Killingworth, Madison, Milford, New Haven, North Branford, North Haven, Orange, Prospect, Regional District #16, Regional District #17, Seymour, West Haven and Woodbridge.

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Download the Regional Water Authority Education Brochure.
The PDF includes the Water Science Loan Box Reservation Form.