MICHIGAN
CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK
Content
Standards and Benchmarks by Subject Area
(120
Total Content Standards)
Health
Occupations
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.
Literature:
•
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
:
•
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:
•
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:
•
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:
•
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:
•
All students will apply knowledge,
ideas, and issues drawn from texts to their lives and the
lives of others.
Inquiry
and Research:
•
All students will define and investigate
important issues and problems using a variety of resources,
including technology, to explore and create texts.
Critical
Standards:
•
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:
•
All students will describe, compare,
and explain the locations and characteristics of
places,
cultures, and settlements.
Civic
Perspective:
•
All students will describe the
political and legal processes created to make decisions, seek
consensus, and resolve conflicts in a free society.
Economic
Perspective:
•
All students will describe and
demonstrate how the economic forces of scarcity and
choice
affect the management of personal financial resources, shape
consumer decisions regarding the purchase, use, and disposal
of goods and services and affect the economic well-being of
individuals and society.
•
All students will explain and
demonstrate how businesses confront scarcity and choice when
organizing, producing, and using resources, and when supplying
the marketplace.
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.
Public
Discourse and Decision Making:
•
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:
•
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 apply an understanding of cells to the functioning
of multi-cellular
organisms;
and explain how cells grow, develop and reproduce.
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.
Use
Scientific Knowledge from the Physical Sciences in Real-World
Contexts:
4.
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.
5.
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.
6.
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.
Number Sense and Numeration:
2.
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 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.
Understanding
Systems and Using Technology:
9.
All students will understand complex systems, including social
and technical systems, and
work
with a variety of technologies.
Using
Employability Skills:
10.
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.
Cognitive
Concepts:
•
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:
•
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.
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
Applied Health Concepts:
•
All students will apply health
promotion and disease prevention concepts and principles to
personal, family, and community health issues.
Accessing
Information Services:
•
All students will access valid
health information and appropriate health promoting products
and services.
Health
Behaviors:
•
All students will practice health-enhancing
behaviors and reduce health risks.
Influences:
•
All students will analyze the
influence of cultural beliefs, media, and technology on health.
Goal
Setting and Decision Making:
•
All students will use goal setting
and decision-making skills to enhance health.
Social
Skills:
•
All students will demonstrate
effective interpersonal communication and other social skills
which enhance health.
Health
Advocacy:
•
All students will demonstrate
advocacy skills for enhanced personal, family, and community
health.
ARTS
EDUCATION (dance, music, theater, and visual arts) - 5 Content
Standards
Creating:
•
All students will apply skills
and knowledge to create in the arts.
Analyzing
in Context:
•
All students will analyze, describe,
and evaluate works of art.
WORLD
LANGUAGES - 9 Content Standards
Linking
Language and Culture:
•
All students will connect a non-English
language and culture through texts, writing, discussion, and
projects.
Diversity:
2.
All students will identify diverse languages and cultures
throughout the world.
LIFE
MANAGEMENT EDUCATION - 10 Content Standards
Balance of Work and Family:
•
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:
•
All students will demonstrate
responsible personal and family decision-making.
Wellness:
5.
All students will develop a plan for individual and family
wellness.
Demographic
Change:
6.
All students will examine demographic changes and their impact
on society and the
family.
Consumerism:
7.
All students will practice responsible consumer and producer
behavior, rights, and
responsibilities.
Impact
of Technology:
8.
All students will assess the effects of technology on the
family.
Using
Community Resources:
9.
All students will demonstrate the use of community resources
to solve individual
and
family issues.
Revised: 1/26/2010 |
