Language Arts Social Studies Science Students will read multiple sources about a topic and organize information for presentation. Students will examine the contributions of various ethnic, racial, and religious groups to the development of communities. Students will observe structures, record the variety of sizes, shapes, materials, and functions of these structures Students will write to inform others about a topic. Students will obtain, interpret, organize, and use information from reading, asking questions, observing,and listening. Students will collect and make sense of data.
Time depends on the number of computers available.
Access to Internet, media center print and non-print resources. A heritage pathfinder is available . You may also use Ask Jeeves for Kids or another search engine to find additional appropriate Internet sites for student research If you intend to tier instruction, evaluate reading level of selected sites and other print and non-print resources. Select one of the websites and review its structure by using Evaluate Your Website with students. This can be done with the whole class or by pairing students and sharing results.