Appendix: Implementing State and District Standards
Language Arts
Benchmark I-A: Listen to, read, react to, and interpret information.
Benchmark I-B: Gather and use information for research and other purposes.
Benchmark I-C: Apply critical thinking skills to analyze information.
1. Students will use critical thinking skills to evaluate texts, explore bias,
and recognize point of view.
2. Students will demonstrate competence in the skills and strategies of the
reading and writing processes.
3. Students will use speaking as in interpersonal communication tool.
Science
Strand I: Scientific Thinking and Practice
Standard I: Understand the processes of scientific investigations and use inquiry and scientific ways of observing, experimenting, predicting, and validating to think critically.
5-8 Benchmark I-A: Use scientific methods to develop questions, design and conduct experiments using appropriate technologies, analyze and evaluate results, make predictions, and communicate findings.
1. Students will develop graphs using the information.
2. Students will examine the reasonableness of data.
3. Students will justify predictions and conclusions based on data.
Benchmark I-B: Understand the processes of scientific investigation and how scientific
inquiry results in scientific knowledge.
1.Students will understand that knowledge is reviewed and revised with new information.
2. Students will understand that scientific investigations use a set of common processes.
Benchmark I-C: Use mathematical ideas, tools, and techniques to understand scientific
knowledge.
1. Students will evaluate the usefulness and relevance of data to an investigation.
2. Students will use patterns and relationships to explain data and observations.
Standard III: Science and Society
Strand I: Understand how scientific discoveries, inventions, practices, and knowledge
influence and are influenced by, individuals and societies.
Benchmark IIIA: Explain how scientific discoveries and inventions have changed
individuals and societies.
1. Students will examine the role of scientific knowledge in decisions, such as what
to eat.
Math
Benchmark I-C: Compute fluently and make reasonable estimates.
Benchmark II-C: Use mathematical models, such as graphs, to represent and understand
quantitative relationships.
Students will be able to convert fractions to decimals to percents.
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