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Standards Addressed:
Fourth Grade Social Studies
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4.1 Students demonstrate an understanding of the physical and humangeographic features that define places and regions in California.
- 4.2 Students describe the social, political, cultural, and economic life and interactions among people of California from the pre-Columbian societies….
Fourth Grade Reading/Language Arts
2.0 Reading Comprehension
- 2.2 Use appropriate strategies when reading for different purposes
- 2.3 Make and confirm predictions about text by using prior knowledge and ideas
presented in the text itself, including illustrations, titles, topic sentences,
important words, and foreshadowing clues.
- 2.4 Evaluate new information and hypotheses by testing them against known information and ideas.
- 2.5 Compare and contrast information on the same topic after reading several passages or articles.
1.0 Writing Strategies
- 1.3 Use traditional structures for conveying information (e.g., chronological order, cause and effect, similarity and difference, and posing and answering a question).
2.0 Writing Applications
- 2.3 Write information reports:
1.0 Written and Oral English Language Conventions
Research and Technology
- 1.5 Quote or paraphrase information sources, citing them appropriately.
- 1.6 Locate information in reference texts by using organizational features (e.g., prefaces, appendixes).
- 1.7 Use various reference materials (e.g., dictionary, thesaurus, card catalog, encyclopedia, online information) as an aid to writing.
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Skills students need to successfully complete this WebQuest :
Web Navigation--Basic
PowerPoint-Basic
Excel--Basic to make temperature & rainfall charts
Brochure Making in Word (or another available application)
Student Pages to Print:
Region Information
Native American Information
Discussion Group Matrix
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