EarthTrek Objectives
EarthTrek is organized into country modules. Students "race" around the world as teams and do activities in many countries before completing. Each country has learning objectives that guide the content and activities. Below are the targeted objectives for each grade level and country.
Common Core Objectives
Main Objectives
Third Grade
Greece Objectives
- Identify the meaning of common prefixes and suffixes and know how they change the meaning of roots
- Use context to determine the relevant meaning of unfamiliar words
- Identify and use antonyms, synonyms, homographs, and homophones
- Identify explicit cause and effect relationships among ideas in texts
- Sequence and organize information to create a logically sequenced paragraph
- Use linear measurement tools to measure lengths in metric units
- Collect data by observing and measuring using the metric system
- Collect record and analyze information using graduated cylinders
- Construct models that demonstrate the relationship and positions of the sun and planets
South Korea Objectives
- Make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding
- Draw conclusions from the facts presented in text and support those assertions with textual evidence
- Publish written work for a specific audience
- Write about important personal experiences
- Write responses to literary or expository texts that
- Demonstrate an understanding of the text
- Model addition and subtraction using numbers
- Solve and record multiplication problems up to two digit time one digit
- Round whole numbers to the nearest ten or hundred to approximate reasonable results
- Construct simple tables, charts, and bar graphs to organize, examine, and measure data
- Collect, record, and analyze information using tools
- Measure, test, and record the physical properties of matter, including magnetism
Australia Objectives
- Interpret and use graphic sources of information, including maps, charts, graphs, and diagrams
- Connect his/her own experiences, language, customs, and cultures of others
- Write to record ideas and reflections
- Write to discover, develop, and refine ideas
- Write in different forms for different purposes such as lists to record, letters to invite or thank, or stories or poems to entertain
- Use capitalization and punctuation such as commas in a series, apostrophes in contractions, quotation marks, proper nouns, and abbreviations with increased accuracy
- Use place value to read, write, and describe the value of whole numbers through 999,999
- Select addition or subtraction and use the operation to solve problems involving whole numbers through 999
- Use models to solve division problems and use number sentences to record the solution
- Round two digit numbers to the nearest ten and three digit numbers to the nearest 100
- Use cardinal and intermediate directions to locate places
- Use scale to determine the distance between places on maps and globes
- Identify and use the compass rose, grid, and symbols to locate places on maps and globes
China Objectives
- Connect experiences and ideas with those of others through speaking and listening
- Compare language and oral traditions that reflect customs, religion, and cultures
- Read from a variety of genres for pleasure and to acquire information from both print and electronic sources
- Make and explain inferences from texts such as determining important ideas, causes and effects, making predictions, and drawing conclusions
- Use multiple sources, including print such as an encyclopedia, technology, and experts to locate information that addresses questions
- Connect experiences and ideas with those of others through speaking and listening
- Compare language and oral traditions that reflect customs, religion, and cultures
- Read from a variety of genres for pleasure and to acquire information from both print and electronic sources
- Make and explain inferences from texts such as determining important ideas, causes and effects, making predictions, and drawing conclusions
- Use multiple sources, including print such as an encyclopedia, technology, and experts to locate information that addresses questions
- Use place values to read, write (in symbols and words), and describe the value of whole numbers through 999,999
- Compare ways in which people in the local community and communities around the world meet their needs for government, education, communication, transportation, and recreation over time and in the present
- Describe and explain variations in the physical environment including, climate, landforms, natural resources, and natural hazards
India Objectives
- Read to accomplish various purposes, both assigned and self-selected
- Connect his/her own experiences, language, customs, and cultures of others
- Recognize and use parts of a book to locate information, including table of contents, chapter titles, guide words, and indices
- Use place value to read, write, and describe the value of whole numbers through 999,999
- Estimate and measure length using standard units such as inch, foot, yard, centimeter, and meter
- Compare ways in which people in the local community and communities around the world meet their needs for government, education,communication, transportation, and recreation over time and in the present
- Collect and analyze information using tools including calculators, microscopes, cameras, safety goggles, sound recorders, clocks, computers, thermometers, hand lenses, meter sticks, rulers, balances, magnets, and compasses
Vietnam Objectives
- Listen critically to interpret and evaluate
- Listen responsively to stories and other texts read aloud
- Connect experiences and ideas with those of others through speaking and listening
- Compare language and oral traditions that reflect customs, regions, and cultures
- Retell a spoken message by summarizing or clarifying
- Read from a variety of genres for pleasure and to acquire information from both print and electronic sources
- Identify the importance of the setting to a story’s meaning
- Recognize the story problem(s) or plot
- Use place value to read, write, and describe the value of whole numbers through 999,999
- Estimate and measure length using standard units such as inch, foot, yard, centimeter, and meter
- Add and subtract to solve meaningful problems involving whole numbers
- Recognize and solve problems in multiplication and division situations
France/Italy Objectives
- Read regularly in independent level materials
- Read from a variety of genres for pleasure and to acquire from both print and electronic sources
- Understand the function of and use the conventions of academic language when speaking and writing
- Read regularly in independent level materials
- Read from a variety of genres for pleasure and to acquire from both print and electronic sources
- Understand the function of and use the conventions of academic language when speaking and writing
- Select addition or subtraction and use the operation to solve problems involving whole numbers
- Solve and record multiplication and division problems
- Apply mathematics to solve problems connected to everyday experiences and activities</li>
Brazil Objectives
- Read regularly in independent level materials
- Read from a variety of genres for pleasure and to acquire from both print and electronic sources
- Name, describe, and compare shapes and solids using formal geometric vocabulary
- Use linear tools to estimate and measure lengths using standard units
- Use standard units to find the perimeter of a shape
- Interpret information from pictographs and bar graphs
- Identify, classify, and describe two and three-dimensional geometric figures by their attributes
- Collect and analyze information using tools including calculators, microscopes, cameras, safety goggles, sound recorders, clocks, computers, thermometer, hand lenses, meter sticks, rulers, balances and compasses
- Compare the mass of different objects
Mexico Objectives
- Compare language and oral traditions that reflect customs, regions, and cultures
- Compose elaborated sentences in written texts
- Add and subtract to solve meaningful problems involving whole numbers
- Recognize and solve problems in multiplication and division situations
Egypt Objectives
- Read regularly in independent level materials
- Read from a variety of genres for pleasure and to acquire from both print and electronic sources
- Use multiple sources, including print such as an encyclopedia, technology, and experts to locate information that addresses questions
- Write in different forms for different purposes such as lists, letters to invite or thank, and stories or poems to entertain
- Name, describe, and compare shapes and solids using formal geometric vocabulary
- Compare ways in which people in the local community and communities around the world meet their needs for government, education, communication, transportation, and recreation over time and in the present
- Create written and visual material such as stories, poems, pictures, maps, and graphic organizers to express ideas
- Collect and analyze information using tools including calculators, microscopes, cameras, safety goggles, sound recorders, clocks, computers, thermometer, hand lenses, meter sticks, rulers, balances and compasses
- Represent the natural world by using models and identify their limitations
- Observe a simple system and describe the role of various parts such as a yo-yo and string
- Collect information by observing and measuring
Fourth Grade
England/Ireland Objectives
- Write poems that convey sensory details using the conventions of poetry
- Write persuasive essays for appropriate audiences that establish a position and use supporting details
- Write letters whose language is tailored to the audience and purpose and that use appropriate conventions
- Identify the meaning of common idioms (proverbs)
- Use measurement tools to determine length
- Collect and record data by observing and measuring, using the metric system
- Construct simple tables to organize, examine, and evaluate data
- Analyze data and interpret patterns to construct reasonable explanations from data that can be observed and measured
- Perform repeated investigations to increase the reliability of results
- Communicate valid and written results supported by data
- Test the effect of force on an object such as a push or a pull, gravity, friction, or magnetism
Ecuador Objectives
- Determine the sequence of activities needed to carry out a procedure
- Use and understand the function of the following parts of speech in context of reading, writing, and speaking; common and proper nouns
- Use and understand the function of the following parts of speech in context of reading, writing, and speaking; verb tense
- Spell commonly used homophones
- Recognize and use punctuation marks, including commas
- Identify the mathematics in everyday situations
- Solve problems that incorporate understanding the problem, making a plan, carrying out the plan, and evaluating the solution for reasonableness
- Use multiplication to solve problems
- Use division to solve problems
- Describe the relationship between two sets of related data, such as ordered pairs in a table
- Determine perimeter and area
- Reduce fractions to their simplest form
- Explore how adaptations enable organisms to survive in their environment
South Africa Objectives
- Summarize the main idea and supporting details in text in ways that maintain meaning
- Make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding
- Develop drafts by categorizing ideas and organizing them into paragraphs
- Create brief compositions that include supporting sentences, simple facts, details, and explanations
- Take simple notes and sort evidence into provided categories or an organizer
- Establish purposes for reading selected text based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance
- Monitor and adjust comprehension
- Express an opinion supported by accurate information in text
- Use essential attributes to define two-dimensional geometric figures
- Identify symmetry and congruence in figures
- Locate and name points on a number line using mixed numbers and fractions such as halves and fourths
- Apply and use problem-solving and decision-making processe
Canada Objectives
- Describe the interaction of characters including their relationships
- Make inference about text and use textual evidence to support understanding
- Read grade level material for comprehension
- Use addition and multiplication to solve problems
- Use place value to read, write, compare, and order whole numbers
- Round whole numbers to the nearest thousand
- Reduce fractions to their simplest form
- Use logic and reasoning to solve a logic chart
- Differentiate among forms of energy including mechanical
- Identify slow changes to Earth’s surface caused by weathering, erosion, and deposition from water, wind, and ice
- Describe and illustrate the continuous movement of water above and on the surface of the Earth through the water cycle
Sweden Objectives
- Establish purposes for reading selected text
- Describe explicit and implicit relationships among ideas organized by comparison
- Use the context of the sentence to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words or multiple meaning words
- Write poems that convey sensory details using the conventions of poetry
- Use and understand nouns, adjectives, verbs in writing
- Use essential attributes to define three-dimensional geometric figures
- Perform simple conversions between different units of length
- Follow written directions to create a tool that can be used to collect data
Germany Objectives
- Read grade level stories with fluency and comprehension
- Use multiple text features to gain an overview of the contents of text and to locate information
- Create brief compositions that include supporting sentences with simple facts, details, and explanations
- Use place value to write decimals involving tenths and hundredths
- Relate decimals to fractions that name tenths and hundredths
- Use addition and multiplication to solve problems
- Recognize translations, reflections, and rotation
- Identify lines of symmetry
- Identify visual patterns
- Perform simple conversions between different units of length
- Use appropriate mathematical skills to interpret information such as maps and graphs
- Apply geographic tools to construct and interpret maps
Japan Objectives
- Use the context of the sentence to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words or multiple meaning words
- Plan a first draft by selecting a genre appropriate for conveying the intended meaning to an audience and generating ideas through a range of strategies
- Revise drafts for coherence, organization, use of simple and compound sentences, and audience
- Write imaginative stories that build the plot to a climax and contain details about the characters and setting
- Create brief compositions that establish a central idea in a topic sentence
- Explain the positive and negative impacts of advertising techniques used in media to impact consumer behavior
- Follow written instructions that involve a series of related sequences of action
- Interpret information in outlines, reports, data bases, and visuals, including graphs, and charts
- Understand how the free enterprise system works including supply and demand
Indonesia Objectives
- Summarize information in text, maintaining meaning and logical order
- Summarize and explain the lesson or message of a work of fiction as its theme
- Identify the author’s use of similes and metaphors to produce imagery
- Sequence and summarize the plot’s main events
- Collect and record data by observing and measuring, using descriptive words and numerals such as labeled drawings
- Collect, record, and analyze information using tools, including thermometers
- Differentiate among forms of energy, including sound, light, and heat/thermal
- Communicate valid written results supported by data
- Use appropriate mathematical skills to interpret social studies information such as maps
- Analyze information by summarizing and making conclusions
Fifth Grade
Mexico Objectives
- Write to inform such as to explain, describe, report and narrate
- Write to influence such as to persuade, argue, and request
- Generate ideas and plans for writing by using such prewriting strategies as brainstorming graphic organizers, notes, and logs
- Explain the effect of a historical event or movement on the theme of a work of literature
- Evaluate the impact of sensory details, imagery, and figurative language in literary text
- Draw conclusions from the information presented by an author and evaluate how well the author’s purpose was achieved
- Perform simple conversions within the same measurement system
- Use appropriate formulas to measure area and perimeter
- Connect models for perimeter, area, and volume with their respective formulas
- Select and use appropriate units and formulas to measure length perimeter, area, and volume
- Use tools such as real objects, manipulatives, and technology to solve problems
- Use geographic tools to collect, analyze and interpret data
- Interpret and use graphic sources of information such as maps and graphs to address research questions
Argentina Objectives
- Adjust reading rate based on purposes for reading
- Read classic and contemporary works
- Establish and adjust purposes for reading to find out, to understand, to solve problems
- Support responses by referring to relevant aspects of text
- Represent text information in different ways such as in an outline, timeline, or graphic organizer
- Connect, compare, and contrast ideas, themes, and issues across text
- Graph a given set of data using an appropriate graphical representation
- Describe characteristics of data presented in tables and graphs, including median, mode, and range
- Identify essential attributes including parallel, perpendicular, and congruent parts of two and three-dimensional geometric figures
- Use tools such as real objects, manipulatives, and technology to solve problems
- Identify patterns of change such as in weather
- Identify events and describe changes that occur on a regular basis such as in daily, weekly, lunar, and seasonal cyclones
- Represent the natural world using models and identify their limitations
- Compare the adaptive characteristics of species that improve their ability to survive and reproduce in an ecosystem
Botswana Objectives
- Make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding
- Draw conclusions from the information presented by an author
- Write poems using graphic elements
- Write formal and informal letters that convey ideas, include important information, demonstrate a sense of closure, and use appropriate conventions
- Interpret detail from a procedural text to complete a task, solve a problem, or perform procedures
- Classify matter based on its physical properties including magnetism, physical state, and the ability to conduct or insulate heat, electricity, and sound
- Observe and measure characteristic properties of substances that remain constant
- Identify past events that led to the formation of the Earth’s renewable, non-renewable, and inexhaustible resources
- Interpret how land forms are the result of a combination of constructive and destructive forces such as deposition of sediment and weathering
- Analyze and interpret information to construct reasonable explanations from direct and indirect evidence
- Communicate valid conclusions
- Analyze, review, and critique scientific explanations, including hypotheses and theories, as to their strengths and weaknesses using scientific evidence and information
- Describe some interactions that occur in a simple system
- Describe and compare life cycles of plants and animals
- Compare the adaptive characteristics of species that improve their ability to survive and reproduce in an ecosystem
- Analyze and describe adaptive characteristics that result in an organism’s unique niche in an ecosystem
- Predict some adaptive characteristics required for survival and reproduction by an organism in an ecosystem
Saudi Arabia Objectives
- Use his/her own knowledge and experience to comprehend
- Monitor comprehension and make modifications such as searching for clues
- Distinguish fact and opinion in various text
- The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of nonfiction
- Use literary devices effectively such as suspense, dialogue and figurative language
- Capitalize and punctuate correctly to clarify and enhance meaning
- Write with correct syllable constructions, use resources to find correct spellings, spell accurately in final drafts
- Apply standard grammar usage to communicate clearly and effectively in writing
- The student will write for a variety of purposes: to describe, to inform, to entertain, and to explain
- The student will edit writing for correct grammar, capitalization, spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure
- Use addition and subtraction to solve problems
- Use multiplication to solve problems
- Describe characteristics of data presented in tables
- Describe characteristics of data presented in tables and graphs including median, mode, and range
- Identify changes that occur in the physical properties of the ingredients of solutions
- Communicate valid conclusions
- Identify and describe the importance of earth materials, and classify them as renewable, nonrenewable, and inexhaustible resources
Switzerland Objectives
- Use multiple sources, including electronic texts, experts, and print resources to locate information relevant to research questions
- Summarize and organize information from multiple sources by taking notes, outlining ideas, making charts
- Adjust reading rate based on purposes for reading
- Use multiple reference aids, including a dictionary and software to clarify meanings and usage
- Monitor his own comprehension and make modifications when understanding breaks down such as be rereading a portion aloud, using reference aids
- Listen, draw conclusions, and share responses in subject-related group learning activities
- Read and demonstrate comprehension of nonfiction
- Identify parts of speech
- Use geographic tools to collect, analyze, and interpret data
- Apply critical-thinking skills, communication effectively, and use problem-solving and decision-making processes
- Compare two fractional quantities in problem-solving situations
- Use fractions to describe the results of an experiment
- Select and use appropriate units and formulas to measure length, perimeter, area, and volume
- Apply measurement concepts involving length
- Collect information by measuring and observing
- Collect and analyze information using tools
- Classify matter based on its physical properties
Russia Objectives
- Paraphrase and summarize text to recall, inform or organize ideas.
- Determine a text’s main or major ideas and how those ideas are supported with details.
- Use a dictionary, glossary, or thesaurus to determine meanings, syllabication, pronunciations, alternate word choices, and parts of speech
- Read for a variety of reasons, such as to be informed
- Draw conclusions from information gathered from multiple sources
- Explain the relationship between the arts and the times during which they were created
- Apply critical-thinking skills, communicate effectively, and use problem solving and decision making processes
- Solve problems involving changes in temperature
- Graph a given set of data using an appropriate graphical representation
- Describe characteristics of data presented in tables and graphs
- Solve problems involving elapsed time
- Collect information by observing and measuring
- Communicate valid conclusions
- Represent the natural world using models
- Identify changes that occur in the physical properties of matter
New Zealand Objectives
- Adjust reading rate based on purposes for reading
- Establish and adjust purposes for reading to find out
- Identify the purposes of different types of text such as to inform
- Recognize the distinguishing features of genres including informational texts
- Form and revise questions for investigations, including questions arising from interest and units of study
- Frame questions to direct research
- Apply critical thinking skills, use problem-solving and decision-making processes
- Collect information by observing and measuring
- Apply measurement concepts involving length
- Apply standard grammar and usage to communicate clearly and effectively in writing
- Compare adaptive characteristics of species that improve their ability to survive and reproduce in an ecosystem
- Analyze and describe adaptive characteristics that result in an organism’s unique niche in an ecosystem
Egypt Objectives
- Use his/her knowledge and experience to comprehend information
- Give precise directions and instructions as for games and tasks
- Draw on experiences to bring meanings to words in context such as interpreting figurative language and multiple meaning words
- Read fiction and nonfiction with fluency and accuracy
- Apply critical thinking skills, communicate effectively, and use problem-solving and decision making processes
- Locate and name points on a coordinate grid
- Use addition and subtraction to solve problems involving whole numbers and decimals
- Use multiplication and division to solve problems involving whole numbers and decimals