Content Standards
Indiana Department of Education State Standards
This multidisciplinary learning experience connects to standards in the subjects of English/language arts, social studies, and guidance. It fulfills the following standards:
English/Language Arts: RN.1: Learning Outcome for Reading Nonfiction Read and comprehend a variety of nonfiction independently and proficiently. 2.RN.2.3 Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, and steps in a process or procedure in a text. 2.RN.3.3 Identify what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe in the text. 2.RN.4.1 Describe how an author uses facts to support specific points in a text. Guidance: Standard 3 –Citizenship Development Students develop the personal management and team-building skills needed to become successful learners, responsible citizens, and productive workers. K-2.3.1 Identify ways in which people are similar and different. K-2.3.6 Describe simple ways to resolve conflicts. |
Social Studies: Standard 3 —Geography Students locate their community, state and nation on maps and globes; identify major geographic characteristics of their local community; explore geographic relationships between the physical and environmental characteristics of their community, and compare neighborhoods in their community to those in other parts of the world. 2.3.4 Compare neighborhoods in your community with those in other parts of the world. Standard 4 —Economics Students describe how people in a community use productive resources, create a variety of businesses and industries, specialize in different types of jobs, and depend on each other to supply goods and services. 2.4.1 Define the three types of productive resources (human resources, natural resources and capital resources. |
These standards really simply serve as a suggestion of how you can connect this project to your curriculum. Students will be finding individualized and unique information, making it possible to tie in standards that I did not consider. Allow your students to construct their own learning and study what interests them throughout this project.