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Maryland Voluntary State Curriculum Science           

Standard 1.0 Skills and Processes

Indicator

3. Examine and modify models and discuss their limitations.
Objectives
  1. Explain that a model is a simplified imitation of something and that a model's value lies in suggesting how the thing modeled works.
  2. Investigate and describe that seeing how a model works after changes are made to it may suggest how the real thing would work if the same were done to it.
  3. Explain that models, such as geometric figures, number sequences, graphs, diagrams, sketches, number lines, maps, and stories can be used to represent objects, events, and processes in the real world, although such representations can never be exact in every detail.
  4. Realize that one way to make sense of something is to think how it is like something more familiar.

Maryland Voluntary State Curriculum Math

Standard 1.0 Knowledge of Algebra, Patterns, and Functions

Indicator

2. Identify, describe, extend, and create non-numeric growing or repeating patterns
Objectives
  1. Represent and analyze growing patterns using symbols, shapes, designs, or pictures

Standard 2.0 Knowledge of Geometry

Indicator

1. Analyze the properties of solid geometric figures
Objective
  1. Identify and describe cubes, rectangular prisms, and triangular prisms

Maryland State Voluntary Curriculum Reading

Standard 2.0 Comprehension of Informational Text

Indicator

3. Develop knowledge of organizational structure of informational text to understand what is read
  1. Identify and use words and phrases associated with common organizational patterns
Library Media Outcomes OUTCOME 3

Learn and apply reading, research and critical thinking skills to organize, and synthesize information in order to communicate new understanding.

  • Integrate new information into one's own knowledge.
  • Apply information in critical thinking and problem solving.
  • Apply an information problem solving process model to structure effective research.
Technology Standards I. Information Access, Evaluation,
Processing and Application
Access, evaluate, process and apply information efficiently and effectively.

1. Identify, locate, retrieve and differentiate among a variety of electronic sources of information using technology.
2. Evaluate information critically and competently for a specific purpose.
3. Organize, categorize and store information for efficient retrieval.
4. Apply information accurately in order to solve a problem or answer a question.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last update: June, 2006
Created by Robert Bledsoe

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