National Association with 38 other states

APPLIES TO LANGUAGE ARTS AND MATH ONLY!

NEW BASIS FOR

LEARNING INN. CAROLINA

2012-13

Developed by N.C personnel

Has connections to National Standards

Applies to all subjects other than Math and Language Arts

• North Carolina Science Essential Standards were adopted in February, 2010

• Will be implemented and assessed during the 2012-2013 school year.

• Structured as ESSENTIAL STANDARD with CLARIFYING OBJECTIVES.

• Differ from the 2004 SCOS which are structured as “Goals and Objectives”

• The strands for the essential standards were chosen from the NSTA Science Anchors

“A Vision for Clear, Coherent, and Manageable Science Standards”

• Provides the framework used for all NC Essential standards.

• Common language used for ALL curriculum areas

• Two-Dimensional Taxonomy: Cognitive Process and Knowledge Dimension.

CHANGE FROM VERBS TO NOUNS

• Science exams in North Carolina will continue to be developed by North Carolina DPI personnel and North Carolina educators.

• Science testing will remain the same.– Science 5 EOG– Science 8 EOG– HS Biology EOC

• One new component is the science literacy aspect. Below are the tenets of science literacy:

Familiarity with the natural world and respect for its unity Awareness of important ways in which mathematics, technology,

and the sciences depend upon one another Key concepts and principles of science Capacity for scientific ways of thinking Knowing that science, mathematics, and technology are human

enterprises and what that implies about their strengths and limitations

Ability to use scientific knowledge and ways of thinking for personal and social purposes

Ability to understand, process, and apply key vocabulary!

SCIENCE LITERACY WILL BE ASSESSED THROUGH THE READING EOG!!!!!!!!!

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• With the new Essential Standards concepts and themes are present throughout K-12. Everyone teaches on expanded concepts.

• Some of the themes. There is a total of 11 strands.– Forces and Motion– Structures and Functions of Living Organisms– Earth in the Universe– Ecosystems

• Inside your envelopes are K-12 standards for FLOW OF MATTER. A central theme taught with the National Standards.

• Collectively at your tables, arrange the concepts by the correct grade level. Place them on the K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12 concept chart.

• Draw a line showing the first skill in each subset and then connect those skills to the first skill for the next subset. Continue until you reach the highest skill.

• We will go over the answers together as a group.

K.L.1.2

Compare characteristics of living and nonliving things in terms of their: structure, growth, changes, movement, basic needs

1.L.1.1

Recognize that plants and animals need air, water, light, space, food and shelter and that these may be found in their environment.

1.L.2.2

Summarize the basic needs of a variety of different animals for energy and growth

4.L.2.2

Explain the role of vitamins, minerals and exercise in maintaining a healthy body

5.L.2.2

Classify the organisms within an ecosystem according to the function they serve: producers, consumers, or decomposers (biotic factors)

5.L.1.2

Compare the major systems of the human body as it relates to their function necessary for life.

4.L.2.1

Classify substances as food or non-food items based on their ability to provide energy and materials for survival, growth, and repair of body

6.L.1.2

Explain the significance of the process of photosynthesis, respiration, and transpiration to the survival of green plants and other organisms

7.L.2.3

Summarize the general functions of the major systems of the human body and ways that these systems interact with each other to sustain life

6.L.2.1

Summarize how energy derived from the sun is used by plants to produce sugars and is transferred within food chains and food webs from producers to consumers to decomposers

8.L.5.1

Summarize how food provides the energy and the molecules required for building materials, growth and survival of all organisms

8.L.3.3

Explain how the flow of energy within food webs is interconnected with the cycling of matter

8.L.5.2

Explain the relationship among a healthy diet, exercise, and the general health of the body

BIO.4.2.1

Analyze photosynthesis and cellular respiration in terms of how energy is stored, released, and transferred within and between these processes in the cell

BIO.2.2.1

Infer how human activities may impact the environment

BIO.2.1.1

Analyze the flow of energy and cycling of matter, such as water, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen, through ecosystems relating to the significance of each to maintaining the health and sustainability of an ecosystems

BIO.4.1.1

Compare the structures and functions of the major biological molecules as related to the survival of living organisms