Standards
Ohio Academic Content Standards Met:
Social Studies:
Benchmark: People in Societies
Indicator:7. Recognize the importance of individual action and character and explain how they have made a difference in others' lives with emphasis on the importance of:
- Social and political leaders in the United States (e.g., George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Tecumseh, Harriet Tubman, Abraham Lincoln, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony and Martin Luther King Jr.);
- Explorers, inventors and scientists (e.g., George Washington Carver, Thomas Edison, Charles Drew, Rachel Carson and Neil Armstrong).
Language Arts:
Benchmark: Research
Indicator: 3. Acquire information, with teacher assistance, from multiple sources (e.g., books, magazines, videotapes, CD-ROMs, Web sites) and collect data (e.g., interviews, experiments, observations or surveys) about the topic.