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Correlation of Sunshine State Standards
with The Florida Quest
Grades 3-5
READING
Standard 2: The student constructs meaning from a wide range of texts.
» 1. reads text and determines the main idea or essential message, identifies relevant supporting details and facts and arranges events in chronological order.
» 5. reads and organizes information for a variety of purposes, including making a report, conducting interviews, taking a test and performing an authentic task.
» 8. selects and uses a variety of appropriate reference materials, including multiple representations of information, such as maps, charts and photos, to gather information for research projects.
LISTENING, VIEWING AND SPEAKING
Standard 1: The student uses listening strategies effectively.
» 1. listens and responds to a variety of oral presentations, such as stories, poems, skits, songs, personal accounts, informational speeches.
» 2. responds to speakers by asking questions, making contributions and paraphrasing what is said.
Standard 3: The student uses speaking strategies effectively.
» 1. asks questions and makes comments and observations to clarify understanding of content, processes and experiences.
SOCIAL STUDIES - Time, Continuity and Change (History)
Standard 1: The student understands historical chronology and the historical perspective.
» 2. uses a variety of methods and sources to understand history (such as interpreting diaries and letters; and reading maps and graphs) and knows the difference between primary and secondary sources.
» 3. understands broad categories of time in years, decades and centuries.
Standard 5: The student understands U.S. history from 1880 to the present day.
» 1. knows that after the Civil War, massive immigration, big business, and mechanized farming transformed American life.
Standard 6: The student understands the history of Florida and its people.
» 1. understands reasons that immigrants came to Florida and the contributions immigrants made to the state’s history.
» 2. understands the influence of history and geography on the history of Florida.
» 3. understands the perspectives of diverse cultural, ethnic and economic groups with regard to past and current events in history.
» 4. knows how various cultures contributed to the unique social, cultural, economic and political features of Florida.
SOCIAL STUDIES - People, Places and Environments (Geography)
Standard 1: The student understands the world in spatial terms.
» 1. knows how regions are constructed according to physical criteria and human criteria.
» 2. knows ways in which people view and relate to places and regions differently.
Standard 2: The student understands the interactions of people and the physical environment.
» 1. understands how human activity affects the physical environment.
» 2. understands how the physical environment supports and constrains human activities.
SCIENCE - How Living Things Interact with Their Environment
Standard 1: The student understands the competitive interdependent cyclic nature of living things.
» 1. knows ways that plants, animals and proteists interact.
» 2. knows that living things compete in a climatic region with other living things and that structural adaptations make them fit into the environment.
Standard 2: The student understands the consequences of using limited natural resources.
» 2. knows that the size of a population is dependent upon the available resources within its community.
Grades 6-8
READING
Standard 2: The student constructs meaning from a wide range of texts.
» 1. determines the main idea of essential message in a text and identifies relevant details and facts and patterns of organization.
SOCIAL STUDIES - Time, Continuity and Change (History)
Standard 1: The student understands historical chronology and the historical perspective.
» 1. understands how patterns, chronology, sequencing (including cause and effect) and the identification of historical periods are influenced by frames of reference.
Standard 4: The student understands U.S. history in 1880.
» 3. understands the impact of significant people and ideas on the development of values and traditions in the United States prior to 1880.
Standard 5: The student understands U.S. history from 1880 to the present day.
» 1. understands the role of physical and cultural geography in shaping events in the United States since 1880 (e.g., Western settlement, immigration patterns and urbanization).
Standard 6: The student understands the history of Florida its people.
» 1. understands how immigration and settlement patterns have shaped the history of Florida.
» 2. knows the unique geographic and demographic characteristics that define Florida as a region.
» 3. knows how the environment of Florida has been modified by the values, traditions and actions of various groups who have inhabited the state.
» 4. understands how the interactions of societies and cultures have influenced Florida’s history.
» 5. understands how Florida has allocated and used resources and the consequences of those economic decisions.
SOCIAL STUDIES - People, Places, and Environments (Geography)
Standard 1: The student understands the world in spatial terms.
» 1. uses various map forms (including thematic maps) and other geographic representations, tools and technologies to acquire, process and report geographic information including patterns of land use, connections between places and patterns and processes of migration and diffusion.
» 2. understands how factors such as culture and technology influence the perception of places and regions.
Standard 2: The student understands the interactions of people and the physical environment.
» 1. understands the patterns and processes of migrations and diffusion throughout the world.
» 2. knows the human and physical characteristics of different places in the world and how these characteristics change over time.
» 3. understands how cultures differ in their use of similar environments and resources.
» 4. understands how the landscape and society change as a consequence of shifting from a dispersed to a concentrated settlement form.
» 6. understands the environmental consequences of people changing the physical environment in various world locations.
» 9. understands how the interaction between physical and cultural systems affects current conditions on Earth.
SOCIAL STUDIES - Government and the Citizen (Civics and Government)
Standard 2: The student understands the role of the citizen in American democracy.
» 1. understands the importance of participation in community service, civic improvement and political activities.
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