| AAAS Benchmark Standards |  Activities | NSES Standards | Activities | NCTM Standards | Activities |
| Grades 9-12 | Module Alignment | Grades 9-12 | Module Alignment | Grades 9-12 | Module Alignment |
| 1. Nature of Science |
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A. Science as Inquiry |
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Numbers & Operations |
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The Scientific worldview |     | Ability to do scientific inquiry | | Understanding number relations | |
Scientific inquiry | | Understanding scientific inquiry | | Understand meanings of operations | |
The Scientific enterprise | | B. Physical Science | | Compute fluently and estimate | |
| 2. Nature of Mathematics |
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Structure of atoms | | Algebra |
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Patterns and relationships | | Structure and properties of matter | | Understand patterns, relations and functions | |
Mathematics, science, and technology | | Chemical reactions | | Analyze math situations using algebraic symbols | |
Mathematical Inquiry | | Motions and forces | | Use mathematical models to understand quantitative relationships | |
| 3. Nature of Technology | | Conservation of energy and increase in disorder | | Analyze change in various contexts | |
Technology and science | | Interactions of energy and matter | | Geometry |
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Design and systems | | C. Life Sciences | | Analyze characteristics and properties of two- and three-dimensional geometric shapes
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Issues in technology | | The cell | | Specify locations and describe spatial relationships using coordinate geometry
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| 4. The Physical Setting | | E. Science and Technology | | Apply transformations and use symmetry | |
Structure of matter | | Ability of technological design | | Use visualization, spatial reasoning, and geometric modeling
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Energy transformations | | Understanding science and technology | | Measurement | |
Motion | | | | Apply appropriate techniques, tools, and formulas to determine measurements. | |
Force of nature | | | | Analysis and Probability | |
| 8. The Designed World | | | | Formulate questions that can be addressed with data and collect and display relevant data to answer them | |
Materials and manufacturing | | | | Select and use appropriate statistical methods to analyze data | |
| 9. The Mathematical World | | | | Problem Solving | |
Numbers | | | | Process standard I | |
Symbolic relationships | | | | Communication | |
Shapes | | | | Process standard III | |
Uncertainty | | | | Connection | |
| 11. Common Themes | | | | Process standard IV | |
Systems | | | | Representation | |
Models | | | | Process standard V | |
Constancy and change | | | | | |
Scale | | | | | |
