Alignment+Matrix

Literacy || * Knowing how to make appropriate personal economic choices
 * Global Awareness || * Understand and address global issues
 * Learning from and working collaboratively with diverse individuals
 * Understand other nations and cultures ||
 * Financial, Economic, Business, and Entrepreneurial
 * Understanding the role of the economy in society
 * Using entrepreneurial skills to enhance workplace productivity and career options ||
 * Civic Literacy || * Participating effectively in civic life through knowing how to stay informed and understanding governmental processes
 * Exercising the rights and obligations of citizenship at local, state, national and global levels
 * Understanding the local and global implications of civic decisions ||
 * Health Literacy || * Obtaining, interpreting and understanding basic health information and services
 * Understanding preventive physical and mental health measures
 * Using available information to make appropriate health-related decisions
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Establishing and monitoring personal and family health goals
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Understanding national and international public health and safety issues ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Environmental Literacy || * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the environment and the circumstances and conditions affecting it, particularly as relates to air, climate, land, food, energy, water and ecosystems
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of society’s impact on the natural world (e.g., population growth, population development, resource consumption rate, etc.)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Investigate and analyze environmental issues, and make accurate conclusions about effective solutions
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Take individual and collective action towards addressing environmental challenges (e.g., participating in global actions, designing solutions that inspire action on environmental issues) ||

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">For more information on the Alignment Matrix, please visit <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">The Partnership for 21st Century Skills