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This WebQuest specifically meets the following Curriculum Standards, based upon the Show-Me State Standards:

California R-1 Schools Social Studies Curriculum K-12 Goals:

  • Demonstrate how people relate to their environment. (SS-5)
  • Possess skills important for interpreting historical materials. (SS-7, SS-2)
  • Demonstrate knowlede of significant historical events and developments, their relationships to each other, to the present, and the future. (SS-2)
  • Understand institutions and processes for meeting basic human needs. (SS-3, SS-4, SS-6)
  • Understand that cultures are similar in having belief systems, institutions and social structures; yet the details of those belief systems, institutions, and social structures vary. (SS-3, SS-6)
  • Understand and use appropriate techniques for investigating social studies topics. (SS-7)


The Show Me Standards: Social Studies Knowledge Standards: 
(also referenced in parentheses above)
 

  • SS6:  In Social Studies, students in Missouri public schools will acquire a solid foundation which includes knowledge of relationships of the individual and groups to institutions and cultural traditions.
  • SS7:  In Social Studies, students in Missouri public schools will acquire a solid foundation which includes knowledge of the use of tools of social science inquiry (such as surveys, statistics, maps, documents).
The Show Me Standards: Performance Standards:
  • Goal 1: (1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10)
  • Goal 2: (2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.5, 2.7)
  • Goal 3: (3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7)
  • Goal 4: (4.1, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7)
In addition to this lesson providing a project that is hands-on and inquiry based, and the students working together cooperatively to learn about Indian Tribes of Missouri; this WebQuest also promotes higher order thinking skills, according to Bloom's Taxonomy.
  • Application Level:  Students apply their knowledge of the Indian Tribe to create a feasible village in today's world, suitable for their needs.
  • Analysis Level:  Students make inferences of how the Indians would feel about the new village, to create an interview of one of the tribe members.
  • Synthesis Level:  Students must learn about their Indian Tribe's needs in order to design a modern village for them
  • Evaluation Level:  Students must make choices for how to set up their model village, based upon reasoned arguments of how and why they should build it a certain way.