DRAFT SFUSD
K-12 SCIENCE STANDARDS
These Draft Standards have been placed on the District's Intranet internal Web site to facilitate participation by all SFUSD teachers in a discourse over how to fashion science standards which will foster high science achievement by all our students. Please remember that they are only a draft.
GUIDING PRINCIPLES
- The following threads run through the performance examples
and tasks:
- Inquiry-based learning
- Students, whenever possible, discover underlying principles
of scientific concepts through labs and activities.
- Constructivist thinking and teaching
- Beginning with students' background knowledge, teachers guide
students in the construction of their own conceptual understanding
of scientific principles.
- Careful, consistent and thoughtful lab practice
- Using a standard process, students will learn and demonstrate
the ability to hypothesize, design a controlled experiment, collect
data, analyze the results and relate findings to general scientific
principles.
- Multiple domains of expression
- Students are given the opportunity to express what they've
learned in a variety of ways whenever appropriate, according to
Gardner's seven intelligences: mathematical/logical, linguistic,
spatial, kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and musical.
- Appropriate use of technology
- When possible, a variety of technology (e.g. internet, computer
simulations, probes), has been included for discovery, measurement,
and a medium for communicating information.
Draft K-2 Science Standards
Draft Grades 3-5 Science Standards
Draft Grades 6-8 Science Standards
Draft Grades 9-10 Science Standards
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Revised 10/21/96
URL:http://www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/internal/standards/sci_stds.html