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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 Indicator
1.2.1 Describe observations
and record data in a log book.
CONTENT STANDARD 2
2. Habits of Mind
Students will:
Demonstrate inquiry skills
such as questioning, imagination, inventiveness, logic gathering,
experimental evidence, making measurements, careful observation
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
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
2.2.1 Describe similarities
and differences of objects, flora, and fauna found on Guam.
2.2.2 Identify and measure
with Metric And English units of measure: millimeter, centimeter,
decimeter, meter, inch, foot and yard.
2.2.3 Weigh self on scale.
2.2.4 Classify things
according to similarities and differences.
2.2.5 Classify by using the
five senses.
2.2.6 Predict the outcome
of experiments with plants.
2.2.7 Predict the weather.
2.2.8 Use basic materials
to form other materials.
2.2.9 Use evidence to
develop a line of reasoning.
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
3.2.1 Describe how living
things grow, develop, reproduce and die.
3.2.2 Classify different
kinds of living things
3.2.3 Classify animals
according to the food they eat.
3.2.4 Classify plants
according to seed encasement. (Angiosperms/Gymnosperm).
3.2.5 Hypothesize why there
are different types of dinosaurs.
3.2.6 List similarities
between the dinosaurs and geckos.
CONTENT STANDARD 4
4. 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
4.2.1 List all the
different types of matter that are used to make a car.
4.2.2 Describe several
items by what they are made of (e.g., wood, plastic, cloth, or metal).
4.2.3 Explain how to get
water to change phases.
CONTENT STANDARD 5
5. Forces of Nature
Students will:
Performance Indicators
5.2.1 Distinguish between
three types of cloud shapes.
5.2.2. Using a compass,
correctly point North, South, East and West.
5.2.3 Describe differences
between how Guam looked 100 years ago and today.
5.2.4. Describe five ways
to cause positive changes in the environment.
5.2.5 Group animals in
three different ways.
5.2.6 Describe a simple
food chain.
CONTENT STANDARD 6
6. Motion
Students will:
Performance Indicator
6.2.1 Demonstrate and
explain how to change the sound of musical instruments.
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
7.2.1 Identify different
sources of energy (e.g., light, heat, sound, electric, water, waves,
etc.).
7.2.2 Use simple machines
and demonstrate what work they do (i.e., Conclude that energy is needed
to make things move or to stop things from moving).
7.2.3 Demonstrate an
understanding that the sun is the primary source of energy for all
living things on the earth.
7.2.4 Demonstrate an
understanding that the survival needs of all living things include
energy (i.e., all living things need energy).
7.2.5 Provide examples of
sound as a form of energy that is vibrating.
7.2.6 List the types of
energy in their lives and identify its effects, both helpful and
harmful.
7.2.7 Demonstrate various
forms of heat transmission by conduction, convection, and radiation.
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
8.2.1 Distinguish between
three types of cloud shapes.
8.2.2 Recognize weather is
the result of changing atmospheric conditions.
8.2.3 Realize man’s
environment is affected by the activities of the earth’s inhabitants.
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
9.2.1 Provide examples of
the interaction between both living and non-living things in the
environment and how living things require the sources of the non-living
world in order to survive.
9.2.2 Identify places and
conditions in the environment that support life.
9.2.3 Trace the development
of food webs and food chains as organisms become dependent on each other
for survival.
9.2.4 Demonstrate an
understanding of the cause and effect on ecosystems as seasons change
over time.
9.2.5 Demonstrate an
understanding of how organisms are linked to one another and their
surroundings by the exchange of energy and matter.
9.2.6 Summarize how living
things gain energy from their environment by eating other organisms or
organic matter or by using sunlight and other resources to make food.
9.2.7 Diagram how animals
get their food.
9.2.8 Demonstrate an
understanding that humans have the responsibility to care for the
environment and its natural resources through conservation, preservation
and recycling efforts.
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
10.2.1 Identify the sun
that provides the earth with light and heat.
10.2.2 Demonstrate an
understanding that the sun is the closest star to the earth.
10.2.3 Demonstrate an
understanding that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
10.2.4 Demonstrate an
understanding that the moon is sometimes visible during the day or
sometimes during the night.
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
11.2.1 Describe a machine
that does not exist that will make a classroom a better place.
11.2.2 Using everyday
household items, make a tool to help in a garden.
11.2.3 List the positive
and negative effects of the automobile.
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