Science
Teacher: Mrs. Heupel
Process Skills
· Generate scientific questions and conduct investigations based on observations, investigations, and research.
· Use multiple sources of information to evaluate scientific results.
· Construct charts and graphs in order to summarize and evaluate information to provide evidence to scientific questions.
· Demonstrate science learning through illustrations, performances, models, exhibits, and activities.
· Use a variety of tools to make accurate measurements.
· Develop various strategies for gathering information: use a book, make observations, and conduct simple investigations.
Physical Science
· Demonstrate how contact and non-contact forces change the motion of an object.
· Describe what happens when two forces act on an object in the same or opposing directions.
· Explain the motion of an object relative to its point of reference.
· Describe the motion of an object in terms of balanced and unbalanced forces.
· Illustrate how motion can be measured and represented on a graph.
Life Science
· Explain how animal systems work together to perform selected activities.
· Explain that both the environment and the genetics of the individual influence the traits.
· Distinguish between inherited and acquired traits.
· Describe the physical and behavioral characteristics of organisms that help them survive in their environment.
· Describe how fossils provide evidence about how living things and environmental conditions have changed.
· Explain causes of species extinction.
· Describe characteristics used to classify organisms.
Earth Science
· Describe the motion of planets and moons.
· Explain the apparent motion of the stars and the sun across the sky.
· Explain seasons using a model.
· Explain how the revolution of the Earth around the sun defines a year.
· Design a model of the solar system that shows the relative distances and positions of the planets, dwarf planets, comets, and asteroids to the sun.
· Explain the phases of the moon.
· Explain lunar and solar eclipses.
· Explain the tides of the oceans as they relate to the gravitational pull and orbit of the moon
· Generate scientific questions and conduct investigations based on observations, investigations, and research.
· Use multiple sources of information to evaluate scientific results.
· Construct charts and graphs in order to summarize and evaluate information to provide evidence to scientific questions.
· Demonstrate science learning through illustrations, performances, models, exhibits, and activities.
· Use a variety of tools to make accurate measurements.
· Develop various strategies for gathering information: use a book, make observations, and conduct simple investigations.
Physical Science
· Demonstrate how contact and non-contact forces change the motion of an object.
· Describe what happens when two forces act on an object in the same or opposing directions.
· Explain the motion of an object relative to its point of reference.
· Describe the motion of an object in terms of balanced and unbalanced forces.
· Illustrate how motion can be measured and represented on a graph.
Life Science
· Explain how animal systems work together to perform selected activities.
· Explain that both the environment and the genetics of the individual influence the traits.
· Distinguish between inherited and acquired traits.
· Describe the physical and behavioral characteristics of organisms that help them survive in their environment.
· Describe how fossils provide evidence about how living things and environmental conditions have changed.
· Explain causes of species extinction.
· Describe characteristics used to classify organisms.
Earth Science
· Describe the motion of planets and moons.
· Explain the apparent motion of the stars and the sun across the sky.
· Explain seasons using a model.
· Explain how the revolution of the Earth around the sun defines a year.
· Design a model of the solar system that shows the relative distances and positions of the planets, dwarf planets, comets, and asteroids to the sun.
· Explain the phases of the moon.
· Explain lunar and solar eclipses.
· Explain the tides of the oceans as they relate to the gravitational pull and orbit of the moon