Integrating Writing State Standards for Learnings
with The NatureMapping Program

WRITING

Component	NatureMapping

	GRADE 4	GRADE 7	GRADE 10
1.1 Develop concept and design.	Represent one topic in text-each student writes a report on one species observed through NatureMapping.	Demonstrate elaboration through examples, details, facts, and reasons in field notes.	Approach a topic in an individualized and purposeful way; appropriately construct written information about the fauna within the school grounds, for example.
	Include relevant details in field notes, such as whether bird was male or female.	Discriminate between essential, intriguing, or useful information when taking field notes.	Discriminate between essential, intriguing, or useful information and trivia when taking field notes.
1.3 Apply writing conventions.	Write complete sentences in field notes.		Use standard writing conventions in field notes to enhance meaning and clarity; grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
	Use capitalization and punctuation accurately in field notes.	Apply capitalization and punctuation rules correctly in field notes.
	Spell age-level words correctly in field notes and species lists	Spell correctly in field notes and species lists.
	Use legible handwriting in field notes.	Write legibly.	Write legibly.
2.1 Write for different audiences.	Write reports about species on the school grounds for the class.	Write an explanation of the meaning of the data collected for the school.	Write a report of findings on the school grounds for a local professional wildlife meeting.
2.2 Write for different purposes.	Write in order to name and describe wildlife, or to communicate the details of an observation.	Write to explain the NatureMapping program and procedures.	Write to describe the value and purpose of NatureMapping on a county or statewide scale.
2.3 Write in a vaiety of forms.	Take field notes, record observations in journals.	Write in a variety of forms, including note-taking, journals, research reports.	Write in a variety of forms, including a scientific method, directions, journals, field notes.
2.4 Write for career applications.	Cite sources when writing reports.	Identify different forms used to cite sources when writing reports of technical documents, such as references, footnotes, and endnotes found in NatureMapping resources.	Understand the importance of using reference style consistently when writing reports or technical documents.
			Produce technical reports that include spreadsheets and databases, and mapping using geographic information systems.
3.2 Draft.	Prepare drafts of reports.	Prepare drafts of reports.	Prepare drafts of reports.
	Form complete phrases, sentences, and thoughts.
3.3 Revise.	Collect input from others.
3.4 Edit.	Correct common errors in spelling, punctuation, and capitalization.	Use applicable reference tools-dictionaries, species lists, wildlife manuals to edit.
3.5 Publish.	Select a display form such as a NatureMapping notebook, or a poster of the different species observed.	Select from a variety of publishing options such as a school newspaper or bulletin board to present NatureMapping findings.	Prepare a NatureMapping newsletter for the school.
	Use technology, including available NatureMapping software.

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