Project 2061 Standards Categorized by Process, Knowledge, Attitude, and Perspective
PROCESS and INQUIRY KNOWLEDGE Or INQUIRY and PROCESS SKILLS - the system of actions and procedures that are used to create knowledge in the subject or discipline.
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Common Themes: systems, models, constancy, scale Nature of science: world view, inquiry skill, science enterprise |
CONTENT KNOWLDEGE
- the ideas (facts, concepts, generalizations, principles, theories, and
or laws) that are created by doing the subject. |
Physical Universe: universe, Earth, processes shape earth, structure of matter, energy transformations, motion, forces of nature Living: diversity of life, heredity, cells, interdependency of life, flow of matter and energy, evolution of life, Human organism: human identity, human development, basic functions, learning, physical health, mental health |
PERSPECTIVE
- the relationship of the different dimensions of a
subject or discipline to its other dimensions and to its whole as well as
the subject's or discipline's relative significance for explaining and understanding
the world. |
Nature of science: technology and science, design and systems, issues of technology Human organism: human identity, human development, basic functions, learning, physical health, mental health Historical perspective |
ATTITUDE - The diposition and values that people have that increase their likelihood of success in the subject or discipline. |
Habits of mind: values and attitude |