Extreme Challenge - Comprehensive

Connections and Background Information

PARCC / Smarter Balanced Assessment Skills

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ISTE Standards (formerly NETS)

• 1a. Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes
• 1c. Use models and simulation to explore complex systems and issues
• 4b. Plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a project
• 6a. Understand and use technology systems
• 6c. Troubleshoot systems and applications
• 6d. 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
• CL.L1:3-02 Work cooperatively and collaboratively with peers teachers, and others using technology
• CT.L1:6-01 Understand and use the basic steps in algorithmic problem-solving
• 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.L2-12 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
• CT.L3A-03 Explain how sequence, selection, iteration, and recursion are building blocks of algorithms
• 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

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
• 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.MD.C.6 Measure areas by counting unit squares (square cm, square m, square in, square ft, and improvised units)
• 4.NBT.B.4 Fluently add and subtract 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
• 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
• 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