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Practice Questions |
Outside Links |
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Practice |
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| Inquiry |
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- The student
identifies questions that can be answered through scientific
investigations.
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- The student
designs and conducts scientific investigations safely using appropriate
tools, mathematics, technology, and techniques to gather, analyze and
interpret data.
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Measurement Tools
Independent/Dependent/Constants/Control Group
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Measurement Tools
Independent/Dependent/Constants/Control Group
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- The student
identifies the relationship between evidence and logical conclusions.
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- The student
communicates scientific procedures, results and explanations.
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- The student
evaluates the work of others to determine evidence which scientifically
supports or contradicts the results, identifying faulty reasoning or
conclusions that go beyond the evidence and/or are not supported by data.
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| Physical
Science |
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- The student compares
and classifies the states of matter; solids, liquids, gases and plasma
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- The student
understands the relationship of atoms to elements and elements to
compounds.
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- The
student measures and graphs the effects of temperature on matter.
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- The student describes,
measures, and represents data on a graph showing the motion of an object
(position, direction of motion, speed).
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- The
student recognizes and describes Newton’s Laws of Motion.
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- The
student investigates and explains how simple machines multiply force at
the expense of distance.
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- The
student understands that when work is done energy is transformed from one
form to another, including mechanical, heat, light, sound, electrical,
chemical and nuclear energy, yet is conserved.
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- The
student observes and communicates how light (electromagnetic) energy
interacts with matter: transmitted, reflected, refracted, and absorbed.
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- The
student understands that heat energy can be transferred from hot to cold
by radiation, conduction, and convection.
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| Life
Science |
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- The students will
understand the cell theory; that all organisms are composed of one or more
cells, cells are the basic unit of life, and that cells come from other
cells.
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- he student relates
the structure of cells, organs, tissues, organ systems and whole organisms
to their functions.
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- The student
differentiates between asexual and sexual reproduction of organisms
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- The student
understands that internal and/or environmental conditions affect an
organism’s behavior and/or response in order to maintain and regulate
stable internal conditions to survive in a continually changing
environment.
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- The student
recognizes that all populations living together (biotic resources) and the
physical factors (abiotic resources) with which they interact compose an
ecosystem.
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- The
student traces the energy flow from the sun (source of radiant energy) to
producers (via photosynthesis-chemical energy) to consumers & decomposers
in food webs
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- The
student associates extinction of a species with environmental changes and
insufficient adaptive characteristics.
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Earth/Space Science |
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The student identifies properties of the solid earth, the oceans and
fresh water, and the atmosphere.
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The student models earth’s cycles, constructive & destructive processes,
and weather systems.
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The student understands that earth processes observed today (including
movement of lithospheric plates and changes in atmospheric conditions) are
similar to those that occurred in the past; earth history is also
influenced by occasional catastrophes, such as the impact of a comet or
asteroid.
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The student compares and contrasts the characteristics of stars, planets,
moons, comets, and asteroids.
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The student demonstrates and models object/space/time relationships that
explain phenomena such as the day, month, year, seasons, phases of the
moon, eclipses, and tides.
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