State and Common Core Standards Search in Destiny
Search or browse for standards
Whether you are creating or adapting a lesson plan, or locating resources for your students, Standards
Search provides a single, timesaving method for finding the information you need.
You can find the standard you are addressing by either searching or browsing. Once you locate it, you can
view or print lists of websites, and find library materials and district media that are aligned with the standard.
To find complete sets of standards, benchmarks, or indicators relating to specific concepts within a subject
and grade, choose Browse.
To find one or more standards that pertain to a particular topic or skill, choose Search.
To browse for a standard
1. Select your standards source from the list.
2. Select to retrieve the supporting materials from your library, a group of libraries, or the entire district, and
one or all district media centers.
3. Open the Browse tab.
Each subject defined by the standards source appears with a closed-folder icon.
To view the next level of folders, click either the folder icon or the name next to it.
To move up or down through the hierarchy of folders, click any folder icon or the name.
The globe-and-paper icon denotes the lowest level of the hierarchy. You cannot drill any further into the
standard.
From the list of standards, locate the one you need. Click Find It to discover the available resources: a list of
websites with content appropriate for your lesson planning and for your students, and a list of library
materials that support the standard.
To search for a standard
1. Select your standards source from the list.
2. Select to retrieve the supporting materials from your library, a group of libraries, or the entire district, and
one or all district media centers.
3. Open the Search tab.
4. Enter a keyword or phrase such as politics, whole numbers, fractions, and decimals, or matter and
energy. You can use any word or phrase that may appear in the text of your standard.
5. Select the subject and grade level from the lists.
6. Click Search.
Selecting the standards source and entering a search term are required; limiting by subject and grade are
optional. Because the grade divisions in the list depend on the subject, you must select a subject before
selecting a grade level.
Not enough search results
Since Standards Search returns only standards that contain all of the words you typed in, widening your
search can be as simple as deleting some of those words.
For example, enter proportions instead of numbers ratios proportions.
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Also, try using a more general term.
For example, use literary technique rather than allusion.
Or, if astronomy produces no results, try entering solar system, universe, or even space.
Too many search results
Since Standards Search returns standards that contain all of the words in your query, narrowing your search
may be as simple as adding more words.
You can also use the Boolean NOT operator (in capital letters) to exclude subjects you do not want.
For example, politics NOT historical results in a smaller list than would politics alone.
Try enclosing a phrase in quotation marks.
For example, entering "whole numbers, fractions, and decimals" returns only standards containing that
exact phrase.
Be as specific as you can.
Use ecosystem rather than geography.
Enter phrases
Enclose a phrase in quotation marks. Without quotation marks, Standards Search performs a Boolean AND
search on the words entered.
For example, "whole numbers, fractions, and decimals" returns only standards containing that exact
phrase.
Use the Boolean AND, OR, NOT operators
You can create a search phrase from several distinct words or terms with Boolean operators between them.
Because Standards Search performs a Boolean AND search by default, you do not need to add AND
between search words.
For example, searching for either force motion or force AND motion returns the same results.
Adding the OR operator, however, can widen your search because any word in your search term can satisfy
the search query.
For example, searching for force OR motion returns standards that contain either the word force or the
word motion.
Adding the NOT operator limits your search to a specific area of focus.
For example, searching for force NOT motion returns all standards that contain the word force except those
that also contain the word motion.
Case-sensitivity
Standards Search is not case-sensitive.
For example, searches for Literary Technique, literary technique, or LITERARY TECHNIQUE all return
the same results.
Wildcards
Standards Search does not support wildcards. Instead, it uses root word searching, which returns results that
are more accurate.
Special characters
Standards Search does not support special characters or diacritics within a search term. If you enter a
special character, you will receive a message stating either that the search is invalid or that there are no
matches for your search term.
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Word variations
Standards Search looks for the word(s) you entered and words that stem from the same root word.
For example, entering product results in standards containing product, produce, production, producer, and
productivity.
Stop words
Standards Search ignores words that are so common that searching on them is not productive.
You can leave these out of your search term:
a, an, and, are, as, at
be, but, by
for
if, in, into, is, it
no, not
of, on, or
such
that, the, their, then, there, these, they, this, to
was, will, with
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