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This Project Impact newspaper provides a wonderful opportunity for teachers to give students important safety information while covering a number of standards in the core content areas. The following curriculum guide identifies the grade-level (K-5th or 6th) content standards that can be covered using "Be Ready News."

The curriculum guide for the "Be Ready News" was written by John McCann, Jr., Curriculum Coordinator,  Sierra County Office of Education.  If you have questions, please email John at jmccann@sierra-coe.k12.ca.us. 

Kindergarten:
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• Social Science
  Students understand that being a good citizen involves acting in certain ways.
  
  Students compare and contrast the locations of people, places and environments and describe their characteristics.
  
• Science
  Students know changes in weather occur from day to day and across
  seasons, affecting Earth and its inhabitants.
  
  Students communicate observations orally and through drawings.
  
• Language Arts
  Writing 
  Students write words and brief sentences that are legible.
  Listening and speaking
  Students understand and follow one- and two-step oral directions.
  
  Speaking Applications
  Describe people, places, things, locations, and actions.
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First Grade:
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• Social Science
  Students understand the elements of fair play and good sportsmanship, respect for the rights and opinions of others, and respect for rules by which we live, including the meaning of the "Golden Rule."
  
  Students describe how location, weather, and physical environment affect the way people live, including the effects on their food, clothing, shelter, transportation, and recreation.
  
• Science
  Students know that weather can be observed, measured, and described.
  
  Students draw pictures that portray some features of the thing being described.
  
• Language Arts
  Reading Comprehension
  Students identify text that uses sequence or other logical order.
  
  Students follow one-step written instructions.
  
  Writing
  Students write and speak in complete, coherent sentences.
  
  Listening and Speaking Strategies
  Students listen critically and respond appropriately to oral communication.
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Second Grade:
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• Social Science
  Students understand the importance of individual action and character and explain how heroes from long ago and the recent past have made a difference in other’s lives.
  
• Science
  Students write or draw descriptions of a sequence of steps, events, and observations.
  
• Language Arts
  Reading Comprehension
  Students use knowledge of the author’s purpose to comprehend informational text.
  
  Reading Comprehension
  Students follow two-step written instructions.
  
  Writing Strategies
  Students create readable documents with legible handwriting.
  
  Written and Oral English Language Conventions
  Students write and speak with a command of standard English conventions.
  
  Listening and Speaking Strategies
  Students listen critically and respond appropriately to oral communication.
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Third Grade:
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• Social Science
  Discuss the importance of public virtue and the role of citizens, including how to participate in a classroom, in the community, and in civic life.
  
• Science
  Students know matter has three forms: solid, liquid, and gas.
  
  Students know evaporation and melting are changes that occur when objects are heated.
  
  Students know living things cause changes in the environment in which they live: some of these changes are detrimental to the organism or organisms, and some are beneficial.
  
• Language Arts
  Reading Comprehension
  Students read and understand grade-level-appropriate material.
  
  Writing Strategies
  Students write clear and coherent sentences and paragraphs that develop a central idea.
  
  Listening and Speaking Strategies
  Students listen critically and respond appropriately to oral communication.
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Fourth Grade:
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• Social Science
  Students demonstrate an understanding of the physical and human geographic features that define places and regions in Nevada/California.
  
• Science
  Students know that some changes in the earth are due to slow processes, such as erosion, and some changes are due to rapid processes, such as landslides, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes.
  
  Students know moving water erodes landforms, reshaping the land by taking away from some places and depositing it as pebbles, sand, silt, and  mud in other places.
  
• Language Arts
  Reading Comprehension
  Students read and understand grade-level-appropriate material.
  
  Writing Strategies
  Students write clear and coherent sentences and paragraphs that develop a central idea.
  
  Listening and Speaking Strategies
  Students listen critically and respond appropriately to oral communication.
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Fifth Grade and Sixth Grade:
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• Science
  Students know the causes and effects of different types of severe weather.
• Language Arts
  Reading Comprehension
  Students read and understand grade-level-appropriate material.
  
  Writing Strategies
  Students write clear and coherent sentences and paragraphs that develop a central idea.
  
  Listening and Speaking Strategies
  Students listen critically and respond appropriately to oral communication.
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  The curriculum guide for the "Be Ready News" was written by John McCann, Jr., Curriculum Coordinator,  Sierra County Office of Education.  If you have questions, please email John at jmccann@sierra-coe.k12.ca.us. 
  
  If you have any questions contact Gil Folk at the Washoe County School District. 
  (GFOLK@washoe.k12.nv.us)
  
  You can also e-mail your comments to Ben Hutchins, City of Sparks Project Impact Steering Committee Chairman,or Dee Beaugez, City of Sparks Project Impact Safe Schools Committee Chair. 
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Distribution of more than 71,000 newspapers. 
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66,000 newspapers will be distributed in Washoe County, as follows:

• One newspaper to every child in the Washoe County School District (K-12)
• All students attending Manogue High School
• All charter schools in Washoe County
• Some private schools in Washoe County
• All City of Sparks employees

• Nevada Humane Society
• Schools in Sierra County (K-12)
• Trindel Insurance Company
• Sierra County Health and Human Services
• Sierra County Sheriff's Department
• Town of Truckee Animal Control
• Sierra County Office of Emergency Services
• Sierra County Office of Education
• Sierra County Drug/Alcohol Program
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