Elementary Science Standards in Adventist Schools
Standards, what learners should know (content) and be able to do (skills), serve as the framework for curriculum development. Standards in NAD Seventh-day Adventist schools reflect the Adventist worldview across the K-12 curricula as well as the integration of national and provincial/state standards. The Adventist worldview accepts the Bible as the standard by which everything else is measured. Four key concepts emerge from a biblical worldview that can be used as a lens for curriculum development, as well as informing the essential questions and big ideas of any content area: Creation (What is God’s intention?), Fall (How has God’s purpose been distorted?), Redemption (How does God help us to respond?), and Re-creation (How can we be restored in the image of God?).
— The Core of Adventist Education Curriculum
Science and Engineering Practices
- Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for engineering)
- Developing and using models
- Planning and carrying out investigations
- Analyzing and interpreting data
- Using mathematics and computational thinking
- Constructing explanations (science) and designing solutions (engineering)
- Engaging in argument from evidence
- Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
— The Core of Adventist Education Curriculum
Performance-based Standards
The science standards are performance-based outcomes (what students should be able to do) rather than content-based outcomes (what students should know). The content standards are implied within the context of the performance standards.
Development Committee Members
- Betty Bayer
- Adventist Church in Canada Associate Dir. of Education
- Carol Campbell
- North American Division Dir. of Elementary Education
- Lee Davidson
- Andrews University Teacher Education Department Chair
- Ileana Espinosa
- Columbia Union Associate Dir. of Elementary Education
- Jerrell Gilkeson
- Atlantic Union Associate Dir. of Elementary Education
- Randy Gilliam
- Southwestern Union Dir. of Education
- Martha Havens
- Pacific Union Associate Dir. of Elementary Education
- LouAnn Howard
- Mid-America Union Associate Dir. of Elementary Education
- Jim Martz
- Lake Union Associate Dir. of Elementary Education
- Patti Revolinski
- North Pacific Union Associate Dir. of Elementary Education
- Diane Ruff
- Southern Union Associate Dir. of Elementary Education
- Dan Wyrick
- Nature by Design Director