MICHIGAN
CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK
Content
Standards and Benchmarks by Subject Area
(120
total content standards)
Building
Trades Content Standards
ENGLISH
LANGUAGE ARTS (12 Content Standards)
Meaning and Communication:
•
All students will read and comprehend general
and technical material.
•
All students will use the English language
effectively.
Voice
:
•
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.
Ideas
in Action:
•
All students will apply knowledge, ideas,
and issues drawn from texts to their lives and the lives of
others.
SOCIAL
STUDIES (24 Content Standards)
Inquiry:
•
All students will acquire information from
books, maps, newspapers, data sets and other sources, organize
and present the information in maps, graphs, charts and timelines,
interpret the meaning and significance of information, and
use a variety of electronic technologies to assist
in accessing and managing information.
SCIENCE
(15 Content Standards)
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.
Use
Scientific Knowledge from the Physical Sciences in Real-World
Contexts:
•
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.
MATHEMATCS
(13 Content Standards)
Patterns, Relationships and Functions:
•
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.
Geometry
and Measurement:
•
Students develop spatial sense, use shape
as an analytic and descriptive tool,
identify
characteristics and define shapes, identify properties and
describe relationships among shapes.
•
Students compare attributes of two objects,
or of one object with a standard
(unit),
and analyze situations to determine what measurement(s) should
be made and to what level of precision.
Number
Sense and Numeration:
•
Students experience counting and measuring
activities to develop intuitive sense
about
numbers, develop understanding about properties of numbers,
understand the need for and existence of different sets of
numbers, and investigate properties of special numbers.
•
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)
Applied Skills:
•
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:
•
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:
•
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:
•
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:
•
All students will display personal qualities
such as responsibility, self-management, ethical behavior,
and respect for self and others.
Organizational
Skills:
•
All students will identify, organize, plan,
and allocate resources (such as time,
money,
materials, and human resources) efficiently and effectively.
Teamwork:
•
All students will work cooperatively with
people of diverse backgrounds and abilities, and will contribute
to a group process with ideas, suggestions, and efforts.
Understanding
Systems and Using Technology:
•
All students will understand complex systems,
including social and technical
systems,
and work with a variety of technologies.
Using
Employability Skills:
•
All students will integrate employability
skills into behaviors which prepare one for
obtaining,
maintaining, advancing, and changing employment.
PHYSICAL
EDUCATION (8 Content Standards)
Motor Skills:
•
All students will participate successfully
in selected health-enhanced, lifelong physical activities.
Physical
Fitness:
•
All students will develop and maintain
healthy levels of muscular strength and endurance.
TECHNOLOGY
(6 Content Standards)
Using and Transferring:
•
All students will use and transfer technological
knowledge and skills for life roles.
Employing
Systematic Approach:
•
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:
•
All students will apply ethical and legal
standards in planning, using, and evaluating technology.
HEALTH
EDUCATION (7 Content Standards)
Social
Skills:
•
All students will demonstrate effective
interpersonal communication and other social skills which
enhance health.
ARTS
EDUCATION - dance, music, theater, and visual arts (5 Content
Standards)
WORLD
LANGUAGES (10 Content Standards)
LIFE
MANAGEMENT EDUCATION (10 Content Standards)
Decision-making:
•
All students will demonstrate responsible
personal and family decision-making.
Responsibility:
2.
All students will practice family, social, and civic responsibility.
Consumerism:
3.
All students will practice responsible consumer and producer
behavior, rights,
and
responsibilities.
Revised: 8/22/08
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