MICHIGAN
CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK
Content
Standards and Benchmarks by Subject Area
SMALL
ENGINES
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.
Civic
Perspective:
•
All students will identify the
purpose of national, state, and local governments in the U.S.,
describe how citizens organize government to accomplish their
purpose, and assess their effectiveness.
•
All students will describe the
political and legal processes created to make decisions, seek
consensus, and resolve conflicts in a free society.
•
All students will explain how
American governmental institutions, at the local, state, and
federal levels, provide for the limitation and the sharing
of power and how the nation's political system provides for
the exercise of power.
•
All students will understand how
the world is organized politically, the formation of American
foreign policy and the roles the U.S. plays in the international
arena (American government and world affairs).
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.
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 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.
3.
All students will explain how parts of an ecosystem are related
and how they
interact;
explain how energy is distributed to living things in an ecosystem;
investigate and explain how communities of living
things change over a period of time; describe how materials
cycle through an ecosystem and get reused in the environment;
and analyze how humans and the environment interact.
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 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.
6.
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.
7.
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.
Use
Scientific Knowledge from the Earth and Space Sciences in
Real-World Contexts:
8.
All students will investigate and describe what makes up weather
and how it changes
from
day to day, from season to season and over long periods of
time; explain what causes different kinds of weather; and
analyze the relationships between human activities and the
atmosphere.
9.
All students will compare and contrast our planet and sun
to other planets and star
systems;
describe and explain how objects in the solar system move;
explain scientific theories as to the origin of the solar
system; and explain how we learn about the universe.
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.
5.
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:
6.
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.
7.
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.
8.
Student draw defensible inferences about unknown outcomes,
make predictions, and
identify
the degree of confidence they have in their predictions.
Number Sense and Numeration:
9.
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:
12.
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.
13.
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)
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)
ARTS
EDUCATION (dance, music, theater, and visual arts - 5 Content
Standards)
Creating:
•
All students will apply skills
and knowledge to create in the arts.
WORLD
LANGUAGES (10 Content Standards)
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.
Decision-making:
3.
All students will demonstrate responsible personal and family
decision-making.
Responsibility:
4.
All students will practice family, social, and civic responsibility.
Wellness:
5.
All students will develop a plan for individual and family
wellness.
Consumerism:
6.
All students will practice responsible consumer and producer
behavior, rights, and
responsibilities.
Impact
of Technology:
7.
All students will assess the effects of technology on the
family.
Using
Community Resources:
8.
All students will demonstrate the use of community resources
to solve individual
and
family issues.
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