Chart for Unpacking the Components of Standards

Chart for Unpacking the Components of Standards

1
Standards / 2
Skills Included in Standard / 3
Concepts Included
in Standard / 4
Through a Particular Context / 5
Cognitive Demand/
Levels of Thinking / 6
Sample Activity /
List the standards here — one per row. / Indicate here what skills are expected. Skills are what learners are expected to do to demonstrate mastery of the concepts and content. They are represented by the verbs in the standard.
If multiple skills are included, align the concepts with the skills to which they apply. This is unnecessary if the skills listed apply equally to all concepts. / Indicate here what concepts or content are included in the standard.
Concepts are the information or ideas that learners need to know. These generally are the nouns or noun phrases in the standard. / Indicate in which context students are required to use the standard’s skills and concepts (e.g., writing an essay, solving a problem). Not every standard will have a stated context. / Using the selected taxonomy, consider all the information in Columns 2–4 to determine the “level of thinking” or cognitive demand of the standard. / Add a teaching activity that encompasses the concepts and skills of this standard and is pitched at the right level of cognitive demand.

U.S. Department of Education. (2011). Standards in Action. Adult Education Content Standards Warehouse. Retrieved from http://www.adultedcontentstandards.ed.gov/standardsInAction.asp

Chart for Unpacking the Components of Standards

1
Standards / 2
Skills Included in Standard / 3
Concepts Included
in Standard / 4
Through a Particular Context / 5
Cognitive Demand/
Levels of Thinking / 6
Sample Activity /
G.3.5. Find the area of right triangles, other triangles, special quadrilaterals, and polygons by composing into rectangles or decomposing into triangles and other shapes; apply these techniques in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems. (6.G.1) / find
compose
decompose
apply / area
rectangles
triangles
problem solving / right triangles, other triangles, special quadrilaterals, and polygons
real world math problems / DOK 1
DOK 2
DOK 2
DOK 2 / Find how much contact paper will be needed to cover an octagonal shaped patio table.

U.S. Department of Education. (2011). Standards in Action. Adult Education Content Standards Warehouse. Retreived from http://www.adultedcontentstandards.ed.gov/standardsInAction.asp

Chart for Unpacking the Components of Standards

1
Standards / 2
Skills Included in Standard / 3
Concepts Included
in Standard / 4
Through a Particular Context / 5
Cognitive Demand/
Levels of Thinking / 6
Sample Activity /
G.4.3. Use facts about supplementary, complementary, vertical, and adjacent angles in a multi-step problem to write and solve simple equations for an unknown angle in a figure. (7.G.5)

U.S. Department of Education. (2011). Standards in Action. Adult Education Content Standards Warehouse. Retreived from http://www.adultedcontentstandards.ed.gov/standardsInAction.asp

Chart for Unpacking the Components of Standards

1
Standards / 2
Skills Included in Standard / 3
Concepts Included
in Standard / 4
Through a Particular Context / 5
Cognitive Demand/
Levels of Thinking / 6
Sample Activity /
G.4.2. Know the formulas for the area and circumference of a circle and use them to solve problems; give an informal derivation of the relationship between the circumference and area of a circle. (7.G.4)

U.S. Department of Education. (2011). Standards in Action. Adult Education Content Standards Warehouse. Retreived from http://www.adultedcontentstandards.ed.gov/standardsInAction.asp

Chart for Unpacking the Components of Standards

1
Standards / 2
Skills Included in Standard / 3
Concepts Included
in Standard / 4
Through a Particular Context / 5
Cognitive Demand/
Levels of Thinking / 6
Sample Activity /
G.4.4. Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, volume and surface area of two- and three-dimensional objects composed of triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons, cubes, and right prisms. (7.G.6)

U.S. Department of Education. (2011). Standards in Action. Adult Education Content Standards Warehouse. Retreived from http://www.adultedcontentstandards.ed.gov/standardsInAction.asp

Chart for Unpacking the Components of Standards

1
Standards / 2
Skills Included in Standard / 3
Concepts Included
in Standard / 4
Through a Particular Context / 5
Cognitive Demand/
Levels of Thinking / 6
Sample Activity /

U.S. Department of Education. (2011). Standards in Action. Adult Education Content Standards Warehouse. Retreived from http://www.adultedcontentstandards.ed.gov/standardsInAction.asp

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