Louisiana Administrative Code

A. Use maps and models to describe relative location. Examples can include locating objects and places to the right or left, up or down, in or out, and above or below. B. Identify basic landforms and bodies of water in a variety of visual representations, including mountains, hil…

A. The focus in grade 1 is helping students acquire knowledge regarding their place in the local community and in Louisiana. First graders will gain a deeper sense of their role as citizens in a democratic society as they develop an awareness of their basic rights and responsibil…

A. In the high school civics course, students broaden and deepen their understanding of the origin, structure, and functions of government. This course is designed to provide students with both the practical knowledge about how the American system of government functions on local…

A. Identify examples of goods and services. Examples include: 1. goods to include food, toys, and clothing; and 2. services to include medical care, fire protection, law enforcement, and library resources. B. Describe and compare reasons to save and spend money. C. Differentiate …

A. Explain ideas, events, and developments in the history of the United States of America from 1580 to 1791 and how they progressed, changed, or remained the same over time. B. Analyze connections between ideas, events, and developments in U.S. history within their global context…

A. Beginning with the Second Industrial Revolution, this course offers a chronological study of major events, issues, movements, individuals, and groups of people in the United States from a national and a Louisiana perspective. In this course students will examine: the rise of t…

A. Explain ideas, events, and developments in the history of the United States of America from 1877 to 2008 and how they progressed, changed, or remained the same over time. B. Analyze connections between events and developments in U.S. history within their global context from 18…

A. The Louisiana student standards define what a public school student should know or be able to accomplish at the end of a specific time period or grade level or at the completion of a course. They represent the knowledge and skills needed for students to successfully transition…

A. After building knowledge in grades K-3 about their community, parish, state, and nation, students are ready to expand their historical horizons and begin an exploration of the ancient and classical world. In grade 4, students are introduced to the story of human civilization a…

A. Create and use a chronological sequence of related events to compare developments and describe instances of change and continuity. B. Use a variety of primary and secondary sources to: 1. analyze social studies content; 2. explain claims and evidence; 3. compare and contrast m…

A. The fifth grade builds on what students learned about ancient and classical civilizations in grade 4. In this course, students will examine: Medieval Europe and Africa, Aztec and Incan civilizations, the Renaissance and Reformation, the Age of Exploration, and the European con…

A. Create and use a chronological sequence of related events to compare developments and describe instances of change and continuity. B. Use a variety of primary and secondary sources to: 1. analyze social studies content; 2. explain claims and evidence; 3. compare and contrast m…

A. Beginning with the exploration of colonization of North America, this course offers a chronological study of major events, issues, movements, individuals, and groups of people in the United States from a national and a Louisiana perspective. In this course, students will exami…

A. Beginning with the presidency of George Washington, this course offers a chronological study of major events, issues, movements, individuals, and groups of people in the United States from a national and a Louisiana perspective. In this course students will examine the develop…

A. Explain ideas, events, and developments in the history of the United States of America from 1791 to 1877 and how they progressed, changed, or remained the same over time. B. Analyze connections between ideas, events, and developments in U.S. history within their global context…

A. Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen. B. Measure and graph quantities to provide evidence that regardless of the type of change that occurs when heating, cooling, or mixing substances, the total amount of matter is conserved. C. Mak…

A. Ask questions about how air and water affect the growth of plants. Notes La. Admin. Code tit. 28 , § CXXIII-1307 Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 31:2776 (November 2005), Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 43 13…

A. The Louisiana student standards define what a public school student should know or be able to accomplish at the end of a specific time period or grade level or at the completion of a course. They represent the knowledge and skills needed for students to successfully transition…

A. Construct and interpret graphical displays of data to describe the relationships of kinetic energy to the mass of an object and to the speed of an object. B. Develop a model to describe that when the arrangement of objects interacting at a distance changes, different amounts o…

A. 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 and how the frequency and wavelength change the expression of the wave. B. Develop and use a model to describe that waves are refr…

A. Use models to describe that energy in animals food (used for body repair, growth, motion, and to maintain body warmth) was once energy from the sun. Notes La. Admin. Code tit. 28 , § CXXIII-1305 Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 31:2776 (Novemb…

A. Develop and use a model of the Earth-sun-moon system to describe the reoccurring patterns of lunar phases, eclipses of the sun and moon, and seasons. B. Use a model to describe the role of gravity in the motions within galaxies and the solar system. C. Analyze and interpret da…

A. Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earths systems. Notes La. Admin. Code tit. 28 , § CXXIII-1509 Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 43 1339 ( 7…

A. Conduct an investigation to provide evidence that living things are made of cells, either one or many different numbers and types. B. Develop and use a model to describe the function of a cell as a whole and ways parts of cells contribute to the function. Notes La. Admin. Code…

A. Develop a model to describe the cycling of water through Earths systems driven by energy from the sun and the force of gravity. B. Collect data to provide evidence for how the motions and complex interaction of air masses results in changes in weather conditions. C. Develop an…

A. Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and to show that waves can cause objects to move. B. Develop a model to describe that light reflecting from objects and entering the eye allows objects to be seen. Notes La. Admin. Code tit. 28 …

A. Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in landforms over time. Notes La. Admin. Code tit. 28 , § CXXIII-1107 Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 31:2774 (November 2005),…

A. Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from renewable and non-renewable resources and how their uses affect the environment. B. Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans. Notes La. A…

A. Ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century. Notes La. Admin. Code tit. 28 , § CXXIII-1707 Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 31:2779 (November 2005), Promulgated by the…

A. Analyze and interpret data on the properties of substances before and after the substances interact to determine if a chemical reaction has occurred. B. Develop a model that predicts and describes changes in particle motion, temperature, and the state of a pure substance when …

A. Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations. B. Undertake a design project that assists in maintaining diversity and ecosystem services. Notes La. Admin. Code tit. 28 , § CXXIII-1711…

A. Develop and use a model to describe why asexual reproduction results in offspring with identical genetic information and sexual reproduction results in offspring with genetic variation. Notes La. Admin. Code tit. 28 , § CXXIII-1713 Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Se…

A. Construct an explanation based on evidence that describes how genetic variations of traits in a population increase some individuals probability of surviving and reproducing in a specific environment. B. Gather, read, and synthesize information about technologies that have cha…

A. Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object. B. Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents. C. Ask questions and predict outcome…

A. Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem. B. Construct an explanation that predicts patterns of interactions among organisms across multiple ecosystems. C. Develop a model …

A. Plan an investigation to determine the relationships among the energy transferred, the type of matter, the mass, and the change in the average kinetic energy of the particles as measured by the temperature of the sample. Notes La. Admin. Code tit. 28 , § CXXIII-1703 Promulgate…

A. Use an argument supported by evidence for how the body is a system of interacting subsystems composed of groups of cells. B. Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for the role of photosynthesis and cellular respiration in the cycling of matter and flow of energy…

A. Construct an argument that plans and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction. B. Construct an explanation to describe how animals receive different types of information through their senses, process th…

A. Plan and conduct investigations on the effects of water, ice, wind, and vegetation on the relative rate of weathering and erosion. B. Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earths features. C. Ask questions that can be investigated and predict reasonable …

A. Apply Newtons third law to design a solution to a problem involving the motion of two colliding objects. B. Plan an investigation to provide evidence that the change in an objects motion depends on the sum of the forces on the object and the mass of the object. C. Ask question…

A. Develop models to describe the atomic composition of simple molecules and extended structures. B. Gather and make sense of information to describe that synthetic materials come from natural resources and impact society. C. Undertake a design project to construct, test, and mod…

A. Apply scientific principles to design, construct, and test a device that either minimizes or maximizes thermal energy transfer. B. Construct, use, and present arguments to support the claim that when the kinetic energy of an object changes, energy is transferred to or from the…

A. Support an argument that the gravitational force exerted by the Earth is directed down. Notes La. Admin. Code tit. 28 , § CXXIII-1303 Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 31:2775 (November 2005), Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondar…

A. Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment. Notes La. Admin. Code tit. 28 , § CXXIII-1309 Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 43 1339 ( 7/1/2017 ). AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in acc…

A. Support an argument that differences in the apparent brightness of the sun compared to other stars is due to their relative distances from the Earth. B. Represent data in graphical displays to reveal patterns of daily changes in length and direction of shadows, day and night, …

A. Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact. B. Describe and graph the amounts and percentages of water and fresh water in various reservoirs to provide evidence about the distribution of water on Earth. N…

A. Generate and compare multiple solutions about ways individual communities can use science to protect the Earths resources and environment. Notes La. Admin. Code tit. 28 , § CXXIII-1315 Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 43 1339 ( 7/1/2017 ). AUT…

A. Develop models to describe the atomic composition of simple molecules and extended structures. Notes La. Admin. Code tit. 28 , § CXXIII-1501 Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 31:2777 (November 2005), Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and S…

A. Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence from rock strata for how the geologic time scale is used to organize Earths geologic history. Notes La. Admin. Code tit. 28 , § CXXIII-1905 Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 31:2781 (November…

A. Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earths materials and the flow of energy that drives this process. B. Construct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes have changed Earths surface at varying time and spatial scales. C. Analyze and interpret data…