Related State Standards

 

 

Level A - Single Visit Research Challenges

    Foul Water
    North Carolina Science Standards

    Science as Inquiry - As a result of activities in grades 9 - 12, all students should develop:

    • The ability to do scientific inquiry.
    • Understanding about scientific inquiry.
    • Abilities to perform safe and appropriate manipulation of materials, equipment, and technologies.
    • Mastery of integrated process skills.

      o acquiring, processing, and interpreting data.
      o identifying variables and their relationships.
      o designing investigations.
      o experimenting.
      o analyzing investigations.
      o constructing hypotheses.
      o formulating models.

    What Childhood?
    Massachusetts Social Studies Standards

    Learning Standard 3: Research, Evidence, and Point of View. Students will acquire the ability to frame questions that can be answered by historical study and research; to collect, evaluate, and employ information from primary and secondary sources, and to apply it in oral and written presentations. They will understand the many kinds and uses of evidence; and by comparing competing historical narratives, they will differentiate historical fact from historical interpretation and from fiction.

Level B - Challenges Requiring 2-3 Visits

    What Digital Revolution?
    California Standards

    Students must "evaluate the structure, style, and content of the author’s works."

 

 

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