| AAAS Benchmark Standards |  Activities | NSES Standards | Activities | NCTM Standards | Activities |
| 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 | |