Standards
Addressed in this WebQuest
NYS Social Studies Standards
- Standard
1 - History of the United States and New York State
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding
of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history
of the United States and New York.
- Standard
3 - Geography
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding
of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live—local,
national, and global—including the distribution of people, places, and
environments over the Earth’s surface.
- Standard
4 - Economics
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their
understanding of how the United States and other societies develop economic
systems and associated institutions to allocate scarce resources, how major
decision-making units function in the U.S. and other national economies, and
how an economy solves the scarcity problem through market and nonmarket mechanisms.
- Standard
5 - Civics, Citizenship, and Government
Students will: use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding
of the necessity for establishing governments; the governmental system of
the U.S. and other nations; the U.S. Constitution; the basic civic values
of American constitutional democracy; and the roles, rights, and responsibilities
of citizenship, including avenues of participation.
NYS English Language
Arts
- Students will
read, write, listen, and speak for information and understanding.
- Students will
read, write, listen, and speak for literary response and expression.
- Students will
read, write, listen, and speak for critical analysis and evaluation.
- Students will
read, write, listen, and speak for social interaction.
Technology Benchmarks
for Students
- Standard
1 - The student is an information navigator.
- Information
Acquisition: Use online and electronic resources to communicate, collaborate,
and retrieve information
- Standard
3 - The student is a builder of knowledge using technology, media and telecommunications.
- Input
and Output Devices: Use input and output devices to successfully use modern
technologies
- Productivity
Tools: Use a variety of technology resources and applications to facilitate
learning throughout the curriculum and support personal, academic and
professional productivity
- Standard
4 - The student is an effective communicator through a variety of appropriate
technologies/media.
- Publishing:
Design, develop, publish, and present multimedia and online products using
technology resources that demonstrate and communicate curriculum concepts
to audiences inside and outside the classroom
- Standard
5 - The student is a technician.
- Terminology
and Usage: Understand and communicate, using accurate terminology, common
uses of technology in daily life and the advantages and disadvantages
those uses provide
- Basic
Operations and Networking: Understand and effectively utilize a networked
computer system
- Troubleshooting:
Apply strategies for identifying and solving routine hardware and software
problems
- Standard
6 - The student is a responsible citizen, worker, learner, community member
and family member in a technological age.
- Ethics:
Advocate and apply positive social and ethical behaviors when using technology
and identify the consequences of misuse