Student Achievement Toolkit 2007

Long-Term Plan Template

We have provided the following template to support you in creating standards-based long-term plans.

Big Ideas

Standards to be Assessed

(or other state performance indicator)

SCI.9.6.D: Recognize that scientific literacy is part of being a knowledgeable citizen. (View OSIC Code)

SCI.9.5.A: Participate in and apply the processes of scientific investigation to create models and to design, conduct, evaluate and communicate the results of these investigations.

SCI.9.6.A: Explain that scientific knowledge must be based on evidence, be predictive, logical, subject to modification and limited to the natural world. (View OSIC Code)

SCI.9.6.B: Explain how scientific inquiry is guided by knowledge, observations, ideas and questions. (View OSIC Code)

Remedial Standards

8.5.A: Explain that there are differing sets of procedures for guiding scientific investigations and procedures are determined by the nature of the investigation, safety considerations and appropriate tools.

8.5.B: Analyze and interpret data from scientific investigations using appropriate mathematical skills in order to draw valid conclusions.

Enrichment Standards

9.5.C: Describe the ethical practices and guidelines in which science operates.

Evaluate the credibility and value of a scientific study.

Standards to be Assessed

(or other state performance indicator)

SCI.9.3.A: Describe that matter is made of minute particles called atoms and atoms are comprised of even smaller components. Explain the structure and properties of atoms. (View OSIC Code)

SCI.9.3.B: Explain how atoms react with each other to form other substances and how molecules react with each other or other atoms to form even different substances.

SCI.9.3.C

Describe the identifiable physical properties of substances (e.g., color, hardness, conductivity, density, concentration and ductility). Explain how changes in these properties can occur without changingthe chemical nature of the substance.

Standard 4

Remedial Standards

7.3.A: Relate uses, properties and chemical processes to the behavior and/or arrangement of the small particles that compose matter.

Standard 2

Enrichment Standards

9.1.D: Describe the finite nature of Earth'sresources and those human activities that can conserve or deplete Earth's resources.

Standard 2

Standards to be Assessed

(or other state performance indicator)

SCI.9.3.E Demonstrate that energy can be considered to be either kinetic (motion) or potential (stored).

SCI.9.3.F Explain how energy may change form or be redistributed but the total quantity of energy is conserved.

SCI.9.3.G Demonstrate that waves (e.g., sound, seismic, water and light) have energy and waves can transfer energy when they interact with matter.

Standard 4

Remedial Standards

8.3.D: Describe that energy takes many forms, some forms represent kinetic energy and some

forms represent potential energy; and during energy transformations the total amount of energy remains constant.

Standard 2

Enrichment Standards

Describe thermal state of energy as calories.

Standard 2

Standards to be Assessed

(or other state performance indicator)

SCI.9.3.D.21 Forces and Motion: Demonstrate that motion is a measurable quantity that depends on the observer’s frame of reference and describe the object’s motion in terms of position, velocity, acceleration and time.

SCI.9.3.D.23 Forces and Motion: Explain the change in motion (acceleration) of an object. Demonstrate that the acceleration is proportional to the net force acting on the object and inversely proportional to the mass of the object. (Fnet = ma. Note that weight is the gravitational force on a mass.)

SCI.9.3.D.24 Forces and Motion: Demonstrate that whenever one object exerts a force on another, an equal amount of force is exerted back on the first object.

SCI.9.3.D.25 Forces and Motion: Demonstrate the ways in which frictional forces constrain the motion of objects (e.g., a car traveling around a curve, a block on an inclined plane, a person running, an airplane in flight).

Remedial Standards

8.3.B: In simple cases, describe the motion of objects and conceptually describe the effects of forces on an object.

Standard 2

Enrichment Standards

12.3.D: Apply principles of force and motion to mathematically analyze, describe and predict the net effect on objects or systems.—make narrower when you see sub-standards

Standard 2

Standards to be Assessed

(or other state performance indicator)

Explain theories of the history of the universe.

Explain what galaxies are and how they are formed.

Explain how stars are formed.

Standard 4

Remedial Standards

8.1.A: Describe how the positions and motions of the objects in the universe cause predictable and cyclic events.

8.1.B: Explain that the universe is composed of vast amounts of matter, most of which is at

incomprehensible distances and held together by gravitational force. Describe how the universe is studied by the use of equipment such as telescopes, probes, satellites and spacecraft.

Enrichment Standards

9.1.A: Explain how evidence from stars and other celestial objects provide information about the processes that cause changes in the composition and scale of the physical universe.

Standard 2

Standards to be Assessed

(or other state performance indicator)

SCI.9.4.A Explain the ways in which the processes of technological design respond to the needs of society.

SCI.9.4.B Explain that science and technology are interdependent; each drives the other.

Standard 3

Standard 4

Remedial Standards

8.4.A Give examples of how technological advances, influenced by scientific knowledge, affect the quality of life.

8.4.B: Design a solution or product taking into account needs and constraints (e.g., cost, time, trade-offs, properties of materials, safety and aesthetics).

Enrichment Standards

Evaluate the benefits and risks value of a technological action.

Standard 2