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Content Standards
Science Standards
Video 1 How Do We Know? The Scientific
Method
Grade 4
Scientific Ways of Knowing
Nature of Science
1. Differentiate fact from opinion and explain that scientists
do not rely on claims or conclusions unless they are backed by
observations that can be confirmed.
2. Record the results and data from
an investigation and make a reasonable explanation.
3. Explain discrepancies in an investigation
using evidence to support findings.
Ethical Practices
4. Explain why keeping records of observations and investigations
is important.
Grade 5
Scientific Ways of Knowing
Nature of Science
1. Summarize how conclusions and ideas change as new knowledge
is gained.
2. Develop descriptions, explanations
and models using evidence to defend/support findings.
3. Explain why an experiment must be
repeated by different people or at different times or places and
yield consistent results before the results are accepted.
4. Identify how scientists use different
kinds of ongoing investigations depending on the questions they
are trying to answer (e.g., observations of things or events in
nature, data collection and controlled experiments).
Ethical Practices
5. Keep records of investigations and observations that are understandable
weeks or months later.
Video 2 What Goes Around? Cycles Are
Predictable Patterns
Grade 4
Life Science
Heredity
1. Compare the life cycles of different plants including germination,
maturity, reproduction and death.
5. Describe how organisms interact
with one another in various ways.
Grade 5
Science and Technology
Understanding Technology
1. Investigate positive and negative impacts of human activity
and technology on the environment.
Video 3: Let There Be Light: The Properties
of Light
Grade 5
Physical Sciences
Nature of Energy
5. Explore and summarize observations of the transmission, bending
(refraction) and reflection of light.
Video 4: Is There an Energy Store? Where
Does Energy Come From
Grade 7
Physical Sciences
Nature of Matter
1. Investigate how matter can change forms but the total amount
of matter remains constant.
Nature of Energy
2. Describe how an object can have potential energy due to its
position or chemical composition and can have kinetic energy due
to its motion.
3. Identify different forms of energy
(e.g., electrical, mechanical, chemical, thermal, nuclear, radiant
and acoustic).
4. Explain how energy can change forms
but the total amount of energy remains constant.
5. Trace energy transformation in a
simple closed system (e.g., a flashlight).
Video 5: Where Did It Go? Energy is
Neither Created Nor Destroyed
Grade 5
Physical Sciences
Nature of Energy
2. Trace how thermal energy can transfer
from one object to another by conduction.
3. Describe that electrical current
in a circuit can produce thermal energy, light, sound and/or magnetic
forces.
4. Trace how electrical current travels
by creating a simple electric circuit that will light a bulb.
Video 6: Let’s Move It Now! Using
Energy To Do Work
Grade 3
Physical Science
Forces and Motion
2. Describe an objects motion by tracing and measuring its position
over time.
3. Identify contact/noncontact forces
that affect motion of an object (e.g., gravity, magnetism and
collision).
4. Predict the changes when an object
experiences a force (e.g., a push or pull, weight and friction).
Video 7: Inventions…What if? Using
Science eto Create Invention
Grade 3
Science and Technology
Abilities To Do Technological Design
4. Use a simple design process to solve a problem (e.g., identify
a problem, identify possible solutions and design a solution).
5. Describe possible solutions to a
design problem (e.g., how to hold down paper in the wind).
Grade 4
Science and Technology
Abilities To Do Technological Design
3. Describe, illustrate and evaluate the design process used to
solve a problem.
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