The button below is a link to an interactive Erie Canal web-quest with various activities each geared toward fourth grade students!
Common Core Affiliation:
Reading Standards for Literature:
Key Ideas and Details:
1. Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
2. Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, summarize the text.
Reading Standards for Informational Text:
Key Ideas and Details:
1. Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
2. Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details, summarize the text.
3. Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.
Craft and Structure:
5. Describe the overall structure (e.g. chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:
7. Interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively (e.g. in charts, graphs, diagrams, timelines, animations, or interactive elements on Web pages) and explain how the information contributes to an understanding of the text in which it appears.
9. Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.
Reading Standards: Foundational Skills:
Phonics and Word Recognition:
3. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis in decoding words.
Writing Standards:
Text Types and Purposes:
1. Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
Research to Build and Present Knowledge:
7. Conduct short research projects that build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
8. Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital resources, take notes and categorize information, and provide a list of sources.
Reading Standards for Literature:
Key Ideas and Details:
1. Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
2. Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, summarize the text.
Reading Standards for Informational Text:
Key Ideas and Details:
1. Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
2. Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details, summarize the text.
3. Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.
Craft and Structure:
5. Describe the overall structure (e.g. chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:
7. Interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively (e.g. in charts, graphs, diagrams, timelines, animations, or interactive elements on Web pages) and explain how the information contributes to an understanding of the text in which it appears.
9. Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.
Reading Standards: Foundational Skills:
Phonics and Word Recognition:
3. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis in decoding words.
Writing Standards:
Text Types and Purposes:
1. Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
Research to Build and Present Knowledge:
7. Conduct short research projects that build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
8. Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital resources, take notes and categorize information, and provide a list of sources.
Below is a brief slideshow illustrating the various components of the webquest activity!