***** OVERVIEW ***** Purpose - controlled vocabulary schema for DLESE metadata frameworks Framework - ADN itme metadata framework Source - National Academy of Sciences; Represents the science content section of the National Science Education Standards (NSES); With vocab values at: http://books.nap.edu/html/nses/html/index.html; Last update 1996? *** LICENSE INFORMATION ***** Copyright 2002, 2003, 2006 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR); Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307, United States of America email: support@dlese.org. These schemas are free software; you can redistribute them and/or modify them under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. These schemas are distributed in the hope that they will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this project; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA ***** History of Change ***** 2007-06-01: Made mental note but cannot fix (at 4th or 3rd levels; remober ADN 0.7.00 uses this same file) because don't know how many records affected. Standard C:5-8:Population and ecosystems should be populations. 2007-06-01: Fixed 4th level standards NSES:9-12:Content Standard F Science in Personal and Social Perspectives Standards:Science and technology in local, national, and global challenges:Humans have a major effect on other species. For example, the influence of humans on other organisms occurs through land use--which decreases space available to other species--and pollution--which changes the chemical composition of air, soil, and water. DLESE's version was cutting off after other organisms occurs 2006-12-15: Added missing text 'Evidence, models, and explanation' from Unifying 5-8 standard at the 4th level 2006-11-15: Added a 4th level to the Unifying Concepts and Processes standards by using text from the multiple paragraphs associated with the unifying standards. The following, http://www.dpc.ucar.edu/people/ostwald/standards/NSES-v1.2.5.html, was useful in deciding which sentences to use. 2005-03-28: Fixed missing capitalization on first word of last sentence of 5-8:Content Standard D Earth and Space Science Standards:Earth's history. 2005-02-22: Added the missing text to K-4 Content Standard D:Properties of earth materials: Earth materials are solid rocks... 2005-01-28: Add the missing text to K-4 Content Standard F:Personal health: Individual have... 2003-03-01: Deleted the space on the K-4 Content Standard E: technological design. 2003-02-14: Added the dash back to the grade range. DLESE-IMS does not have the grade range dash. 2003-02-12: Discovered 4 typos between website vocab and this vocab which means DLESE-IMS also has these 4 typos. The differences are noted below with comments. ***** Simple Types (alpha order) ***** ***** NSESscienceContentStandardsType ***** Values at the 3rd leve that are acceptable for the metadata record ***** NSESscienceContentStandardsLeafType ***** Leaf values from the 3rd level ***** Simple Types (alpha order) ***** ***** NSESscienceContentStandardsAllType ***** Values at the 4th level that are acceptable for the metadata record ***** NSESscienceContentStandardsAllLeafType ***** Leaf values from the 4th level