The classroom material in The ARK is designed to help you
meet the Standards of Learning Objectives as established for Virginia public
schools by the Department of Education.
Using The ARK, you can address several SOLs at once. The
ARK's projects can be geared to many grade levels, increasing in their
complexity and creating content strands that carry from one grade to the next.
The ARK meets the following Standards of Learning:
English
2.2 The student will expand listening and speaking
vocabularies.
2.11 The student will locate information in reference
materials.
3.1 The student will use effective communication skills in
group activities.
3.2 The student will present brief oral reports.
4.7 The student will write effective narratives and
explanations.
4.9 The student will use information resources to research
a topic.
5.8 The student will synthesize information from a variety
of resources.
6.2 The student will listen critically and express opinions
in oral presentations.
6.9 The student will select the best sources for a given
purpose.
7.1 The student will give and seek information in
conversation and in group discussions.
7.6 The student will read and understand information from
varied sources.
9.2 The student will make planned oral presentations.
10.1 The student will participate in and report small-group
learning activities.
10.10 The student will collect, evaluate, and organize
information.
11.3 The student will read and analyze relationships among
American literature, history, and culture.
11.9 The student will analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and
organize information from a variety of sources into a documented paper dealing
with a question, problem, or issue.
Mathematics
1.2 The student will sort and classify concrete objects
according to similar attributes (size, shape, and color).
Science
K.9 The student will investigate and understand that change
occurs over time, and rates may be fast or slow.
1.1 The student will plan and conduct investigations in
which: differences in physical properties are observed, objects or events are
classified, observations and data are communicated orally, and inferences are
made and conclusions are drawn.
1.5 The student will investigate and understand that
animals, including people, have life needs and specific physical
characteristics and can be classified according to certain characteristics.
1.7 The student will investigate and understand the
relationship of seasonal change and weather to the activities and life
processes of plants and animals.
2.1 The student will plan and conduct investigations in
which: observations are repeated to improve accuracy, two or more attributes
are used to classify items, observation is differentiated from personal
interpretation, and conclusions are drawn based on observations.
2.5 The student will investigate and understand that living
things are part of a system. Living organisms are interdependent with their
living and nonliving surroundings.
2.7 The student will investigate and understand that
weather and seasonal changes affect plants, animals, and their surroundings.
3.1 The student will plan and conduct investigations in
which: questions are developed to formulate hypotheses, predictions and
observations are made, and inferences are made and conclusions are drawn.
4.1 The student will plan and conduct investigations in
which: distinctions are made among observations, inferences, and predictions.
4.5 The student will investigate and understand how plants,
animals, and humans in an ecosystem interact with one another and the
nonliving environment.
4.8 The student will investigate and understand important
Virginia natural resources, including animals, and plants.
5.1 The student will plan and conduct investigations in
which: rocks, minerals, and organisms are identified using a classification
key.
5.7 The student will investigate and understand how the
Earth's surface is constantly changing. Concepts include: weathering and
erosion, and human impact.
6.2 The student will demonstrate scientific reasoning and
logic: ideas are investigated by asking for and actively seeking information,
alternative explanations are analyzed, and conclusions are based on scientific
evidence obtained from a variety of sources.
LS.12 The student will investigate and understand the
relationships between ecosystem dynamics and human activity.
History and Social Studies
K.1 The student will understand that history relates to
events and people of other times and places.
1.1 The student will compare everyday life in different
places and times and recognize that people, places, and things change over
time.
1.7 The student will describe how climate, location, and
physical surroundings affect the way people live, including their food,
clothing, shelter, transportation, and recreation.
2.3 The student will compare the tribes of American Indians
in Virginia with nomadic and settled, agricultural tribes in other regions in
America.
3.3 The student will describe the settlement of Jamestown
and the Virginia colony, with emphasis on the settlers' interactions with
American Indians.
4.1 The student will explain the impact of geographic
factors in the expansion and development of Virginia, with emphasis on the
location of American Indians, various European settlers, and African slaves.
5.1 The student will describe life in America before the
17th century by identifying and describing the first Americans, their arrival
from Asia, where they settled, and how they lived.
5.2 The student will trace the routes and evaluate early
explorations of the Americas, in terms of the political, economic, and social
impact on the American Indians.
5.9 The student will develop skills for historical
analysis, including the ability to identify, analyze, and interpret primary
sources, and to construct various time lines of American history from
pre-Columbian times to 1877.
8.1 The student will describe early physical and cultural
development of mankind from the Paleolithic Era to the revolution of
agriculture.
9.5 The student will analyze the impact of European
expansion into the Americas, Africa, and Asia (16th through 19th centuries).
10.2 The student will analyze how selected physical and
ecological processes shape the Earth's surface, in terms of how humans
influence and are influenced by the environment.
11.1 The student will analyze and explain the contacts
between American Indians and European settlers during the Age of Discovery.
11.17 The student will develop skills for historical analysis, including
the ability to analyze documents, records, and data (such as artifacts).
