RossUniversity
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ScienceStandards
Kindergarten‐Second Grade Science Kindergarten Scientific Investigation, Reasoning, and Logic • Describe and compare the properties of some objects • Recognize and predict unusual or unexpected results in an activity • Observe, describe, sort, classify objects using the five senses (taste, smell, hearing, touch, sight) Force, Motion, and Energy • Explore the uses of magnets. • Investigate the effect of magnets on different materials. Matter • Describe the physical properties of an object by color, size, shape, texture weight and position. • Investigate the properties of water in different states( solid, liquid, gas) • Understand what sinks and what floats. Life Processes • Observe and describe what plants and animals need for growth. • Differentiate between 1st Scientific Investigation, Reason, and Logic 2nd Forces, motion, and energy • Investigate natural and artificial magnets • Observe and • Understand the communicate data characteristics of • Classify and arrange specific types of objects according to metals attributes Matter • Conduct simple • Investigate basic experiments to answer properties of solid, questions liquids, and gases • Use simple tools to • Explore the concepts enhance observations of evaporation, • Make inferences and condensation and draw conclusions about precipitation familiar objects and Life processes events • Measure using standard • Investigate and and nonstandard units describe plants of measurement and animals life cycle Forces, Motion, and Energy • Explore plant parts • Observe motion in toys and their functions
and in playground Living systems activities • Investigate how pushes • Investigate how and pulls can change habitats change the movement of an over time object • Investigate how • Explore various motions
living organisms • Investigate vibrating are objects interdependent with their non‐
Matter living surrounding • Investigate how liquids Interrelationships in will separate when living and non‐living things. • Observe and describe the changes that occur during the life cycle of plants and animals. Earth Patterns, Cycles and Change • Recognize that water, rocks, soil, and living organisms are found on earth’s surface. • Describe the weather changes from day to day and over the season. • Identify some events around us that have repeating patterns (seasons of the year, day/night). • Recognize that the sun supplies heat and light to the earth. • Understand that air is a mixture of gases that is all around us. • Describe simple conservation techniques that protect the environment e.g.recycling, careful use of water. Earth/space systems mixed with water, but not other liquids • Investigate • Investigate substances temperature, reaction to hot and cold wind, water precipitation, drought, flood and Life Processes storms • Investigate and • Explore the uses understand that plants and importance of have life needs and measuring and functional parts and can recording weather be classified according data to certain Earth Patterns, Cycles and characteristics Change • Investigate and understand that • Investigate the animals, including effect on growth people have life needs and behavior of and specific physical living things characteristics and can • Explore effects of be classified according to certain weathering and characteristics erosion on the land surface Interrelationships in Resources Earth/Space system •
Investigate and understand the basic relationships between the sun and the Earth •
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Investigate and understand the relationship of seasonal change and weather to the activities and life processes of plants and animals Investigate the importance of plant products Explore how the availability of plant products affect the development of a geographic area Resources •
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Investigate and understand that natural resources are limited Identify natural resources Explore the factors which affect natural resources Investigate the benefits of recycling , reusing and reducing the consumption of natural resources Third‐Fifth Grade Science 3rd Simple Machines and Compound Machines • Explore the different simple machines and compound machines: uses and how they function. 4th (Year 1) Makeup of organisms and characteristics • Describe the structure and function of both plant and animal cells. Look at the different kingdoms and the levels of organisms below them. 5th (Year 2) Plant structure and life processes • Investigate the role and stages of photosynthesis. Evaluate the structure and processes in plant reproduction. Materials and look at their physical properties Ocean ecosystem • Explore the use of • Identify both physical Animals and Plants magnification on small interaction between each features and other in an ecosystem objects made up of geological •
Explore the structure one or more materials. characteristics. and behaviors of Adaptations and behaviors organisms. Look at life Earth, moon, and sun • Recognize the basic • Explore the motions cycles and energy flow needs organisms have and interactions in the food systems. to me to live in their between the Earth, Evaluate the influence environment and moon, and sun. of humans and the manage survival. Evaluate the history, role of the nonliving in size, and makeup of the environment. Interaction of organisms in earth, moon, and sun. food chains Weather Conditions Evaluate the moon’s • Evaluate the • Evaluate different phases and the reason consumption of food weather phenomena for the seasons. with different in earth’s atmosphere organisms and the Sound and communication and the relationship of survival • Investigate the meteorological tools between organisms. different components used. of sound and its ability Diversity of different Matter to transmit sound environments and the •
Recognize the through different sharing of resources different forms of • Investigate medias. Evaluate the matter and the environments both on uses of sound. changes that can take land and in water. place within different Visible light Evaluate the organization level of living things. forms of matter. Evaluate the effects heat plays on different states of matter. •
Look at the behaviors and makeup of light. Observe how different surfaces can affect light. Evaluate the history of light. Components of soil and its makeup • Describe the role soil Earth’s surface plays when providing • Investigate rocks and nutrients to fossils from the past Moving objects and energy and what they tell us organisms. Evaluate • Identify the affects about earth’s history. and study the different that motion and force Evaluate the Earth’s components of soil. have on objects. interior and exterior Evaluate the different makeup. Cycles and Patters in nature forms of energy and • Evaluate natural different forms of events seen on earth Scientific Investigation and resistance on objects. and the life cycles of Reasoning organisms. • Plan and conduct Electricity • Investigate circuits and investigations in which Water cycle the components when the scientific method • Explore the processes electrical energy is in is used. Use different that take place in the use. Investigate static forms of water cycle and the electricity and the how measurements, data suns role. Evaluate the electrical energy is collection, and graphs. importance of water transformed into on earth. different forms of Natural events on earth and energy. Evaluate the the role the humans history of electricity. • Identify the effects humans have and will Scientific Investigation and have on air, water, and Reasoning • Plan and conduct habitats. Explore the investigations in which affects that natural the scientific method disasters have on is used. Use different earth. Evaluate the forms of conservation of earth’s measurements, data resources. collection, and graphs. Sources of energy • Investigate renewable and nonrenewable energy sources seen on earth. Evaluate different sources of energy and their effects on earth. Scientific Investigation and Reasoning • Plan and conduct investigations in which the scientific method is used. Use different forms of measurements, data collection, and graphs. Sixth‐Eighth Grade Science 6th Earth Science Reading and interpreting charts, maps, diagrams, models, and text • Evaluate different types of maps of earth and space and interpret the information on those maps. Analysis images from space. 7th 8th Physical Science Nature of matter • Evaluate the theory of matter and phases of matter. Identify the characteristics of matter bases on chemical and physical properties. Life Science Living things are made of cells Describe the structure and process of cells and cell theory. Compare and contrast plant and animal cells. Evaluate cell division. Evaluate the cellular Changes in matter organization and • Evaluate the different functions of each part. changes that matter Earth and solar system Organisms’ needs and can go through. • Evaluate the position changes and relationship Explore at nuclear •
Analysis the needs for between the Earth, reactions and their both plants and sun, and moon. affects animals. Explore the Investigate the factors that play a role Atomic structures characteristics and • Explore the modern in life processes. Look position of all the and historical at how organisms plants, sun, and some information and change over time and stars. Evaluate the models of atomic processes they history and makeup of structures perform for survival. our solar system and Evaluate genetic and the role of the space Periodic table environmental issues. Investigate the program, past and different elements and present. Describe how Classification of organisms pull information from energy transfers • Evaluate different the elements. between the earth and kingdoms, sun; how the weather • Classify the elements subkingdoms, and and climate on earth on the periodic table. species in both plants are affected. and animals Energy • Explore the different Rock formation and Minerals Photosynthesis forms and states of •
Evaluate the physical and chemical properties of minerals. Evaluate the properties of rocks and the uses of minerals on earth. •
Investigate the important role that photosynthesis plays in both plants and animals lives. Evaluate the role that the water cycle and carbon dioxide & oxygen cycle Heat play. •
energy. Evaluate the different forms of energy and use calculations to show the amount of potential and kinetic energy. Rock cycles and rock Evaluate different identification • Evaluate the different Ecosystem temperature scales. types of rocks and how Look at the affects • Investigate the they are made. heat has on different interaction between Evaluate textures and forms of matter. living and nonliving composition of rocks. Explore how heat can components. Explore be transferred. the different cycles Renewable and and the flow of energy nonrenewable resources Sound through the • Investigate the • Evaluate the different ecosystem. Evaluate differences between factors that affect and the members of a both and the create sound. Look at population and the advantages and technological interaction between disadvantages. Look at applications of sound. those members. the avenue which Describe how Light these resources are • Evaluate the different organisms change and collected and used. factors that affect and adapt to abiotic and Evaluate the create light. Look at biotic factors with environmental technological their ecosystem. damages and benefits applications of light. Evaluate the of both. organization levels Scientific principles Geological processes within an ecosystem • Evaluate Newton’s • Evaluate plate and factors that affect laws tectonics and other those levels. Explore • Evaluate some of the natural processes that environmental issues basic scientific take place in and on within ecosystems and principles for physics. earth’s surface. the affects they have • Investigate different had. Evaluate the machines and the connection between Freshwater process different forces that •
human activities and Investigate fresh water ecosystem dynamics. and all the other sources of fresh water Genetics Evaluate the affects • Evaluate the makeup, that humans have had parts, and function of on freshwater. DNA. Evaluate the affect mechanical functioning. Electricity and magnetism • Evaluate the basic •
principles of magnetism and electricity. traits of organisms and History and evolution of Scientific Investigation and how they were earth and life on earth Reasoning established. Explore • Investigate fossils and • Plan and conduct past, present, and the rocks from the past investigations in which future genetic and infer what they the scientific method engineering. Explore can tell us of the past is used. Use different the history of genetics. life and the earth’s forms of history. measurements, data Scientific Investigation and collection, and graphs. Reasoning Ocean • Plan and conduct • Analysis physical and investigations in which chemical changes that the scientific method take place. Evaluate is used. Use different the biological systems forms of and how their measurements, data interactions affect collection, and graphs. weather patterns. Explore features of the sea floor. Evaluate the affects that humans have had on the oceans and coastal areas. Atmosphere • Explore the theories of how the Earth’s atmosphere was formed and compare earth’s atmosphere to those of other planets. Investigate the changes of earth’s atmosphere due to human and natural causes. Scientific Investigation and Reasoning • Plan and conduct investigations in which the scientific method is used. Use different forms of measurements, data collection, and graphs.