Montana- Science: Grades K-4

Content Standards    Adopted: 2006

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2: Students, through the inquiry process, demonstrate knowledge of properties, forms, changes and interactions of physical and chemical systems.

2.2: examine, measure, describe, compare and classify objects in terms of common physical properties

Mineral Identification

2.4: model and explain that matter exists as solids, liquids, and gases and can change from one form to another

Phases of Water

2.5: identify that the position of an object can be described by its location relative to another object and its motions described, and measured by external forces action upon it

Free Fall Tower

2.7: observe, measure and manipulate forms of energy: sound, light, heat, electrical, magnetic

Energy Conversions
 Heat Absorption
 Radiation

3: Students, through the inquiry process, demonstrate knowledge of characteristics, structures and function of living things, the process and diversity of life, and how living organisms interact with each other and their environment.

3.1: identify that plants and animals have structures and systems that serve different functions for growth, survival, and reproduction

Flower Pollination

3.4: explain cause and effect relationships between nonliving and living components within ecosystems; and explain individual response to the changes in the environment including identifying differences between inherited, instinctual, and learned behaviors

Pond Ecosystem

4: Students, through the inquiry process, demonstrate knowledge of the composition, structures, processes and interactions of Earth's systems and other objects in space.

4.4: observe and describe the water cycle and the local weather and demonstrate how weather conditions are measured

Water Cycle

4.5: identify seasons and explain the difference between weather and climate

Summer and Winter

4.6: identify objects (e.g., moon, stars, meteors) in the sky and their patterns of movement and explain that light and heat comes from a star called the sun

Seasons: Earth, Moon, and Sun

Correlation last revised: 1/20/2017

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