Get your students to think beyond the numbers and free writes! Your students will be put to the test with multiple skills from multiple disciplines.

Here are the standards included in this project:

Standards

ELA:

Aligns with Benchmark 2-Expository Text

RI. 2 (Main Idea) - CCSS

RI. 5 (Text Structure) - CCSS

RI. 7 (Information From Sources) - CCSS

L.1 (Adjective and Adverbs/ Conjunctions/ Prepositions/ Interjections/ Verbs) – CCSS

RI. 1 (Textual Evidence, Drawing Inferences) – CCSS

RI. 2 (Summarizing Text) – CCSS

W. 2d (Precise Language) – CCSS

W. 5 (Planning) - CCSS

L. 2 (Capitalization, Punctuation, Spelling) – CCSS

Math:

NS 1.2 Using Percents

MG 2.1 Angles and Lines

MG 2.2 Angles in Triangles & Quadrilaterals

Science:

Earth Science 4.a - Students know how to differentiate among igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks by referring to their properties and methods of formation (the rock cycle).

Earth Science 5.a - Students know some changes in the earth are due to slow processes, such as erosion, and some changes are due to rapid processes, such as landslides, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes.

Earth Science 5.b - Students know natural processes, including freezing and thawing and the growth of roots, cause rocks to break down into smaller pieces.

Earth Science 5.c - Students know moving water erodes landforms, reshaping the land by taking it away from some places and depositing it as pebbles, sand, silt, and mud in other places (weathering, transport, and deposition).