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Correlation to the National Science Standards
Grades 5-8
Unifying Concepts and Processes
- Evidence, models, and explanation
- Changes, constancy, and measurement
- Form and function
Science as Inquiry
- Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
- Identify questions that can be answered through scientific investigation
- Design and conduct a scientific investigation
- Use appropriate tools and techniques to gather, analyze, and interpret data.
- Developing descriptions, explanations, and predictions and models using evidence
- Think critically and logically to make the relationships between evidence and explanations
- Understandings about scientific inquiry
Physical Science
Earth and Space Science
- Structure of the Earth system
- Earth in the solar system
Science and Technology
- Abilities of technological design
- Identify appropriate problems for technological design
- Design a solution or product
- Implement a proposed design
- Evaluate completed technolgocal products or designs
- Communicate the process of technological design
- Understandings about science and technology
Science in Personal and Social Perspectives
- Science and technology in society
History and Nature of Science
- Science as a human endeavor
- Nature of science