MICHIGAN CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK

Content Standards and Benchmarks by Subject Area

(120 Total Content Standards)

Electronics

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS (12 Content Standards)

   Meaning and Communication:

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

•  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).

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

•  All students will use the English language effectively.

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:

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 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.

4. 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.

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 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:

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. Student draw defensible inferences about unknown outcomes, make predictions, and

identify the degree of confidence they have in their predictions.

   Number Sense and Numeration:

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. Students investigate relationships such as equality, inequality, inverses, factors and

multiples, and represent and compare very large and very small numbers.

Probability and Discrete Mathematics:

10. 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.

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)

Personal and Social Character Traits:

•  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 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.

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)