Reviving Bodie

Information Skills (2000)

Grade 6

• Goal 4: The learner will EXPLORE and USE research processes to meet information needs.
  • Objective 4.05: Gather information from the most effective resources.
  • Objective 4.07: Organize and use information.
• Goal 5: The learner will COMMUNICATE reading, listening, and viewing experiences.
  • Objective 5.01: Respond to reading, listening, viewing experiences orally, artistically, dramatically, through various formats (e.g., print, multimedia).
  • Objective 5.02: Produce media in various formats (print, graphical, audio, video, multimedia) appropriate to audience and purpose.
  • Objective 5.03: Describe, support an opinion, and/or persuade an audience using a variety of media formats (print, graphical, audio, video, multimedia).
  • Objective 5.04: Collaborate with others, both in person and through technologies, to identify information problems and to design, develop and evaluate information products and solutions.

Grade 7

• Goal 1: The learner will EXPLORE sources and formats for reading, listening, and viewing purposes.
  • Objective 1.10: Identify characteristics and advantages of various media formats (print, graphical, audio, video, multimedia, web-based) for a specific task.
  • Objective 1.11: Explore primary and secondary sources.
• Goal 2: The learner will IDENTIFY and USE criteria for excellence to evaluate information and formats.
  • Objective 2.03: Recognize the diversity of ideas and thoughts by exploring a variety of resources (print, non-print, electronic) and formats (print, graphical, audio, video, multimedia, web-based).
• Goal 3: The learner will RELATE ideas and information to life experiences.
  • Objective 3.02: Collect and compare information about diverse cultures, environments, and peoples.
  • Objective 3.04: Relate cultural similarities and differences to personal heritage and environments.
  • Objective 3.05: Describe how information and ideas are influenced by prior knowledge, personal experience, and social, cultural, political, economic, and historical events.
• Goal 4: The learner will EXPLORE and USE research processes to meet information needs.
  • Objective 4.03: Develop a search strategy which includes the continuous evaluation of the research process and the information gathered.

Social Studies (2003)

Grade 6

• Goal 1: The learner will use the five themes of geography and geographic tools to answer geographic questions and analyze geographic concepts.
  • Objective 1.02: Generate, interpret, and manipulate information from tools such as maps, globes,charts, graphs, databases, and models to pose and answer questions about space and place, environment and society, and spatial dynamics and connections.
• Goal 7: The learner will assess connections between historical events and contemporary issues.
  • Objective 7.01: Identify historical events such as invasions, conquests, and migrations and evaluate their relationship to current issues.

Grade 7

• Goal 1: The learner will use the five themes of geography and geographic tools to answer geographic questions and analyze geographic concepts.
  • Objective 1.02: Generate, interpret, and manipulate information from tools such as maps, globes, charts, graphs, databases, and models to pose and answer questions about space and place, environment and society, and spatial dynamics and connections.