New Hampshire Curriculum Frameworks

The following are topics within the New Hampshire Curriculum Frameworks that are addressed through USS Albacore Programming. Please contact info@ussalbacore.org to set up a class trip to Albacore Park and to specify which elements of the framework you are hoping to fulfill so that we can plan your groups programming accordingly.

Social Studies

Theme A: Conflict and Cooperation

  • Goals:

    • International agreements

    • War

  • Essential Questions:

    • What is legitimate authority?

    • Why are there conflicts around the world?

    • How interdependent are peoples?

Theme F: Global Transformation

  • Goals:

    • Competition and interdependence

    • International agreements

    • Tension between national interests and global priorities

  • Essential Questions:

    • How can tensions between national interests and global priorities be resolved?

Theme G: Science, Technology, and Society

  •  Goals:

    • Time Efficiency 

    • Impact of New Technology

  • Core Questions 

    • What are the real costs of new technologies?

    • How can we manage science and technology to provide the greatest benefit?

    • Who benefits from scientific and technological innovations?

    • How do events or global issues affect interactions between countries?

Theme J: Human Expression and Communication

  • Goals:

    • Reflection of history in the arts

    • Popular culture

    • Language development

  • Essential Questions:

    • How have literary and artistic expressions reflected particular eras?

    • What is the role of popular culture in society?

Essential Skills

  • Differentiating past, present and future and change over time

  • Detecting cause and effect, distinguishing fact from opinion, recognizing biases

  • Evaluating and critiquing varied sources of information and the use of appropriate primary and secondary sources and technology to acquire information

  • Creating and testing generalizations and theses

  • Expressing clearly and concisely personal opinion supported by evidence

  • Calculating effects of decisions and decision making

  • Solving individual and group problems

Science

Grade 1:

  • 1-PS4-4. Use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance

Grade 3:

  • 3-5-ETS1-1.Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time,or cost.

  • 3.3-5-ETS1-2.Generate several possible solutions to a given design problem. Compare each solution based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the design problem

Grade 4:

  • 4-PS4-1.Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and that waves can cause objects to move

  • 4-PS4-3.Generate and compare multiple solutions that use patterns to transfer information.

Middle School:

  • MS-PS4-3.Integrate qualitative scientific and technical information to support the claim that digitized signals are a more reliable way to encode and transmit information than analog signals.

  • MS-PS4-1 Use mathematical representations to describe a simple model for waves that includes how the amplitude of a wave is related to the energy in a wave.

High School:

  • HS-PS4-5 Communicate technical information about how some technological devices use the principles of wave behavior and wave interactions with matter to transmit and capture information and energy.

Math

Grade 4:

  • 4.G: Draw points, lines, line segments, rays, angles (right, acute, obtuse), and perpendicular and parallel lines. Identify these in two-dimensional figures