Animals versus people: Who's the better navigator?

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 9

• Goal 2: The learner will explain meaning, describe processes, and answer research questions to inform an audience.
  • Objective 2.04: Form and refine a question for investigation, using a topic of personal choice, and answer that question by:
    • deciding upon and using appropriate methods such as interviews with experts, observations, finding print and non-print sources, and using interactive technology or media.
    • prioritizing and organizing the information.
    • incorporating effective media and technology to inform or explain.
    • report (in written and/or presentational form) the research in an appropriate form for a specified audience.
• Goal 5: The learner will demonstrate understanding of various literary genres, concepts, elements, and terms.
  • Objective 5.02: Demonstrating increasing comprehension and ability to respond personally to texts by selecting and exploring a wide range of genres.
  • Objective 5.03: Demonstrate the ability to read, listen to and view a variety of increasingly complex print and non-print literacy texts appropriate to grade level and course literary focus, by:
    • selecting, monitoring, and modifying as necessary reading strategies appropriate to readers' purpose.
    • identifying and analyzing text components (such as organizational structures, story elements, organizational features) and evaluating their impact on the text.
    • providing textual evidence to support understanding of and reader's response to text.
    • demonstrating comprehension of main idea and supporting details.
    • summarizing key events and/or points from text.
    • making inferences, predicting, and drawing conclusions based on text.
    • identifying and analyzing personal, social, historical or cultural influences, contexts, or biases.
    • making connections between works, self and related topics.
    • analyzing and evaluating the effects of author's craft and style.
    • analyzing and evaluating the connections or relationships between and among ideas, concepts, characters and/or experiences.
    • identifying and analyzing elements of literary environment found in text in light of purpose, audience, and context.

Science (2005)

Grade 9–12 — Biology

• Goal 1: The learner will develop abilities necessary to do and understand scientific inquiry.
  • Objective 1.01: Identify biological questions and problems that can be answered through scientific investigations.
  • Objective 1.02: Design and conduct scientific investigations to answer biological questions.
    • Create testable hypotheses
    • Identify variables.
    • Use a control or comparison group when appropriate.
    • Select and use appropriate measurement tools.
    • Collect and record data.
    • Organize data into charts and graphs.
    • Analyze and interpret data.
    • Communicate findings.
• Goal 4: The learner will develop an understanding of the unity and diversity of life.
  • Objective 4.03: Assess, describe and explain adaptations affecting survival and reproductive success.
    • Structural adaptations in plants and animals (form to function).
    • Disease-causing viruses and microorganisms.
    • Co-evolution.
  • Objective 4.05: Analyze the broad patterns of animal behavior as adaptations to the environment.
    • Innate behavior.
    • Learned behavior.
    • Social behavior.