The benchmark(s) of focus is the primary focus for student learning and instruction to be taught or reinforced and provides an intentional opportunity for students to work with that concept or skill.
SC.3.P.10.2
Recognize that energy has the ability to cause motion or create change.
Supporting benchmarks either make a connection or may help students achieve the focus benchmark(s) and increase students’ opportunities to make connections within the subject or to other subjects. The information included in this section is not a comprehensive list, and educators are encouraged to find other supporting benchmarks.
SC.3.N.3.2
Recognize that scientists use models to help understand and explain how things work.
SC.3.P.10.3
Demonstrate that light travels in a straight line until it strikes an object or travels from one medium to ano...
SC.3.P.10.4
Demonstrate that light can be reflected, refracted, and absorbed.
MA.3.DP.1.1
Collect and represent numerical and categorical data with whole-number values using tables, scaled pictographs...
Clarifications:
Clarification 1: Within this benchmark, the expectation is to complete a representation or construct a representation from a data set.
Clarification 2: Instruction includes the connection between multiplication and the number of data points represented by a bar in scaled bar graph or a scaled column in a pictograph.
Clarification 3: Data displays are represented both horizontally and vertically.
MA.3.GR.1.2
Identify and draw quadrilaterals based on their defining attributes. Quadrilaterals include parallelograms, rh...
Clarifications:
Clarification 1: Instruction includes a variety of quadrilaterals and a variety of non-examples that lack one or more defining attributes when identifying quadrilaterals.
Clarification 2: Quadrilaterals will be filled, outlined or both when identifying.
Clarification 3: Drawing representations must be reasonably accurate.
ELA.3.R.2.2
Identify the central idea and explain how relevant details support that idea in a text.
ELA.K12.EE.1.1
Cite evidence to explain and justify reasoning.
Clarifications:
K-1 Students include textual evidence in their oral communication with guidance and support from adults. The evidence can consist of details from the text without naming the text. During 1st grade, students learn how to incorporate the evidence in their writing.2-3 Students include relevant textual evidence in their written and oral communication. Students should name the text when they refer to it. In 3rd grade, students should use a combination of direct and indirect citations.
4-5 Students continue with previous skills and reference comments made by speakers and peers. Students cite texts that they’ve directly quoted, paraphrased, or used for information. When writing, students will use the form of citation dictated by the instructor or the style guide referenced by the instructor.
6-8 Students continue with previous skills and use a style guide to create a proper citation.
9-12 Students continue with previous skills and should be aware of existing style guides and the ways in which they differ.