New York State Standards
MST Standard 4: Science
Students will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and
theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and
recognize the historical development of ideas in science.
MST Standard 5: Technology
Students will apply technological knowledge and skills to design, construct,
use, and evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental needs.
MST Standard 6: Interconnectedness: Common Themes
Students will understand the relationships and common themes that connect
mathematics, science, and technology and apply the themes to these and other
areas of learning.
MST Standard 7: Interdisciplinary Problem Solving
Students will apply the knowledge and thinking skills of mathematics, science,
and technology to address real-life problems and make informed decisions.
English Language Arts
Standard 1: Language for Information and Understanding
Students will listen, speak, read,and write for information and understanding.
As listeners and readers, students will collect data, facts, and ideas;
discover relationships, concepts, and generalizations; and use knowledge
generated from oral, written, and electronically produced texts. As speakers
and writers, they will use oral and written language that follows
the accepted conventions of the English language to acquire, interpret, apply,
and transmit information.
Standard 2: Language for Literary Response and Expression
Students will read and listen to oral, written, and electronically produced
texts and performances from American and world literature; relate texts and
performances to their own lives; and develop an understanding of the diverse
social, historical, and cultural dimensions the texts and performances
represent. As speakers and writers, students will use oral and written
language that follows the accepted conventions of the English language for
self-expression and artistic creation.
Standard 3: Language for Critical Analysis and Evaluation
Students will listen, speak, read,and write for critical analysis and
evaluation. As listeners and readers, students will analyze experiences,
ideas, information, and issues presented by others using a variety of
established criteria. As speakers and writers, they will use oral and written
language that follows the accepted conventions of the English language to
present, from a variety of perspectives, their opinions and judgments on
experiences, ideas, information and issues.
Standard 4: Language for Social Interaction
Students will listen, speak, read,and write for social interaction. Students
will use oral and written language that follows the accepted conventions of
the English language for effective social communication with a wide variety of
people. As readers and listeners, they will use the social communications
of others to enrich their understanding of people and their views.
The Arts
Standard 1: Creating, Performing, and Participating in the Arts
Students will actively engage in the processes that constitute creation and
performance in the arts (dance, music, theatre, and visual arts) and
participate in various roles in the arts.
Standard 2: Knowing and Using Arts Materials and Resources
Students will be knowledgeable about and make use of the materials and
resources available for participation in the arts in various roles.
Career Development and Occupational Studies
Standard 1: Career Development
Students will be knowledgeable about the world of work, explore career
options, and relate personal skills, aptitudes, and abilities to future career
decisions.
Standard 2: Integrated Learning
Students will demonstrate how academic knowledge and skills are applied in the
workplace and other settings.
Social Studies
Standard 4: Economics
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their
understanding of how the United States and other societies develop economic
systems and associated institutions to allocate scarce resources, how major
decision-making units function in the United States and other national
economies, and how an economy solves the scarcity problem through market and
nonmarket mechanisms.
National Standards
NPH-H.K-4.2 HEALTH INFORMATION, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
Demonstrate the ability to locate resources from home, school and community
that provide valid health information.
P.I.- Explain how media influences the selection of health information,
products and services.
NPH-H.K-4.3 REDUCING HEALTH RISKS
Compare behaviors that are safe to those that are risky or harmful.
P.I.- Compare behaviors that are safe to those that are risky or harmful.
NPH-H.K-4.4 INFLUENCES ON HEALTH
Describe how culture influences personal health behaviors.
P.I.- Explain how media influences thoughts, feelings, and health behaviors.
Describe ways technology can influence personal health.
NPH-H.K-4.6 SETTING GOALS FOR GOOD HEALTH
Demonstrate the ability to apply a decision-making process to health issues
and problems.
P.I.- Demonstrate the ability to apply a decision-making process to health
issues and problems.
NPH-H.K-4.7 HEALTH ADVOCACY
Demonstrate the ability to influence and support others in making positive
health choices.
P.I.- Demonstrate the ability to influence and support others in making
positive health choices.
NM-NUM.3-5.1 Understand numbers, ways of representing numbers, relationships
among numbers, and number systems
P.I.- understand the place-value structure of the base-ten number system and
be able
to represent and compare whole numbers and decimals
NM-NUM.3-5.3 Compute fluently and make reasonable estimates
P.I.- develop and use strategies to estimate the results of whole-number
computations and to judge the reasonableness of such results;
develop and use strategies to estimate computations involving fractions
and decimals in situations relevant to students' experience
select appropriate methods and tools for computing with whole numbers
from among mental computation, estimation, calculators, and paper and
pencil according to the context and nature of the computation and use
the selected method or tools.
NS.K-4.5 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
P.I.- Abilities of technological design
Understanding about science and technology
Abilities to distinguish between natural objects and objects made by
humans
NS.K-4.6 PERSONAL AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES
P.I.- Personal health
NS.K-4.7 HISTORY OF NATURE AND SCIENCE:
P.I.- Science as a human endeavor
NT.K-12.1 BASIC OPERATIONS AND CONCEPTS
P.I.- Students demonstrate a sound understanding of the nature and operation
of technology systems
Students are proficient in the use of technology
NT.K-12.2 SOCIAL, ETHICAL AND HUMAN ISSUES
P.I.- Students practice responsible use of technology systems, information,
and software.
Students develop positive attitudes toward technology uses that support
lifelong learning, collaboration, personal pursuits, and productivity.
NT.K-12.3 TECHNOLOGY PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS
P.I.- Students use technology tools to enhance learning, increase
productivity, and promote creativity.
Students use productivity tools to collaborate in constructing
technology-enhanced models, prepare publications, and produce other
creative works.
NT.K-12.4 TECHNOLOGY COMMUNICATION TOOLS
P.I.- Students use telecommunications to collaborate, publish, and interact
with peers, experts, and other audiences.
Students use a variety of media and formats to communicate information
and ideas effectively to multiple audiences.
NT.K-12.5 TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH TOOLS
P.I.- Students use technology to locate, evaluate,and collect information from
a variety of sources.
Students use technology tools to process data and report results.
Students evaluate and select new information resources and technological
innovations based on the appropriateness for specific tasks.
NL-ENG.K-12.1 READING FOR PERSPECTIVE
P.I.- Students read a wide range of print and nonprint texts to build an
understanding of texts, of themselves, and of the cultures of the United
States and the world; to acquire new information; to respond to the needs and
demands of society and the workplace; and for personal fulfillment. Among
these texts are fiction and nonfiction, classic and contemporary works.
NL-ENG.K-12.4 COMMUNICATION SKILLS
P.I.- Students adjust their use of spoken, written, and visual language (e.g.,
conventions, style, vocabulary) to communicate effectively with a variety of
audiences and for different purposes.
NL-ENG.K-12.5 COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES
P.I.- Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use
different writing process elements appropriately to communicate with different
audiences for a variety of purposes.
NL-ENG.K-12.6 APPLYING KNOWLEDGE
P.I.- Students apply knowledge of language structure, language conventions
(e.g., spelling and punctuation), media techniques, figurative language, and
genre to create, critique, and discuss print and nonprint texts.
NL-ENG.K-12.7 EVALUATING DATA
P.I.- Students conduct research on issues and interests by generating ideas
and questions, and by posing problems. They gather, evaluate, and synthesize
data from a variety of sources (e.g., print and nonprint texts, artifacts,
people)to communicate their discoveries in ways that suit their purpose and
audience.
NA-M.K-4.1 SINGING, ALONE AND WITH OTHERS, A VARIED REPERTOIRE OF MUSIC
P.I.- Students sing expressively, with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and
interpretation
NA-M.K-4.4 COMPOSING AND ARRANGING MUSIC WITHIN SPECIFIED GUIDELINES
P.I.- Students create and arrange music to accompany readings or dramatizations
