Content Standards
P.1.a: Students know how to design and build simple series and parallel circuits by using components such as wires, batteries, and bulbs.
Circuit Builder
Circuit Builder
P.1.e: Students know electrically charged objects attract or repel each other.
Charge Launcher
Charge Launcher
P.1.f: Students know that magnets have two poles (north and south) and that like poles repel each other while unlike poles attract each other.
P.1.g: Students know electrical energy can be converted to heat, light, and motion.
Energy Conversions
Radiation
Energy Conversions
Radiation
L.2.a: Students know plants are the primary source of matter and energy entering most food chains.
Forest Ecosystem
Prairie Ecosystem
Forest Ecosystem
Prairie Ecosystem
L.2.b: Students know producers and consumers (herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, and decomposers) are related in food chains and food webs and may compete with each other for resources in an ecosystem.
Forest Ecosystem
Prairie Ecosystem
Forest Ecosystem
Prairie Ecosystem
L.2.c: Students know decomposers, including many fungi, insects, and microorganisms, recycle matter from dead plants and animals.
Forest Ecosystem
Forest Ecosystem
L.3.a: Students know ecosystems can be characterized by their living and nonliving components.
E.4.a: Students know how to differentiate among igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks by referring to their properties and methods of formation (the rock cycle).
E.4.b: Students know how to identify common rock-forming minerals (including quartz, calcite, feldspar, mica, and hornblende) and ore minerals by using a table of diagnostic properties.
Mineral Identification
Mineral Identification
E.5.a: Students know some changes in the earth are due to slow processes, such as erosion, and some changes are due to rapid processes, such as landslides, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes.
I.6.b: Measure and estimate the weight, length, or volume of objects.
Measuring Trees
Weight and Mass
I.6.d: Conduct multiple trials to test a prediction and draw conclusions about the relationships between predictions and results.
Effect of Environment on New Life Form
Growing Plants
Pendulum Clock
I.6.e: Construct and interpret graphs from measurements.
I.6.f: Follow a set of written instructions for a scientific investigation.
Correlation last revised: 5/8/2018