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Correlation to the National Science Standards
Grades 2-4
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
- Properties of objects and materials
- Light and heat
- Position of objects
Earth and Space Science
Science and Technology
- Abilities of technological design
- Identify a simple problem
- Propose a solution
- Implement a proposed solution
- Evaluate a product or design
- Communicate a problem, design, and solution
- Understandings about science and technology
History and Nature of Science
- Science as a human endeavor