Correlation with The Florida Quest

GRADES 3-5: LANGUAGE ARTS/READING

Standard 1: The student uses the reading process effectively.

1. uses a table of contents, index, headings, captions, illustrations and major words to anticipate or predict content and purpose of a reading selection.

4. clarifies understanding by rereading, self-correction, summarizing, checking other sources and class or group discussion.

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.

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.

GRADES 3-5: SOCIAL STUDIES/TIME, CONTINUITY AND CHANGE [HISTORY]

Standard 1: The student understands historical chronology and the historical perspective.

1. understands how individuals, ideas, decisions and events can influence history.

2. uses a variety of methods and sources to understand history (such as interpreting diaries, letters, newspapers; and reading maps and graphs) and knows the difference between primary and secondary sources.

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 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.

GRADES 3-5: 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.

GRADES 3-5: SCIENCE/THE NATURE OF SCIENCE

Standard 1: The student uses the scientific processes and habits of mind to solve problems.

2. knows that a successful method to explore the natural world is to observe and record, and then analyze and communicate the results.

3. knows that to work collaboratively, all team members should be free to reach, explain and justify their own individual conclusions.

Standard 3: The student understands that science, technology and society are interwoven and interdependent.

1. understands that people, alone or in groups, invent new tools to solve problems and do work that affects aspects of life outside of science.

4. knows that through the use of science processes and knowledge, people can solve problems, make decisions and form new ideas.

GRADES 6-8: LANGUAGE ARTS/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.

GRADES 6-8: 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 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 and its people.

1. understands how immigration and settlement patterns have shaped the history of Florida.

2. knows the 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.

GRADES 6-8: 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 culture and technology influence the perception of places and regions.

Standard 2: The student understands the interactions of people and the physical environment.

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.

GRADES 6-8: 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.

GRADES 6-8: SCIENCE/THE NATURE OF SCIENCE

Standard 1: The student uses the scientific processes and habits of mind to solve problems.

1. knows that scientific knowledge is subject to modification as new information challenges prevailing theories and as a new theory leads to looking at old observations in a new way.

Standard 3: The student understands that science, technology and society are interwoven and interdependent.

6. knows that computers speed up and extend people´s ability to collect, sort and analyze data; prepare research reports and share data and ideas with others.

Special Project: THE FLORIDA QUEST Laptop Lauren and the Trackers are the main characters in the Florida Quest, a 4-week, multi-media project involving thousands of students in Volusia and Flagler counties. In this quest they discover Homefront and Heritage!