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Writing Skills Grades 3-5
Education Standards Correlations
Education Standards met with the
Writing Skills Grades 3-5 Classroom Software Collection
Imagination Express - Destination: Rain Forest
Hollywood
Ultimate Writing & Creativity Center
The Multimedia Workshop
Carmen Sandiego Word Detective
Imagination Express
- Destination: Rain Forest
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Technology
National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS)
Standard 1: Basic operation and concepts: Students are proficient in
the use of technology.
Standard 3: Technology productivity tools: Students use technology tools
to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity.
Standard 4: Technology communication tools: Students use a variety of
media and formats to communicate information and ideas effectively to
multiple audiences.
Language Arts
National Standards for the English Language Arts
Standard 5: Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write,
using different elements of the writing process to communicate with
different audiences for a variety of purposes.
Standard 6: Students apply knowledge of language structure,
language
conventions (e.g., spelling and punctuation), media techniques, figurative
language, and genre to create, critique, and discuss print and non-print
texts.
Standard 7: Students conduct research on issues and interests by
generating ideas and questions, and by posing problems. They gather,
evaluate, and synthesize data from a variety of sources (e.g., print and
non-print texts, artifacts, people) to communicate their discoveries in
ways that suit their audience and their own purposes.
Standard 8: Students use a variety of technological and
informational resources (e.g., libraries, databases, computer networks,
video) to gather and synthesize information and to acquire and communicate
knowledge.
Standard 12: Students use spoken, written, and visual language
to accomplish their own purposes (i.e., for learning, enjoyment,
persuasion, and the exchange of information).
Science
National Science Education Standards
Content Standard C: Life Science: Organisms and Their Environment
- All animals depend on plants. Some animals eat plants for food.
Other animals eat animals that eat the plants.
- Humans depend on their natural and constructed environments. Humans
change environments in ways that can be either beneficial or detrimental
for themselves and other organisms.
Content Standard F: Science in Personal and Social Perspectives
Populations, Resources, and Environments
- Causes of environmental degradation and resource depletion vary from
region to region and from country to country.
Hollywood
Technology
National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS)
Standard 1: Basic operation and concepts: Students are proficient in
the use of technology.
Standard 3: Technology productivity tools: Students use technology tools
to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity.
Standard 4: Technology communication tools: Students use a variety of
media and formats to communicate information and ideas effectively to
multiple audiences.
Language Arts
National Standards for the English Language Arts
Standard 5: Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write
and use various writing process elements appropriately to communicate
with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
Standard 6: Students apply knowledge of language structure,
language conventions (e.g., spelling and punctuation), media techniques,
figurative language, and genre to create, critique, and discuss print and
non-print texts.
Standard 12: Students use spoken, written, and visual language
to accomplish their own purposes (i.e., for learning, enjoyment,
persuasion, and the exchange of information).
Arts Education
National Standards for Arts Education
Theater - Content Standard 1: Scriptwriting by the creation of
improvisations and scripted scenes based on personal experience and
heritage, imagination, literature, and history.
Ultimate Writing &
Creativity Center
Technology
National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS)
Standard 1: Basic operation and concepts: Students are proficient in
the
use of technology.
Standard 3: Technology productivity tools: Students use technology tools
to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity.
Standard 4: Technology communication tools: Students use a variety of
media and formats to communicate information and ideas effectively to
multiple audiences.
Language Arts
National Standards for the English Language Arts
Standard 5: Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write
and
use various writing process elements appropriately to communicate with
different audiences for a variety of purposes.
Standard 6: Students apply knowledge of language structure,
language conventions (e.g., spelling and punctuation), media techniques,
figurative language, and genre to create, critique, and discuss print and
non-print texts.
Standard 7: Students conduct research on issues and interests by
generating ideas and questions, and by posing problems. They gather,
evaluate, and synthesize data from a variety of sources (e.g., print and
non-print text, artifacts, people) to communicate their discoveries in ways
that suit their purpose and audience.
Standard 8: Students use a variety of technological and
informational resources (e.g., libraries, databases, computer networks,
video) to gather and synthesize information and to create and communicate
knowledge.
Standard 12: Students use spoken, written, and visual language
to accomplish their own purposes (i.e., for learning, enjoyment,
persuasion, and the exchange of information).
Science
National Science Education Standards
Content Standard E: Science and Technology
People have always had questions about their world. Science is one way of
answering questions and explaining the natural world.
Social Studies
Curriculum Standards for Social Studies
Standard III: People, Places, and Environments. (e) locate and
describe varying landforms and geographic features, such as mountains,
plateaus, islands, rain forests, deserts, and oceans, and explain their
relationships within the ecosystem.
Standard IV: Individual Development and Identity. (f) explore factors
that contribute to one's personal identity, such as interests,
capabilities, and perceptions; (h) work independently and cooperatively to
accomplish goals.
The Multimedia
Workshop
Technology
National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS)
Standard 1: Basic operation and concepts: Students are proficient in
the use of technology.
Standard 3: Technology productivity tools: Students use technology tools
to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity.
Students use productivity tools to collaborate in constructing
technology-enhanced models, preparing publications, and producing creative
works.
Standard 4: Technology communication tools: Students use a variety of
media and formats to communicate information and ideas effectively to
multiple audiences.
Language Arts
National Standards for the English Language Arts
Standard 5: Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write
and use various writing process elements appropriately to communicate
with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
Standard 6: Students apply knowledge of language structure,
language conventions (e.g., spelling and punctuation), media techniques,
figurative language, and genre to create, critique, and discuss print and
non-print texts
Standard 12: Students use spoken, written, and visual language
to accomplish their own purposes (i.e., for learning, enjoyment,
persuasion, and the exchange of information).
Social Studies
Curriculum Standards for Social Studies
Standard IV: Individual Development and Identity: (f) explore factors
that contribute to one's personal identity, such as interests,
capabilities, and perceptions; (h) work independently and cooperatively to
accomplish goals.
The Arts
National Standards for Arts Education
Visual Arts - Content Standard 1: Understanding and applying
media, techniques, and processes.
Music - Content Standard 4: Composing and arranging music within
specified guidelines.
Carmen Sandiego Word
Detective
Technology
National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS)
Standard 1: Basic operation and concepts: Students are proficient in
the use of technology.
Standard 3: Technology productivity tools: Students use technology tools
to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity.
Language Arts
National Standards for the English Language Arts
Standard 6: Students apply knowledge of language structure,
language conventions (e.g., spelling and punctuation), media techniques,
figurative language, and genre to create, critique, and discuss print and
non-print texts.
Sources:
Standards for the English Language Arts, by the International
Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English.
Published by the International Reading Association and the National Council
of Teachers of English, 1996.
The National Educational Technology Standards initiated by the
International Society for Technology in Education's Accreditation and
Professional Standards Committee.
Curriculum Standards for Social Studies: Expectations of Excellence, by
the National Council for the Social Studies. Published by National Council
for the Social Studies, 1994.
National Standards for Arts Education: Dance, Music, Theatre, Visual Arts,
by the Consortium of National Arts Education Associations. Published by
Music Educators National Conference, 1994.
National Science Education Standards, by the National Research
Council. Published by National Academy of Sciences, 1996.
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