Standards+Met

The Zines addresses several learning objectives and Pennsylvania Department of Education standards:
 * Reading
 * 1.2 Reading Critically in All Content Areas
 * 1.2.5.A Read and understand essential content of informational texts and documents in all academic areas.
 * Writing
 * 1.4 Types of Writing
 * 1.4.5.A Write poems, plays, and multi-paragraph stories.
 * 1.4.5.B Write multi-paragraph informational pieces (e.g., essays, descriptions, letters, reports, instructions).
 * 1.4.5.C Write persuasive pieces.
 * 1.5 Quality of Writing
 * 1.5.5.A Write with a clear focus, identifying topic, task, and audience.
 * 1.5.5.B Write using well-developed content appropriate for the topic.
 * 1.5.5.C Write with controlled and/or subtle organization.
 * 1.5.5.D Write with an understanding of the stylistic aspects of composition.
 * 1.5.5.E Revise writing to improve organization and word choice; check the logic, order of ideas, and precision of vocabulary.
 * 1.5.5.F Edit writing using the conventions of language.
 * 1.6 Speaking and Listening
 * 1.6.5.C Speak using skills appropriate to formal speech situations.
 * 1.8 Research
 * 1.8.5.A Select and refine a topic for research.
 * 1.8.5.B Locate information using appropriate sources and strategies.
 * 1.8.5.C Organize and present the main ideas from research.
 * Science and Technology
 * 3.1 Unifying Themes
 * 3.1.7.A Explain the parts of a simple system and their relationship to each other.
 * 3.1.7.E Identify change as a variable in describing natural and physical systems.
 * 3.2 Inquiry and Design
 * 3.2.7.C Identify and use the elements of scientific inquiry to solve problems.
 * 3.7 Technological Devices
 * 3.7.7.C Explain and demonstrate basic computer operations and concepts.
 * 3.7.7.D Apply computer software to solve specific problems.
 * 3.7.7.E Explain basic computer communications systems
 * Environment and Ecology
 * 4.3 Environmental Health
 * 4.3.7.C Explain biological diversity.
 * 4.6 Ecosystems and their Interactions
 * 4.6.7.A Explain the flows of energy and matter from organism to organism within an ecosystem
 * 4.7 Threatened, Endangered and Extinct Species
 * 4.7.7.A Describe a diversity of plants and animals in ecosystems.