New Jersey Core Curriculum Standards for Mathematics
Standard 7 — Geometry and Spatial Sense — Grades 9-12
20. Understand and apply properties involving angles, parallel lines, and perpendicular lines.
- Working together, students review geometric vocabulary by sorting words written on index cards into groups and explaining their reasons for creating the groups they did. For example, they might place “parallelogram,” “rhombus,” “square,” and “rectangle” in one group (since they are all parallelograms) and place “kite” and “trapezoid” in another group (since they are not parallelograms).
24. Solve real-world and mathematical problems using geometric models.
- Students visit a construction site where the “framing” step of a building process is taking place. They note where congruence occurs (such as in the beams of the roof, where angles must be congruent). They write about why congruence is essential to buildings and other structures.
New Jersey Core Curriculum Standards for Computer Literacy.
STANDARD 8.1 (COMPUTER AND INFORMATION LITERACY ) ALL STUDENTS WILL USE COMPUTER APPLICATIONS TO GATHER AND ORGANIZE INFORMATION AND TO SOLVE PROBLEMS.
Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 8, students will:
A. Basic Computer Skills and Tools.
3. Demonstrate effective input of text and data, using touch keyboarding with proper technique
B. Application of Productivity Tools
Information Access and Research
6. Choose appropriate tools and information resources to support research and solve real world problems, including but not limited to:
§ On-line resources and databases
§ Search engines and subject directories
Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 12, students will:
Problem-Solving and Decision Making
12. Integrate new information into an existing knowledge base and communicate the results in a project or presentation.
New Jersey Core Curriculum Standards for Social Studies.
6.1: ALL STUDENTS WILL UTILIZE HISTORICAL THINKING, PROBLEM SOLVING, AND RESEARCH SKILLS TO MAXIMIZE THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF CIVICS, HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, AND ECONOMICS.
Building upon the knowledge and skills gained in the previous grades, by the end of Grade 12 students will:
A. Social Studies Skills
1. Analyze how historical events shape the modern world.
STANDARD 3.2 (WRITING) ALL STUDENTS WILL WRITE IN CLEAR, CONCISE, ORGANIZED LANGUAGE THAT VARIES IN CONTENT AND FORM FOR DIFFERENT AUDIENCES AND PURPOSES.
Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 12, students will:
A. Writing as a Process (prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, postwriting)
4. Review and edit work for spelling, usage, clarity, and fluency.
5. Use the computer and word-processing software to compose, revise, edit, and publish a piece.
B. Writing as a Product (resulting in a formal product or publication)
4. Write multi-paragraph, complex pieces across the curriculum using a variety of strategies to develop a central idea (e.g., cause-effect, problem/solution, hypothesis/results, rhetorical questions, parallelism).