1.3 Knowledge Constructor:
Students critically curate a variety of resources to generate new knowledge and understanding. (Researching animal adaptations suited for the chosen environment)
1.3.c Curate Information

Students curate information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods to create collections of artifacts that demonstrate meaningful connections or conclusions.

1.4 Innovative Designer:
Students use a variety of digital tools to design creative solutions to authentic problems. (Designing an animal with adaptations to survive in a specific environment)

1.6 Creative Communicator:
Students use digital tools to communicate information and ideas effectively to various audiences. (Creating the AI-generated animal and explaining its adaptations)
1.6.b Original and Remixed Works

Students create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations.
1.6.d Customize the Message

Students publish or present content that customizes the message and medium for their intended audiences.

1.7 Global Collaborator:
Students use digital tools to collaborate with others on projects, inquiries, and simulations. (Working in pairs or small groups to design the animal)
1.7.c Project Teams

Students contribute constructively to project teams, assuming various roles and responsibilities to work effectively toward a common goal.

1.3 Knowledge Constructor
Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others.
1.3.c Curate Information
Students curate information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods to create collections of artifacts that demonstrate meaningful connections or conclusions.

1.4. Innovative Designer
Students brainstorm and design their candy classifier using the online Machine Learning Playground, fostering creative thinking and problem-solving skills.
1.4.c Students actively participate in the learning process by collecting data, training the model, and testing its performance. This hands-on approach fosters a love of learning and encourages them to explore the capabilities of machine learning.

1.6. Creative Communicator
Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals.

1.4. Innovative Designer
Students brainstorm and design their candy classifier using the online Machine Learning Playground, fostering creative thinking and problem-solving skills.
1.4.a Students know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving authentic problems.
1.4.b Students select and use digital tools to plan and manage a design process that considers design constraints and calculated risks.

1.6. Innovative Designer
Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals.
1.6.a Students choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication.
1.6.b Students create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations.
1.6.c Students communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.
1.6.d Students publish or present content that customizes the message and medium for their intended audiences.

2.2 Leader
Educators seek out opportunities for leadership to support student empowerment and success and to improve teaching and learning.

2.2.c Model Digital Tool Use

Model for colleagues the identification, exploration, evaluation, curation and adoption of new digital resources and tools for learning.

2.3 Citizen

Educators inspire students to positively contribute to and responsibly participate in the digital world.

2.3.c Teach Safe, Legal, Ethical Practices

Mentor students in safe, legal and ethical practices with digital tools and the protection of intellectual rights and property.

2.4 Collaborator

Educators dedicate time to collaborate with both colleagues and students to improve practice, discover and share resources and ideas, and solve problems. 

2.4.a Collaborate with Colleagues

Dedicate planning time to collaborate with colleagues to create authentic learning experiences that leverage technology.

2.4.b Learn Alongside Students

Collaborate and co-learn with students to discover and use new digital resources, and diagnose and troubleshoot technology issues.

2.5 Designer

Educators design authentic, learner-driven activities and environments that recognize and accommodate learner variability.

2.5.a Accommodate Learner Differences

Use technology to create, adapt and personalize learning experiences that foster independent learning and accommodate learner differences and needs.

2.5.b Design Authentic Learning Activities

Design authentic learning activities that align with content area standards and use digital tools and resources to maximize active, deep learning.

2.6 Facilitator

Educators facilitate learning with technology to support student achievement of the ISTE Standards for Students.

2.6.a Foster Student Ownership of Learning

Foster a culture where students take ownership of their learning goals and outcomes in both independent and group settings.

2.6.b Foster Classroom Management of Tech

Manage the use of technology and student learning strategies in digital platforms, virtual environments, hands-on makerspaces and in the field.

2.6.d Model and Nurture Creativity

Model and nurture creativity and creative expression to communicate ideas, knowledge or connections.

Science TEKS
3.2A: Plan and implement descriptive investigations, including asking and answering questions, making inferences, and selecting and using equipment or technology needed, to solve a specific problem in the natural world.
3.3A: Analyze, evaluate, and critique scientific explanations by using evidence, logical reasoning, and experimental and observational testing.
3.9A: Observe and describe the physical characteristics of environments and how they support populations and communities of plants and animals within an ecosystem.
3.10A: Explore how structures and functions of plants and animals allow them to survive in a particular environment.

4.2A: Plan and implement descriptive investigations, including asking well defined questions, making inferences, and selecting and using appropriate equipment or technology to answer his/her questions.
4.3A: Analyze, evaluate, and critique scientific explanations by using evidence, logical reasoning, and experimental and observational testing.
4.10A: Explore how structures and functions enable organisms to survive in their environment.

5.2B: Ask well defined questions, formulate testable hypotheses, and select and use appropriate equipment and technology.
5.2F: Communicate valid conclusions in both written and verbal forms.
5.2G: Construct appropriate simple graphs, tables, maps, and charts using technology, including computers, to organize, examine, and evaluate information.
5.3A: Analyze, evaluate, and critique scientific explanations by using evidence, logical reasoning, and experimental and observational testing.
5.9A: Observe the way organisms live and survive in their ecosystem by interacting with the living and nonliving components.
5.10A: Compare the structures and functions of different species that help them live and survive in a specific environment such as hooves on prairie animals or webbed feet in aquatic animals.

Technology Applications TEKS
3.3B: apply an appropriate design process using components such as peer and teacher feedback to create new and useful solutions to authentic problems.
3.11.B: perform software application functions such as inserting or deleting text, inserting images, and formatting page layout and margins.
4.11: Practical technology concepts--processes. The student engages with technology systems, concepts, and operations.
5.11B: perform software application functions, including inserting or deleting text and images and formatting tools or options.

Technology Applications TEKS

6.1.A: decompose real-world problems into structured parts by using visual representation
6.10: The student practices safe, legal, and ethical digital behaviors to become a socially responsible digital citizen.
7.1: Computational thinking--foundations. The student explores the core concepts of computational thinking, a set of problem-solving processes that involve decomposition, pattern recognition, abstraction, and algorithms. (The lesson touches on basic algorithmic thinking as students design a system to classify candy)
7.10:  The student practices safe, legal, and ethical digital behaviors to become a socially responsible digital citizen.
8.1: Computational thinking--foundations. The student explores the core concepts of computational thinking, a set of problem-solving processes that involve decomposition, pattern recognition, abstraction, and algorithms
8.10 : The student practices safe, legal, and ethical digital behaviors to become a socially responsible digital citizen.

U.S. History TEKS
11.A : Students will understand significant events, social issues, and individuals from the Reconstruction era onward, including topics such as the Civil Rights Movement, the World Wars, the Cold War, and other major historical developments in American society.