Biology

**Draft Essential Standards for Biology ** The icon above is linked to the new draft standards. You may download and print the document or right click and open it in a new window.

Please review the standards using the criteria below. For each criteria, discuss the standards with your group (if possible) and make your comments in the comment section. To enter a comment you must first click on "Edit" in the upper right of the screen. **//(If your comment pertains to a particular standard or clarifying objective, please indicate the appropriate number of the standard or objective in your comment.) //**  Please indicate your name or group in your comment in case clarification is needed. When you have finished making comments click on "Save."

If you have questions about using the wiki please contact Paul OBriant at pobriant@currituck.k12.nc.us. Thanks. Please review the standards using the six criteria below. However, please do not allow these criteria to limit your thinking or discussion. This template provides a section where groups can include other comments or feedback.  Enduring The Essential Standards equip students for future academic success by preparing them with the knowledge and skills to compete and collaborate in a global society (21st Century Skills). ||  **Components to Consider:** ||  · Connect to 21st Century skills. · Contain skills and knowledge important for today and applicable in the future. · Require the students to use factual, conceptual, procedural and metacognitive knowledge. · Incorporate learning at multiple levels of the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy including those that require higher-order thinking skills, such as ‘apply' and ‘create'. ||
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Measurable The Essential Standards can be measured through formative, benchmark, or summative assessments. ||  **Components to Consider:** || <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> · Use verbs that clearly indicate the level of learning expected of the student. · Can be assessed. ||
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Clear and Concise The Essential Standards clearly communicate what students are expected to know, understand, and be able to do || <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> **Components to Consider:** || <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> · Are clearly stated. · Employ clarifying objectives to assist in "unpacking" the content. · Use verbs that clearly indicate the level of learning expected of the student. ||
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Prioritized and Focused The Essential Standards provide an in-depth study of content through a narrowed focus. || <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> **Components to Consider:** || <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> · Differentiate the content by grade level. · Use clarifying objectives to assist in 'unpacking' the content. · Employ verbs that clearly indicate the level of learning expected of the student. · Can be assessed with formative, benchmark, and summative assessments. · Represent a scope that is appropriately ambitious for the time available. ||
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Rigorous The Essential Standards provide ambitious expectations of learning for all students as evidenced by differentiation of content from grade-to-grade. || <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> **Components to Consider:** || <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> · Differentiate the content by grade level. Use clarifying objectives that require higher levels of learning as the student progresses through the grade continuum. · Challenge student learning at multiple levels of the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy, including those that require higher order thinking skills, such as ‘apply' and ‘create'. ||
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Relevant to the Real World The Essential Standards are applicable to real world contexts and lend themselves to integration across content areas. || <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> **Components to Consider:** || <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> · Allow for natural integration of knowledge and skills throughout multiple content areas. · Will be meaningful and important in the future. · Assessment prototypes measure Essential Standard in a way that allows for application to new and novel situations. ||
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