MICHIGAN
CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK
Content
Standards and Benchmarks by Subject Area
(120
Total Standards)
Early
Childhood Education
ENGLISH
LANGUAGE ARTS (12 content standards)
Meaning
and Communication:
1.
All students will read and comprehend general and technical
material.
2.
All students will demonstrate the ability to write clear and
grammatically correct sentences, paragraphs, and compositions
(demonstrate fluency for multiple purposes, recognize techniques,
edit texts, select appropriate language structure).
3.
All students will focus on meaning and communication as they
listen, speak, view, read, and write in personal, social,
occupational, and civic contexts.
4.
All students will use the English language effectively.
Literature:
5.
All students will read and analyze a wide variety of classic
and contemporary
literature
and other texts to seek information, ideas, enjoyment, and
understanding of their individuality, our common heritage
and common humanity, and the rich diversity in our society.
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.
Skills
and Processes:
7.
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:
8.
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.
Depth
of Understanding:
9.
All students will demonstrate understanding of the complexity
of enduring issues
and
recurring problems by making connections and generating themes
within and
across
texts.
Ideas
in Action:
10.
All students will apply knowledge, ideas, and issues drawn
from texts to their lives
and
the lives of others.
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.
Critical
Standards:
12.
All students will develop and apply personal, shared, and
academic criteria for the
enjoyment,
appreciation, and evaluation of their own and others' oral,
written, and
visual
texts.
SOCIAL
STUDIES (24 content standards)
Geographic Perspective:
1.
All
students will describe, compare, and explain the locations
and characteristics of
places,
cultures, and settlements.
Civic
Perspective:
2.
All students will describe the political
and legal processes created to make decisions, seek consensus,
and resolve conflicts in a free society.
Public
Discourse and Decision Making:
3.
All students will engage their peers
in constructive conversation about matters of public concern
by clarifying issues, considering opposing views, applying
democratic values, anticipating consequences, and working
toward making decisions.
SCIENCE
(15 content standards)
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 Life Sciences in Real-World
Contexts:
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.
Use
Scientific Knowledge from the Physical Sciences in Real-World
Contexts:
5.
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.
6.
All
students will investigate, describe and analyze ways in which
matter changes; describe how living things and human technology
change matter and transform energy; explain how visible changes
in matter are related to atoms and molecules; and how changes
in matter are related to changes in energy.
7.
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.
8.
All
students will describe sounds and sound waves; explain shadows,
color, and other light phenomena; measure and describe vibrations
and waves; and explain how waves and vibrations transfer energy.
Use
Scientific Knowledge from the Earth and Space Sciences in
Real-World
Contexts:
9.
All
students will investigate and describe what makes up weather
and how it changes from day to day, from season to season
and over long periods of time; explain what causes different
kinds of weather; and analyze the relationships between human
activities and the atmosphere.
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.
Geometry and Measurement:
2.
Students develop spatial sense, use shape as an analytic and
descriptive tool,
identify
characteristics and define shapes, identify properties and
describe
relationships
among shapes.
3.
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.
Number
Sense and Numeration:
4.
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.
5.
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.
Probability
and Discrete Mathematics:
6.
Students investigate practical situations such as scheduling,
routing, sequencing,
networking,
organizing and classifying, and analyze ideas like recurrence
relations,
induction,
iteration, and algorithm design.
CAREER
AND EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS (10 content standards)
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 content standards)
Motor Skills:
1.
All students will participate successfully
in selected health-enhanced, lifelong physical activities.
Physical
Fitness:
2.
All
students will develop and maintain healthy levels of cardio-respiratory
endurance.
Cognitive
Concepts:
3.
All
students will describe the effects of activity and inactivity
and formulate example of lifestyle choices that result in
the development and maintenance of health-related fitness.
Personal
and Social Character Traits:
4.
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.
5.
All
students will value physical activity and its contribution
to lifelong health and wellbeing.
TECHNOLOGY
(6 content standards)
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
Standards:
3.
All
students will apply ethical and legal standards in planning,
using, and evaluating technology.
Evaluating
and Forecasting:
4.
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)
Applied
Health Concepts:
1.
All
students will apply health promotion and disease prevention
concepts and principles to personal, family, and community
health issues.
Accessing
Information Services:
2.
All
students will access valid health information and appropriate
health promoting products and services.
Health
Behaviors:
3.
All
students will practice health-enhancing behaviors and reduce
health risks.
Influences:
4.
All
students will analyze the influence of cultural beliefs, media,
and technology on health.
Goal
Setting and Decision Making:
5.
All
students will use goal setting and decision-making skills
to enhance health.
Social
Skills:
6.
All
students will demonstrate effective interpersonal communication
and other social skills which enhance health.
Health
Advocacy:
7.
All
students will demonstrate advocacy skills for enhanced personal,
family, and community health.
ARTS
EDUCATION (dance, music, theater, and visual arts)
(5 content standards)
Performing:
1.
All
students will apply skills and knowledge to perform in the
arts.
Creating:
2.
All
students will apply skills and knowledge to create in the
arts.
Analyzing
in Context:
3.
All
students will analyze, describe, and evaluate works of art.
Connecting
to other Arts, other Disciplines, and Life:
4.
All
students will recognize, analyze, and describe connections
among the arts; between the arts and other disciplines; between
the arts and everyday life.
WORLD
LANGUAGES (10 content standards)
Diversity:
1.
All students will identify diverse languages and cultures
throughout the world.
Learning
as a Lifelong Process:
2.
All students will recognize learning a new language as a lifelong
process.
LIFE
MANAGEMENT EDUCATION (10 content standards)
Balance
of Work and Family:
1.
All
students will demonstrate skill necessary to function in family
roles and relationships which are transferable to roles and
responsibilities within the workplace and community.
Nurturing:
2.
All students will demonstrate the characteristic of nurturing.
Human
Development:
3.
All students will analyze factors which influence human development.
Decision-making:
4.
All
students will demonstrate responsible personal and family
decision-making.
Responsibility:
5.
All students will practice family, social, and civic responsibility.
Wellness:
6.
All students will develop a plan for individual and family
wellness.
Demographic
Change:
7.
All students will examine demographic changes and their impact
on society and the
family.
Consumerism:
8.
All students will practice responsible consumer and producer
behavior, rights, and
responsibilities.
Impact
of Technology:
9.
All students will assess the effects of technology on the
family.
Using
Community Resources:
10.
All students will demonstrate the use of community resources
to solve individual
and
family issues.
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