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Designing Effective Projects: African Adventure Safari
Content Standards and Objectives
Targeted Content Standards and Benchmarks
Oregon Science Standards
Diversity/Interdependence
  • Understand the relationships among living things and between living things and their environments. 
  • Describe how adaptations help an organism survive in its environment.
  • Describe the principles of natural selection and adaptation.
  • Identify how some animals gather and store food, defend themselves, and find shelter.
  • Describe the relationship between characteristics of specific habitats and the organisms that live there.
  • Describe the basic needs of living things.
National Educational Technology Standards (NETS)
Technology Performance Indicators
Prior to completion of Grade 5 students will:
1. Use keyboards and other common input and output devices (including adaptive devices when necessary) efficiently and effectively. (1)

5. Use technology tools (such as multimedia authoring, presentation, Web tools, digital cameras, and scanners) for individual and collaborative writing, communication, and publishing activities to create knowledge products for audiences inside and outside the classroom. (3, 4)

6. Use telecommunications efficiently and effectively to access remote information, communicate with others in support of direct and independent learning, and pursue personal interests. (4)

Student Objectives
Science Learning
Students will be able to:
  • Understand the relationships among living things and between living things and their environments
  • Describe how adaptations help an organism survive in its environment
  • Understand the relationship between predators and their prey
  • Identify how some animals gather and store food, defend themselves, and find shelter
  • Describe changes to the environment that have caused some species to become endangered
  • Understand the importance of animal conservation in today’s world
Process and Technology Skills
Students will be able to:
  • Work cooperatively in small groups
  • Take notes from research information and synthesize information into clear writing
  • Create presentations using multimedia software
  • Create one-page publications using desktop publishing software
  • Observe copyright laws

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