Sarpy Environmental
Sleuths
Papillion LaVista
School District
A WebQuest exploring the development of Sarpy County, Nebraska
This project was designed at ESU3 Learning Web by thePapillion LaVista teamThis project fulfills many state and national standards.
For background information about WebQuests click here.
1999 Papillion LaVista Team Members
- Margie O'Brien - LM Specialist - Trumble Park - Team Leader
- Pam Dauner - 5th Grade - Trumble Park
- Eric Dennis -- 4th Grade - Parkview Heights
- Sue Hupp --- 6th Grade - Parkview Heights
- Lynn Martin - LM Specialist - Anderson Grove
- Tony Schuetz - 4th Grade - Rumsey Station
Facilitator
Jerome Skrdla - Technology Coordinator - Gretna Schools
Standards
Standards addressed with these projects:
Information Literacy Standards: (American Library Association)
Orientation to Information Resources:
- Recognizes that information can be presented in different formats (internet sites, nonfiction books, email or face-to-face interviews with professionals, CD-Roms, newspapers).
Selection and Utilization of Information:
- Uses information in many resources.
- Evaluates information sources.
Organization and Presentation of Information:
- Selects a product and communicates information
Nebraska L.E.A.R.N. Standards:
Science:
- Grades 2-4 Life Science 4.4.3
- By the end of fourth grade, students will develop an understanding of living things and environment. Student demonstrations: explain how environmental changes affect behavior and survival of living things; describe how humans and other living things cause positive and negative changes in their environment.
Science in Personal and Social Perspectives 4.7.3
- By the end of fourth grade, students will develop an understanding of environmental changes. Student demonstrations: distinguish between natural environmental changes and human influenced environmental changes.
Grades 5-8 Science in Personal and Social Perspectives 8.7.3
- By the end of eighth grade, students will develop an understanding of natural hazards. Student demonstrations: investigate and describe human activities, such as urban growth, land use, and waste disposal, which can accelerate many natural changes.
Social Studies:
Grades 2-4 4.1
- By the end of fourth grade students will compare communities and describe how the local community changed physically and demographically over time.
- 4.21 Students will use the concepts of absolute location, such as using grid systems, and relative location, such as direction, reference to neighboring states, and water features to: explain how physical characteristics, transportation routes, climate, and specialization influenced the variety of crops, products, industries, and the general patterns of economic growth in Nebraska. Illustrate how Nebraska communities differ in physical features, such as land use, population density, architecture, services, and transportation.
Grades 5-8
8.3.1 Civics and Economics
- Students will compare national, state, and local governments, such as: their structures, functions, and powers.
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Professional Association Standards:
National Educational Technology Standards for Students: ISTE
Technology Foundation Standards for Students
5. Technology research tools:
- 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 to specific tasks.
6. Technology problem-solving and decision-making tools
- Students use technology resources for solving problems and making informed decisions.
- Students employ technology in the development of strategies for solving problems in the real world.
National Science Education Standards
Grades K-4 Science in Personal and Social Perspectives
Content Standard F:
- As a result of activities in grades K-4, all students should develop understanding of: changes in environments; characteristics and changes in populations.
- Organisms and their Environments: Humans depend on their natural and constructed environments. Humans change environments in ways that can be either beneficial or detrimental for themselves and other organisms.
Grades 5-8
Science in Personal and Social Perspectives
Content Standard F:
- As a result of activities in grades 5-8, all students should develop understanding of: populations, resources, and environments - when an area becomes overpopulated, the environment will become degraded due to the increased use of resources.
National Geography Standards 1994 (National Council for Geographic Education)
Grades K-4
- Standard 2: How to use mental maps to organize information about people, places, and environments in a spatial context. #1 - The locations of places within the local community and in nearby communities.
- Standard 12: The processes, patterns, and functions of human settlement. #3 - how spatial patterns of human settlement change and #4 - the spatial characteristics of cities.
- Standard 13: How the forces of cooperation and conflict among people influence the division and control of earth’s surface.
Grades 5-8
- Standard 2: How to use mental maps to organize information about people, places, and environments in a spatial context.
- Standard 16: Environment and Society - the changes that occur in the meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources.
This page was designed and maintained by Margie O'Brien. It was last updated January 8,2000
Email questions or comments to mobrien@paplv.esu3.org