| Sonoran Science Academy-BROADWAY
Curriculum Map
2009-2010 |
GRADE: 3rd Grade
SUBJECT: Science |
TEACHER: Nicole Jahan
| *Strands 1, 2, 3 of AZ State Standards are to be taught and embedded into Strands 4, 5, and 6. |
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| We will spend the first two weeks of school learning about the inquiry process and modeling the |
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| Scientific Method. This will then be applied to each lab report that the students conduct throughout the
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| Strands 2 and 3 also will be applied to each unit that we study. In addition, |
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| the students will be required to make a science experiment for the Science Fair. |
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Content |
Skills |
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AZ Standards |
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September |
| Macmillan/ |
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| Books relating to each |
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| Be A Scientist |
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| Unit 1 |
| Lesson 1 |
| Living Things and |
| Their Needs |
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| Lesson 2 |
| Plants and Their Parts |
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| Lesson 3 |
| Animals and Their Parts |
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| Lesson 4 |
| Classifying Animals |
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| Observe by using senses |
| to learn about an object |
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| Form a hypothesis |
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| Make observations |
| and test hypothesis |
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| Classify and analyze |
| the data gathered using |
| a graph |
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| Interpret the data collected in the |
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| Draw conclusions |
| and predict the results |
| of another experiment based |
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| Predict how living things |
| and nonliving things are alike |
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| Observe living and nonliving |
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| Interpret the characteristics |
| of the 2 groups |
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| Identify what living things |
| are made of |
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| Describe the needs of living things |
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| Observe and identify the structure |
| of plants |
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| Hypothesize what will happen to |
| celery in colored water |
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| Observe and communicate the |
| change in a celery stalk |
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| Describe the importance of leaves, |
| roots, stems |
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| Identify how animals move |
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| Describe how animals get |
| their food, water and oxygen |
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| Make a diagram of animals shelters |
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| Classify animals into groups |
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| Count and classify the animals and |
| their different characteristics |
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| Describe vertebrate and invertebrate |
| Classify animals by their type |
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| Identify amphibians, mammals and fish |
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| Group & Class |
| Participation |
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| Lab Report |
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| Textbook Questions |
| Study Guide |
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| Vocab Check |
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| Study Guide |
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| Lab Report |
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| Vocab Check |
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| Study Guide |
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| Shelter Diagrams |
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| Participation |
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| Lab Reports |
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| Chapter Test |
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| Science Standards |
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| Strand 1 |
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| S4 C1 PO1 |
| S4 C3 PO1 |
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| S4 C1 PO2 |
| S4 C2 PO1, 2, 5 |
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| October |
| Chapter 2 |
| Lesson 1 |
| Plant life cycles |
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| Lesson 2 |
| Animal Life Cycles |
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| Lesson 3 |
| From Parents to |
| Young |
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| Observe, record and communicate |
| the changes in plants |
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| Interpret the needs of plants |
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| Describe how plants grow |
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| Identify how plants make seeds |
| and how they travel |
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| Compare the life cycles of various |
| plants |
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| Identify at least 3 animal life cycles |
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| Diagram the life cycle of a butterfly |
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| Discuss how reptiles, fish and birds |
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| Chart the life cycle of a mammal |
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| Graph the physical traits of class |
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| Identify and describe inherited traits, |
| heredity, and learned traits |
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| Vocab Check |
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| Study Guide |
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| Lab Report |
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| Vocab Check |
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| Study Guide |
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| Lab Report/Diagram |
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| Chapter Test |
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| S4 C2 PO 1, 2 |
| S4 C3 PO3 |
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| S4 C2 PO2 |
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| November |
| Unit B Ecosystems |
| Chapter 3 |
| Lesson 1 |
| Food Chains |
| and Food Webs |
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| Lesson 2 |
| Types of Ecosystems |
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| Lesson 3 |
| Adaptations |
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| Identify the living and nonliving |
| components of an ecosystem |
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| Classify animals by the ecosystems |
| in which they live |
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| Examine different food chains and |
| identify the producer, consumer, and |
| decomposer of each |
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| Connect food chains to appropriate |
| food webs |
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| Describe the different elements of an |
| ecosystem |
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| Identify 4 different types of ecosystems |
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| Predict and observe the effect of |
| environmental factors on an ecosystem |
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| Hypothesize, observe and record |
| the differences a layer of vegetable |
| fat plays in temperature change |
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| Identify ways plants and animals |
| adapt in their environments |
| (camouflage, mimicry, etc.) |
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| Vocab Check |
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| Study Guide |
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| Lab Report/Diagram |
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| Vocab Check |
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| Study Guide |
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| Lab Report on |
| water temp. |
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| Participation |
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| Chapter Test |
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| S4 C3 PO1, 2, 4 |
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| S4 C3 PO 5 |
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| S4 C4 PO 1, 2 |
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| December |
| Chapter 4 |
| Lesson 1 &2 |
| Living Things Change |
| Their Environments |
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| Changes Affect |
| Living Things |
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| Lesson 3 |
| Living Things of |
| the Past |
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| Observe and describe ways environments |
| change due to living things |
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| Identify resources living things obtain |
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| Categorize ways people change and |
| help the environment |
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| Describe examples of how organisms |
| respond to change |
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| Discuss ways changes might force |
| an animal to move to another place |
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| Identify causes of an organism |
| becoming endangered |
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| Detail how plants and animals |
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| specifically prairie dogs |
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| Define and describe a fossil |
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| Conclude why certain things become |
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| Predict what animals might become |
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| Describe how we learn about |
| things that lived long ago |
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| S4 C4 PO1, 2 |
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| January |
| Unit C |
| Chapter 5 |
| Lesson 1, 2, 3 |
| Earth's Features |
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| Sudden Changes to |
| Earth |
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| Weathering and |
| Erosion |
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| Chapter 6 |
| Lesson 1 &2 |
| Minerals and Rocks |
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| Soil |
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| Lesson 4 & 5 |
| Fossils and Fuels |
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| Describe the earth's land |
| and water features |
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| Diagram the earth's layers |
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| Observe our states features |
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| Model what happens when land |
| suddenly moves |
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| Describe the effects of earthquakes |
| and volcanoes on the Earth |
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| Explain weathering and how people |
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| Identify the changes to the Earth's |
| surface due to erosion |
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| Classify rocks by color and texture |
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| Define the terms minerals and rocks |
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| Describe how igneous, sedimentary, |
| metaphoric rocks are formed |
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| Apply how we use minerals and rocks |
| in everyday life |
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| Identify the different types of soil and |
| describe how it is formed |
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| Define how soils are different |
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| Model how things of the past become |
| fossils |
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| February/March |
| Air and Water |
| Resources |
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| Unit D |
| Weather and Space |
| Chapter 7 |
| Changes in Weather |
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| Chapter 8 |
| Planets, Moons and |
| Stars |
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| Describe how fossils are formed |
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| Communicate how fossils are a |
| record of past life forms |
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| Define fossil fuels and describe how |
| humans use this resource |
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| Identify the earth's resources |
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| Analyze the effect humans have on the |
| resources and acknowledge ways to |
| conserve those resources |
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| Measure the air temperature and define |
| what it means |
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| Describe atmosphere and weather and |
| apply it to the weather outside |
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| Describe the different types of weather and |
| hypothesize where and when these types |
| of weather might take place |
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| Identify three types of clouds |
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| Discuss how clouds are formed and make |
| a model of a cloud |
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| Diagram the water cycle |
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| Discuss severe weather and name |
| at least 3 forms of it |
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| Define climate and read a diagram to analyze |
| where the suns rays hit the earth |
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| Describe factors that affect climate |
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| Name the seasons and describe why |
| places are hotter and colder than other |
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| Depict using a model how Earth rotates |
| using a pencil to represent Earth's axis |
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| Using the diagram determine why there |
| are seasons |
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| Describe what the sun is like |
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| Observe the shape of the moon in the sky |
| and the moon's different phases |
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| Describe what the surface of the moon is like |
| and make a personal sketch |
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| Model how the position of |
| the planets change |
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| Define the solar system and the planets |
| in our solar system |
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| Classify the inner and outer planets |
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| Discuss how we can view planets and |
| different jobs involved with this subject |
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| Define stars and constellations and |
| describe ways that we can view the sky |
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| April/May |
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| Unit E |
| Matter |
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| Unit F |
| Chapter 11 |
| Forces and Motion |
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| Chapter 12 |
| Lesson 1-3 |
| Energy |
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| Lesson 4 |
| Electricity |
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| Observe different objects |
| use descriptive words to classify |
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| Properly define matter, volume, mass |
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| Classify different properties of matter |
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| Identify objects that are magnetic |
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| Classify objects that conduct heat |
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| Measure the matter |
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| Define the differences of mass and |
| weight |
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| Classify solids, liquids, gases |
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| Describe ways matter can change |
| and classify different changes in matter |
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| Describe an objects position |
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| Measure different objects positions |
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| Define and demonstrate motion |
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| Use scientific method to determine the |
| affect of force on the way objects move |
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| Define and test magnetic force |
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| Describe then create a type of friction |
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| Name two types of energy and |
| describe work |
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| Apply everyday activities to the way we |
| use energy |
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| Define heat and describe how it |
| flows |
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| Identify the sources of heat and |
| how we use heat |
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| Demonstrate that vibrating objects |
| produce sound |
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| Classify and predict sounds |
| that objects make |
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| Define pitch, volume, and demonstrate |
| the differences |
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| Observe light in different situations |
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| Define and demonstrate light that |
| reflects, absorbs and retracts |
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| Describe transparent, translucent, |
| and opaque |
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| Demonstrate how light behaves on |
| those type of objects |
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| Explain how we can see |
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| Use the scientific method to discover what |
| makes a bulb light. |
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| Define electrical charge and discover |
| how static electricity works |
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| Observe the differences between a circuit |
| and a switch |
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| Predict and conclude what objects are |
| conductors and which are insulators |
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