Education Standards

Alignment with matrixes of student standards

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) curricula:

Tremor Troop and Seismic Sleuths

Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements (EALRs)

American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Benchmarks for Scientific Literacy: Project 2061

Tremor Troop is an earthquake curriculum for K-6, the following charts of scope and sequence detail what concepts and activities correlate:

Unit 1: Defining and Earthquake	Unit 2: Why and Where Earthquakes Occur	Unit 3: Physical Results of Earthquakes
Unit 4: Measuring Earthquakes	Unit 5: Earthquake Safety and Survival	TT Link to NSES
	TT.pdf

Seismic Sleuths is an earthquake curriculum for 7-12, and provides a more in depth look at lessons presented in Tremor Troops.

Overview of the Units	SS Matrix with NSES	Unit 1
Unit 2	Unit 3	Unit 4
Unit 5	Unit 6	SS.pdf

Washington EALRs provide a rich matrix for student learning and understanding. The following EALRs were compiled to match all components of the three lessons detailed to teach glaciers, earthquakes, and cultural movements at IslandWood.

Connecting the EALRs

Engel_EALRs.doc

EALRs.pdf

The AAAS Project 2061 templates and benchmarks for Processes that Shape the Earth detail in a comprehensive manner what to expect at each grade level:

Plate Tectonics (PT)

Changes that Shape the Earth (CS)

Benchmarks

These pages were created by Matthew John Brewer on March 23, 2004 as part of the Graduate Program at IslandWood and fulfillment of the Independent Study Project.

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