(Aesthetics) All students will use aesthetic
knowledge in the creation of and in response
to dance, music, theater, and visual art.
Standard 1.2
(Creation and Performance) All students
will utilize those skills, media, methods,
and technologies appropriate to each art
form in the creation, performance, and
presentation of dance, music, theater,
and visual art.
Standard 1.3
(Elements and Principles) All students
will demonstrate an understanding of the
elements and principles of dance, music,
theater, and visual art.
Standard 1.4
(Critique) All students will develop, apply
and reflect upon knowledge of the process
of critique.
Standard 1.5
(History/Culture) All students will understand
and analyze the role, development, and
continuing influence of the arts in relation
to world cultures, history, and society.
Comprehensive
Health and Physical Education Standards
Standard 2.1
(Wellness) All students will learn and
apply health promotion concepts and skills
to support a healthy, active lifestyle.
Standard 2.2
(Integrated Skills) All students will use
health-enhancing personal, interpersonal,
and life skills to support a healthy, active
lifestyle.
Standard 2.3
(Drugs and Medicines) All students will
learn and apply information about alcohol,
tobacco, other drugs and medicines to make
decisions that support a healthy, active
lifestyle.
Standard 2.4
(Human
Relationships and Sexuality) All
students will learn the physical, emotional,
and social aspects of human relationships
and sexuality and apply these concepts
to support a healthy, active lifestyle.
Standard 2.5
(Motor Skill Development) All students
will utilize safe, efficient, and effective
movement to develop and maintain a healthy,
active lifestyle.
Standard 2.6
(Fitness) All students will apply health-related
and skill-related fitness concepts and
skills to develop and maintain a healthy,
active lifestyle.
Language
Arts Literacy Standards
Standard 3.1
(Reading)
All students will understand and
apply the knowledge of sounds, letters,
and words in written English to become
independent and fluent readers, and
will read a variety of materials
and texts with fluency and comprehension.
Standard 3.2
(Writing)
All students will write in clear, concise,
organized language that varies in content
and form for different audiences and
purposes.
Standard 3.3
(Speaking)
All students will speak in clear, concise,
organized language that varies in content
and form for different audiences and
purposes.
Standard 3.4
(Listening)
All students will listen actively to
information from a variety of sources
in a variety of situations.
Standard 3.5
(Viewing
and Media Literacy) All students will
access, view, evaluate, and respond
to print, nonprint, and electronic
texts and resources.
Mathematics
Standards
Standard 4.1
(Number
and Numerical Operation) All students
will develop number sense and will
perform standard numerical operations
and estimations on all types of numbers
in a variety of ways.
Standard 4.2
(Geometry
and Measurement) All students will develop
spatial sense and the ability to use
geometric properties, relationships,
and measurement to model, describe and
analyze phenomena.
Standard 4.3
(Patterns
and Algebra) All students will represent
and analyze relationships among variable
quantities and solve problems involving
patterns, functions, and algebraic concepts
and processes.
Standard 4.4
(Data
Analysis, Probability, and Discrete
Mathematics) All students will develop
an understanding of the concepts
and techniques of data analysis,
probability, and discrete mathematics,
and will use them to model situations,
solve problems, and analyze and draw
appropriate inferences from data.
Standard 4.5
(Mathematical
Processes) All students will
use mathematical processes of
problem solving, communication,
connections, reasoning, representations,
and technology to solve problems
and communicate mathematical
ideas.
Science
Standards
Standard 5.1
(Scientific
Processes) All students will develop
problem-solving, decision-making
and inquiry skills, reflected by
formulating usable questions and
hypotheses, planning experiments,
conducting systematic observations,
interpreting and analyzing data,
drawing conclusions, and communicating
results.
Standard 5.2
(Science
and Society) All students will develop
an understanding of how people of
various cultures have contributed
to the advancement of science and
technology, and how major discoveries
and events have advanced science
and technology.
Standard 5.3
(Mathematical
Applications) All students will integrate
mathematics as a tool for problem-solving
in science, and as a means of expressing
and/or modeling scientific theories.
Standard 5.4
(Nature
and Process of Technology) All students
will understand the interrelationships
between science and technology and
develop a conceptual understanding
of the nature and process of technology.
Standard 5.5
(Characteristics
of Life) All students will gain an
understanding of the structure, characteristics,
and basic needs of organisms and will
investigate the diversity of life.
Standard 5.6
(Chemistry)
All students will gain an understanding
of the structure and behavior of
matter.
Standard 5.7
(Physics)
All students will gain an understanding
of natural laws as they apply to
motion, forces, and energy transformations.
Standard 5.8
(Earth
Science) All students will gain an
understanding of the structure, dynamics,
and geophysical systems of the earth.
Standard 5.9
(Astronomy & Space
Science) All students will gain an
understanding of the origin, evolution,
and structure of the universe.
Standard 5.10
(Environmental
Studies) All students will develop
an understanding of the environment
as a system of interdependent components
affected by human activity and natural
phenomena.
Social
Studies Standards
Standard 6.1
(Social
Studies Skills) All students will utilize
historical thinking, problem solving,
and research skills to maximize their
understanding of strandss/social, history,
strandss/geography, and strandss/economics.
Standard 6.2
(Civics) All
students will know, understand and appreciate
the values and principles of american
democracy and the rights, responsibilities,
and roles of a citizen in the nation
and the strandss/world.
Standard 6.3
(World
History) All
students will demonstrate knowledge of
strandss/world history in order to understand
life and events in the past and how they
relate to the present and the future.
Standard 6.4
(US/New
Jersey History) All
students will demonstrate knowledge of
United strandss/states and New Jersey
history in order to understand life and
events in the past and how they relate
to the present and future.
Standard 6.5
(Economics) All
students will acquire an understanding
of key economic principles.
Standard 6.6
(Geography) All
students will apply knowledge of spatial
relationships and other geographic skills
to understand human behavior in relation
to the physical and cultural environment.
World
Languages Standards
Standard 7.1
(Communication)
All students will be able to communicate
in at least one world language in addition
to english. they will use language to
engage in conversation, understand and
interpret spoken and written language,
present information, concepts, and ideas
while making connections with other disciplines,
and compare the language/culture studied
with their own.
