Curriculum
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 that state the thesis, explain the situation, organize the composition clearly, and offer evidence to support arguments and conclusion. 

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, support the position with organized and relevant evidence and effective emotional appeals, and anticipate and address reader concerns and counter-arguments.

6.7.13 Deliver persuasive presentations that provide a clear statement of the position, include relevant evidence, offer a logical sequence of information, engage the listener, and try to gain acceptance of the proposition or proposal.

Math:  

6.1.5  Recognize decimal equivalents for commonly used fractions without the use of a calculator.

Understand proportions and use them to solve problems.

6.5.1  Select and apply appropriate standard units and tools to measure length, area, volume, weight, time, temperature, .....

6.6.1  Organize and display single-variable data in appropriate graphs and stem-and-leaf plots and explain which types of graphs are appropriate for various data sets.

6.6.5 Use data to estimate the probability of future events.

6.7.1  Analyze problems by identifying relationships, telling relevant from irrelevant information, identifying missing information, sequencing and prioritizing information and observing patterns.

Science

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.

6.3.5 Know that 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 Explain that fresh water, limited in supply and uneven in distribution, is essential for life and also for most industrial processes. Understand that this resource can be depleted or polluted, making it 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 Explain that 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 Explain that 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.

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.

6.4.8 Explain that in all environments, such as 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. Note that in any environment, the growth and survival of organisms depend on physical conditions.

6.4.9  Recognize and explain that two types of organisms may interact in a competitive or cooperative relationship, such as:  producer/consumer, predator/prey, or parasite/host.  

Social Studies:

6.3.2  Use latitude and longitude to locate places on Earth....

6.3.4  Describe the major physical characteristics of regions in the Americas.

6.3.8  Identify major biomes and explain ways in which the natural environment of places in the Americas relates to their climate......

6.3.13  Analyze and give examples of the consequences of human impact on the physical environment....

6.3.16  Identify environmental issues that affect the Americas.  .....and explain how human-induced changes in the physical environment of one place can cause changes in another place.

Technology:

ILS 1: accesses information efficiently and effectively.

ILS 2: evaluates information critically and competently.

ILS 3: uses information accurately and creatively.

ILS 4: pursues information related to personal interests.

ILS 5: appreciates literature and other creative expressions of information.

ILS 7: recognizes the importance of information in a democratic society.

ILS 8: practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

ILS 9: participates effectively in groups to pursue and generate information (shares and collaborates).

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 

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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