Standard 1 - History of the United States and New York State
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York.
Standard 3 - Geography
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live-local, national, and global-including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earth's surface.
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 U.S. and other national economies, and how an economy solves the scarcity problem through market and nonmarket mechanisms.
Standard 5 - Civics, Citizenship, and Government
Students will: use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the necessity for establishing governments; the governmental system of the U.S. and other nations; the U.S. Constitution; the basic civic values of American constitutional democracy; and the roles, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship, including avenues of participation.
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English Language Arts
Students will read, write, listen, and speak for information and
understanding.
Students will read, write, listen, and speak for literary response
and expression.
Students will read, write, listen, and speak for critical analysis
and evaluation.
Students will read, write, listen, and speak for social interaction.
Technology
Benchmarks for Students
Standard
1 - The student is an information navigator.
Information Acquisition: Use online and electronic resources to communicate,
collaborate, and retrieve information
Standard 2 - The student is a critical thinker and analyzer using
technology.
Source verification: Research and evaluate the accuracy, relevance, appropriateness,
comprehensiveness, and bias of electronic information sources concerning
real-world problems
Standard 3 - The student is a builder of knowledge using technology,
media and telecommunications.
Input and Output Devices: Use input and output devices to successfully
use modern technologies
Productivity Tools: Use a variety of technology resources and applications
to facilitate learning throughout the curriculum and support personal,
academic and professional productivity
Standard 4 - The student is an effective communicator through a
variety of appropriate technologies/media.
Publishing: Design, develop, publish, and present multimedia and online
products using technology resources that demonstrate and communicate curriculum
concepts to audiences inside and outside the classroom
Standard 5 - The student is a discriminating selector of appropriate
technology for specific purposes.
Tool Selection and Use: Determine when technology is useful and select
the appropriate tool(s) and technology resources to address a variety
of tasks and problems.
Standard 6 - The student is a technician.
Terminology and Usage: Understand and communicate, using accurate terminology,
common uses of technology in daily life and the advantages and disadvantages
those uses provide
Basic Operations and Networking: Understand and effectively utilize a
networked computer system
Troubleshooting: Apply strategies for identifying and solving routine
hardware and software problems
Standard 7 - The student is a responsible citizen, worker, learner,
community member and family member in a technological age.
Advocate and apply positive social and ethical behaviors when using technology
and identify the consequences of misuse