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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
1.3.1 Tell differences and
similarities among things collected and observed.
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
2.3.1 Describe different
forms of investigations- observing, collecting, doing experiments.
2.3.2 Use kitchen or
laboratory equipment while practicing proper safety.
2.3.3 Record observations
properly.
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
3.3.1 Identify similarities
and differences among living organisms.
3.3.2 Describe a
classification system for living things.
3.3.3 Use a microscope to
observe microscopic organisms.
3.3.4 Describe the
differences among habitats of living things.
3.3.5 Identify traits of
living organisms and classify the organism according to the traits.
3.3.6 Draw a family tree
and identify some traits common to all members in the family tree.
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
4.3.1 Design and build
objects that require different properties of materials.
4.3.2 Use size, capacity
and mass to describe objects.
4.3.3 Describe how objects
change during an investigation.
CONTENT STANDARD 5
5. Forces of Nature
Students will:
Performance Indicator
5.3.1 Describe how magnets
and static electricity can affect the movement of objects.
CONTENT STANDARD 6
6. Motion
Students will:
Performance Indicator
6.3.1 Use quantitative data
to report findings of investigations.
6.3.2 Describe some
“vibrations”.
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
7.3.1 Describe the
characteristics of different kinds of energy.
CONTENT STANDARD 8
7. 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
8.3.1 Use pictures and
words to describe natural phenomena around them.
8.3.2 Observe and describe
different features of our island.
8.3.3 Build models of
various islands.
8.3.4 Describe the role of
the sun in plant growth.
8.3.5 Describe the roles of
producers and consumers and decomposers within an ecosystem.
8.3.6 Describe the
connection between body structures and habitats.
CONTENT STANDARD 9
7. 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
9.3.1 Describe organisms
and their need for survival within an environment.
9.3.2 Describe different
habitats and the changes that can take place within a habitat.
9.3.3 Describe where
substances come from and where they go.
9.3.4 Identify basic parts
of a food web. Describe various conservation practices.
9.3.5 Describe various
conservation practices.
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
10.3.1 Make an inventory of
the variety of things in the universe.
10.3.2 Build models of the
solar system.
10.3.3 Describe the earth’s
relationship to the moon, stars and other planets.
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
11.3.1 Describe the
advantages and disadvantages of alternative ways of doing something.
11.3.2 Use tools such as
microscopes, cameras and tape recorders to record what is seen.
11.3.3 Design and analyze
products.
11.3.4 Describe Pacific
island technologies.
11.3.5 Describe undesirable
side effects and opportunities from technologies advances in health
care, transportation and communication.
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