MICHIGAN CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK

Content Standards and Benchmarks by Subject Area

(120 total content standards)

Tech Support and Programming

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.

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)

   Historical Perspective:

•  All students will understand narratives about major eras of American and world history by identifying the people involved, describing the setting, and sequencing the events.

Geographic Perspective:

•  All students will describe and explain the causes, consequences, and geographic context of major global issues and events.

Economic Perspective:

•  All students will explain how a free market economic system works, as well as other economic systems, to coordinate and facilitate the exchange, production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

•  All students will describe how trade generates economic development and interdependence and analyze the resulting challenges and benefits for individuals, producers, and government.

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 state an issue clearly as a question of public policy, trace the origins of an issue, analyze various perspectives people bring to the issue and evaluate possible ways to resolve the issue.

•  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)

MATHEMATCS (13 Content Standards)

   Patterns, Relationships and Functions:

•  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.

•  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:

•  Students develop spatial sense, use shape as an analytic and descriptive tool,

identify characteristics and define shapes, identify properties and describe relationships among shapes.

•  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:

•  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.

•  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.

•  Students draw defensible inferences about unknown outcomes, make predictions,

and identify the degree of confidence they have in their predictions.

Number Sense and Numeration:

•  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.

10. 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.

11. 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:

•  Students develop and 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.

•  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:

•  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 see, 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:

•  All students will identify, organize, plan, and allocate resources (such as time,

money, materials, and human resources) efficiently and effectively.

Teamwork:

•  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:

•  All students will communicate ideas to support a position and negotiate to resolve divergent interests.

Understanding Systems and Using Technology:

•  All students will understand complex systems, including social and technical

systems, and work with a variety of technologies.

Using Employability Skills:

•  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:

•  All students will use technologies to input, retrieve, organize, manipulate, evaluate,

and communicate information.

Applying Appropriate Technologies:

•  All students will apply appropriate technologies to critical thinking, creative expression, and decision-making skills.

Employing Systematic Approach:

•  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:

•  All students will apply ethical and legal standards in planning, using, and evaluating technology.

Evaluating and Forecasting:

•  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)

Goal Setting and Decision Making:

•  All students will use goal setting and decision-making skills to enhance health.

ARTS EDUCATION (dance, music, theater, and visual arts)

   Performing:

•  All students will apply skills and knowledge to perform in the arts.

Creating:

•  All students will apply skills and knowledge to create in the arts.

WORLD LANGUAGES (10 Content Standards)

   Using a Non-English Language:

•  All students will identify and use a non-English language appropriately to perform a variety of tasks, in a variety of contexts, and utilizing a variety of content.

Using Strategies:

•  All students will use a variety of strategies to communicate in a non-English language.

Acquiring Knowledge:

•  All students will use a non-English language to acquire knowledge and connect to other disciplines.

Global Community:

8. All students will define and characterize the global community.

Diversity:

9. All students will identify diverse languages and cultures throughout the world.

Learning as a Lifelong Process:

10. All students will recognize learning a new language as a lifelong process.

LIFE MANAGEMENT EDUCATION (10 Content Standards)

Nurturing:

1. All students will demonstrate the characteristic of nurturing.

Human Development:

2. All students will analyze factors which influence human development.

Decision-making:

•  All students will demonstrate responsible personal and family decision-making.

Responsibility:

4. All students will practice family, social, and civic responsibility.

Impact of Technology:

5. All students will assess the effects of technology on the family.