Standards

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**Science Through Inquiry-** **Use Appropriate Tools and Techniques to Gather, Analyze, and Interpret Data** **Understandings About Scientific Inquiry**
 * The use of tools and techniques, including mathematics, will be guided by the question asked and the investigations students design. The use of computers for the collection, summary, and display of evidence is part of this standard. Students should be able to access, gather, store, retrieve, and organize data, using hardware and software designed for these purposes.
 * Technology used to gather data enhances accuracy and allows scientists to analyze and quantify results of investigations.

**Science and Technology-**
 * Many different people in different cultures have made and continue to make contributions to science and technology.

==﻿Mathematics Academic Contect Standards == Lesson ideas for use by the instructor ﻿﻿**Data Analysis and Probability**- **Number, Number Sense, and Operations** -
 * Gather and organize data from surveys and classroom experiments, including data collected over a period of time.
 * Evaluate the validity of claims and predictions that are based on data by examining the appropriatness of the data collection and analysis.
 * Construct charts, tables and graphs to represent data.
 * Formulate a problem or mathematical model in response to a specific need or situation, determine information required to solve the problem, choose method for obtaining this information, and set limits for acceptable solution.
 * Measurement - **
 * Solve increasingly complex non-routine measurement problems and check for reasonableness of results.
 * Estimate, compute and solve problems involving real numbers, including ratio, proportiona and percent, and explain solutions.

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 * 3) Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics).


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">4) 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.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">5) 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.

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**1) Culture** ﻿t **hrough experience, observation, and reflection, students will identify elements of culture as well as similarities and differences among cultural groups across time and place.**
 * <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;">They will acquire knowledge and understanding of culture through multiple modes, including fiction and non-fiction, data analysis, meeting and conversing with people of divergent backgrounds, and completing research into the complexity of various cultural systems.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**3) People, Places and Environments:** **The study of people, places, and environments enables us to understand the relationship between human populations and the physical world.**
 * <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;">Students learn where people and places are located and why they are there. They examine the influence of physical systems, such as climate, weather and seasons, and natural resources, such as land and water, on human populations. They study the causes, patterns and effects of human settlement and migration, learn of the roles of different kinds of population centers in a society, and investigate the impact of human activities on the environment. This enables them to acquire a useful basis of knowledge for informed decision-making on issues arising from human-environmental relationships.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">**[|Alternative Assessment for Students with Disabilities]**
 * <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;">**Reading: Reading Applications-** Make selection in the context of an activity.
 * <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;">**Reading: Reading Applications-** Use a switch to provide information on a topic.
 * <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;">**Writing: Writing Conventions-** Make a selection of words or pictures to contribute to a written document.
 * <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;">**Science: Physcal Science-** Select pictures of objects to represent choices of actions to perform with devices using electricity or battery.
 * <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;">**Social Studies: Economics-** Perform an active motor response to contribute to a group project.