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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.
• 2.a - Interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media.
• 2.b - Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats.
• 4.b - Plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a project.
• 4.d - Use multiple processes and diverse perspectives to explore alternative solutions.
• 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.
• CT.L2-14. Examine connections between elements of mathematics and computer science including binary numbers, logic, sets, and functions.
• CPP.L2-08. Demonstrate dispositions amenable to open-ended problem solving and programming.
• CT.L3A.03. Explain how sequence, selection, iteration, and recursion are building blocks of algorithms.

Next-Gen Science Standards

• 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.
• 4. Model with mathematics
• 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

• 3.OA.3 - Use multiplication and division within 100 to solve word problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities.
• 4.NBT.B.4 - Fluently add and subtract multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm.
• 5.NBT.B.5 - Fluently multiply multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm.

Common Core Language Arts Standards

• 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.
• L.4.6 - Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal precise actions, emotions, or states of being and that are basic to a particular topic.
• W.4.3 - Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
• W.4.6 - With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
• L.5.6 - Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal contrast, addition, and other logical relationships.
• W.5.3 - Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
• W.5.6 - With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others.