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SCIENCE AS INQUIRY SKILLS

• Identify questions and concepts that guide Scientific investigations.
• Design and conduct scientific investigations.
• Use technology and mathematics to improve investigations and communications.
• Formulate and revise scientific explanations and models using logic and evidence.
• Recognize and analyze alternative explanations and models.
• Communicate and defend a scientific argument.

SCIENCE STANDARDS

• Content Standard 4:  Students understand that permanent magnets have poles, and like-poles repel and unlike-poles attract each other. The movement of charged particles produces magnetic fields and only changes direction of an already moving charged particle.

  • Performance Standard 4.3: Building an electromagnet and explaining how it works. 

  • Performance Standard 4.5: Drawing the magnetic field lines of different types and combination of magnets and showing where the magnetic field is the strongest.

• Content Standard 18:  Students understand that the universe and planetary systems have evolved for billions of years and will continue to evolve.

  • Performance Standard 18.1: Constructing a model that describes the development of a star (birth, change, development and death).

   

• Content Standard 19:  Students understand that energy transfers within and between the atmosphere and ocean create regions of different temperature, pressure and density. This, in turn, creates weather patterns and climate.

  • Performance Standard 19.3:  Researching and describing the origin of and effects associated with long-term weather phenomena such as El Niño.

LANGUAGE ARTS STANDARDS

• Content Standard 1:  The student experiences through reading, a wide range of quality, diverse, and multicultural materials and produces evidence of understanding.
• Content Standard 2:  The student uses a variety of reading strategies to construct, examine and extend the meaning of diverse materials.
• Content Standard 3:  The student reads confidently and independently for a variety of purposes, including pleasure, aesthetic response, information, understanding, critical analysis and evaluation.
• Oral Content Standard 7:  The student listens actively, thoughtfully and critically to a variety of messages.
• Oral Content Standard 8:  The student communicates ideas and information orally with increasing confidence, creativity and sophistication for a variety of audiences and purposes.