MICHIGAN CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK

High School Content Standards and Benchmarks by Subject Area

(123 Total Content Standards)

Agriscience

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS (ELA - 12 Content Standards)

  Strand I - Meaning and Communication:

1. All students will read and comprehend general and technical material.

Strand IV - Voice:

6. All students will learn to communicate information accurately and effectively and

demonstrate their expressive abilities by creating oral, written, and visual texts that enlighten and engage an audience.

Strand IX - Inquiry and Research:

11. All students will define and investigate important issues and problems using a variety of

resources, including technology, to explore and create texts.

SOCIAL STUDIES (SOC - 25 Content Standards)

Strand IV - Economic Perspective:

1. All students will describe and demonstrate how the economic forces of scarcity and

choice affect the management of personal financial resources, shape consumer decisions regarding the purchase, use, and disposal of goods and services and affect the economic well-being of individuals and society.

2. All students will explain and demonstrate how businesses confront scarcity and choice

when organizing, producing, and using resources, and when supplying the marketplace.

3. All students will describe how government decisions on taxation, spending, public goods,

and regulation impact what is produced, how it is produced, and who receives the benefits of production.

4. All students will explain how a free market economic system works, as well as other

economic systems, to coordinate and facilitate the exchange, production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

SCIENCE (SCI - 15 Content Standards)

Strand I - Construct New Scientific and Personal Knowledge:

•  All students will ask questions that help them learn about the world; design and

conduct investigations using appropriate methodology and technology; learn from books and other sources of information; communicate their findings using appropriate technology; and reconstruct previously learned knowledge.

Strand II - Reflect on the Nature, Adequacy and Connections Across Scientific Knowledge:

1. All students will analyze claims for their scientific merit and explain how scientists

decide what constitutes scientific knowledge; how science is related to other ways of knowing; how science and technology affect our society; and how people of diverse cultures have contributed to and influenced developments in science.

  Strand III - Use Scientific Knowledge from the Life Sciences in Real-World Contexts:

  1. All students will apply an understanding of cells to the functioning of multi-cellular

organisms; and explain how cells grow, develop and reproduce.   

2. All students will use classification systems to describe groups of living things;

compare and contrast differences in the life cycles of living things; investigate and explain how living things obtain and use energy; and analyze how parts of living things are adapted to carry out specific functions.

3. All students will investigate and explain how characteristics of living things are passed on

through generations; explain why organisms within species are different from one another; and explain how new traits can be established by changing or manipulating genes.

4. All students will explain how scientists construct and scientifically test theories

concerning the origin of life and evolution of species; compare ways that living organisms are adapted (suited) to survive and reproduce in their environments; and analyze how species change through time.

5. All students will explain how parts of an ecosystem are related and how they

interact; explain how energy is distributed to living things in an ecosystem;    investigate and explain how communities of living things change over a period of time; describe how materials cycle through an ecosystem and get reused in the environment; and analyze how humans and the environment interact.

Strand IV - Use Scientific Knowledge from the Physical Sciences in Real-World Contexts:

1. All students will measure and describe the things around us; explain what the world

around us is made of; identify and describe forms of energy; and explain how electricity and magnetism interact with matter.

3. All students will describe how things around us move and explain why things move as they

do; demonstrate and explain how we control the motions of objects; and relate motion to energy and energy conversions.

Strand V - Use Scientific Knowledge from the Earth and Space Sciences in Real-World Contexts:

1. All students will describe the earth's surface; describe and explain how the earth's

features change over time; and analyze effects of technology on the earth's surface and resources.

2. All students will demonstrate where water is found on earth; describe the

characteristics of water and how water moves; and analyze the interaction of human activities with the hydrosphere.

MATHEMATICS (MAT - 15 Content Standards)

  Strand IV - Number Sense and Numeration:

2. Students recognize that numbers are used in different ways such as counting,

measuring, ordering and estimating, understand and produce multiple representations of a number, and translate among equivalent representations.

CAREER AND EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS (10 Content Standards)

Strand I - Applied Academic Skills:

•  All students will apply basic communication skills (e.g., reading, writing, speaking, and listening), apply scientific and social studies concepts, perform mathematical processes, and apply technology in work-related situations.

Strand II - Career Planning:

•  All students will acquire, organize, interpret, and evaluate information from career

awareness and exploration activities, career assessment, and work-based experiences to identify and pursue their career goals.

Strand IV - Problem Solving:

4. All students will make decisions and solve problems by specifying goals, identifying

resources and constraints, generating alternatives, considering impacts, choosing appropriate alternatives, implementing plans of action, and evaluating results.

Strand V - Personal Management:

5. All students will display personal qualities such as responsibility, self-management, self-

confidence, ethical behavior, and respect for self and others.

Strand VI - Organizational Skills:

6. All students will identify, organize, plan, and allocate resources (such as time, money,

materials, and human resources) efficiently and effectively.

Strand VII - Teamwork:

7. All students will work cooperatively with people of diverse backgrounds and abilities,

identify with the group's goals and values, learn to exercise leadership, teach others new skills, serve clients or customers, and will contribute to a group process with ideas, suggestions, and efforts.

Strand VIII - Negotiation Skills:

8. All students will communicate ideas to support a position and negotiate to resolve

divergent interests.

Strand IX - Understanding Systems and Using Technology:

9. All students will understand, monitor and improve complex systems, including social and

technical and mechanical systems, and work with and maintain a variety of technologies .

Strand X - Using Employability Skills:

10. All students will integrate employability skills into behaviors which prepare one for

obtaining, maintaining, advancing, and changing employment.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION (8 Content Standards)

TECHNOLOGY (6 Content Standards)

  Strand I - Using and Transferring:

•  All students will use and transfer technological knowledge and skills for life roles (family member, citizen, worker, consumer, lifelong learner).

HEALTH EDUCATION (7 Content Standards)

ARTS EDUCATION (Dance, Music, Theater, and Visual Arts - 5 Content Standards)

WORLD LANGUAGES (10 Content Standards)

LIFE MANAGEMENT EDUCATION (10 Content Standards)

  Strand IV - Decision-making:

•  All students will demonstrate responsible individual and family decision-making.

Strand VII - Demographic Change:

7. All students will examine demographic changes and their impact on society and the

family (find ways to adapt to change).

Strand VIII - Consumerism:

8. All students will practice responsible consumer and producer behavior, rights, and

responsibilities.