Standards
West Virginia Content Standards and Objectives
Heath
HE.5.3.02: identify legal and illegal drugs (e.g., consider access purpose, cost, effects on the body).
HE.5.4.03: apply refusal skills to avoid risky behaviors.
HE.5.5.01: identify health-related situations that require thoughtful decisions (e.g. smoking)
HE.5.6.02: identify strategies to change an unhealthy behavior (e.g. smoking).
HE.5.7.05: demonstrate a variety of behaviors that help to avoid or reduce health risks.
Reading and Language Arts
RLA.O.5.2.06: select and use a variety of resource materials to plan and deliver a short research project, citing references.
RLA.O.5.2.07: draft analogies, illustrations, examples, or anecdotes to respond to an oral, visual, or written prompt.
RLA.O.5.3.04: create an age-appropriate media product that demonstrates format, purpose, and audience.
Technology
21C.O.5-8.1.TT4: Student uses audio, video, pictures, clip art, moviemaker programs, webpage design software, electronic documents, and other files to create and publish electronic products to communicate with various audiences inside and outside the classroom.
21C.O.5-8.1.TT7: Student uses advanced features and utilities of presentation software (e.g., design templates, design layouts (fonts/ colors/ backgrounds) animation and graphics, inserting pictures, objects, movies, sound, charts, hyperlinks, and graphs) to create an original product.
21C.O.5-8.2.TT2: Student collaborates with peers, experts, and others using telecommunications and collaborative tools to investigate curriculum-related problems, issues, and information, and to develop solutions or products for audiences inside and outside the classroom.
21C.O.5-8.3.TT6: Student applies productivity/ multimedia tools and peripherals to support personal productivity, group collaboration, self-directed learning, lifelong learning, and assistance for individuals with disabilities including supplemental assistive technology tools. 21C.O.5-8.3.TT8: Student recognizes personal limits in his/her knowledge and develops strategies and skills for using technology to seek information.