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The grade 4-5 student should be
able to observe more carefully, measure things more accurately, record data
clearly in logs and journals, and communicate their results in charts,
graphs, and drawings as well as writing. Students’ investigations should
focus on detecting similarities and differences among the things they
collect and observe. Objects and materials described should include more
sophisticated properties such as conduction of heat and electricity,
buoyancy, solubility, and transparency. Students should be given
opportunities to use tools such as hand lenses, telescopes, microscopes,
cameras, and tape recorders to observe phenomena and record what they see.
Students should also begin to identify both new and old technologies that
meet people’s food, shelter, communication, and health maintenance needs.
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
1.4.1 Use the questions
who, what, where, when and how to gather information.
1.4.2 Use all senses to
observe sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.
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
2.4.1 Use tools safely.
2.4.2 Learn the proper use
of instruments by following instructions in manuals by taking
instructions from an experienced user.
2.4.3 Collect specimens,
observe and experiment to form ideas based on evidence and logical
arguments.
2.4.4 Develop and list in a
science log, questions they may have about animals, artifacts, and earth
forms.
2.4.5 Identify ways of
being open to new ideas.
2.4.6 Use evidence to
develop a line of reasoning.
2.4.7 List similarities and
differences in objects, and experiments artifacts.
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
3.4.1 Compare similarities
and differences among plant and animal growth within the classroom vs.
outside the classroom.
3.4.2 Identify different
types of organisms living on earth.
3.4.3 Distinguish living
from non-living things.
3.4.4 Identify the cell as
the basic unit of life and describe some of its functions.
3.4.5 Describe the basic
needs (food, water, air etc.) of an organism and give examples of how
organisms interact with each other and with non-living parts of their
habitat.
3.4.6 List the development
and stages of growth from birth to present age.
3.4.7 Chart personal
growth.
3.4.8 Describe the life
cycle of a plant or animal.
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
4.4.1 Identify that matter
can come in three (3) states: solid, liquid and gas.
4.4.2 Identify the basic
properties of matter: conduction of heat, electricity, buoyancy,
solubility, and transparency.
4.4.3 Describe and compare
tangible objects based on common physical properties (e.g., state of
matter, size, shape, texture and color).
4.4.4 Measure and classify
tangible objects based on physical properties (e.g., mass, length,
volume and temperature).
CONTENT STANDARD 5
5. Forces of Nature
Students will:
Performance Indicators
5.4.1 Describe the
characteristics of electrical energy (static and current electricity).
5.4.2 Explain that gravity
pulls objects to the earth without touching them.
5.4.3 Demonstrate that
magnets or other electrically charged objects can pull or push on
objects.
CONTENT STANDARD 6
6. Motion
Students will:
Performance Indicators
6.4.1 Illustrate that the
earth revolves around the sun.
6.4.2 Give evidence that
shows that the earth rotates on an axis.
6.4.3 Describe motion in
reference to space and time.
6.4.4 Measure and graph
motions of objects with reference to time.
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
7.4.1 Identify the helpful
and harmful effects of energy in their daily lives.
7.4.2 List and describe the
major forms of energy (e.g., light, heat, sound, electricity, water, and
waves).
7.4.3 Describe how using
one form of energy produces another form of energy (e.g., gasoline fuels
motors to motion, heat boils water to produce steam, solar light is
captured to produce electricity).
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
8.4.1 Show evidence that
Guam has two distinct seasons - rainy and dry.
8.4.2 Describe how weather
and ocean conditions are affected by Guam’s location and atmospheric
conditions.
8.4.3 List and define the
names for moon phases.
8.4.4. Use models to
demonstrate the movement of the moon around the earth, the earth around
the sun, and the earth’s tilt.
8.4.5 Describe the
difference between sunrise, sunset, moon rise, and moon set.
8.4.6. Show how the earth’s
physical changes affected living things in the past and continues to do
so today.
8.4.7 Describe how islands
and reefs are formed and what forces could change them.
8.4.8 Describe how the
island environment can be changed by typhoons, earthquakes, volcanoes,
waves, currents, and flood.
8.4.9 List and define
geological concepts in the formation of rocks (e.g., igneous,
conglomerates, sedimentary, etc.).
8.4.10 Predict how changes
on the earth=s surface will affect local and world ecosystems.
8.4.11 Identify and
describe local examples of how living things affect the non-living
environment and vice-versa.
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
9.4.1 Identify and describe
local ecosystems.
9.4.2 Identify and describe
the importance of human activities on changing local ecosystems.
9.4.3 Analyze examples
where land use and pollution have resulted in the loss of natural
systems and the extinction of many plants and animals.
9.4.4 Explain how living
things interact with each other and their physical environment in
constructive and destructive ways.
9.4.5 Analyze how living
things provide the necessities of life of each other.
9.46 Explain the theory of
the greenhouse effect.
9.4.7 Predict possible
future problems created by human action on the ecosystem and create
future plans to prevent the problems.
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
10.4.1 Compare and contrast
objects in the universe (solar systems, galaxies, stars, etc.).
10.4.2 Account for seasonal
changes due to the earth’s orbit around the sun and its changing axial
tilt.
10.4.3 Identify the
relationship among the objects in the universe.
10.4.4 Explain that Pacific
islanders and other explorers used constellations to navigate their
travels.
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
11.4.1 Use tools to observe
and record phenomena (hand lenses, computers, telescopes, microscopes,
cameras, tape recorders, etc.).
11.4.2 Explain that there
is no perfect design.
11.4.3 Identify examples of
how solutions to one problem can create other problems.
11.4.4 Explain that
technology both shapes society and is shaped by it.
11.4.5 Describe how any
invention is likely to lead to other inventions.
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