The following chart travels through the 13 lessons in the NPSC curriculum, tying them to the Washington Benchmarks for 10th grade that are addressed by that lesson. Sometimes only parts of a particular benchmark will be applicable to a NPSC lesson, but we thought it best to cite the entire benchmark for easier reference to these state goals. Please note also that because a lesson can be taught and expanded on at many levels of thoroughness, benchmarks were included assuming the most thorough coverage of the topic. Hopefully you will find this to be a helpful and timesaving tool as you help students rise to the challenge of meeting these goals. BPA or NPSC denotes items supplied by BPA or in the NPSC kit.
Suggestion denotes items or experiments to be supplied by the teacher.
Story of Columbia River journey by grandfather and granddaughter. Teacher's atlas showing mountains and rivers of the Columbia River system. Understand how interactions within and among systems cause changes in matter and energy. Correlate global climate to energy transfer by the sun, cloud cover, the Earth's rotation, and positions of mountain ranges and oceans. The life cycle and ecology of the Salmon.