RI SMART96 Newton Project
National Standards
These activities in this project address the following National Standards in Science, Language Arts, Math and Geography.
Each standard listed below is linked to Benchmarks, as well as to additional Internet Resources for that Standard.
LANGUAGE ARTS
1. Demonstrates competence in the general skills and strategies of the writing process.
2. Demonstrates competence in the stylistic and rhetorical aspects of writing.
4. Effectively gathers and uses information for research purposes.
6. Demonstrates competence in general skills and strategies for reading literature.
9. Demonstrates competence in applying the reading process to specific types of informational text.
SCIENCE
4. Knows about the diversity and unity that characterizes life.
7. Understands how species depend on one another and on the environment for survival.
15. Understands the nature of scientific inquiry.
MATHEMATICS
4. Understands and applies basic and advanced properties of the concept of measurement.
9. Understands the general nature and uses of mathematics.
GEOGRAPHY
2. Knows the location of places, geographic features and patterns of the environment.
8. Understands the characteristics of ecosystems on Earth's surface.
14. Understands how human actions modify the physical environment.
