MICHIGAN
CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK
Content
Standards and Benchmarks by Subject Area
(120
Total Content Standards)
Marketing
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.
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
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.
•
All students will describe how
government decisions on taxation, spending, public goods,
and regulation impact what is produced, how it is produced,
and who receives the benefits of production.
•
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.
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.
Reflect
on the Nature, Adequacy and Connections Across Scientific
Knowledge:
•
All students will analyze claims
for their scientific merit and explain how scientists
decide
what constitutes scientific knowledge; how science is related
to other ways of knowing; how science and technology affect
our society; and how people of diverse cultures have contributed
to and influenced developments in science.
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 develop spatial sense, use shape as an analytic and
descriptive tool, identify
characteristics
and define shapes, identify properties and describe
relationships among shapes.
4.
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.
Data
Analysis and Statistics:
5.
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, displayed in
different formats-collection, organization and presentation
of data.
6.
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.
7.
Students draw defensible inferences about unknown outcomes,
make predictions, and
identify
the degree of confidence they have in their predictions.
Number Sense and Numeration:
8.
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.
9.
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.
10.
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:
11.
Students develop an 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.
12.
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.
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
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.
•
All students will value physical
activity and its contribution to lifelong health and well-being.
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.
HEALTH
EDUCATION - 7 Content Standards
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)
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.
Analyzing
in Context:
•
All students will analyze, describe,
and evaluate works of art.
WORLD
LANGUAGES - 10 Content Standards
Global
Community:
1.
All students will define and characterize the global community.
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:
•
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.
Human
Development:
2.
All students will analyze factors which influence human development.
Decision-making:
3.
All students will demonstrate responsible personal and family
decision-making.
Responsibility:
4.
All students will practice family, social, and civic responsibility.
Consumerism:
5.
All students will practice responsible consumer and producer
behavior, rights, and
responsibilities.
Impact
of Technology:
6.
All students will assess the effects of technology on the
family.
Using
Community Resources:
7.
All students will demonstrate the use of community resources
to solve individual
and
family issues.
Revised: 8/22/08 |
