ISTE+and+TN+Standards

Creativity and Innovation
Students will Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. a. apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes. b. create original works as a means of personal or group expression. d. identify trends and forecast possibilities.

**Communication and Collaboration**
Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. a. interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media. b. communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats. d. contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems.

Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information. a. plan strategies to guide inquiry. b. locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media.

**Digital Citizenship**
Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior. b. exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity.

**Technology Operations and Concepts**
Students demonstrate a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems, and operations. a. understand and use technology systems. b. select and use applications effectively and productively. d. transfer current knowledge to learning of new technologies.

=Tennessee Education Standards=

Writing
0801.3.10 Use appropriate vocabulary, sentence structure, and usage to distinguish between formal and informal language. 0801.3.14 Edit to craft a tone that is appropriate for the topic and audience, and supports the purpose. 0801.3.21 Use relatively basic software programs (e.g., Word PowerPoint) to write texts and create graphics to present ideas visually and in writing. 0801.3.22 Identify and explore opportunities for publication (e.g., local/national contests, Internet websites, newspapers, periodicals, school displays).

Research
0801.4.1 Narrow a topic so that the research process is manageable and the controlling idea is focused. 0801.4.3 Focus on relevant information and/or theories. 0801.4.5 Choose among sources provided and those found independently based on the usefulness, credibility, and reliability of the sources. 0801.4.9 Analyze and interpret data in multiple forms (e.g., a bar or circle graph) on a familiar topic. 0801.4.10 Collect evidence in various ways (e.g., gathering relevant reasons, examples, and facts; defining key terms and ideas; identifying relationships such as cause/effect).

History
8.4.03 Understand the relationship between a place's physical, political, and cultural characteristics and the type of government that emerges from that relationship. a. Relate a people's location, population, production and consumption to the function of their government. b. Identify models of lower to higher forms of political order. c. Describe the ways nations and organizations respond to forces of unity and diversity affecting order and security.

8.4.04 Discuss how cooperation and conflict among people influence the division and control of resources, rights, and privileges. a. Differentiate between rights and privileges of the individual. b. Consider how cooperation and conflict affect the dissemination of resources, rights, and privileges. c. Explain conditions, actions, and motivations that contribute to conflict and cooperation within and among states, regions and nations. d. Describe and analyze the role advancements in technology have played in conflict resolution.

8.5.08 Understand the social, cultural and political events that shaped African slavery in colonial America. a. Recognize that the economic systems employed in the northern colonies differed from those of the southern colonies. b. Explain how the Declaration of Independence conflicts with the institution of chattel slavery. c. Describe the contributions of free and enslaved blacks in United States history.

8.5.19 Identify the contributions of African Americans from slavery to Reconstruction. a. Recognize the economic impact of African American labor on the United States economy. b. Analyze the social and cultural impact of African Americans on American society.