MICHIGAN
CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK
Content
Standards and Benchmarks by Subject Area
(120
Total Content Standards)
Digital
Media/Web Production
ENGLISH
LANGUAGE ARTS (12 Content Standards)
Meaning and Communication:
1.
All students will read and comprehend general and technical
material.
Voice
:
2.
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:
3.
All students will demonstrate, analyze, and reflect upon the
skills and processes used
to
communicate through listening, speaking, viewing, reading,
and writing.
Genre
and Craft of Language:
4.
All students will explore and use the characteristics of different
types of texts,
aesthetic
elements, and mechanics - including text structure,
figurative and descriptive language, spelling, punctuation,
and grammar - to construct and convey meaning.
Ideas
in Action:
5.
All students will apply knowledge, ideas, and issues drawn
from texts to their lives and
the
lives of others.
Inquiry
and Research:
6.
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 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.
•
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 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.
MATHEMATICS
(13 Content Standards)
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.
Geometry
and Measurement:
3.
Students develop spatial sense, use shape as an analytic and
descriptive tool, identify
characteristics
and define shapes, identify properties and describe
relationships among shapes.
4.
Students identify locations of objects, identify location
relative to other objects,
and
describe the effects of transformations (e.g. sliding,
flipping, turning, enlarging, reducing) on an object.
5.
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.
Data
Analysis and Statistics:
6.
Student draw defensible inferences about unknown outcomes,
make predictions, and
identify
the degree of confidence they have in their predictions.
Probability
and Discrete Mathematics:
7.
Students develop an understanding of the notion of certainty
and of probability as a
measure
of the degree of likelihood that can be assigned to
a given event based on the knowledge available, and
make critical judgments about claims that are made in
probabilistic situations.
8.
Students investigate practical situations such as scheduling,
routing, sequencing,
networking,
organizing and classifying, and analyze ideas such as
recurrence relations, induction, iteration, and algorithm
design.
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 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:
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.
Understanding
Systems and Using Technology:
8.
All students will understand complex systems, including social
and technical systems, and
work
with a variety of technologies.
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 Content Standards)
TECHNOLOGY
(6 Content Standards)
Using and Transferring:
•
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.
Evaluating
and Forecasting:
6.
All students will evaluate the societal and environmental
impacts of technology and
forecast
alternative uses and possible consequences to make informed
civic, social, and
economic
decisions.
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)
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