Targeted Content Standards and Benchmarks
Oregon State Standards
Social Sciences
- Identify public safety, transportation, education, and recreation as responsibilities of local governments
- Understand how citizens can learn about public issues
- Identify and give examples of how individuals can influence the actions of government.
Mathematics
- Formulate questions that can be addressed with data and collect, organize, and display relevant data to answer them
National Educational Technology Standards (NETS)
Performance Indicators for Technology-Literate Students
- Use general purpose productivity tools and peripherals to support personal productivity, remediate skill deficits, and facilitate learning throughout the curriculum.
- Use technology tools (e.g., multimedia authoring, presentation, Web tools, digital cameras, scanners) for individual and collaborative writing, communication, and publishing activities to create knowledge products for audiences inside and outside the classroom.
Student Objectives
Students will
- Investigate and represent complex systems of cause and effect
- Collect, organize, display, and evaluate data to identify local problems
- Collect and organize information from multiple sources
- Synthesize research findings to devise credible solutions
- Classify information, analyze data, and evaluate what data are relevant to the problem
- Summarize findings, reach conclusions, and make decisions based on visual displays of data
- Persuade others of the validity of their position