AAAS Benchmark Standards | ![]() | NSES Standards | ![]() | NCTM Standards | ![]() |
Grades 9-12 | Module Alignment | Grades 9-12 | Module Alignment | Grades 9-12 | Module Alignment |
1. Nature of Science | A. Science as Inquiry | Numbers & Operations | |||
The Scientific worldview | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Ability to do scientific inquiry | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Understanding number relations | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Scientific inquiry | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Understanding scientific inquiry | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Understand meanings of operations | ![]() |
The Scientific enterprise | ![]() ![]() ![]() | B. Physical Science |
| Compute fluently and estimate | ![]() ![]() |
2. Nature of Mathematics | Structure of atoms | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Algebra | ||
Patterns and relationships | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Structure and properties of matter | ![]() ![]() | Understand patterns, relations and functions | ![]() ![]() |
Mathematics, science, and technology | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Chemical reactions | ![]() | Analyze math situations using algebraic symbols | ![]() ![]() |
Mathematical Inquiry | ![]() ![]() | Motions and forces | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Use mathematical models to understand quantitative relationships | ![]() ![]() |
3. Nature of Technology |
| Conservation of energy and increase in disorder | ![]() | Analyze change in various contexts | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Technology and science | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Interactions of energy and matter | ![]() | Geometry | |
Design and systems | ![]() ![]() ![]() | C. Life Sciences |
| Analyze characteristics and properties of two- and three-dimensional geometric shapes | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Issues in technology | ![]() ![]() ![]() | The cell | ![]() | Specify locations and describe spatial relationships using coordinate geometry | ![]() |
4. The Physical Setting | E. Science and Technology | Apply transformations and use symmetry | ![]() | ||
Structure of matter | ![]() ![]() | Ability of technological design | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Use visualization, spatial reasoning, and geometric modeling | ![]() |
Energy transformations | ![]() ![]() | Understanding science and technology | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Measurement | |
Motion | ![]() ![]() |
| Apply appropriate techniques, tools, and formulas to determine measurements. | ![]() ![]() ![]() | |
Force of nature | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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| Analysis and Probability | |
8. The Designed World | Formulate questions that can be addressed with data and collect and display relevant data to answer them | ![]() ![]() | |||
Materials and manufacturing | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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| Select and use appropriate statistical methods to analyze data | ![]() |
9. The Mathematical World | Problem Solving | ||||
Numbers | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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| Process standard I | ![]() |
Symbolic relationships | ![]() ![]() | Communication |
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Shapes | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Process standard III | ![]() | ||
Uncertainty | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Connection |
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11. Common Themes | Process standard IV | ![]() | |||
Systems | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Representation |
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Models | ![]() ![]() | Process standard V | ![]() | ||
Constancy and change | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||
Scale | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |