MICHIGAN
CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK
Content
Standards and Benchmarks by Subject Area
Graphic
Arts
ENGLISH
LANGUAGE ARTS (12 Content Standards)
Meaning and Communication:
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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.
Voice
:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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All students will apply knowledge,
ideas, and issues drawn from texts to their lives and the
lives of others.
Inquiry
and Research:
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All students will define and investigate
important issues and problems using a variety of resources,
including technology, to explore and create texts.
Critical
Standards:
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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)
Inquiry:
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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:
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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.
MATHEMATCS
(13 Content Standards)
Geometry
and Measurement:
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Students develop spatial sense,
use shape as an analytic and descriptive tool,
identify
characteristics and define shapes, identify properties and
describe relationships among shapes.
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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.
•
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:
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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.
Probability
and Discrete Mathematics:
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Students investigate practical
situations such as scheduling, routing, sequencing, networking,
organizing and classifying, and analyze ideas such like recurrence
relations, induction, iteration, and algorithm design.
CAREER
AND EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS (10 Content Standards)
Applied Skills:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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All students will display personal
qualities such as responsibility, self-management, ethical
behavior, and respect for self and others.
Organizational
Skills:
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All students will identify, organize,
plan, and allocate resources (such as time,
money,
materials, and human resources) efficiently and effectively.
Teamwork:
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All students will work cooperatively
with people of diverse backgrounds and abilities, and will
contribute to a group process with ideas, suggestions, and
efforts.
Using
Employability Skills:
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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:
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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:
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All students will use and transfer
technological knowledge and skills for life roles.
Using
Information Technologies:
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All students will use technologies
to input, retrieve, organize, manipulate, evaluate,
and
communicate information.
Applying
Appropriate Technologies:
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All students will apply appropriate
technologies to critical thinking, creative expression, and
decision-making skills.
Employing
Systematic Approach:
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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:
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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)
Performing:
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All students will apply skills
and knowledge to perform in the arts
Creating:
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All students will apply skills
and knowledge to create in the arts.
Analyzing
in Context:
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All students will analyze, describe,
and evaluate works of art.
WORLD
LANGUAGES (10 Content Standards)
LIFE
MANAGEMENT EDUCATION (10 Content Standards)
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