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PARCC / Smarter Balanced Assessment Skills

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ISTE Standards (formerly NETS)

• 1.a - Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.
• 1.b - Create original works as a means of personal or group expression.
• 1.c - Use models and simulation to explore complex systems and issues.
• 4.b - Plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a project.
• 6.a - Understand and use technology systems.
• 6.c - Troubleshoot systems and applications.
• 6.d - Transfer current knowledge to learning of new technologies.
  

CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards

• CT.L1:3-01. Use technology resources (e.g., puzzles, logical thinking programs) to solve age appropriate problems.
• CT.L1:3-02. Use writing tools, digital cameras and drawing tools to illustrate thoughts, ideas, and stories in a step by step manner.
• CL.L1:3-02. Work cooperatively and collaboratively with peers teachers, and others using technology.
• CL.L1:6-01. Use productivity technology tools for individual and collaborative writing, communication, and publishing activities.
• CPP.L1:3-03. Create developmentally appropriate multimedia products with support from teachers, family, or student partners.
• CPP.L1:6-03. Use technology tools for individual and collaborative writing, communication and publishing activities.
• CPP.L1:6-05. Construct a program as a set of step-by-step instructions to be acted out.
• CPP.L1:6-06. Implement problem solutions using a block-based visual programming language.
• CT.L2-01. Use the basic steps in algorithmic problem solving to design solutions.
• CT.L2-06. Describe and analyze a sequence of instructions being followed.
• CT.L2-07. Represent data in a variety of ways: text, sounds, pictures, numbers.
• CT.L2-08. Use visual representations of problem states, structures, and data.
• CT.L2-12. Use abstraction to decompose a problem into sub problems.

Next-Gen Science Standards

• K-2-PS3-2. Use tools and materials provided to design and build a device that solves a specific problem or a solution to a specific problem.
• K-2-ETS1-1. Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool.
• 3-5-ETS1-2. Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

Common Core Mathematical Practices

• 1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
• 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
• 5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
• 6. Attend to precision.
• 7. Look for and make use of structure.
• 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Common Core Math Standards

• 1.OA.A.1 - Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
• 2.OA.A.1 - Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one- and two-step word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
• 2.MD.5 - Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve word problems involving lengths that are given in the same units, e.g., by using drawings (such as drawings of rulers) and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

Common Core Language Arts Standards

• SL.1.1 - Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
• SL.1.5 - Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
• L.1.6 - Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using frequently occurring conjunctions to signal simple relationships.
• SL.2.1 - Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
• SL.2.5 - Create audio recordings of stories or poems; add drawings or other visual displays to stories or recounts of experiences when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
• L.2.6 - Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using adjectives and adverbs to describe (e.g., When other kids are happy that makes me happy).
• W.2.6 - With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.
• SL.3.1 - Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
• L.3.6 - Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships.
• W.3.3 - Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
• W.3.6 - With guidance and support from adults, use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others.