Grade+7

7.4 Uses both facts and opinions responsibly by identifying and verifying them. || 7.3 Notetaking Grid
 * **STANDARDS AND INDICATORS** || **BENCHMARKS** || **ASSESSMENTS** || Lesson Plan ||
 * STANDARD 1: USING INQUIRY TO BUILD UNDERSTANDING ||  ||
 * Inquiry Phase: Connect || 7.1 States and verifies what is known about the problem or question and makes connections to prior knowledge. || 7.1 Predicting Answers to Inquiry Questions ||  ||
 * Inquiry Phase: Wonder || 7.2 Analyzes and evaluates what is known, observed or experienced to form tentative thesis or hypothesis. || 7.2 Developing Focus Questions ||  ||
 * Inquiry Phase: Investigate || 7.3 Evaluates quality of electronic and print information for usefulness, currency, authority, and accuracy.

7.3 Website Evaluation

7.4 Fact vs. Opinion ||  ||
 * Inquiry Phase: Construct || 7.5 Uses common organizational patterns (chronological order, cause and effect, compare/contrast) to organize information in order to draw conclusions.

7.6 Interprets information and ideas by defining, classifying, and inferring. || 7.5 Cause and Effect Diagram 7.5 One Cause/One Effect 7.5 Cause-Effect Chart 7.5 Chain-of-Events 7.5 Chronological Order 7.5 Time Sequence Organizer 7.5 Flow Chart

7.6 Readers Make Inferences ||  ||
 * Inquiry Phase: Express || 7.7 Cites all sources used according to local style formats. || 7.7 Bibliography Worksheet || [[file:Citing Lesson Plan.doc]] ||
 * Inquiry Phase: Reflect || 7.8 Uses established criteria or collaborates with classmates and teacher to develop criteria for assessment. || 7.8 Self-Assessment ||  ||
 * STANDARD 2: PURSUING PERSONAL AND AESTHETIC GROWTH ||  ||
 * Reader/Viewer Response and Expression ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Personal Exploration ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Motivated, Independent Learning ||  ||   ||   ||
 * STANDARD 3: DEMONSTRATING SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ||  ||
 * Importance of Information to a Democratic Society ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Effective Social Interaction to Broaden Understanding ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Ethical Behavior in Use of Information ||  ||   ||   ||