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01.1 THE ARTS - DANCE 01.1.1 Elements and Skills: Students will identify and perform movement elements and dance skills.
01.1.2 Choreography: Students will understand choreographic principles, processes and structures.
01.1.3 Meaning: Students will understand how dance creates and communicates meaning.
01.1.4 Thinking Skills: Students will apply analytical and evaluative thinking skills in dance.
01.1.5 History and Cultures: Students will demonstrate an understanding of dance in various cultures and historical periods
01.1.6 Healthful Living: Students will make connections between dance and healthful living
01.1.7 Connections: Students will make connections between dance, other disciplines and daily life.
01.2 THE ARTS - MUSIC 01.2.1 Vocal: Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of songs
01.2.2 Instrumental: Students will play, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of instrumental music
01.2.3 Improvisation: Students will improvise melodies, variations and accompaniments
01.2.4 Composition: Students will compose and arrange music
01.2.5 Notation: Students will read and notate music
01.2.6 Analysis: Students will listen to, describe and analyze music
01.2.7 Evaluation: Students will evaluate music and music performances
01.2.8 Connections: Students will make connections between music, other disciplines and daily life
01.2.9 History and Cultures: Students will understand music in relation to hisotry and culture
01.3 THE ARTS - THEATRE 01.3.1 Creating: Students will create theatre through improvising, writing and refining scripts
01.3.2 Acting: Students will act by developing, communicating and sustaining characters
01.3.3 Technical Production: Students will design and produce the technical elements of theatre through artistic interpretation and execution
01.3.4 Directing: Students will direct by planning or interpreting works of theatre through artistic interpretation and execution
01.3.5 Researching and Interpreting: Students will research, evaluate and apply cultural and historical information to make artistic choices
01.3.6 Connections: Students will make connections between theatre, other disciplines and daily life
01.3.7 Analysis, Criticism and Meaning: Students wil analyze, critique and construct meanings from works of theatre
01.3.8 History and Cultures: Students will demonstrate an understanding of context by analyzing and comparing theatre in various cultures and historical periods
01.4 THE ARTS - VISUAL ARTS 01.4.1 Media: Students will understand, select and apply media, techniques and processes
01.4.2 Elements and Principles: Students will understand and apply elements and organizational principles of art
01.4.3 Content: Students will consider, select and apply a range of subject matter, symbols and ideas
01.4.4 History and Cultures: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures
01.4.5 Analysis, Interpretation and Evaluation: Students will reflect upon, describe, analyze, interpret and evaluate their own and others' work
01.4.6 Connections: Students will make connections between the visual arts, other disciplines and daily life
02.0 HEALTH AND SAFETY 02.0.1 Healthy And Active Life: Students will establish and maintain healthy eating patterns and a physically active life.
02.0.2 Injury And Disease Prevention: Students will avoid risk-taking activities that cause intentional and unintentional injuries or diseases. Students will demonstrate basic first aid and safety techniques.
02.0.3 Human Growth and Development: Students will learn accurate information about their physical development, including human sexuality and mental and emotional health. Students will avoid behaviors that result in pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
02.0.4 Substance Abuse Prevention: Students will establish and maintain lifestyles that are free of tobacco, alcohol and other nonmedicinal drugs.
03.0 LANGUAGE ARTS 03.0.1 Reading And Responding: Students will read and respond in individual, literal, critical and evaluative ways to literary, informational and persuasive texts.
03.0.2 Producing Texts: Students will produce written, oral and visual texts to express, develop and substantiate ideas and experiences.
03.0.3 Applying English Language Conventions: Students will apply the conventions of standard English in oral and written communication.
03.0.4 Exploring And Responding To Texts: Students will use the language arts to explore and respond to classical and contemporary texts from many cultures and literary periods.
04.1 LRIT - MEDIA 04.1.1 Defining Information Needs: Students will define their information needs and identify effective courses of action to conduct research, solve complex problems and pursue personal interests.
04.1.2 Information Systems: Students will apply principles of organized information systems to learning endeavors.
04.1.3 Information Strategies: Students will demonstrate a command of information skills and strategies to locate and use effectively print, nonprint and/or electronic resources to solve problems, conduct research and pursue personal interests.
04.1.4 Information Processing: Students will apply evaluative criteria to the selection, interpretation, analysis, reorganization and synthesis of information from a variety of sources and formats.
04.1.5 Application: Students will use appropriate technologies to create written, visual, oral and multimedia products to communicate ideas, information or conclusions to others.
04.1.6 Evaluation: Students will evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of their own choices and use of information and technology for problem-solving and communication.
04.1.7 Responsible Information Use: Students will demonstrate the responsible and legal use of information resources, computers or other technologies, recognizing the attendant social, economic and ethical issues.
04.2 LRIT - COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY 04.2.1 Basic Operations and Concepts: Students demonstrate a sound understanding of the nature and operation of technology systems. Students are proficient in the use of technology.
04.2.2 Social, Ethical and Human Issues: Students understand the ethical, cultural, and societal issues related to technology. 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
04.2.3 Technology Productivity Tools: Students use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity and promote creativity. Students use productivity tools to collaborate in constructing technology-enhanced models, preparing publications and producing other creative works
04.2.4 Technology Communications Tools: 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
04.2.5 Technology Research Tools: 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 to specific tasks
04.2.6 Technology Problem Solving and Decision Making Tools: Students use technology resources for solving problems and making informed decisions. Students employ technology in the development of strategies for solving problems in the real world
05.0 MATHEMATICS 05.0.1 Number Sense: Students will use numbers to count, measure, compare, order, scale, locate and label, and use a variety of numerical representations to present, interpret, communicate and connect various kinds of numerical information.
05.0.2 Operations: Students will add, subtract, multiply and divide with whole numbers, fractions, decimals and integers, and develop strategies for selecting the appropriate computational and operational methods for solving problems.
05.0.3 Estimation And Approximation: Students will make estimates and approximations, and judge the reasonableness of results.
05.0.4 Ratios, Proportions And Percents: Students will use ratios, proportions, and percents to represent relationships between quantities and measures and solve problems involving ratios, proportions and percents.
05.0.5 Measurement: Students will make and use measurements in both customary and metric units to approximate, measure and compute length, area, volume, mass, temperature, angle and time.
05.0.6 Spatial Relationships and Geometry: Students will analyze and use spatial relationships and basic concepts of geometry to construct, draw, describe and compare geometric models and their transformations, and use geometric relationships and patterns to solve problems.
05.0.7 Probability And Statistics: Students will use basic concepts of probability and statistics to collect, organize, display and analyze data, simulate events and test hypotheses.
05.0.8 Patterns: Students will discover, analyze, describe, extend and create patterns, and use patterns to describe mathematical and other real-world phenomena.
05.0.9 Algebra And Functions: Students will use algebraic skills and concepts, including functions, to describe real-world phenomena symbolically and graphically, and to model quantitative change.
05.0.10 Discrete Mathematics: Students will use the concepts and processes of discrete mathematics to analyze and model a variety of real-world situations that involve recurring relationships, sequences, networks, combinations and permutations.
06.0 PHYSICAL EDUCATION 06.0.1 Physical Activity: Students will become competent in a variety of, and proficient in a few, physical activities.
06.0.2 Human Movement: Students will understand and apply principles of human movement to the learning and development of motor skills.
06.0.3 Fitness: Students will use fitness concepts to achieve and maintain health-enhancing levels of physical fitness.
06.0.4 Responsible Behavior: Students will exhibit responsible personal and social behaviors in physical activity settings.
06.0.5 Respect For Differences: Students will exhibit an understanding of and respect for differences among people in physical activity settings.
06.0.6 Benefits Of Physical Activity: Students will identify and understand how physical activity provides personal enjoyment, challenge, self-expression and social interaction.
07.0 SCIENCE 07.0.1 The Nature Of Science: Students will experience an inquiry-based learning environment in which they are free to ask questions, seek information and validate explanations in thoughtful and creative ways. Students also will understand that the processes, ways of knowing and conceptual foundations of science are interdependent and inextricably bound.
07.0.2 History Of Science: Students will learn the evolution of scientific thought, how science has influenced culture and society, and how groups from many countries have contributed to the history of science.
07.0.3 Living Things And Their Environments: Students will understand that all organisms in the biosphere are linked to each other and to their physical environments by the transfer and transformation of matter and energy.
07.0.4 Units Of Structure And Function: Students will understand that living things share common materials and structures which perform basic life functions.
07.0.5 Relationships Of Structure And Function: Students will understand the classification and physiology of the great diversity of organisms and identify relationships of structure and function.
07.0.6 Cycles Of Life: Students will recognize patterns and products of genetics and evolution.
07.0.7 The Earth: Students will understand the processes and forces that shape the structure and composition of the Earth.
07.0.8 Water: Students will understand the water cycle, including energy transfers, the distribution and characteristics of water, and its influences on human activity.
07.0.9 The Earth's Atmosphere: Students will understand the composition and structure of the atmosphere, including energy transfers, the nature of weather and climate, and the effect of the atmosphere on human activity.
07.0.10 The Universe: Students will understand that the Earth is a unique, dynamic member of the solar system, located in a galaxy within a changing universe.
07.0.11 Structure Of Matter: Students will know the characteristic properties of matter and the relationship of these properties to structure and composition.
07.0.12 Energy: Students will know that energy is conserved, transferred, transformed and appears in different forms.
07.0.13 Interaction Of Matter And Energy: Students will know that interactions between matter and energy can produce changes in a system, although the total quantities of matter and energy are unchanged.
07.0.14 Science And Technology: Students will understand the relationships among mathematics, science and technology, and the way they affect and are affected buy society.
08.1 SOCIAL STUDIES - HISTORY 08.1.1 Historical Thinking: Students will develop historical thinking skills, including chronological thinking and recognizing change over time; contextualizing, comprehending and analyzing historical literature; researching historical sources; understanding the concept of historical causation; understanding competing narratives and interpretation; and constructing narratives and interpretation.
08.1.2 Local, United States and World History: Students will use historical thinking skills to develop an understanding of the major historical periods, issues and trends in United States history, world history, and Connecticut and local history.
08.1.3 Historical Themes: Students will apply their understanding of historical periods, issues and trends to examine such historical themes as ideals, beliefs and institutions; conflict and conflict resolution; human movement and interaction; and science and technology in order to understand how the world came to be the way it is.
08.1.4 Applying History: Students will recognize the continuing importance of historical thinking and historical knowledge in their own lives and in the world in which they live
08.2 SOCIAL STUDIES - CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT 08.2.1 United States Constitution and Government: Students will apply knowledge of the U.S. Constitution, how the U.S. system of government works and how the rule of law and the value of liberty and equality have an impact on individual, local, state and national decisions
08.2.2 Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens: Students will demonstrate knowledge of the rights and responsibilities of citizens to participate in and shape public policy, and contribute to the maintenance of our democratic way of life
08.2.3 Political Systems: Students will explain that political systems emanate from the need of humans for order, leading to compromise and the establishment of authority.
08.2.4 International Relations: Students will demonstrate an understanding of how the major elements of international relations and world affairs affect their lives and the security and well-being of their community state and nation.
08.3 SOCIAL STUDIES - GEOGRAPHY 08.3.1 Places and Regions: Students will use spatial perspective to identify and analyze the significance of physical and cultural characteristics of places and world regions
08.3.2 Physical Systems: Students will use spatial perspective to explain the physical processes that shape the Earth's surface and its ecosystems
08.3.3 Human Systems: Students will interpret spatial patterns of human migration, economic activities and political units in Connecticut, the nation and the world
08.3.4 Human and Environmental Interaction: Students will use geographic tools and technology to explain the interactions of humans and the larger environment, and the evolving consequences of those interactions.
08.4 SOCIAL STUDIES - ECONOMICS 08.4.1 Limited Resources: Students will demonstrate that because human, natural and capital resources are limited, individuals, households businesses and governments must make choices
08.4.2 Economic Systems: Students will demonstrate that various economic systems coexist, and that economic decisions are made by individuals and/or governments, influenced by markets, cultural traditions, individuals and governments n the allocation of goods and services.
08.4.3 Economic Interdependence: Students will demonstrate how the exchange of goods and services by individuals, groups and nations created economic interdependence and change.
09.0 TECHNOLOGY 09.0.1 Economics: Students will understand the link between technology and the economy, and recognize that link as the force behind societal emergence and evolution.
09.0.2 Technological Impacts: Students will understand the impact that technology has on the social, cultural and environmental aspects of their lives.
09.0.3 Career Awareness: Students will become aware of the world of work and its function in society, diversity, expectations, trends and requirements.
09.0.4 Problem Solving/Research and Development: Students will recognize technology as the result of a creative act, and will be able to apply disciplined problem-solving strategies to enhance invention and innovation.
09.0.5 Leadership: Students will identify and develop leadership attributes and apply them in team situations.
09.0.6 Materials and Processes: Students will know the origins, properties and processing techniques associated with the material building blocks of technology.
09.0.7 Communications Systems: Students will understand and be able to effectively apply physical, graphic and electronic communications techniques in processing, transmitting, receiving and organizing information.
09.0.8 Production Systems: Students will understand and be able to demonstrate the methods involved in turning raw materials into usable products
09.0.9 Transportation Systems: Students will understand transportation systems and the environments used to move goods and people, and the subsystems common to each.
09.0.10 Enterprise: Students will demonstrate the techniques of enterprise and how they relate to product and service production, economics, human and material resources, and technology
09.0.11 Engineering Design: Students will be able to apply the engineering design process to achieve desired outcomes across all technology content areas.
10.0 WORLD LANGUAGES 10.0.1 Communication: Students will engage in conversation, provide and obtain information, express feelings and exchange opinions.
10.0.2 Communication: Students will understand and interpret spoken and written language on a variety of topics.
10.0.3 Communication: Students will present information, concepts and ideas to listeners or readers on a variety of topics.
10.0.4 Cultures: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the traditions, products and perspectives of the cultures studied.
10.0.5 Connections: Students will reinforce and expand their knowledge of other areas of study through the world language.
10.0.6 Connections: Students will acquire and use information from a variety of sources only available I the world language, using technology, print, audiovisual, media, data and human resources.
10.0.7 Comparisons Among Languages: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the nature of language through comparisons of that world language and their own.
10.0.8 Comparisons Among Cultures: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own,.
10.0.9 Communities: Students will use the world language both within and beyond the school setting for personal enjoyment, enrichment and active participation.
11.1 PRESCHOOL 11.1.1 Personal & Social Development: Students will exhibit curiosity, creativity, self-direction and persistence in learning situations.
11.1.2 Personal & Social Development: Students will describe themselves using several basic characteristics.
11.1.3 Personal & Social Development: Students will demonstrate awareness of one's own and others' feelings.
11.1.4 Personal & Social Development: Students will participate in and exhibit self-control in group situations.
11.1.5 Personal & Social Development: Students will interact appropriately with peers and familiar adults.
11.1.6 Personal & Social Development: Students will use age-appropriate conflict-resolution strategies.
11.1.7 Personal & Social Development: Students will recognize similarities and appreciate differences in people.
11.2 PRESCHOOL 11.2.1 Physical Development: Students will engage in a wide variety of gross-motor activities that are child selected and teacher initiated.
11.2.2 Physical Development: Students will use a variety of materials that promote eye-hand coordination and small-muscle development.
11.2.3 Physical Development: Students will demonstrate spatial awareness in both fine-and-gross-motor activities.
11.2.4 Physical Development: Students will choose nutritious meals and snacks.
11.2.5 Physical Development: Students will practice basic hygiene and self-help skills.
11.3 PRESCHOOL 11.3.1 Cognitive Development: Students will express wonder, ask questions and seek answers about the natural world.
11.3.2 Cognitive Development: Students will recognize and solve problems through active exploration, including trial and error and interacting with peers and adults.
11.3.3 Cognitive Development: Students will organize and express their understanding of common properties and attributes of things.
11.3.4 Cognitive Development: Students will communicate their experiences, ideas and feelings by speaking.
11.3.5 Cognitive Development: Students will listen with understanding to directions, conversations and stories.
11.3.6 Cognitive Development: Students will exhibit interest in reading.
11.3.7 Cognitive Development: Students will use different forms of writing such as drawing, letter-like forms, invented spelling and conventional.
11.4 PRESCHOOL 11.4.1 Creative Expression/Aesthetic Development: Students will exhibit curiosity about and explore how materials function and affect the senses.
11.4.2 Creative Expression/Aesthetic Development: Students will create (imagine, experiment, plan, make, evaluate, refine and present/exhibit) works that express or represent experiences, ideas, feelings and fantasy using various media.
11.4.3 Creative Expression/Aesthetic Development: Students will represent fantasy and real-life experiences through pretend play.
11.4.4 Creative Expression/Aesthetic Development: Students will engage in a musical and create movement activities.
11.4.5 Creative Expression/Aesthetic Development: Students will describe or respond to their own creative work or the creative work of others.
23.1 LANGUAGE ARTS '04 - READING AND RESPONDING 23.1.1 Students will use appropriate strategies before, during and after reading in order to construct meaning.
23.1.2 Students will describe, interpret, reflect on analyze, and evaluate text in order to extend understanding and enjoyment.
23.1.3 Students will select and apply strategies to facilitate word recognition and extend vocabulary development.
23.1.4 Students will communicate with others to create interpretations and evaluations of written, oral and visual texts.
23.2 LANGUAGE ARTS '04 - EXPLORING AND RESPONDING TO LITERATURE 23.2.1 Students will recognize how literary devices and conventions capture the reader.
23.2.2 Students will explore multiple responses to literature.
23.2.3 Students will recognize and appreciate that contemporary and classical literature have shaped human thought.
23.2.4 Students will recognize that readers and writers are influenced by individual, social, cultural and historical contexts.
23.2.5 Students will explore decisions and political and social issues through literature.
23.3 LANGUAGE ARTS '04 - COMMUNICATING WITH OTHERS 23.3.1 Students will use descriptive, narrative, expository, persuasive and poetic modes.
23.3.2 Students will prepare, publish and present work appropriate to audience, purpose and task.
23.3.3 Students will employ research skills.
23.4 LANGUAGE ARTS '04 - ENGLISH LANGUAGE CONVENTIONS 23.4.1 Students will conform to Standard English.
23.4.2 Students will speak and write using standard word patterns (syntax) and word choices (diction).
23.4.3 Students will use language appropriate to purpose, audience and task.
23.4.4 Students will use knowledge of their language and culture to improve competency in English.
27.1 SCIENCE '04 - SCIENTIFIC REASONING AND COMMUNICATIONS 27.1.1 Students will use scientific investigation to search out, describe and explain the natural world.
27.1.2 Students will demonstrate science literacy through speaking, listening, presenting, interpreting, reading and writing about science.
27.1.3 Students will recognize that mathematics provides useful tools for the description, analysis and presentation of scientific data and ideas
27.2 SCIENCE '04 - PHYSICAL SCIENCE 27.2.1 Properties of Matter: Students will ...
27.2.2 Energy: Students will ...
27.2.3 Energy & Matter: Students will ...
27.2.4 Interaction of Energy & Matter: Students will ...
27.3 SCIENCE '04 - LIFE SCIENCE 27.3.1 Evolution: Students will ...
27.3.2 Reproduction: Students will ...
27.3.3 Genetics: Students will ...
27.3.4 Interaction of Animals & Plants: Students will ...
27.4 SCIENCE '04 - EARTH SCIENCE 27.4.1 Astronomy: Students will ...
27.4.2 Geology: Students will ...
27.4.3 Meteorology: Students will ...
27.4.4 Oceanography: Students will ...
27.5 SCIENCE '04 - SCIENCE IN A PERSONAL AND SOCIAL CONTEXT 27.5.1 Staying Healthy: Students will describe what keeps our bodies healthy.
27.5.2 Earth Materials: Students will explain how we use the Earth's materials to improve our lives.
27.5.3 Ecosystems: Students will describe how human activities affect ecosystems.
27.5.4 Technology: Students will list ways in which technology helps us extend our senses.
27.5.5 Technological Solutions: Students will design technological solutions to solve problems.
27.5.6 Infectious Diseases: Students will explain the transmission of bacterial and viral diseases.
27.5.7 Space Exploration: Students will describe the information we gain from space explorations.
