2020 Colorado Academic Standards Online

The P-12 concepts and skills that all students who complete the Colorado education system must master to ensure their success in a postsecondary and workforce setting.

What do students need to know?

Grade Level Expectation: High Schools:
The articulation of the concepts and skills of a standard that indicates a student is making progress toward being a prepared graduate.

Grade Level Expectations:
The articulation, at each grade level, the concepts and skills of a standard that indicates a student is making progress toward being ready for high school.

How do we know that a student can do it?

The indication that a student is meeting an expectation at the mastery level.

Academic context and connections are the subject-specific elements needed to create context for learning. This right side section highlights essential skills, practices and other important connections necessary for students to understand, apply and transfer the knowledge and skills within the Grade Level Expectation.

Sample questions intended to promote deeper thinking, reflection and refined understandings precisely related to the grade level expectation.

Examples of how the grade level expectation is applied at home, on the job or in a real-world, relevant context.

The characteristics and viewpoint one keeps as a result of mastering the grade level expectation.

Embed standards throughout daily routines, within and across the environment and activities to ensure developmentally appropriate learning opportunities.

The critical skills needed to prepare students to successfully enter the workforce or educational opportunities beyond high school embedded within statute (C.R.S. 22-7-1005) and identified by the Colorado Workforce Development Committee.

This section describes ways students engage with the mathematical content using mathematical practices and essential skills needed to prepare students to successfully enter the workforce or educational opportunities beyond high school pursuant to Colorado Revised Statute 22-7-1005 and identified by the Colorado Workforce Development Committee.

The sample questions that are intended to promote deeper thinking, reflection and refined understandings precisely related to the grade level expectation.

This section describes how the content described by the Grade Level Expectation and Evidence Outcomes builds from content learned in prior grades, connects to content in the same grade, and supports student learning in later grades.

This section provides greater context for the Grade Level Expectation (GLE) through a description of the understanding about the core ideas that should be developed by students.

Skills and major practices that scientists employ as they investigate and build models and theories about the world. These terms are used to emphasize that engaging in scientific investigation requires not only skill but also knowledge that is specific to each practice.

The crosscutting concepts have application across all domains of science. As such, they provide one way of linking across the domains through core ideas.

This section highlights computer science practices connected to the GLE which describe the behaviors and ways of thinking that computationally literate students use to fully engage in today’s data-rich and interconnected world. The practices naturally integrate with one another and contain language that intentionally overlaps to illuminate the connections among them.

These "big picture" questions ask students to more deeply explore the concepts and skills expressed in the GLE.

These skills develop critical thinking, building awareness to multiple perspectives, and engage students in "thinking about their thinking" and to consider their own attitudes, beliefs, and biases on issues.

The critical skills needed to prepare students to successfully enter the workforce or educational opportunities beyond high school embedded within statute (C.R.S. 22-7-1005) and identified by the Colorado Workforce Development Committee. Connections to how these skills relate to lifelong learning have been provided.

Ideas that can be used to expand student thinking around the concepts, connect to other musical concepts, or connect to other content areas outside of music.

Ways in which students demonstrate the ability to form, grapple with, and convey concepts and ideas through visual art and design with real-world application.

Ideas that can be used to expand student thinking, encourage conceptual curiosity, and connect multiple disciplines and literacies.

The characteristics and viewpoint one keeps as a result of mastering the grade level expectation.

The characteristics and viewpoint one keeps as a result of mastering the grade level expectation.

The characteristics and viewpoint one keeps as a result of mastering the grade level expectation.

The characteristics and viewpoint one keeps as a result of mastering the grade level expectation.

The disciplinary, information, and media literacy skills necessary to demonstrate mastery of the Evidence Outcomes.

The characteristics and viewpoint one keeps as a result of mastering the grade level expectation

This section connects and focuses on the key health specific skills connected to this grade level expectation.

Connects the GLE to physical literacy and how it supports students ability to move with competence and confidence in a wide variety of physical activities in multiple environments that benefit the healthy development of the whole person.