Amazing Flight

This Web quest was designed for use with 3rd through 5th grade gifted students. They will work over the course of a week for 45 minutes per day, and create their final project and present it on the last day.  

Standards

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.3
Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.6
Compare and contrast a firsthand and secondhand account of the same event or topic; describe the differences in focus and the information provided.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.7
Interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively (e.g., in charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines, animations, or interactive elements on Web pages) and explain how the information contributes to an understanding of the text in which it appears.

3.H.1 Understand how events, individuals and ideas have
influenced the history of local and regional
communities.

4.G.1 Understand how human, environmental and
technological factors affect the growth and
development of North Carolina.

5.G.1.3 Exemplify how technological advances (communication,
transportation and agriculture) have allowed people to
overcome geographic limitations.