CRC for Technology Education
Title III Technology Literacy Challenge Grant
Project Information Page
Discovery Express
This project was developed as part of the Title III Technology Literacy Challenge Grant’s
Capital Region Collaboration for Technology Education.
2001-2002
Introduction
This Power Point Presentation involves research and writing focusing on the topic
of conservation and the environment. It is interactive and provides activities for curriculum
integration. A very large selection of activities are included.
Learners
This project is appropriate for grades 6-8, and fits best within the Social Studies, Science,
English Language Arts and Math curriculums.
Resources
Students will need access to a computer to view this project on the internet or intranet.
Teachers could also view from a disk with an LCD projector.
Standards
Social Studies
Standard 1: History of the United States and New York Students will use a variety of
intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes,
developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York.
Standard 2: World History Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their
understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in world history
and examine the broad sweep of history from a variety of perspectives.
Standard 3: Geography Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their
understanding of the geography of the independent world in which we live--local, national, and
global-including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the earth's surface.
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Title III Technology Literacy Challenge Grant
Science and Math
Standard 3: Mathematics Students will understand mathematics and become mathematically
confident by communicating and reasoning mathematically, by applying mathematics in realworld settings, and by solving problems through the integrated study of number systems,
geometry, algebra, data analysis, probability, and trigonometry.
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
English Language Arts
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.
Standard 2: Language for Literacy Response and Expression Students will read and listen to
oral, written, and electronically produced texts and performances from American and world
literature; relate texts and performances to their own lives; and develop an understanding of the
diverse social, historical, and cultural dimensions the texts and performances represent. As
speakers and writers, students will use oral and written language that follows the accepted
conventions of the English language for self-expression and artistic creation.
Process
Students will view classroom presentation of this project as a group or in small groups.
Evaluation
Teacher prepared evaluation
Credits and References
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