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 teacher on incorporating Create a Landmark into your own lesson plans!
Note: More standards may be addressed, based upon the landmark selected
Social Studies Standards
Chronological Thinking, Comprehension, Analysis, and Interpretation
4.1.14 Distinguish fact from opinion and fact from fiction in historical documents and other information resources.
4.1.16 Distinguish fact from opinion and fact from fiction in historical documents and other information resources and identify the central question each narrative addresses.
4.1.17 Using primary source, secondary source and online source materials, construct a brief narrative about an event in Indiana history.
Research Capabilities
4.1.15 Using primary source and secondary source materials, generate a question, seek answers, and write brief comments about an event in Indiana history.
Economics
4.4.10 Explain how money helps people to save, and develop a savings plan in order to make a future purchase.
Have students create a budget for the creation of their model. Include construction supplies and transportation costs to the Indiana State Museum. Students must include a plan for raising the necessary funds and be accountable for maintaining the budget.
English Standards
Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Nonfiction and Informational Text
4.2.2 Use appropriate strategies when reading for different purposes.
4.2.7 Follow multiple-step instructions in a basic technical manual.
Organization and Focus
4.4.3 Write informational pieces with multiple paragraphs.
4.4.4 Use common organizational structures for providing information in writing, such as chronological order, cause and effect, or similarity and difference, and posing and answering a question.
Research and Technology
4.4.5 Quote or paraphrase information sources, citing them appropriately.
4.4.6 Locate information in reference texts by using organizational features, such as prefaces and appendixes.
4.4.7 Use multiple reference materials and online information as aids to writing.
4.4.8 Understand the organization of almanacs, newspapers, and periodicals and how to use those print materials.
4.4.9 Use a computer to draft, revise, and publish writing, demonstrating basic keyboarding skills and familiarity with common computer terminology.
Evaluation and Revision
4.4.10 Review, evaluate, and revise writing for meaning and clarity.
4.4.11 Proofread one's own writing, as well as that of others, using an editing checklist or set of rules, with specific examples of corrections of frequent errors.
4.4.12 Revise writing by combining and moving sentences and paragraphs to improve the focus and progression of ideas.
Writing Applications
4.5.1 Write narratives that include ideas, observations, or memories of an event or experience; provide a context to allow the reader to imagine the world of the event or experience; and use concrete sensory details..
4.5.3 Write informational reports.
4.5.5 Use varied word choices to make writing interesting.
Mathematics Standards
Number Sense
4.1.8 Write tenths and hundredths in decimal and fraction notations. Know the fraction and decimal equivalents for halves and fourths.
Computation
4.2.8 Add and subtract simple fractions with different denominators, using objects or pictures.
Measurement
4.5.1 Measure length to the nearest quarter-inch, eighth-inch, millimeter.
4.5.2 Subtract units of length that may require renaming of feet to inches or meters to centimeters.
Problem Solving
4.7.1 Analyze problems by identifying relationships, telling relevant from irrelevant information, sequencing and prioritizing information, and observing patterns.
4.7.2 Decide when and how to break a problem into simpler parts.
4.7.3 Apply strategies and results from simpler problems to solve more complex problems.
4.7.6 Recognize the relative advantages of exact and approximate solutions to problems and give answers to a specified degree of accuracy.
4.7.8 Make precise calculations and check the validity of the results in the context of the problem.
Visual Art Standards
Standard 10
4.10.1 Demonstrate the ability to successfully generate an idea, select and refine an idea, and execute the idea.