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K-12 Kansas State Science Standards and Assessments

This page contains all of the Kansas Science Standards and Assessments documents. Documents that span K-12 and ones that focus on specific grade spans can be found here. If you want to focus on elementary, middle school, or high school specific documents, please click on the following links:

Elementary Science Standards and Assessments
Middle School Science Standards and Assessments
High School Science Standards and Assessments

Kansas Science Standards

	Title	Size
	K-12 Kansas Science Education Standards (pdf)	611.88 KB
	K-12 Kansas Science Education Standards (word)	1.42 MB
	Introduction to the Kansas Science Education Standards (pdf)	123.04 KB
	Kansas Science Education Standards K-2 (pdf)	74.60 KB
	Kansas Science Education Standards 3-4 (pdf)	113.79 KB
	Kansas Science Education Standards 5-7 (pdf)	141.91 KB
	Kansas Science Education Standards 8-12 (pdf)	227.12 KB

Kansas Science Education Standards appendices

	Title	Size
	Kansas Science Education Standards appendices (pdf)	220.70 KB
	Grade by grade recommendations K-4 (pdf)	107.75 KB
	Grade by grade suggestions for grades 5-7 (pdf)	80.22 KB
	Embedding Earth and Space content in other courses (pdf)	67.30 KB

Glossaries for the Kansas Science Standards

	Title	Size
	Elementary science glossary (word)	147.00 KB
	Middle school science glossary (word)	172.50 KB
	High School Life and Earth Science glossary (word)	146.50 KB
	High School Physical Science glossary (word)	140.50 KB

Kansas Science Literacy and the English Language Arts Common Core Presentation

	Title	Size
	Presentation on Reading and Writing for Science literacy and the ELA common core (ppt)	1.16 MB
	Link to webinar recording on Science Literacy and the ELA Common Core	Unknown
	Link to ELA Common Core document (science literacy starts on pg 64)	Unknown

Kansas Science Assessment--Flip Charts of Assessed indicators

	Title	Size
	Elementary Science flip chart (pdf)	256.06 KB
	Middle School Science flip chart (pdf)	501.08 KB
	High School Life Science flip chart (pdf)	179.66 KB
	High School Physical Science flip chart (pdf)	176.16 KB

Kansas Science Assessments--Fact Sheet and Assessed Indicators

	Title	Size
	2012-2013 Science Assessment Overview/Fact Sheet	Unknown
	Elementary Science Assessed Indicators (pdf)	118.41 KB
	Middle School Science Assessed Indicators (pdf)	65.26 KB
	High School Science Assessed Indicators (pdf)	113.15 KB
	Item specifications for general assessment--K-12 (pdf)	283.00 KB
	Item specifications for the KAMM assessment (pdf)	298.55 KB

KAMM Science Performance Level Descriptors

	Title	Size
	Fourth Grade Performance Level Descriptors	37.46 KB
	Seventh Grade Performance Level Descriptors	40.11 KB
	High School Performance Level Descriptors	57.44 KB

Contact Information

Matt Krehbiel	David Barnes	Juanita Anderson
Science	Science/Math	Administrative Assistant
mkrehbiel@ksde.org	dbarnes@ksde.org	janderson@ksde.org
785-296-8108	785-296-2091	785-296-1130

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