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The integrity of the Seventh-day Adventist educational system is dependent on meaningful Bible curriculum that helps students develop an understanding and knowledge of God and a relationship with Him that will transform their lives.

The teaching of the Bible should have our freshest thought, our best methods, and our most earnest effort. -ED 186

Using the Bible as its foundation, the elementary Bible curriculum seeks to give students
opportunities to:

Know God and develop a life-long relationship with Him, using the Bible as the source of truth.
Understand and share Seventh-day Adventist beliefs, heritage, and worldview.
Experience what spirituality is and how it is demonstrated through knowledge (head), attitudes (heart), and actions (hand).
Develop a sense of self-worth through a relationship with God, and develop interpersonal skills to respond with sensitivity in service to others.

Students who are college and career ready in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language:

Demonstrate independence.
Build strong content knowledge.
Respond to the varying demands of audience, task, purpose, and discipline.
Comprehend as well as critique.
Value evidence.
Use technology and digital media strategically and capably.
Come to understand other perspectives and cultures.

-Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts

Media Arts:

A unique medium of artistic expression that can amplify and integrate the four traditional art forms by incorporating the technological advances of the contemporary world with emerging skill sets available to students and teachers.

Visual Arts:

A framework for helping students learn the characteristics of art by using a wide range of subject matter, symbols, meaningful images, and visual expressions to reflect their ideas, feelings, and emotions, and to evaluate the merits of their efforts.

Music:

A blend of art and science that combines vocal or instrumental sounds to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of ideas and emotions.

Drama:

A composition based on a situation or succession of events that portrays life or characters to tell a story that usually involves conflict or emotion.

$Math Exercises$

Common Core State Standards for Mathematical Practice

Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
Model with mathematics.
Use appropriate tools strategically.
Attend to precision.
Look for and make use of structure.
Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Science and Engineering Practices

Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for engineering); STEAM program is integrated into the curriculum with a problem-based learning approach
Developing and using models
Planning and carrying out investigations
Analyzing and interpreting data
Using mathematics and computational thinking
Constructing explanations (for science) and designing solutions (for engineering)
Engaging in argument from evidence
Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information

— Next Generation Science Standards

National Council for the Social Studies Ten Major Themes:

Culture
Time, Continuity, and Change
People, Places, and Environments
Individual Development and Identity
Individuals, Groups, and Institutions
Power, Authority, and Governance
Production, Distribution, and Consumption
Science, Technology, and Society
Global Connections
Civic Ideals and Practices

Digital Learning:

To use a range of relevant digital technologies to learn content and demonstrate understanding.

Digital Fluency:

To excel in current technology skills, operations, and vocabulary, in support of research, communication, and collaboration with a variety of digital resources.

Digital Citizenship:

To use digital technology responsibly to improve the online community by respecting self, others,
and property.

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