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The K-3 student should be able
to explore phenomena and tell others what they see, what they think, and
what they wonder about. They can use tools like thermometers, magnifiers,
rulers, and balances to get more information about things, then describe
what they see and compare with others’ descriptions. They can investigate
how things work by assembling, describing, examining the properties of
materials, and taking apart.
CONTENT STANDARD 1
1. Science As Inquiry
Students will:
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Use imagination,
inventiveness, logic, and experimental evidence required by scientific
inquiry
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Know how the world works,
how we can go about finding out how it works, and how our understanding
of the world can change over time
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Know how human thought and
action have been transformed by scientific and technological revolutions
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Display high standards of
ethics including openness, objectivity, honesty, and accuracy
Performance Indicators
1.1.1 Observe the
surrounding world and be willing to seek answers.
1.1.2 Ask “how do you
know?” in appropriate situation and attempt reasonable answers when
others ask that question.
1.1.3 Describe tastes,
shapes, sounds and compare answers with others.
1.1.4 Understand how shapes
are related to one another.
1.1.5 Recognize patterns in
nature and in personal daily activities.
CONTENT STANDARD 2
2. Habits of Mind
Students will:
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Demonstrate inquiry skills
such as questioning, imagination, inventiveness, logic gathering,
experimental evidence, making measurements, careful observation
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Be a scientific literate
person that is curious, creative, open-minded, skeptical, willing to
suspend initial judgments, able to collaborate with others, and
persistent in the face of failure
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Be able to judge evidence,
distinguish fact from fiction, identify bias and incomplete argument,
compare trade off among features, performance, durability and cost, and
make informed choices on personal issues
Performance Indicators
2.1.1 Develop an awareness
of the English system and Metric system.
2.1.2 Understand how shapes
are related to one another.
2.1.3 Recognize patterns in
data.
2.1.4 Ask questions.
2.1.5 Follow organized
procedures.
2.1.6 Suggest what may
happen in an experiment.
2.1.7 Generalize and
explain.
2.1.8 Apply earlier
experiments.
2.1.9 Know how to infer.
CONTENT STANDARD 3
3. Living Organisms
Students will:
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Describe similarities and
differences of life forms
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Understand the cell
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Know that life forms change
over time through natural processes that involve variation, adaptation,
inheritance of characteristics, and natural selection
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Know that instructions for
developing living organisms are passed from parents to offspring through
DNA.
Performance Indicators
3.1.1 Classify objects,
flora, fauna found on Guam.
3.1.2 Compare living and
non-living things.
3.1.3 Compare and contrast
between plant and animal life.
3.1.4 Use a hand lens to
see cells from plants and animals.
3.1.5 Recognize that living
things need a source of energy in order to survive.
3.1.6 Illustrate that
living things must adapt to their environment in order to survive.
3.1.7 To compare the
developmental stage of insects to other animals.
3.1.8 Demonstrate an
understanding that offspring groups tend to be similar to their parents.
CONTENT STANDARD 4
3. Matter and Its
Interactions
Students will:
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Understand that the
properties of materials enhances human abilities to use materials for a
variety of purposes
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Understand that matter can
undergo a variety of changes (physical and chemical change, natural,
controlled, change) while the amount and number of atoms remain constant
Performance Indicators
4.1.1 Use the hand lens to
observe plants and insects.
4.1.2 Understand that all
matter take up space and has weight.
4.1.3 Demonstrate that
matter can be changed from one form to another.
CONTENT STANDARD 5
5. Forces of Nature
Students will:
Performance Indicators
5.1.1 Demonstrate the
different poles of a magnet.
5.1.2 List items that
magnets can pick up.
5.1.3 Demonstrate an
understanding that gravity is the force that one object exerts on
another
CONTENT STANDARD 6
6. Motion
Students will:
- Performance Indicator
6.1.1 Observe and describe
motion, direction and symmetry.
CONTENT STANDARD 7
7. Energy
Students will:
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Know that energy is the
ability to do work and that energy manifests itself in a variety of
forms with a variety of characteristics
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Know that the transfer and
transformation of energy is a critical part of all living, physical and
human systems
Performance Indicators
7.1.1 Use simple machines
and demonstrate what work they can do.
7.1.2 Identify different
sources of energy.
7.1.3 Demonstrate that the
sun is the primary source of energy for all living things.
7.1.4 Demonstrate that all
living things need energy.
7.1.5 Provide examples of a
sound as a form of energy that is vibrating.
CONTENT STANDARD 8
8. Forces That Shape the
Earth
Students will:
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Know that climate, seasons,
weather, and characteristics of the ocean are caused by the earth’s
revolution around the sun, tilt of its axis, rotation on its axis, and
the moon’s orbit around the earth
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Know that the surface of
the earth is changed by forces within the earth and human activities
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Know that the non-living
environment of water and land shapes ecosystems, that living organisms
are conditioned by rainfall, temperature, topography, mineral
concentrations, and solar radiation
Performance Indicators
8.1.1 Categorize the cloud
types, wind direction and rainfall.
8.1.2 Explain how certain
processes change the earth including volcanoes, earthquakes and ocean
waves.
8.1.3 Provide examples of
earth’s topographical features that have changed over time by nature and
by human activities.
8.1.4 Tell or illustrate
how living things respond to and change their surrounding conditions.
CONTENT STANDARD 9
9. Ecology
Students will:
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Know that changes in
ecosystems can be caused by natural and human activities which may
affect all members of the system
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Understand how organisms
are linked to one another and their surroundings by the exchange of
energy and matter
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Describe the
responsibilities human beings have as the stewards of the environment
Performance Indicators
9.1.1 Develop an awareness
of Guam’s fragile ecosystem.
9.1.2 Distinguish between
good and bad ecosystems.
9.1.3 Diagram how animals
get their food (food chain/web).
9.1.4 Develop an awareness
of waste disposal.
9.1.5 Differentiate between
the different types of recycling processes.
9.1.6 Differentiate between
the different types of pollution and how it affects our environment.
CONTENT STANDARD 10
10. Space and Astronomy
Students will:
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Describe various ideas
about the origin, nature, and development of the universe throughout
history
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Know how the universe and
the objects in it appears to operate according to a number of
established principles which have been realized over time
Performance Indicators
10.1.1 Demonstrate an
understanding that the earth is a sphere and revolves around the sun.
10.1.2 Develop a model of
the solar system, comprising of the sun and nine planets revolving
around it, each in its own orbit.
10.1.3 Identify telescopes
as technology that made it possible to observe the motions of the sun,
planets, moons and stars.
10.1.4 Account for daylight
as coming from the sun.
10.1.5 Explain when the sun
goes down it becomes night time.
CONTENT STANDARD 11
11. The Nature of
Technology
Students will:
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Understand the
interdependence between science and technology
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Describe how technology
systems limited by trade off, side effects, and other constraints are
designed and developed
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Know that the decision to
develop, use or limit the use of a particular technology depends on the
expected benefits, costs, anticipated risks, and cultural values
Performance Indicators
11.1.1 Identify
technologies that have changed the way things are done in everyday life.
11.1.2 Demonstrate
keyboarding skills using a computer.
11.1.3 Demonstrate a basic
understanding of agriculture.
11.1.4 Identify machines
that help farmers get food to the buyer.
11.1.5 Identify the
understanding of technological advances through pictures or actual
machines (e.g., field trips)
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