MICHIGAN CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK

Content Standards and Benchmarks by Subject Area

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ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS (12)

Meaning and Communication:

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

2.  All students will focus on meaning and communication as they listen, speak, view, read, and write in personal, social, occupation, and civic contexts.

3. All students will use the English language effectively.

Voice :

4. 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.

Skills and Processes:

5. All students will demonstrate, analyze, and reflect upon the skills and processes used to communicate through listening, speaking, viewing, reading, and writing.

Ideas in Action:

6. All students will apply knowledge, ideas, and issues drawn from texts to their lives and the lives of others.

Inquiry and Research:

7. All students will define and investigate important issues and problems using a

variety of resources, including technology, to explore and create texts.

SOCIAL STUDIES (24)

Inquiry:

1. All students will conduct investigations by formulating a clear statement of a questions, gathering and organizing information from a variety of sources, analyzing and interpreting information, formulating and testing hypothesis, reporting results both orally and in writing, and making use of appropriate technology.

SCIENCE (15)

Construct New Scientific and Personal Knowledge:

1. 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.

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

2. 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.

MATHEMATCS (13)

Patterns, Relationships and Functions:

1. Students recognize similarities and generalize patterns, use patterns to create

models and make predictions, describe the nature of patterns and relationships, and

construct representations of mathematical relationships.

2. Students describe the relationships among variables, predict what will happen to

one variable as another variable is changed, analyze natural variation and sources of variability, and compare patterns of change.

Data Analysis and Statistics:

1. Students collect and store data, organize data into useful form, and develop skill in

representing and reading data, displayed in different formats–collection, organization and presentation of data.

2. Students examine data and describe characteristics of a distribution, relate data

to the situation from which they arose, and use data to answer questions convincingly and persuasively.

Number Sense and Numeration:

3. 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)

Applied Skills:

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

Career Planning:

2. 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.

Developing and Presenting Information:

3. All students will demonstrate the ability to combine ideas or information in new ways, make connections between see, seemingly unrelated ideas, and organize and present information in formats such as symbols, pictures, schematics, charts, and graphs.

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, and evaluating results.

Personal Management:

5. All students will display personal qualities such as responsibility, self-management, ethical behavior, and respect for self and others.

Organizational Skills:

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

money, materials, and human resources) efficiently and effectively.

Teamwork:

7. All students will work cooperatively with people of diverse backgrounds and abilities, and will contribute to a group process with ideas, suggestions, and efforts.

Negotiation Skills:

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

Using Employability Skills:

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

obtaining, maintaining, advancing, and changing employment.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION (8)

Personal and Social Character Traits:

1. All students will demonstrate appropriate behavior (at least 95% of the time) related to selected personal/social character traits that commonly emerge in a physical activity context.

TECHNOLOGY (6)

Using and Transferring:

1. All students will use and transfer technological knowledge and skills for life roles.

Using Information Technologies:

2. All students will use technologies to input, retrieve, organize, manipulate, evaluate,

and communicate information.

Applying Appropriate Technologies:

3. All students will apply appropriate technologies to critical thinking, creative expression, and decision-making skills.

Employing Systematic Approach:

4. All students will employ a systematic approach to technological solutions by using resources and processes to create, maintain, and improve products, systems, and environments.

Applying Standards:

5. All students will apply ethical and legal standards in planning, using, and evaluating technology.

HEALTH EDUCATION (7)

Health Behaviors:

1. All students will practice health-enhancing behaviors and reduce health risks.

ARTS EDUCATION (dance, music, theater, and visual arts) (5)

WORLD LANGUAGES (10)

LIFE MANAGEMENT EDUCATION (10)