Objectives

Materials and
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Investigations
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Assessment

Reflections

Tech-Know-Build

Curriculum Objectives

Indiana State Standards

Language Arts:

6.4.5 Use note-taking skills

6.4.6 Use organizational features of electronic text to locate information

6.4.7 Use a computer to compose documents with appropriate formatting

6.5.2 Write descriptions, explanations, comparison and contrast papers, and problem and solution essays

6.5.3 Write research reports that pose relevant questions, support the main idea with facts, and includes a bibliography

6.5.5 Write a persuasive composition that states a clear position on a proposition

Math:  

4.6.3 Solve problems that require interpreting a diagram or drawing, using logical reasoning, and using guess and check.

6.8.2 Recognize the relationships between fraction, percent, ratio, and proportion.

9.5.1 Choose the appropriate metric or customary unit (centimeter, meter, inches, feet, yard) to determine the linear measure of an object..

10.6.1 Given a bar, line, or picture graph, interpret and analyze the data.

10.6.2 Choose an appropriate scale and construct a graph or diagram using a set of numerical data.

10.6.3 Given a problem situation, collect, organize, and present the numerical data in a variety of forms.

10.6.7 Make predictions from selected statistical data.

11.8.1 Use proportions to solve problems.

Science Academic Standards 2001:

6.2.5 Organize information in simple tables and graphs and identify relationships they reveal.

6.2.6 Read simple tables and graphs produced by others and describe in words what they show.

6.2.7 Locate information in reference books, back issues of newspapers and magazines, and compact discs, and computer databases.

 The Earth and Processes that Shape It

6.3.5 Because the Earth turns daily on an axis relative to the plane of Earth’s yearly orbit around the sun, sunlight falls more intensely on different parts of the Earth during the year. The difference in heating of the earth’s surface produces the planet’s seasons and weather patterns.

6.3.8 Fresh water, limited in supply, is essential for life and also for most industrial processes. Rivers, lakes, and groundwater can be depleted or polluted, becoming unavailable or unsuitable for life.

6.3.9 Illustrate that the cycling of water in and out of the atmosphere plays an important role in determining climatic patterns.

6.3.13  Identify, explain, and discuss some effects human activities, such as the creation of pollution, have on weather and the atmosphere.

 6.3.15 Although weathered rock is the basic component of soil, the composition and texture of soil and its fertility and resistance to erosion are greatly influenced by plant roots and debris, bacteria, fungi, worms, insects, rodents, and other organisms.

6.3.16 Human activities such as reducing the amount of forest cover, increasing the amount and variety of chemicals released into the atmosphere, and intensive farming, have changed the earth’s land, oceans, and atmosphere. Some of these changes have decreased the capacity of the environment to support some life forms.

 Diversity of Life

6.4.3  Describe some of the great variety of body plans and internal structures that animals and plants have that contribute to their being able to make or find food and reproduce.

 Interdependence of Life

6.4.8 In all environments – freshwater, marine, forest, desert, grassland, mountain, and others- organisms with similar needs may compete with one another for resources, including food, space, water, air, and shelter. In any particular environment the growth and survival of organisms depend on physical conditions.

6.4.9  Two types of organisms may interact with one another in several ways: They may be in a producer/consumer, predator/prey, or parasite/host relationship. Or one organism may scavenge or decompose another. Relationships may be competitive or mutually beneficial. Some species have become so adapted to each other that neither could survive without the other.

Social Studies:

Geographical Relations

1. Hypothesize about the natural enviroment of places in relation to their exact (latitude and longitude) and relative locations.

2.  Identify the physical features (land and water forms, climate, natural vegetation, etc.) that influence development.

3.  Identify cultural characteristics of regions (language, nationality, religion, etc.) that influence cultural development.

Technology:

Identifies a variety of potential sources of information.

Produces and communicates information and ideas in appropriate formats.

Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

Can operate and navigate the technology necessary to access the needed information.

Learner Objectives:

1.   Students will learn and appreciate that rain forests have unique plants for new foods, medicines, and other products through research using predetermined web sites (WebQuest).

2.   Students will learn through research and experimentation that deforestation causes problems such as soil erosion and water pollution.

3.   Students will discover by participating in an activity that rain forest products will be become scarce and more expensive if rain forests are destroyed.

4.   Students will understand by analyzing data that losing rain forest could endanger local birds which migrate there.

5.   Students will appreciate by researching native peoples that no one has the right to destroy peoples' homes and ways of life.

6.   Students will discover by studying the water/carbon dioxide cycles that the rain forest helps clean our planet's air.

7.   Students will learn by studying weather data that destroying the rain forest can change weather patterns.

8.   Students will realize through a slide show presentation that the rain forest is a beautiful place with many plants and animals.

9. Students will demonstrate their learned knowledge of the rain forest and deforestation by creating a project.

10.  Students will learn to appreciate the opinions of others through the sharing of new discoveries about the rain forest.

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