Lk at these beans! A WebQuest for 5-8th Grade Students TEACHER PAGE

National Standards

TECHNOLOGY

• Students practice responsible use of technology systems, information, and software.
• Students develop positive attitudes toward technology uses that support lifelong learning, collaboration, personal pursuits, and productivity.
• Students use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity.
• Students use productivity tools to collaborate in constructing technology-enhanced models, prepare publications, and produce other creative works.
• Students use a variety of media and formats to communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences.
• Students use technology to locate, evaluate and collect information from a variety of sources.
• Students use technology tools to process data and report results.
• Students evaluate and select new information resources and technological innovations based on the appropriateness for specific tasks.
• Students employ technology in the development of strategies for solving problems in the real world.

SCIENCE

• Abilities of technological design
• Understandings about science and technology
• Populations, resources, and environments
• Science and technology in society

ECONOMICS

• Scarcity is the condition of not being able to have all of the goods and services that one wants. It exists because human wants for goods and services exceed the quantity of goods and services that can be produced using all available resources.
• The choices people make have both present and future consequences.
• The evaluation of choices and opportunity costs is subjective; such evaluations differ across individuals and societies.

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Understand how to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective.
• Understand how to use mental maps to organize information about people, places, and environments in a spatial context.

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