The Create a Landmark contest provides a terrific opportunity to incorporate activities that meet Indiana Academic Standards in several disciplines. Check out ideas from other teachers on incorporating Create a Landmark into your own lesson plans!
Note: More standards may be addressed, based upon the landmark selected
English Standards
Vocabulary and Concept Development
6.1.4 Understand unknown words in informational texts by using word, sentence, and paragraph clues to determine meaning.
Structural Features of Informational and Technical Materials
6.2.1 Identify the structural features of popular media (newspapers, magazines, online information) and use the features to obtain information.
Analysis of Grade-Level Appropriate Nonfiction and Informational Text
6.2.4 Clarify an understanding of texts by creating outlines, notes, diagrams, summaries, or reports.
Organization and Focus
6.4.1 Discuss ideas for writing, keep a list or notebook of ideas, and use graphic organizers to plan writing.
6.4.2 Choose the form of writing that best suits the intended purpose.
6.4.3 Write informational pieces of several paragraphs.
6.4.4 Use a variety of effective organizational patterns, including comparison and contrast; organization by categories; and arrangement by order of importance or climactic order.
Research Process and Technology
6.4.5 Use note-taking skills.
6.4.6 Use organizational features of electronic text, such as bulletin boards, databases, keyword searches, and e-mail addresses to locate information.
6.4.7 Use a computer to compose documents with appropriate formatting by using word-processing skills and principles of design, including margins, tabs, spacing, columns, and page orientation.
Evaluation and Revision
6.4.8 Review, evaluate, and revise writing for meaning and clarity.
6.4.9 Edit and proofread one's own writing, as well as that of others.
6.4.10 Revise writing to improve the organization and consistency of ideas within and between paragraphs.
Research and Writing Applications
6.5.3 Write research reports.
6.5.6 Use varied word choices to make writing interesting.
Sentence Structure
6.6.1 Use simple sentences, compound sentences, and complex sentences; use effective coordination and subordination of ideas, including both main ideas and supporting ideas in single sentences, to express complete thoughts.
6.6.4 Use correct capitalization.
Comprehension
6.7.1 Relate the speaker's verbal communication to the nonverbal message.
6.7.2 Identify the tone, mood, and emotion conveyed in the oral communication.
6.7.3 Restate and carry out multiple-step oral instruction and directions.
6.7.5 Emphasize important points to assist the listener in following the main ideas and concepts.
6.7.6 Support opinions with researched, documented evidence, and with visual or media displays that use appropriate technology.
6.7.7 Use effective timing, volume, tone, and alignment of hand and body gestures to sustain audience interest and attention.
Speaking Applications
6.7.11 Deliver informative presentations.
Mathematics Standards
Number Sense
6.1.6 Use models to represent ratios.
Computation
6.2.3 Multiply and divide decimals.
6.2.4 Explain how to multiply and divide positive fractions and perform the calculations.
6.2.7 Understand proportions and use them to solve problems.
Measurement
6.5.1 Select and apply appropriate standard units and tools to measure length, area, volume, weight, time, temperature, and the size of angles.
Problem Solving
6.7.1 Analyze problems by identifying relationships, telling relevant from irrelevant information, identifying missing information, sequencing and prioritizing information, and observing patterns.
6.7.2 Make and justify mathematical conjectures based on a general description of a mathematical question.
6.7.3 Decide when and how to break a problem into simpler parts.
6.7.4 Apply strategies and results from simpler problems to solve more complex problems.
6.7.6 Recognize the relative advantages of exact and approximate solutions to problems and give answers to a specified degree of accuracy.
6.7.9 Make precise calculations and check the validity of the results in the context of the problem.
6.7.10 Decide whether a solution is reasonable in the context of the original situation.
6.7.11 Note the method of finding the solution and show a conceptual understanding of the method by solving similar problems.
Visual Arts Standards
Standard 8
6.8.1 Apply elements and principles in work that effectively communicates their ideas.
6.8.2 Identify and discriminate between types of shape, colors, lines, textures, and space, balance and the use of proportion, rhythm, variety, repetition, and movement in their work and the works of others.
Standard 9
6.9.2 Demonstrate appropriate use of different media, techniques, and processes to communicate themes and ideas in their work.
6.9.3 Demonstrate safe and proper use, care, and storage of media, materials, and equipment.
Standard 10
6.10.1 Demonstrate evidence of reflection, thoughtfulness, and care in selecting ideas and completing work.
6.10.3 Demonstrate respect for their work and the work of others.