Content Areas

AIM has developed instruments in four content areas, which were selected from the 2009 NAEP Science Framework. The project consulted with content experts in order to unpack the content in each of the areas; the unpacked ideas can be reviewed by clicking on the links below.

  1. Evolution and Diversity
  2. Force and Motion
  3. Interdependence (i.e., Populations and Ecosystems)
  4. Properties of and Changes in Matter