Overview of Standards
Scientific Inquiry:
Standards 1-5
The
Physical Setting: Standards 6-14
The
Living Environment: Standards 15-20
Human
Organisms and Society: Standards 21-24
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Scientific Inquiry:
Standards 1-5 |
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Science Standards
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Scientific Inquiry: 1. Students will demonstrate their understanding of the importance
of curiosity, honesty, open-mindedness, and skepticism in their own
efforts to understand how and why universal phenomena exist and occur. 2. Students will communicate scientific ideas and activities clearly. 3. Students will be familiar with the character of scientific knowledge
and inquiry and how it is achieved. 4. Students will be able to select and use tools and instruments
to conduct scientific activities. 5. Students will understand and demonstrate the ideas of system,
model, change, and scale in exploring scientific and technological matters. The Physical Setting: 6. Students will be familiar with current scientific theories about
the universe and how those theories evolved. 7. Students will understand how key features of the earth influence
climate, weather, and the water cycle. 8. Students will understand scientific theories of how the earth's
surface is formed and how those theories developed. 10. Students will be familiar with the forms and transformations
of energy and the significance of energy in understanding the structure
of matter and the universe. 11. Students will understand how society uses and conserves various
sources of energy. 12. Students will understand the relationship between force, mass,
and the motion of objects. 13.
Students will recognize gravitational, electrical, and magnetic forces
as major kinds of forces acting in nature.View objectives by: 14.
Students will be familiar with the wave nature of sound and
electromagnetic radiation. The Living Environment: 15.
Students will be aware of the diversity of living organisms
and how they can be compared scientifically. 17.
Students will understand how and why organisms are dependent
on one another and their environments. 18.
Students will understand the cycling of matter and the flow
and transformation of energy through systems of living things. 19.
Students will understand how biological traits are passed
on to successive generations. Human Organisms & Society: 21.
Students will know and understand the biological, cultural,
and social explanations for why human beings have important
traits in common yet differ from one another. 22.
Students will be familiar with important aspects of human
development from fertilization to death. 23.
Students will understand the basic processes of the human
body. 24.
Students will understand that a variety of factors influence
learning in human beings.
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