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Content and Instructional Time

Content Instructional Time

Unit 1 Introductory Topics 1 week

Unit 2 Motion in One Dimension 3 weeks

Unit 3 Newton’s Laws 3 weeks

Unit 4 Motion in Two Dimensions 1 week

Unit 5 Work & Energy 2 weeks

Unit 6 Electrostatics 1 week

Unit 7 Electric Circuits 2 Weeks

Unit 8 Wave Motion 2 Weeks

Unit 9 Optics 2 Weeks

Total 16 weeks

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|Unit # - 1 – Introductory Topics (1 week) |

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|Standards |Student Learning Objectives |Content |Learning Activities and Instructional |

|Addressed |For this Unit |Skills and Knowledge |Strategies |

| | |Content Skills, Knowledge, and Performance | |

|NSES Standards: | | | |

|Physical Science |Students will understand how to make measurements with attention to significant|Apply the rules of significant figures in measuring. |Labs & Demonstrations |

|-Structure/Properties Matter |digits. |Solve mathematical problems using dimensional | |

|Science as Inquiry |Students will understand how to convert from one unit of measurement to |analysis. | |

|Science & Technology |another. |Represent numbers in scientific and standard | |

|History & Nature of Science |Students will understand how to express numbers in scientific notation. |notation. |Technology |

| |Students will understand how to perform a lab to determine the mathematical |Given a task, identify the independent and dependent |LoggerPro |

|PA STEE Standards: |relationship between two variables. |variable and design an appropriate lab procedure. |PhET (equation grapher) |

|3.1.10.C UT Models | |Describe the proportion represented by a graph. | |

|3.1.10.D Unifying Themes | |Calculate the slope of a graph. | |

|3.4.10.A Physical Science | |Obtain an equation from a graph of data. | |

|3.4.12.A Physical Science | |Identify the effect on the dependent variable caused | |

|3.1.10.B Unifying Themes | |by a change to the independent variable. | |

|3.1.12.B Unifying Themes | | | |

|3.1.12.C Unifying Themes | | | |

|3.2.10.A Inquiry & Design | | | |

|3.2.10.B Inquiry & Design | | | |

|3.2.10.C Inquiry & Design | | | |

|3.2.12.B Inquiry & Design | | | |

|3.2.12.C Inquiry & Design | | | |

|3.7.10.B Technological Dev. | | | |

|3.7.12.A Technological Dev. | | | |

|3.7.12.B Technological Dev. | | | |

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|1.2 Reading | | | |

|1.4 Writing | | | |

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|2.2 Comp/estimation | | | |

|2.3 Measurement/Estimation | | | |

|2.5 Problem Solving | | | |

|2.6 Data Analysis | | | |

|2.8 Algebra | | | |

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|Unit # - 2 – Motion in One Dimension (3 weeks) |

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|Standards |Student Learning Objectives |Content |Learning Activities and Instructional Strategies |

|Addressed |For this Unit |Skills and Knowledge | |

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|NSES Standards: |Understand the meaning of position, displacement, velocity, and |Solve word problems using the definitions of displacement,| |

|Physical Science |acceleration. |average velocity, and average acceleration. |Labs & Demonstrations |

|-Structure/Properties Matter |Understand and interpret graphs of position, velocity, and | |Constant velocity lab (toy buggys) |

|Science as Inquiry |acceleration vs. time. |Solve word problems (including free fall) using the |Constant acceleration lab |

|Science & Technology |Use the equations of constant acceleration to analyze motion. |equations for constant acceleration. (problems will not |Basketball lab |

|History & Nature of Science |Students will understand the motion of an object in free fall. |involve multiple stages, two objects, or require the use | |

| | |of the quadratic equation) |Technology |

|PA STEE Standards: | | |PhET simulations (moving man) |

|3.1.10.D Unifying Themes | |Given a description of motion, identify or sketch a graph |LoggerPro, motion detector |

|3.4.10.A Physical Science | |of position or velocity vs. time. | |

|3.4.10.B Physical Science | | | |

|3.4.12.A Physical Science | |Given a graph of position vs. time, calculate velocity and| |

|3.4.12.B Physical Science | |describe the motion of the object. | |

|3.1.10.B Unifying Themes | | | |

|3.1.12.B Unifying Themes | |Given a graph of velocity vs. time, calculate acceleration| |

|3.1.12.C Unifying Themes | |and describe the motion of the object. | |

|3.1.12.D Unifying Themes | | | |

|3.2.10.A Inquiry & Design | |Identify the velocity and acceleration of an object in | |

|3.2.10.B Inquiry & Design | |free fall in all segments of motion: going up, coming | |

|3.2.10.C Inquiry & Design | |down, and at the top. | |

|3.2.12.B Inquiry & Design | | | |

|3.2.12.C Inquiry & Design | | | |

|3.7.10.B Technological Dev. | | | |

|3.7.12.A Technological Dev. | | | |

|3.7.12.B Technological Dev. | | | |

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|1.2 Reading | | | |

|1.4 Writing | | | |

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|2.2 Comp/estimation | | | |

|2.3 Measurement/Estimation | | | |

|2.5 Problem Solving | | | |

|2.6 Data Analysis | | | |

|2.8 Algebra | | | |

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|Unit # - 3 – Newton’s Laws (3 weeks) |

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|Standards |Student Learning Objectives |Content |Learning Activities and Instructional |

|Addressed |For this Unit |Skills and Knowledge |Strategies |

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|NSES Standards: |Students will understand Newton’s three laws of motion. |Given the description of a situation, draw a free-body |Labs and Demonstrations |

|Physical Science |Students will differentiate between mass, weight, inertia, and |diagram that identifies all of the forces acting on the |Newton’s 2nd Law lab |

|-Structure/Properties Matter |momentum. |object and represents the relative magnitudes of the forces.|Newton’s 3rd Law investigation |

|Science as Inquiry |Students will understand the effects of friction on motion. | |Mass & weight lab |

|Science & Technology | |Given the description of a situation, identify whether the |Mass of unknown lab |

|History & Nature of Science | |forces acting on the objects are balanced or unbalanced. |Hovercraft |

| | |(Newton’s First Law of Motion) |Egg drop project |

|PA STEE Standards: | | |Friction lab |

|3.1.10.D Unifying Themes | |Recognize, both graphically and mathematically, the | |

|3.1.10.E Unifying Themes | |relationships between acceleration and net force and |Technology |

|3.4.10.A Physical Science | |acceleration and mass. |LoggerPro, motion detector, force sensor |

|3.4.10.B Physical Science | | |Freebody |

|3.4.12.B Physical Science | |Given an object’s weight or mass, calculate the other |PhET Simulations (forces in one dimension, |

|3.1.10.B Unifying Themes | |quantity. |lunar lander) |

|3.1.12.B Unifying Themes | | | |

|3.1.12.C Unifying Themes | |Calculate the momentum of an object. | |

|3.2.10.A Inquiry & Design | | | |

|3.2.10.B Inquiry & Design | |Given two of the following quantities, determine the third: | |

|3.2.10.C Inquiry & Design | |net force, mass, acceleration. | |

|3.2.12.B Inquiry & Design | | | |

|3.2.12.C Inquiry & Design | |Identify the two objects involved in any force interaction | |

|3.7.10.B Technological Dev. | |and recognize that the forces that they exert on one another| |

|3.7.12.A Technological Dev. | |are equal and opposite. (Newton’s Third Law) | |

|3.7.12.B Technological Dev. | | | |

| | |Recognize, both graphically and mathematically, the | |

|1.2 Reading | |relationship between friction and normal force. | |

|1.4 Writing | | | |

| | |Compare and contrast static and kinetic friction. | |

|2.2 Comp/estimation | | | |

|2.3 Measurement/Estimation | | | |

|2.5 Problem Solving | | | |

|2.6 Data Analysis | | | |

|2.8 Algebra | | | |

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|Unit # - 4 – Motion in Two Dimensions (1 week) |

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|Standards |Student Learning Objectives |Content |Learning Activities and Instructional Strategies |

|Addressed |For this Unit |Skills and Knowledge | |

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|NSES Standards: |Students will analyze the motion of a horizontally-launched |Identify the acceleration of a projectile in the |Labs and Demonstrations |

|Physical Science |projectile. |horizontal and vertical directions. | |

|-Structure/Properties Matter |Students will understand the dynamics of uniform circular motion. | |Horizontally-launched marble lab |

|Science as Inquiry | |Solve word problems involving horizontally-launched | |

|Science & Technology | |projectiles. (Problems will avoid the use of |Tennis ball launcher |

|History & Nature of Science | |trigonometry.) | |

| | | |Centripetal force apparatus (lab) |

|PA STEE Standards: | | | |

|3.1.10.C Unifying Themes | |Recognize, both graphically and mathematically, the |Marble & hoop demo |

|3.1.10.D Unifying Themes | |relationships among net centripetal force and speed, | |

|3.1.10.E Unifying Themes | |radius, and mass. |Water in bucket demo |

|3.4.10.A Physical Science | | | |

|3.4.12.A Physical Science | |Describe the direction of a particle’s velocity, |Coin on Hanger |

|3.1.10.B Unifying Themes | |acceleration, and net force at any instant during | |

|3.1.12.B Unifying Themes | |uniform circular motion. |Drop & Launch apparatus (demo) |

|3.1.12.C Unifying Themes | | | |

|3.2.10.A Inquiry & Design | | |Bowling ball & bat demo |

|3.2.10.B Inquiry & Design | | | |

|3.2.10.C Inquiry & Design | | |Ballistic Cart demo |

|3.2.12.A Inquiry & Design | | | |

|3.2.12.B Inquiry & Design | | |Monkey & Hunter demo |

|3.2.12.C Inquiry & Design | | | |

|3.7.10.B Technological Dev. | | |Technology |

|3.7.12.A Technological Dev. | | |Interactive Physics |

|3.7.12.B Technological Dev. | | |PhET simulations (projectile motion, motion in 2-D) |

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|1.2 Reading | | | |

|1.4 Writing | | | |

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|2.2 Comp/estimation | | | |

|2.3 Measurement/Estimation | | | |

|2.5 Problem Solving | | | |

|2.6 Data Analysis | | | |

|2.8 Algebra | | | |

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|Unit # - 5– Work & Energy (2 weeks) |

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|Standards |Student Learning Objectives |Content |Learning Activities and Instructional Strategies |

|Addressed |For this Unit |Skills and Knowledge | |

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|NSES Standards: |Students will understand the definitions of work and energy. |Identify whether the work done by a force is positive, | |

|Physical Science |Students will understand the relationship between net work and |negative, or zero. |Labs & Demonstrations |

|-Structure/Properties Matter |kinetic energy. | |Work vs. final speed lab. |

|Science as Inquiry |Students will understand the relationship between kinetic and | |Force & displacement lab. |

|Science & Technology |potential energy in the absence of nonconservative forces. |Calculate the work done by a specified constant force on |Swinging bowling ball demo |

|History & Nature of Science | |an object that undergoes a specified displacement. |Multiple ramp demo |

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|PA STEE Standards: | |Recognize, both graphically and mathematically, the |Technology |

|3.1.10.D Unifying Themes | |relationship between work done or kinetic energy and |PhET simulations (energy skate park) |

|3.4.10.A Physical Science | |speed. |LoggerPro, motion detector, force sensor |

|3.4.10.B Physical Science | | | |

|3.4.12.A Physical Science | |Calculate the change in kinetic energy or speed that | |

|3.4.12.B Physical Science | |results from performing a specified amount of work on an | |

|3.1.10.B Unifying Themes | |object. | |

|3.1.12.B Unifying Themes | | | |

|3.1.12.C Unifying Themes | |Calculate the work performed by the net force, or by each | |

|3.1.12.D Unifying Themes | |of the forces that make up the net force, on an object | |

|3.2.10.A Inquiry & Design | |that undergoes a specified change in speed or kinetic | |

|3.2.10.B Inquiry & Design | |energy. | |

|3.2.10.C Inquiry & Design | | | |

|3.2.12.B Inquiry & Design | |Apply the theorem to determine the change in an object’s | |

|3.2.12.C Inquiry & Design | |kinetic energy and speed that results from the application| |

|3.7.10.B Technological Dev. | |of specified forces, or to determine the force that is | |

|3.7.12.A Technological Dev. | |required in order to bring an object to rest in a | |

|3.7.12.B Technological Dev. | |specified distance. | |

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|1.2 Reading | |Calculate the gravitational potential energy of an object | |

|1.4 Writing | |in a uniform gravitational field. | |

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|2.2 Comp/estimation | |Solve word problems involving the Law of Conservation of | |

|2.3 Measurement/Estimation | |Energy (in the presence of conservative forces only). | |

|2.5 Problem Solving | | | |

|2.6 Data Analysis | | | |

|2.8 Algebra | | | |

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|Unit # - 6 – Electrostatics (1 week) |

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|Standards |Student Learning Objectives |Content |Learning Activities and Instructional Strategies |

|Addressed |for this Unit |Skills and Knowledge | |

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|NSES Standards: |Students will understand the concept of charge. |Content Skills, Knowledge, and Performance |Labs or Demonstrations: |

|Physical Science |Students will understand the factors affecting the behavior of | |Sticky tape lab. |

|-Structure/Properties Matter |charges |Identify the basic unit of charge and its relationship |van de Graaf generator |

|Science as Inquiry |Students will understand how objects obtain a charge. |to electrons and protons. |Wimshurst machine |

|Science & Technology |Students will understand how to represent electric fields in a |Use Q = ne to determine the number of electrons |Electroscopes |

|History & Nature of Science |diagram. |required to create a charge or vice versa. |Electrophorous |

| | |Use the conservation of charge to identify the charge | |

|PA STEE Standards: | |on objects in a simple interaction. |Readings: |

|3.1.10.D Unifying Themes | |Know how to charge an object by friction, conduction, | |

|3.4.10.Aphysical Science | |induction and polarization. | |

|3.4.12.A Physical Science | |Draw the field lines surrounding an arrangement of two |Technology Links |

|3.1.10.B Unifying Themes | |charges. | |

|3.1.12.B Unifying Themes | | |PhET simulations: (John Travoltage, Electric Field |

|3.1.12.C Unifying Themes | | |Hockey, Balloons & Static Electricity, Chrages & |

|3.2.10.A Inquiry & Design | | |Fields, Electric Field of Dreams) |

|3.2.10.B Inquiry & Design | | | |

|3.2.10.C Inquiry & Design | | | |

|3.2.12.B Inquiry & Design | | | |

|3.2.12.C Inquiry & Design | | | |

|3.7.10.B Technological Dev. | | | |

|3.7.12.A Technological Dev. | | | |

|3.7.12.B Technological Dev. | | | |

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|1.2 Reading | | | |

|1.4 Writing | | | |

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|2.2 Comp/estimation | | | |

|2.3 Measurement/Estimation | | | |

|2.5 Problem Solving | | | |

|2.6 Data Analysis | | | |

|2.8 Algebra | | | |

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|Unit # - 7 – Electric Circuits (2 weeks) |

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|Standards |Student Learning Objectives |Content |Learning Activities and Instructional Strategies |

|Addressed |for this Unit |Skills and Knowledge | |

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|NSES Standards: |Students will understand current, voltage, and resistance and |Content Skills, Knowledge, and Performance |Labs or Demonstrations: |

|Physical Science |their relationship (Ohm’s Law). | |Marble circuit analogy |

|-Structure/Properties Matter |Students will understand electric power. |Explain current, voltage, and resistance using a |Ohm’s Law lab |

|Science as Inquiry |Students will understand series and parallel circuits. |mechanical analogy. |Circuit-building labs |

|Science & Technology | |Use Ohm’s Law to perform calculation in simple circuits. |Mystery boards |

|History & Nature of Science | |Sketch schematic diagrams. | |

| | |Build simple circuits. |Readings: |

|PA STEE Standards: | |Measure current and voltage with a meter. | |

|3.1.10.D Unifying Themes | |Calculate the power and energy used by an electrical | |

|3.4.10.A Physical Science | |device. | |

|3.4.10.C Physical Science | |Calculate the equivalent resistance in simple series and |Technology Links |

|3.1.10.B Unifying Themes | |parallel circuits. | |

|3.1.12.B Unifying Themes | |Compare and contrast practical applications of series and |Phet Simulations (circuit construction kit, |

|3.1.12.C Unifying Themes | |parallel circuits. |Battery-resistor circuit, resistance in a wire, |

|3.2.10.A Inquiry & Design | |Identify relationships between current and voltage in |Ohm’s Law, Battery voltage) |

|3.2.10.B Inquiry & Design | |series and parallel circuits. | |

|3.2.10.C Inquiry & Design | | | |

|3.2.12.B Inquiry & Design | | | |

|3.2.12.C Inquiry & Design | | | |

|3.7.10.B Technological Dev. | | | |

|3.7.12.A Technological Dev. | | | |

|3.7.12.B Technological Dev. | | | |

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|1.2 Reading | | | |

|1.4 Writing | | | |

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|2.2 Comp/estimation | | | |

|2.3 Measurement/Estimation | | | |

|2.5 Problem Solving | | | |

|2.6 Data Analysis | | | |

|2.8 Algebra | | | |

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|Unit # - 8 – Wave Motion (2 weeks) |

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|Standards |Student Learning Objectives |Content |Learning Activities and Instructional Strategies |

|Addressed |for this Unit |Skills and Knowledge | |

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|NSES Standards: |Students will understand the characteristics of transverse and |Content Skills, Knowledge, and Performance |Labs or Demonstrations: |

|Physical Science |longitudinal waves. | |Slinky labs |

|-Structure/Properties Matter |Students will understand the relationship between the speed of a |Identify the mathematical relationship between wavelength |Resonance tube lab |

|Science as Inquiry |wave and its wavelength and frequency. |and frequency. |Doppler football |

|Science & Technology |Students will understand important wave behaviors |Solve problems using the equation speed = wavelength x | |

|History & Nature of Science |Students will understand the Doppler effect. |frequency. |Readings: |

| | |Identify and explain superposition, reflection, | |

|PA STEE Standards: | |refraction, diffraction, interference, and resonance. | |

|3.1.10.D Unifying Themes | |Identify the change in frequency (higher or lower) that | |

|3.4.10.A Physical Science | |occurs when a source is in motion relative to an observer.|Technology Links |

|3.4.10.C Physical Science | |Explain the cause of the Doppler effect. | |

|3.1.10.B Unifying Themes | | |Phet Simulations (Wave on a String, Fourier: |

|3.1.12.B Unifying Themes | | |Making Waves, Sound, Wave Interference) |

|3.1.12.C Unifying Themes | | | |

|3.2.10.A Inquiry & Design | | | |

|3.2.10.B Inquiry & Design | | | |

|3.2.10.C Inquiry & Design | | | |

|3.2.12.B Inquiry & Design | | | |

|3.2.12.C Inquiry & Design | | | |

|3.7.10.B Technological Dev. | | | |

|3.7.12.A Technological Dev. | | | |

|3.7.12.B Technological Dev. | | | |

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|1.2 Reading | | | |

|1.4 Writing | | | |

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|2.2 Comp/estimation | | | |

|2.3 Measurement/Estimation | | | |

|2.5 Problem Solving | | | |

|2.6 Data Analysis | | | |

|2.8 Algebra | | | |

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|Unit # - 9 – Optics (2 weeks) |

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|Standards |Student Learning Objectives |Content |Learning Activities and Instructional Strategies |

|Addressed |for this Unit |Skills and Knowledge | |

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|NSES Standards: |Students will understand the electromagnetic spectrum. |Content Skills, Knowledge, and Performance |Labs or Demonstrations: |

|Physical Science |Students will understand the characteristics of color. | |Lens/focal point lab. |

|-Structure/Properties Matter |Students will understand the reflection and refraction of light. |Identify the position on the electromagnetic spectrum of |Index of refraction lab. |

|Science as Inquiry |Students will understand polarization. |the major types of radiation. |Mirror labs. |

|Science & Technology | |Identify the results of mixing light and pigments. |Primary color transparencies. |

|History & Nature of Science | |Use ray diagrams to identify the location, size, and |The pig demo. |

| | |orientation of an image produced by either a mirror or a |Real image (light bulb) demo. |

|PA STEE Standards: | |lens and whether the image is real or virtual. | |

|3.1.10.D Unifying Themes | | |Readings: |

|3.4.10.A Physical Science | | | |

|3.4.10.C Physical Science | | | |

|3.1.10.B Unifying Themes | | | |

|3.1.12.B Unifying Themes | | |Technology Links |

|3.1.12.C Unifying Themes | | | |

|3.2.10.A Inquiry & Design | | |Phet Simulations (Radio Waves and Electromagnetic |

|3.2.10.B Inquiry & Design | | |Fields, Microwaves, Geometric Optics, Color Vision |

|3.2.10.C Inquiry & Design | | |& Filters) |

|3.2.12.B Inquiry & Design | | | |

|3.2.12.C Inquiry & Design | | | |

|3.7.10.B Technological Dev. | | | |

|3.7.12.A Technological Dev. | | | |

|3.7.12.B Technological Dev. | | | |

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|1.2 Reading | | | |

|1.4 Writing | | | |

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|2.2 Comp/estimation | | | |

|2.3 Measurement/Estimation | | | |

|2.5 Problem Solving | | | |

|2.6 Data Analysis | | | |

|2.8 Algebra | | | |

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