Procedures:

State and National Standards:
 

West Virginia IGO’s 

 Science:  5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.6, 5.10, 5.12, 5.14, 5.21, 5.50, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.6, 6.10, 6.12, 6.21, 6.63, 6.67,
 6.74, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.6, 7.10, 7.12, 7.14, 7.21, 7.57, 7.67, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.6, 8.10, 8.12, 8.14, 8.21,
 8.60, 8.64 

 Language Arts:  5.16, 5.61, 5.64, 6.20, 6.23, 6.24, 6.57, 6.66, 7.22, 7.54, 7.65, 8.18, 8.22, 8.27, 8.55, 8.64 

 Technology:  5.79, 6.98, 7.92, 8.98 

National Standards 

 Earth and Space Sciences 
 Standard 2: Understands Earth's composition and structure 

  Grade 3-5 

 1. Knows how features on the Earth's surface are constantly changed by a combination of slow and rapid
 processes 

 Grade 6-8 

 2.  Knows how land forms are created through a combination of constructive and destructive forces

 Nature of Science 
 Standard 11: Understands the nature of scientific knowledge 

  Grade 3-5 

 3. Knows that scientists make the results of their investigations public; they describe the investigations in
 ways that enable others to repeat the investigations 
 

 Grade 6-8 

 3. Knows that all scientific ideas are tentative and subject to change and improvement in principle, but for
 most core ideas in science, there is much experimental and observational confirmation 
 
 
 

 Nature of Science 
  Standard 13: Understands the scientific enterprise 

   Grade 3-5 

 2. Knows that although people using scientific inquiry have learned much about the objects, events, and
 phenomena in nature, science is an ongoing process and will never be finished 
 

   Grade 6-8 

 5. Knows that throughout history, many scientific innovators have had difficulty breaking through accepted
 ideas of their time to reach conclusions that are now considered to be common knowledge 
 

 Language Arts 
 Writing
 Standard 1: Uses the general skills and strategies of the writing process 

 Grade 3-5 

 7. Writes expository compositions 

 10. Writes expressive compositions 
 

  Grade 6-8 

 11. Writes compositions that address problems/solutions 

 12. Writes in response to literature 
 
 

  Standard 4: Gathers and uses information for research purposes 
 

   Grade 3-5 

 4. Uses electronic media to gather information 

  5. Uses key words, guide words, alphabetical and numerical order, indexes, cross-references, and letters on
 volumes to find information for research topics 

8.  Uses strategies to compile information into written reports or summaries

   Grade 6-8 

5. Determines the appropriateness of an information source for a research topic 

6.  Organizes information and ideas from multiple sources in systematic ways
 

 Reading 
 Standard 7: Uses reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of informational texts 

   Grades 3-5 

 5. Summarizes and paraphrases information in texts 
 

   Grade 6-8 

 1. Uses reading skills and strategies to understand a variety of informational texts 

Mathematics
Standard 3:  Uses basic and advanced procedures while performing the processes of computation

Grade 3-5

7.  Solves real world problems involving number operations

Grade 6-8

7.  Knows when an estimate is more appropriate than an exact answer for a variety of problem situations

Geography
Standard 7:  Knows the physical processes that shape patterns on Earth's surface

Grade 3-5

2.  Understands how physical processes help to shape features and patterns on Earth's surface

Grade 6-8

1.  Knows the major processes that shape patterns in the physical environment

Standard 15:  Understands how physical systems affect human systems

Grade 3-5

2.  Knows how communities benefit from the physical environment

Grade 6-8

1.  Knows the ways in which human systems develop in response to conditions in the physical environment