New York State Learning Standards are used throughout this WebQuest:
MST STANDARD 4: 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.
*KEY IDEA: LIVING ENVIRONMENT: Living things are both similar to and
different from each other and nonliving things. Organisms inherit genetic
information in a variety of ways that result in continuity of structure and
function between parents and offspring. Individual organisms and species
change over time.
*PERFORMANCE INDICATOR: Explore the characteristics of and differences
between living and nonliving things. Identify simple life processes common to
all living things.
MST STANDARD 6: Students will understand the relationships and common themes
that connect mathematics, science and technology and apply the themes to
these and other areas of learning.
*KEY IDEA: Models are simplified representations of objects, structures
or systems used in analysis, explanation, interpretation or design.
*PERFORMANCE INDICATOR: Provide examples of natural and manufactured
things that belong to the same category yet have very different sizes,
weights, ages, speeds and other measurements. Identify the biggest and the
smallest values of a system when given information about its characteristics
and behavior.
STANDARD 3: MATHEMATICS: Students will understand mathematics and become
mathematically confident by communicating and reasoning mathematically, by
applying mathematics in real-world settings, and by solving problems through
the integrated study of number systems, geometry, algebra, data analysis,
probability, and triginometry.
*KEY IDEA 5-MEASUREMENT: Students use measurement in both metric and
English measure to provide a major link between the abstractions of
mathematics and the real world in order to describe and compare objects and
data.
*PERFORMANCE INDICATOR: Understand the attributes of area, length,
capacity, volume, weight, time, temperature, and money.
ELA STANDARD 1: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for information
and nderstanding.
*KEY IDEA: Writing- Students will write an average of 1000 words per
month across all content areas and standards.
