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=**Standard 1: Creativity and Innovation**=

Students: a. apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes. b. create original works as a means of personal or group expression. c. use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issue. d. identify trends and forecast possibilities.

=__Proficient by End of Grade 2__= //Describe what they already know and need to know about a challenge/problem selected by the teacher to elicit creative thinking (e.g., cyberbullying, waste/pollution, endangered/overpopulated species, resolving an issue in the school environment). Brainstorm ideas that might contribute to a new solution to the problem or issue, use technology to gather and organize ideas and information (e.g., a concept map). Propose one or more new possible solutions.// //Create an original presentation based on an age-appropriate story, activity, or event including text and visual formats using digital tools and resources.// //Use digital tools and resources to find and organize data. With the help of the teacher, create a visual model or use a simulation (e.g., graph or concept map of the life cycle of plants and animals, weather cycles, school- days activities, or how community workers contribute to the community).// //Use graphic organizers and simulations to identify key variables. Identify patterns. Predict outcomes in everyday events and relationships.//
 * 1a. Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.**
 * 1b. Create original works as a means of personal or group expression//.//**
 * 1c. Use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues.**
 * 1d. Identify trends and forecast possibilities.**

=__Proficient by End of Grade 5__= //Identify local or global problems that need creative solutions. In small groups, engage in divergent thinking to explore options for solutions. Use technology (e.g., graphs, wikis, other group authoring tools) to capture and share promising strategies with the whole group. Select and describe specific ideas or create products or processes that could provide new solutions.// //Use technology resources to modify or create digital works; produce a media-rich digital story, individually or collaboratively; document a reflection of the processes and results (e.g., story based on a first-person interview or historical research)// //Apply models and simulations to explore cause and effect relationships based on changes in elements, patterns, or sequence; explain or illustrate results.// //Collect and electronically store data based on observations of changes in one or more variables. Use graphs to identify trends. Make a data-driven prediction about future outcomes.//
 * 1a. Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes**
 * 1b. Create original works as a means of personal or group expression**
 * 1c. Use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues**
 * 1d. Identify trends and forecast possibilities**

=__Proficient by End of Grade 8__= //Identify a real-world problem that would benefit from an improved solution. Generate multiple possible ways of solving the problem. Consider the parameters that must be met to achieve a workable solution. Select the best solution from among the possible alternatives. Describe or create the new products (e.g., movies, public service announcements, websites) or processes that could be used to provide innovative solutions in the real world.// //Create original animations or videos about a topic of personal interest or in response to a learning activity and document a reflection on the quality of the production (e.g., work illustrating reactions to communicating with students in other cultures about some global issue).// //Describe and illustrate a complex content-related concept or process using a model, simulation, or concept-mapping software.// //Design and implement a strategy for gathering and manipulating data needed to make a data-driven prediction or to forecast possibilities.//
 * 1a. Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes**
 * 1b. create original works as a means of personal or group expression**
 * 1c. use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues**
 * 1d. identify trends and forecast possibilities**

=Proficient by End of Grade 12= //Independently or in groups, research a complex real-world topic using online resources (e.g., websites, databases, e-mail, and online forums). Summarize the state of knowledge about a challenge related to that topic. Analyze existing knowledge and develop and capture new ideas (e.g., using search tools to analyze text, spreadsheets to tabulate and chart numerical data, or graphic organizers to create concept maps). Extend knowledge by developing new products or processes.// //Design, develop, and test a website that meets accessibility requirments and incorporates original individual or group works with commentary demonstrating knowledge and analysis of the elements and techniques of the medium.// //Describe and illustrate a complex, real-world problem or process using model or simulation.// //Use simulations, databases, graphic organizers, and mathematical models to depict and predict the behavior of complex systems (e.g., using GIS modeling to predict future growth patterns in a community, using tables of values to identify and apply numerical patterns, using concept maps to identify likely future interrelationships).//
 * 1a. Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes**
 * 1b. Create original works as a means of personal or group expression**
 * 1c. Use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues**
 * 1d. Identify trends and forecast possibilities**