New Hampshire Frameworks Correlations

Nobel Museum
Read biographies of and interviews with Nobel Prize Laureates in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace. You can also try your hand at a selection of games like Find the Author, Lord of the Flies, Control of the Cell Cycle, and Pavlov's Dogs. The site also includes readings on DNA, semiconductors, and matter.
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Science: Broad Goals

  • Students will demonstrate an understanding of, and be able to practice, the basic processes which scientists use to obtain and continually revise knowledge about the natural world.

  • Students will demonstrate an understanding of key concepts and principles central to the biological, physical, and earth sciences, while recognizing the interrelationship of all the sciences.


  • Students will perceive that scientific knowledge is the result of the cumulative efforts of people, past and present, who have attempted to explain the world through an objective, peer-tested, rational approach to understanding natural phenomena and occurrences.


  • Students will demonstrate an understanding of the impact of science and technology on society.

Science: Science as Inquiry

  Curriculum Standard 2e
Students will demonstrate an increasing ability to understand that science and technology can affect individuals, and that individuals in turn can affect science and technology.

Science: Physics

  Curriculum Standard 5c
Students will demonstrate an increasing ability to understand the relationships among different types and forms of energy.

Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade six students will be able to:

  • Recognize and give examples of the various forms of energy, e.g. heat, light, sound, electrical, mechanical, magnetic, chemical, and nuclear.


  • Show by examples how types of energy are used for specific purposes.


  • Observe and describe how one form of energy may be transformed into another.

Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade ten students will be able to:

  • Collect observations to show that transformations of energy involve the production of heat.


  • Describe or sketch how energy is released when the nuclei of some atoms undergo fission or fusion.

Science: Life Science

  Curriculum Standard 3a
Students will demonstrate an increasing ability to recognize patterns and products of evolution, including genetic variation, specialization, adaptation, and natural selection.

Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade ten students will be able to:

  • Explain how the characteristics of living things depends upon genes.


  • Estimate the degree of kinship among organisms or species, e.g. from the similarity of their DNA base-pair sequences, anatomy, physiology, or behavior.


  • Describe how genetic material is passed from parent to offspring during asexual and sexual reproduction, e.g. mitosis, meiosis.


  • Research a human genetic trait and trace its appearance/presence through a family history and predict the inheritance patterns and probabilities through the next generation.


  • Explain how new genetic traits can arise and become established in a population, e.g. mutation of DNA, new gene linkages, crossing over, etc.
  Curriculum Standard 3d
Students will demonstrate an increasing ability to understand fundamental structures, functions, and mechanisms of inheritance found in microorganisms, fungi, protists, plants, and animals.

Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade ten students will be able to:

  • Explain, in general terms, the role DNA plays in controlling cell functions.

Language Arts: Literature

  Curriculum Standard 4
Students will demonstrate competence in understanding, appreciating, interpreting, and critically analyzing classical and contemporary American and British literature as well as literary works translated into English.

Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade ten students will be able to:

  • Demonstrate knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of literature from various cultures and times, written for a variety of purposes and in a variety of genres such as the classics and contemporary American, British, and world literature, and works by Pulitzer and Nobel prize winners.


  • Analyze the ways readers and writers are influenced by personal, social, cultural, and historical contexts.


  • Stand apart from a text and consider it objectively by performing a range of tasks including critically evaluating; comparing and contrasting; understanding the impact of the organizational structure; and analyzing the use of such elements as satire, irony, humor, bias, redundancy, symbolism, analogies, metaphors, and poetic license.


  • Critically analyze and evaluate texts for their practical, informational, or aesthetic value; for writer's craft; for writer's biases; and for the inherent ability of the work to communicate.