This web project will enable students to study the adaptation of four selected animals, the environment where they live and what they need to survive and maintain their population. Then the student will make 1-2 changes to the environment and create a new species of an adapted animal able to live in this new environment. Through this process, the students will understand how animal adaptation help it survives, learn how to research using the internet. They will also learn how to communicate through presentations using Google Slides.
Standards addressed:
Standard 2: Information Systems - Students will access, generate, process, and transfer information using appropriate technologies
Standard 4: Science - Students will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science.
Standard 1: Language for Information and Understanding - Students will listen, speak, read, and write for information and understanding. As listeners and readers, students will collect data, facts, and ideas; discover relationships, concepts, and generalizations; and use knowledge generated from oral, written, and electronically produced texts. As speakers and writers, they will use oral and written language that follows the accepted conventions of the English language to acquire, interpret, apply, and transmit information.
Information Literacy Skills:
Standards addressed:
Standard 2: Information Systems - Students will access, generate, process, and transfer information using appropriate technologies
- Use a variety of equipment and software packages to enter, process, display, and communicate information in different forms using text, tables, pictures, and sound
- Access needed information from printed media, electronic data bases, and community resources
Standard 4: Science - Students will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science.
- Describe how the structures of plants and animals complement the environment of the plant or animal
Standard 1: Language for Information and Understanding - Students will listen, speak, read, and write for information and understanding. As listeners and readers, students will collect data, facts, and ideas; discover relationships, concepts, and generalizations; and use knowledge generated from oral, written, and electronically produced texts. As speakers and writers, they will use oral and written language that follows the accepted conventions of the English language to acquire, interpret, apply, and transmit information.
- Gather and interpret information from children's reference books, magazines, textbooks, electronic bulletin boards, audio and media presentations, oral interviews, and from such forms as charts, graphs, maps, and diagrams
Information Literacy Skills:
- Standard 1-accesses information efficiently and effectively
- Standard 2-evaluates information critically and competently
- Standard 3-The student who is information literate uses information accurately and creatively.
- Standard 7-The student practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.
- Standard 9-The student participates effectively in groups to pursue and generate information.