Students will identify and evaluate the relationships and ethical implications of science, upon technology, environment, and society.

Indicator 1: Analyze various implications./effects of scientific advancement within the environment and society.

Third Grade:

2. explore how new ideas and inventions affect people.
3. explore how science has improved transportation, health, sanitation, and communication.

Fourth Grade:

2. investigate how new ideas and inventions often affect people.
4. explain how inventions have changed people’s lives. (example: television, electric lights)

Fifth Grade:

2. describe the effect new ideas and inventions have on people.
3. investigate the improvements science has made in transportation, health, sanitation, and communication.

Students will read at increasing levels of complexity for a variety of purposes.

Indicator 3: Students will interpret and respond to a diversity of works representative of a variety of cultures and time periods.

Fifth Grade:

2. recognize that a work of literature reflects the author’s viewpoints, experiences, heritage, and/or beliefs.
3. recognize that literature can be used to better understand the culture of the time period.

Standard 3: Students will understand the relationship between visual arts and history, culture, and society.

Third and Fourth Grade:

1. describe how selected works of art have recorded and preserved history.

Fifth Grade:

1. investigate how the visual arts record, preserve and highlight history.

Standard 5: Students will understand music’s relationship to society, the other arts, disciplines outside the arts, history, and culture.

Indicator 1: Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

Third and Fourth Grade:

2. identify ways in which the content of other disciplines is interrelated with that of music.

Fifth Grade:

1. compare in two or more arts how the characteristic materials of each art can be used to transform similar events, scenes, emotions, or ideas into works of art.
2. describe ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in the school are interrelated with those of music.

Students will identify and evaluate the relationships and ethical implications of science, upon technology, environment, and society.

Indicator 1: Analyze various implications./effects of scientific advancement within the environment and society.

Sixth Grade:

5. determine scientific advancements that have had an impact on the environment.
6. determine the importance of public access to scientific discoveries.

Seventh Grade:

5. describe scientific advancements that have had an impact on the environment.
6. explain the importance of public access to scientific discoveries.

Eighth Grade:

5. analyze scientific advancements that have had an impact on the environment.
5. analyze the importance of public access to scientific discoveries

Students will read at increasing levels of complexity for a variety of purposes.

Indicator 3: Students will interpret and respond to a diversity of works representative of a variety of cultures and time periods.

Sixth Grade:

2. explain that literature can be used to better understand other time periods and events.

Seventh Grade:

2. describe connections between historical and cultural influences and literary selections.

Eighth Grade:

2. analyze how a work of literature is related to the context in which it was created, e.g., period, ideas, customs, outlooks of a people.

Standard 3: Students will understand the relationship between visual arts and history, culture, and society.

Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Grade:

1. investigate how the visual arts record, preserve and highlight history.

Standard 5: Students will understand music’s relationship to society, the other arts, disciplines outside the arts, history, and culture.

Indicator 1: Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Grade:

1. compare in two or more arts how the characteristic materials of each art can be used to transform similar events, scenes, emotions, or ideas into works of art.
1. describe ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in the school are interrelated with those of music.

Students will understand the emergence and development of civilizations and cultures over time and place.

Indicator 1: Analyze the chronology of various historical eras to determine connections and cause/effect relationships.

Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Grade:

2. analyze and explain the Great Depression with emphasis on causes and effects of changes in business cycles, weaknesses in key sectors of the economy in the late 1920s, United States government economic policies in the late 1920s, causes and effects of the Stock Marker Crash, impact of the Depression on the American people, impact of New Deal economic policies, and impact of the expanded role of government in the economy since the 1930s.

Students will understand the historical development and contemporary role of governmental power and authority.

Indicator 1: Analyze the various forms and purposes of government in relationship to the needs of individuals and societies.

Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Grade:

2. analyze the interrelationships and structures of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches with regard to the constitutional requirements and institutional procedures; the legislative process; judicial review; the hierarchy of the federal court system; the presidential powers including expressed and implied; executive departments, regulatory bureaucracies, and agencies; and the impact of bureaucracies and government agencies on the U.S. constitutional system.

Students will read at increasing levels of complexity for a variety of purposes.

Indicator 2: Students will evaluate patterns of organization, literary elements, and literary devices within various texts.

Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Grade:

2. assess the adequacy, accuracy, and appropriateness of details used to support an author’s claims and assertions, e.g., facts, illustrations, anecdotes, quotes.

Indicator 3: Students will interpret and respond to a diversity of works representative of a variety of cultures and time periods.

Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Grade:

2. examine literary selections from several critical and personal perspectives.
5. analyze how historical context influences the form, style, and point-of-view of a written work.

Standard 3: Students will understand the relationship between visual arts and history, culture, and society.

Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Grade:

1. analyze how the visual arts record, preserve, highlight and symbolize the history of humanity.
2. analyze the role of visual arts in reflecting and influencing the culture and societies in which they are created.

Standard 5: Students will understand music’s relationship to society, the other arts, disciplines outside the arts, history, and culture.

Indicator 1: Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Grade:

b. compare characteristics of two or more arts within a particular historical period or style and cite examples from various cultures.

c. explain ways in which the principles and subject matter of various disciplines outside the arts are interrelated with those of music.

Indicator 2: Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Grade:

2. identify sources of American music genres, trace the evolution of those genres, and cite well-known musicians associated with them.