Parameters for Essential Instruction

(All Content Areas)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PERFORMANCE INDICATOR

A. Unifying Themes
1. Systems
2. Models
3. Constancy and Change
4. Scale

B. The Skills and Traits of Scientific Inquiry and Technological Design
1. Skills and Traits of Scientific Inquiry
2. Skills and Traits of Technological Design

C. The Scientific and Technological Enterprise
1. Understandings of Inquiry
2. Understandings about Science and Technology
3. Science, Technology, and Society
4. History and Nature of Science

D. The Physical Setting
1. Universe and Solar System
2. Earth
3. Matter and Energy
4. Force and Motion

E. The Living Environment
1. Biodiversity
2. Ecosystems
3. Cells
4. Heredity and Reproduction
5. Evolution