Strawberry Park Elementary School follows the Steamboat Springs School District Curriculum Frameworks. These frameworks are based on the Colorado Model Content Standards listed below. More details regarding these standards can be found on the Colorado Department of Education website. These standards are currently being revised and new standards should be released shortly.

Colorado Model Content Standards

Reading and Writing

Standard 1: Students read and understand a variety of materials.

Standard 2: Students write and speak for a variety of purposes and audiences.

Standard 3: Students write and speak using conventional grammer, usage, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.

Standard 4: Students apply thinking skills to their reading, writing, speaking,listening, and viewing.

Standard 5: Students read to locate, select, and make use of relevant information from a variety of media,reference and technological sources.

Standard 6: Students read and recognize literature as a record of human experience.

Mathematics

Standard 1: Students develop number sense and use numbers and number relationships in problem-solving situations and communicate the reasoning used in solving these problems.

Standard 2: Students use algebraic methods to explore, model, and describe patterns and functions involving numbers, shapes, data,and graphs in problem-solving situations and communicate the reasoning used in solving these problems.

Standard 3: Students use data collection and analysis, statistics, and probability in problem-solving situations and communicate the reasoning used in solving these problems.

Standard 4: Students use geometric concepts, properties, and relationships in problem-solving situations and communicate the reasoning used in solving these problems.

Standard 5: Students use a variety of tools and techniques to measure, apply the results in problem-solving situations,and communicate the reasoning used in solving these problems.

Standard 6: Students link concepts and procedures as they develop and use computational techniques, including estimation,mental arithmetic,paper and pencil, calculators, and computers, in problem solving situations and communicate the reasoning used in solving these problems.

Science

Standard 1: Students understand the processes of scientific investigation and design, conduct, communicate about, and evaluate such investigations.

Standard 2 Physical Science: Students know and understand common properties, forms and changes in matter and energy.

Standard 3 Life Science: Students know and understand the characteristics and structure of living things, the processes of life,and how living things interact with each other and their environment

Standard 4 Earth and Space Science: Students know and understand the processes and interactions of Earth's systems and the structure and dynamics of Earth and other objects in space.

Standard 5: Students know and understand interrelationships among science, technology, and human activity and how they can affect the world.

Standard 6: Students understand that science involves a particular way of knowing and understand common connections among scientific disciplines.