Alignment to MN Academic Standards

Art
Aligns with the five areas of art outlined in Minn. Stat. 120B.021 and supports the definitions used to review curriculum in Minn. Stat. 120B.11, especially experiential learning, antiracism, and cultural sustainment. 

Math
Aligns with all three Strands and several Anchor Standards as outlined in the 2022 Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards in Mathematics, especially 1. Data Sciences: Identify, formulate and investigate statistical questions by collecting data considering cultural perspectives, analyzing and interpreting data and communicating the results & 7. Patterns and Relationships: Represent and connect mathematical patterns and relationships using verbal descriptions, generalizations, tables and graphs. Use representations to generate questions, make predictions and solve mathematical problems. 

Science
Aligns with several strands and substrands as outlined in the 2019 Minnesota Academic Standards in Science, especially Strand 2, Substrand 1, Standard 1: Students will be able to represent observations and data in order to recognize patterns in the data, the meaning of those patterns, and possible relationships between variables & Strand 2, Substrand 2, Standard 1: Students will be able to use mathematics to represent physical variables and their relationships, compare mathematical expressions to the real world, and engage in computational thinking as they use or develop algorithms to describe the natural or designed worlds.

Social Studies
Aligns with many Anchor Standards as outlined in the 2021 Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards in Social Studies, including Culture: Investigate how sense of place is impacted by different cultural perspectives & Historical Perspectives: Identify diverse points of view, and describe how one’s frame of reference influences historical perspective.

Social Studies
Aligns with many grade-specific Benchmarks as outlined in the 2021 Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards in Social Studies, including:

• 6th Grade: Explain how people living in a community are impacted by government policies regarding land use. Investigate how communities are impacted when consumers have or do not have opportunities to work, shop, eat and connect with one another locally, helping the community build assets & Explain why companies might move production to other states or countries.
• 7th Grade: Explain how profit can be an incentive for entrepreneurs to develop medical breakthroughs, new technology, green energy and other benefits to society, but the profit motive can also lead to negative outcomes including resource exploitation and unfair labor practices & Describe how physical and human characteristics and power structures influence the function of places over time.
• 8th grade: Participate in civil discourse on contemporary global issues in the world and evaluate arguments including identifying pros and cons & Explain how global trade helps people and countries obtain goods and services they could not produce (or produce affordably) for themselves.

Science
Aligns with several stands and substrands as outlined in the 2019 Minnesota Academic Standards in Science, especially Strand 3, Substrand 1, Standard 1: Students will be able to develop, revise, and use models to represent the students’ understanding of phenomena or systems as they develop questions, predictions and/or explanations, and communicate ideas to others & Strand 4, Substrand 2, Standard 1: Students will be able to read and interpret multiple sources to obtain information, evaluate the merit and validity of claims and design solutions, and communicate information, ideas, and evidence in a variety of formats.

Science
Aligns with several strands and substrands as outlined in the 2019 Minnesota Academic Standards in Science, especially Strand 1, Substrand 2, Standard 1: Students will be able to design and conduct investigations in the classroom, laboratory, and/or field to test students’ ideas and questions, and will organize and collect data to provide evidence to support claims the students make about phenomena & Strand 4, Substrand 1, Standard 2: Students will be able to argue from evidence to justify the best solution to a problem or to compare and evaluate competing designs, ideas, or methods.

Math
Aligns with all three Strands and several Anchor Standards as outlined in the 2022 Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards in Mathematics, especially 1. Data Sciences: Identify, formulate and investigate statistical questions by collecting data considering cultural perspectives, analyzing and interpreting data and communicating the results & 5. Number Relationships: Describe, Interpret and use quantities, relationships between quantities, representations of quantities, and number systems. Describe operations and the relationship between operations. Use strategies and procedures accurately, efficiently and flexibly. Assess the reasonableness of the results.